I have china, paintings, etc. that I want to sell on EBay.?

1. open an account with Ebay.

2. open an account with PayPal (you will need an email address and a bank account or credit card)

PayPal is required because that is how most people want to pay nowadays. nobody wants to send checks.

You need to provide to PayPal a bank account so they can deposit the money there. That is the very cheap version. If you use credit card they will charge you an extra small fee.

3. once you have an EBay account, familiarize yourself with the terms (auction, "buy now" etc) by looking over people's auctions and reading EBay's instructionts and tutorials.

4. take pictures of your items and post one, first, to see how it goes. Post for 7 days, put only 2 pictures ... that way you keep your cost down. Ebay will charge a small fee for each item sold. The fee depends on value of item sold.

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I would take them to the nearest ebay store and let them handle it for you. Getting started, and especially with fragile items, can be quite daunting. You'll have to pay a percentage, but the ebay store takes the risk, does the packaging, and already has a reputation as a good seller, so people are more willing to buy from them than someone new.

its fine- just take a lot of pictures, and describe things honestly.

if items are large, or fragile, you might want to offer personal collection for cash payment, as well as posting them. its good for people to be able to save money on collecting it, and you get charged by paypal- the most common payment method- for every amount you get coming in, so you are actually paying a fee on however much postage your customer is paying for.

buy some elctronic scales so you can weigh stuff to work out postage. its worth clicking sell worldwide, as lots of people but stuff from other countries. dont think its a hassle- i once had two people in a bidding war on a book once, id listed for 99p- if id only offered it to uk sellers, the other guy would not have bid it up to £50- so it would have sold at 99p!!!!

best to use more packaging than not enough, as if it breaks you will be liable to make arefund- youll hvae to get the post office ot refund you; its in the paypal rules of service.

use image hosting sites like photobucket- its better than the pictures ebay let you add, which you anyway have to pay for. you can add as many as you like- i use tinypic- try it- just copy the first line/ 'tag' it give you, into the box where you write your description for what youre selling.

write the info, then when you want to add a pic, click on the HTML option at the top left of the text box, then copy one of the tags for the image into the box.

you will have to try a few different sizes to find which one to use- i resize my pics to be about 100dpi, and 28cm wide.

to add another image put a letter P in pointy brackets- <p> then add the next picture. this makes a paragraph indent, otherwise your desription will be a million miles wide!

there are help boards on all ebay sites- the best one is the ebay.co.uk board, which non uk ebayers can also use- i hate the new interface on the otherr sites. go to the top right- see community>discussion boards> new to selling.

there are several guides- try this one... http://forums.ebay.co.uk/thread.jspa?threadID=1100...

you will get help from other users, as well as paid board monitors if you get stuck.

the higest traffic is on sunday nights about 7pm, so aim for your items to end around that time- they will come to the top of the list. less important if youre selling rare collectibles, but more helpful if youre selling a topshop dress, of which there are hundreds. the item will come to teh top of the list at a time when people are more likely to be in.

lots of people bid last minute at their computers.

make sure you put your item in the right catagory, and add as much info the title. lots of people have 'saved searches' so get email alerts each time something they are looking for is listed; and i just bought a very expensive, new pair of shoes for £1.45 because the seller didnt add the right info in the title, so noone else found them!!!

if you dont use ebay already, try finding some stuff you want, and see not only how they are listed- what catagories, what their pictures are like etc, but how you find teh experiance of dealing with people- have they given all the measurements you want about it? can you see an item clearly- front, back, top bottom, side etc? do they show pictures of cracks etc, or just mention them?

you can sell broken stuff, but just add pictures of the faults, and state it clearly.lots of people buy spares, and you will be surprised at the weird, broken rubbish that gets snapped up!