eBay Auction Home Business Tutorial: Successful Selling Is All About Timing

It's been said that "success is all in the timing", andended when most of my potential customers were
that's true of eBay auction postings as well! You canasleep, and I found the results were not as good as
actually improve your item's final sale price by up tothe auctions that ended during daylight hours.
10% by having the auction end at the right time, andIf you ship worldwide or sell an electronically delivered
cost yourself money by having it end at the wrongitem such as an ebook, you may not think the ending
time.time is of real importance. This is not the case! A
So what times are "right" and "wrong"? Part of it isrecent study by the University of Pennsylvania
simply applying common sense. If you're selling arevealed that almost one-third of eBay auctions end
physical item (as opposed to an ebook or somethingbetween 5 and 9 PM Eastern Standard Time, and
delivered electronically), you may choose to ship onlyauctions that ended in this time period were almost
to buyers in your country. If that's the case, don't end10% less likely to end in a sale due to the increased
your auction at 2 AM in your local time. Just becausecompetition. One article called this "eBay happy hour",
you're up at that time doesn't mean that everyonebut it's an "unhappy hour" to those of us selling on
else is!eBay.
Some eBay sellers take this approach thinking thatBy choosing the right item and the right time to sell on
people will bid high to avoid losing an auction that endseBay, you're opening up a world of possibilities for your
in the wee hours of the morning. Personally, I've foundfuture and your family, and I'm here to help you do just
myself not bidding on auctions that ended at such athat. See you tomorrow with another exclusive eBay
time, thinking that someone will come in at the lastauction home business tutorial!
second and outbid me. I've tried using auctions that