Searching Feedback
Use your browser's Find tool to quickly find complaints or other specific feedback comments in a member's feedback profile
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Using Prefabricated Feedback
Save time by storing prewritten feedback for future use
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How to Avoid Negative Feedback
Protect your feedback profile — and your reputation — from the proverbial slings and arrows of disgruntled eBayers
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Replies and Followups to Feedback
A little damage control will help save a bruised reputation
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Withholding Feedback
Know when to hold 'em, and know when to leave 'em.
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Remove Unwanted Feedback
Use SquareTrade's mediation services to retract feedback
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Improve Your Trustworthiness Quickly
Don't let an apparent lack of experience hurt your success on eBay
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What to Do When Your Email Doesn't Get Through
Use other means to contact buyers and sellers, and avoid the most common cause of negative feedback
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Focus Your Searches with eBay's Advanced Search Syntax
Simplify your searches by making them a little more complicated
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Controlling Fuzzy Searches
Choose when and how plurals and variations of your search terms are used in searches
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Jumping In and Out of Categories While Searching
Narrow your searches by confining them to certain categories, and filter categories while you browse
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Tweaking Search URLs
Tap into eBay's massive database right from your own address bar
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Find Similar Items
A simple JavaScript tool to quickly list auctions similar to the one you're looking at
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Search by Seller
Easy ways to find items sold by a particular seller
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Search Internationally
Use different eBay localizations to look for things outside your home town
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Save Your Searches
Different ways to save your complex searches for repeated use
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Create a Search Robot
Use the WWW::Search::eBay Perl module to perform your searches for you
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Find Items by Shadowing
Become an auction stalker and leech off someone else's searching skills
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The eBay Toolbar
Expand your browser with eBay's custom toolbar application
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Sniffing Out Dishonest Sellers
A little research can save you a big headache
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Snipe It Manually
Bid at the last minute to simultaneously ensure that you win the auction and that you pay the lowest possible amount
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Automatic Sniping
Use eSnipe to snipe without actually having to be there when the auction ends
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Conditional Sniping with Bid Groups
Automatically discard future snipes once you win an auction
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Keep Track of Auctions Outside of eBay
Use eBay's auction-tracking tools, or create a flexible auction-watching tool better than anything eBay has to offer
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Take Advantage of Bid Increments
A slight adjustment to your bidding strategy will help you save money and win more auctions
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Manipulating Buy-It-Now Auctions
Save money with the loopholes of the Buy-It-Now feature
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Retract Your Bid Without Retracting Your Bid
Back out of an auction before it's too late
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Tools for Dealing with Fraud
Your last resort to get your money back
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Send Payment Quickly and Safely
The best — and worst — ways to pay for an auction
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International Transactions Made Easier
Tools to help overcome the hurdles and gotchas associated with trading with members in other countries
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Save Money on Shipping
Save the seller time, get your item sooner, and cough up less money for shipping
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Dealing with Disappointment: Getting Refunds
How to get your money back when an item isn't all it was made out to be
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What's It Worth?
Determine an item's current market value using eBay's Completed Items search and set your price accordingly
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To Bundle or Not to Bundle
A simple approach to choosing how and when to bundle your items for sale
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Reserve Judgment
Use a reserve-price auction for items with unknown value or limited appeal
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The Strategy of Listing Upgrades
Perform a simple cost/benefit analysis to determine which listing options to use
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Putting Keywords in Your Auction
Hide keywords in your title and description to increase your exposure without violating eBay's keyword spamming rules
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Track Your Exposure
Make sure your listing is findable before it's too late
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Expectation Management
A few carefully chosen words in your auction descriptions will help avoid unhappy buyers, returns, and negative feedback
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Formatting the Description with HTML
Use HTML tags to turn a drab block of text into an interesting, attractive, and effective sales tool
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Customize Auction Page Backgrounds
Make your item stand out with a little personalization of the auction page using JavaScript
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Framing Your Auctions
Use tables and carefully aligned images to place decorative frames around your auction descriptions
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Overriding eBay's Fonts and Styles
Use Cascading Style Sheets to change the look of more than just the description
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Annoy Them with Sound
Drive away your bidders by putting background music and sound effects in your auctions
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Put a Shipping Cost Calculator in Your Auction
Use an HTML form and a little JavaScript to provide accurate shipping costs to your customers on the fly
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Allow Visitors to Search Through Your Auctions
Put an HTML search form in your auction description to make it easier for your customers to find other items you're selling
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List Your Other Auctions in the Description
Capitalize on a single auction's popularity by using it to promote your other items
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Make Good Use of the About Me Page
Set up a static page on eBay for all the stuff that would otherwise clutter up your auction pages
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Opting Out of Checkout
Keep the personal touch in your transactions by disabling eBay's controversial Checkout feature
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Make Changes to Running Auctions
Keep your auctions looking and performing their best with post-listing revisions
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Dynamic Text in Auction Descriptions
Use inline frames to change the text in your auction descriptions, even after bids have been placed
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Let's Make a Deal
How to handle impatient bidders without losing customers and without getting kicked off eBay
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Diplomacy 101: Answering Dumb Questions
Good and bad ways to handle communications with seemingly lazy or dim-witted bidders
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Keeping Out Deadbeat Bidders
A little diplomacy will help keep out deadbeats and still allow healthy bidding on your auction
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How to Keep Your Item from Looking Pathetic
A simple approach to taking great photos of your items
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Mastering Close-Up Photography
Control the depth of field to get a perfect close-up every time
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Doctoring Photos
Techniques and tools for fixing up your photos after they've been taken
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Protect Your Copyright
Prevent other sellers from stealing your photos
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Host Your Own Photos
Bypass eBay's photo restrictions by hosting auction photos on your own server
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Make Clickable Thumbnails
Use thumbnails for more professional-looking auction photos that load more quickly
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Construct an Interactive Photo Album
Use JavaScript to save money and get a better photo album to boot
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Show a 360-Degree View of Your Item
With a few photos of your item and a little JavaScript code, you can wow your customers with that showroom feel
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Create a Photo Collage
Combine multiple photos into a single image for convenience
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Create a Good Gallery Photo
Prepare your gallery photos to use the postage stamp-sized area to its fullest potential
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Keep Track of Items You've Sold
Use a simple spreadsheet to record the details of all your closed auctions
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Sending Payment Instructions
How to communicate essential information to your bidders and avoid misunderstandings
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Protect Yourself While Accepting Payments
Reduce your odds of getting burned by setting firm policies about the types of payments you accept
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Cheap, Fast Shipping Without Waiting in Line
Generate prepaid shipping labels online to save money and time
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Selling and Shipping Internationally
A few extra tools and tips to make shipping to customers in other countries go more smoothly
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Damage Control Before and After You Ship
How to handle problems discovered by either you or the customer
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Dealing with Stragglers, Deadbeats, and Returns
Filing non-paying bidder alerts and credit requests in the event of a failed transaction
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eBay Stores
Open an eBay Store to build a more aggressive presence on eBay and on the Web
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Streamlining Listings
Use eBay Turbo Lister to upload more listings in less time
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Streamlining Communications
Use templates to send prewritten emails to your bidders
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Streamlining Checkout and Payment
Use an off-eBay checkout system to integrate payments with shipping and accounting
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Obtaining Sales Records
Extract detailed accounting data from My eBay, or do it automatically with eBay's Selling Manager
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Make Money by Linking to eBay
Earn affiliate kickbacks without even selling anything on eBay
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List Your Auctions on Another Site
Use the eBay Editor Kit and Merchant Kit to promote your auctions off-eBay
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Accept PayPal Payments from Your Own Site
Integrate PayPal into your web site with a simple HTML form
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Process PayPal Payments Automatically
Use Instant Payment Notification to fulfill orders without human intervention
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Keep Tabs on the eBay Community
Use the Forums, Announcement boards, and New Feature Previews to keep up with the eBay community
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Climbing Out of the Sandbox
Dealing with certification and going "live.
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API Searches
Perform reliable searches with GetSearchResults
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Retrieve Details About an Auction
Use the GetItem API call to get listing details
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Automatically Keep Track of Auctions You've Won
Maintain a permanent record of everything you've ever purchased
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Track Items in Your Watching List
Link an off-eBay auction tracker with eBay's Items I'm Watching list
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Automatically Keep Track of Auctions You've Sold
Retrieve and store completed auction data without typing
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Submit an Auction Listing
Use AddItem to start new listings and make scheduling easier
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Automate Auction Revisions
Simplify the task of revising several auctions at once with the ReviseItem API call
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Spellcheck All Your Auctions
Ensure that your titles and descriptions are spelled correctly
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Negative Feedback Bidder Alert
Have a script automatically notify you if an eBay member with negative feedback has bid on one of your auctions
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Automatically Relist Unsuccessful Auctions
Save time by automatically relisting auctions that have received no bids or have a reserve that wasn't met
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Send Automatic Emails to High Bidders
Send payment instructions to your customers automatically
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Generate a Custom Gallery
Insert a list of your running auctions, with photos, into your auction descriptions
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Leaving Feedback
Use the LeaveFeedback API call to more easily leave feedback
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Negative Feedback Notification
Have a script notify you whenever you've received negative feedback
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Automatic Reciprocal Feedback
Leave automatic feedback for any customer who has left positive feedback for you
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Queue API Calls
How to work around eBay's API call limit
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Cache Auction Data to Improve API Efficiency
Reduce the number of API calls your program makes and work within your daily API allotment
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Working Without the eBay API
Programming eBay outside the confines of the eBay API
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