10 Ways to Ruin Your eBay Business

It is rather easy to kill your eBay business, if do things inappropriate - sure, you can start over from scratch without it costing you anything, however do you really want to go through all of that again? Still, if you want your business to end up dead in the water, here are one simple methods to make it happen

Lie about an item: Say it works fine when it sometimes doesn't work. Say it's in excellent condition when it has a scratch. Your customers will hate you!

Don't bother with email: Customers are just timewasters anyway. eBay businesses are supposed to run themselves! Never give informed responses to questions about your item.

Post whenever you feel deeply like it: Make sure to leave your customers hanging around, wondering when their item is going on to turn up. This makes truly they buy from someone else subsequent time.

Let sales end at anytime: There are few people who will be around to care about your auction if it ends in the middle of the night. Why go to the trouble of working out whether auctions will end at a good time?

Do not take photos: After all it is a lot if trouble. If buyers are picky enough to actually want to see items before they bid on them, then screw 'em, that's what I say.

Sell rubbish: Really, it's just eBay. You can only sell any old tat from the marketplace for a 200% profit. Let quality be someone else's concern - I mean, really, what do they expect for that price?

Refuse to give discounts: You know what your items cost, you know what your profit margin is going to be, and you're not going on to negotiate. Remember that giving customers special deals might make them feel good and come back to you again.

Make your listings ugly: As a host of colours, flashing lights and animations as thinkable will really give those customers a headache. Write as much in CAPITALS!!!! as you can. Preferably large, red capitals. Be truly to use the fonts Impact and Comic Sans. For an more special touch, see if you can figure out a way to add one music.

Write short descriptions: Be as brief as thinkable, and use lots of mysterious abbreviations. This conspicuously makes you look very cool. You can even just write the title again in the description box. Think of the effort you'll save!

Use reserve auctions: Now, this is a fairly controversial final choice, but it really is one of the best methods to scare away your customers. They'll see 'reserve not yet met', and click that 'back' button before you know it. Luckily, they can always bid in a normal auction for the item somewhere else.