preacher4u
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posted on December 9, 1999 07:12:25 PM new
I've got a good one, It works WONDERS for me. First, put all of your auctions on the Gallery option (its an extra quarter, but well worth it.)When you post your auctions, put a codeword on the description (a word you will never find on another auction when you run a search) Then ,before you post the auctions, run a search on that codeword, click the "gallery only" option, then copy the resulting URL (obviously, nothing's going to show up... YET)
and paste it onto your auction description as a link, and put something like this: "If you want to see a Gallery of all my items, click HERE" And presto! Instant personal gallery page! Works wonders and the traffic in my auctions has doubled since I started using it, and suddently single customers started getting into multiple auctions!!
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rosiebud
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posted on December 9, 1999 07:25:10 PM new
preacher4u, I think that's a fantasic idea! I can see how it would increase traffic, espeically with people being able to see a picture of all your items, rather than just the titles. Great suggestion!
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justme2
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posted on December 9, 1999 07:44:38 PM new
Great Idea!
Thank you for sharing it.
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justme
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AnonymousCoward
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posted on December 9, 1999 08:08:30 PM new
A large seller I've seen always posts his email in the description. He usually has around 600 to 1000 items listed. When you add his email in the search criteria, it will search only his listings. Therefore saving lots of time and effort when searching instead of scrolling down his long list of items.
For example search tiltle and descriptions:
tablecloth + [email protected]
Will result in a personal listing of all his items with the word tablecloth in it. Weeding out the chairs, cups, pez and other items he lists I don't want to bid on.
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Not AnonymousCoward on Ebay
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ricketylin
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posted on December 9, 1999 08:31:13 PM new
My tip is if you have similar items that a buyer might be interested in, don't list them too close together, although I am guilty of this too.
Last night I was bidding on 5 items from the same seller, and they were listed about 2 minutes apart. I had a 6 second snipe, an 11 second snipe, one that my proxy took care of, and two I lost out on because I couldn't get in fast enough on both of them.
Lin
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preacher4u
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posted on December 9, 1999 08:35:57 PM new
Hey! Open 5 differen Browsers, each one with a different auction, ad you could snipe in all 5 of them in just 15 secs!!
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tururu
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posted on December 11, 1999 05:23:25 PM new
Wow, the first tip is GREAT!!! but...how do I paste the url in my auction as a link? Please, help!
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imabrit
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posted on December 11, 1999 08:00:26 PM new
TURURU
Follow these steps and this should do it I tried to too and it works perfect so thanks preacher4u for sharing that incredible tip.
Fisrt of all you need to set up something that your customers to click on.
Take a jpeg of something you like make it small and post it your ftp site or wherever you store images.
Then you can post the follwing info if you like
PRESS THE (picture or whatever you use) BELOW TO SEE THUMBNAIL PICTURES OF ITEMS I HAVE FOR SALE IN THE GALLERY
.A VIRTUAL CATATALOGUE OF ITEMS
That should do the trick.
If you are still having problems send me your email address and I will give you one of the auctions I am using it on and you can take a look and see how it works.
Adrian
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luxury
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posted on December 11, 1999 10:21:35 PM new
We run our own Gallery, it's independent of eBay's and free! Bigger images too. (edited the stupid part of that!)
BUT, that method would be much less work! I've been running manual Galleria pages for the last year or so. Great idea!
[ edited by luxury on Dec 11, 1999 10:30 PM ]
[ edited by luxury on Dec 11, 1999 10:37 PM ]
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luxury
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posted on December 11, 1999 10:35:32 PM new
INCREDIBLE! OH MY! If you knew how long I had been making manual Gallery pages!
This is very BIG, a definate seller's advantage. I cannot imagine why you would have revealed such a "find!" It's nice to be helpful, but...
Put a lid on it before everyone is using it.
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preacher4u
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posted on December 12, 1999 11:03:51 AM new
AHH!! I just KNEW this would be great! I revealed this because.... well just trying to be heplful, that's all. It's not that this will affect another sellers, but will only benefit the one that's using it.
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FLOWERJ1
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posted on December 12, 1999 05:35:07 PM new
Ok, I tried putting a codeword in my description and when I go to Gallery Search for that codeword, I see my auction pics...but I don't know how to put the link in my auction directing people to my gallery. When I copy and paste, all that's there is the url words, not the little blue click on link. How do I get the little blue line link? Help! pretty please
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rosiebud
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posted on December 12, 1999 05:45:29 PM new
To get a link into your auction page.. place this coding:
a href="URL here"> click here /a>
Put the < at the beginning of the a href and in front of the /a tho.. and
Do it w/out the * in it though and put whatever text you want for the "click here" part of it
Edited because the HTML doesn't show up.. hmmm.. ???
[ edited by rosiebud on Dec 12, 1999 05:46 PM ]
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FLOWERJ1
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posted on December 12, 1999 06:53:14 PM new
ROSIEBUD... Thank you so much for your help. It worked.
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rons1961
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posted on December 12, 1999 07:21:18 PM new
WOW. these are some great ideas, thanks preacher4u for starting this thread.
Also thanks for others who have contributed.
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spuddy98
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posted on December 12, 1999 07:45:16 PM new
Ditto And thanks Preacher4u!!!Ebay will be pulling an extra two bits from me!!! This is one of the best selling ideas I've ever heard of. I just sold about 100 mechanics tools and this would have probably more than paid for itself for the $25 cost.
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luxury
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posted on December 13, 1999 12:40:05 AM new
I hope the people that are considering using this realize that there is a potential problem.
If you are a powerseller seller and have a large customer base you would be a prime target under this method.
Someone else could put your code word in their auctions (perhaps in white lettering), presto, your customers see "THEIR" items on "YOUR" Gallery page!
You cannot hide the code word because it is clearly shown on the search page.
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preacher4u
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posted on December 13, 1999 12:11:13 PM new
Luxury:
What you can do to solve this, is using your actual eBay e-mail address as the codeword, so, if another seller tries to be a wiseguy and try to pull that stunt you describe, you can email the seller to to have him/her remove your e-mail addie from his/her listing, and/or email e-bay to tell that somebody is using your address w/o permission and they'll PROBABLY do something.
But I dont think posting another user's email address in your auction's description would be appealing to anybody!!
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packer
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posted on December 28, 1999 07:23:07 PM new
preacher4u.....How do you put a CLICK HERE link on the auction page. Haven't been able to figure that out yet.
Thanks in advance
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preacher4u
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posted on January 2, 2000 10:44:45 AM new
Packer:
Put [a href=http://your_auction_page_here] CLICK HERE[/a]
Just use instead of [ ]
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preacher4u on eBay.
I'm NO minister!
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Shoshanah
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posted on January 2, 2000 11:10:02 AM new
Thanks, Preacher4u...Neat stuff
I have not used the entire Gallery, but on all of my listings, I do include a link to "View My Other Listings", and to my E-mail with a clickable "Have a Question?" and one to my "View my Feedback Page". They are listed at the bottom of my table. I have received thank you Emails for saving buyer extra steps, so, I guess it works..
But looking forward to using the entire My Gallery...Really nice...
Don't ya just love computers...and people who know how to use them... (I'm not one of those... )
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Just an opinion. Thanks...
Shoshanah
[email protected]
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deuziet
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posted on January 2, 2000 01:17:09 PM new
Hi! The gallery link tip is great! Thank you so much for revealing it!But here is a question...I have my email address located on each of my auctions, however when I just do a regular search including descriptions my auctions do not come up on search? Does it only work in the gallery, or is it because my email address is linked? Any help would be [email protected]
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preacher4u
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posted on January 2, 2000 02:04:39 PM new
It's probably because the email it's linked. Try to post it without the linking command and it would most likely work OK
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preacher4u on eBay.
I'm NO minister!
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AnnieJean
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posted on January 2, 2000 02:23:23 PM new
Great tip, Preacher4u! Thanks so much for sharing it. Would you be comfortable disclosing one of your auctions or item numbers with this feature in it so I could check it out to see how it works? I'm having trouble visualizing this and don't have anything of my own to list at the moment to try this out. You could send me an email (I think my email address shows when you click my User ID) if you don't want to post a listing here. Or if you don't want to do this, that's okay too - just thought I'd ask
Edited because Santa didn't bring me a new keyboard and my old one is still making lots of typos!
[ edited by AnnieJean on Jan 2, 2000 02:26 PM ]
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preacher4u
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posted on January 2, 2000 02:42:45 PM new
Annie-Jean:
Check out auction 229320293, though it will not look the way it should because this thread began more than 3 weeks ago, when I had like 50 auctions running, but you'll get the idea.
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preacher4u on eBay.
I'm NO minister!
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deuziet
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posted on January 2, 2000 02:52:21 PM new
preacher4u, thank you for your reply, I was thinking too it might be the link.
But I just looked at your mask auction and when I click on the link to view your other items in the gallery it comes up with no other matches? Is it me???? I'm beginning to think the y2k bug has gotten me yet, lol!
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preacher4u
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posted on January 2, 2000 03:12:38 PM new
Nah.. no bug. The thing is that the only auction with the gallery option is the one with the mask (I only put the folk art stuff on gallery) and since I posted the auction about an hour ago, it still doesn't show up in the search.
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preacher4u on eBay.
I'm NO minister!
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Shoshanah
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posted on January 3, 2000 09:04:42 PM new
Preacher4 - I really like your tip..Can you please Email me? Thanks a bunch..
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Just an opinion. Thanks...
Shoshanah
[email protected]
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Shoshanah
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posted on January 4, 2000 02:50:32 PM new
I have questions regarding the "gallery" tip: do you have to use the "Code" word each time you place a listing in order to see your Gallery pics? or is once enough...
And the "code Word": is it entered IN THE TITLE of the listing or in the BODY of the description? Then, do you have to REMOVE IT before submitting the listing? I tried, and did a Search on the code word in MY TITLE; it took me to a page which said "sorry, no Gallery Image to match description" or something like that...Is THAT the Page URL I need?....Thanks..! I feel really silly, but I am just not getting this one...
If anyone wants to Email me and help me through, it would be most appreciated!... Thanks again..
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Just an opinion. Thanks...
Shoshanah
[email protected]
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jtland
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posted on January 4, 2000 03:34:27 PM new
This is a fantastic tip! Thanks!
Just a note for a change I made--I don't list all my items in gallery, and don't want to because some of them are quite inexpensive. So I searched on my email address (be sure to click search desc & title) with 'All Items Including Gallery Preview'. That brings up all my items with the thumbnails for the ones that have the Gallery option!
I'm sure I'll be using the Gallery more often now!
My only hesitation is that now my items are on 3 pages instead of the one that I had before. Does anyone see that as a drawback?
Oh, BTW, my email address is a link and it showed up in the search with no problem.
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Lisa Land
Be careful what you wish for...
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