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How many times have you seen
terms similar to this at the end of a listing while browsing eBay?
"Terms and conditions! Please read before bidding".
Payment must be made within 48 hours, if payment is not made within
this time negative feedback will be left and eBay will be informed.
No new users. If your feedback is below 10 please contact me before
bidding or I will retract your bid.
No time wasters, scammers or fraudsters..
Why do people do this? It's not going to stop non paying bidders,
fraudsters or scammers. What it is going to do is result in fewer
sales. Sure, we all hate the non payers and eBay is a scammers paradise
but do you really think having terms like that is going to stop it? Of
course not.
"Payment must be made within 48 hours, if payment is not made within
this time negative feedback will be left and eBay will be informed".
If you even hint at giving me negative feedback for any reason I will
simply move on to the next auction. You have just lost a sale.
"No new users. If your feedback is below 10 please contact me before
bidding or I will retract your bid".
Why pick on the newbie, we all have to start on zero feedback and most
of us start by buying something. By having a silly statement like that
you could have lost a customer for life.
"No time wasters, scammers or fraudsters".
Do you really think this will stop a fraudster or a scammer?
What I am trying to say here is try and make your buyers experience as
pleasant and easy as possible. For me silly terms like this sound
negative and if I can get the product elsewhere I simply close the page
and move on to the next auction.
We can all have unpleasant experiences from time to time on eBay and
it's not nice if you get scammed but don't take it out on the rest of
the eBay community. I would suggest you browse your listings and take a
good look at your terms and conditions and if you have any negativity
in your auctions have a serious think about changing them as all you
are doing is harming your own sales.
All you need to do is keep your terms simple and easy to understand and
you will have more sales, guaranteed.
John Thornhill is an eBay powerseller and trades on eBay under the
username planetsms. If you really want to succeed on eBay with
information products visit www.auctionprofitstreams.com
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