When I started my eBay journey I was lucky, I had my old account that's been active for 14 years now. Even still though my feedback score was only slightly over 100, so there's still some building to be done. But let's say you've just opened an account, you've never used eBay and are sitting at 0 feedback. You may be thinking 'damn, noone's going to buy from me with 0 feedback, this is going to take forever!' but you're wrong.
First of all, just start selling things. Grab a few items from around your house you don't want anymore and list them on eBay. Yes you have 0 feedback and yes, you will still get sales. They will be slower than someone with a high feedback score but from my experience the sales still keep coming.
The next step is, shop on eBay. Honestly this is probably the best way to get your feedback score to begin with as every purchase will net you a positive feedback (assuming the seller plays their part.) Everything that you currently buy, consider if you could buy it from eBay instead. Most of the time you end up finding what you wanted for a lot cheaper and you're also building your feedback in the process.
Getting positive feedback from customers happens... but its a challenge. A lot of customers take a set and forget approach. They'll buy an item and that's the end of their interaction on eBay. Once the item arrives they'll never log back in to give positive feedback. There's no penalty for not doing it so a lot of people simply skip it, why would they do the extra work? That said though, negative feedback is a different beast. Most customers will take the time to complain if they aren't happy... the customers that are happy will be the quiet ones.
So keep listing items, keep buying things from eBay. Get that score up as quick as you can. You'd be surprised how quickly it can start building once you move most of your shopping onto eBay, plus you'll save a LOT of money. There's one other thing you'll learn though. The more time you spend buying items on eBay, the more you'll learn how the top sellers present their items and what types of keywords they'll put in their listings. Stay observant while you're shopping and pick up tips along the way.
First of all, just start selling things. Grab a few items from around your house you don't want anymore and list them on eBay. Yes you have 0 feedback and yes, you will still get sales. They will be slower than someone with a high feedback score but from my experience the sales still keep coming.
The next step is, shop on eBay. Honestly this is probably the best way to get your feedback score to begin with as every purchase will net you a positive feedback (assuming the seller plays their part.) Everything that you currently buy, consider if you could buy it from eBay instead. Most of the time you end up finding what you wanted for a lot cheaper and you're also building your feedback in the process.
Getting positive feedback from customers happens... but its a challenge. A lot of customers take a set and forget approach. They'll buy an item and that's the end of their interaction on eBay. Once the item arrives they'll never log back in to give positive feedback. There's no penalty for not doing it so a lot of people simply skip it, why would they do the extra work? That said though, negative feedback is a different beast. Most customers will take the time to complain if they aren't happy... the customers that are happy will be the quiet ones.
So keep listing items, keep buying things from eBay. Get that score up as quick as you can. You'd be surprised how quickly it can start building once you move most of your shopping onto eBay, plus you'll save a LOT of money. There's one other thing you'll learn though. The more time you spend buying items on eBay, the more you'll learn how the top sellers present their items and what types of keywords they'll put in their listings. Stay observant while you're shopping and pick up tips along the way.
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