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How to Buy for Cheap on eBay

admin — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 18:17:08 +0000

Buying and selling on e-bay can save you money but also can cost you more money. It can make you money if you learn to understand the concept and bid with care. This article will give you some brief ideas on how to buy stuff for cheap on eBay.

Steps

Learn to do productive searches for items of interest, with the right keyword terms.
Search for whatever item you want to bid on
Sort the items based on your preference (suggested by Price: Lowest First).
Mark those items of interest to your watch list on your "My eBay" page.
Actively watch the items of interest until the last 5-10 minutes of auction.
Go to auction page and prepare proxy bid. Be cheap. Don't set proxy higher than you are willing to go. REMEMBER you will also pay shipping when you win the auction. Consider this as part of your total investment.
As late as you dare, click bid.
If you lose, try again on the next watched auction from the list.
If you win, pay promptly to make the seller happy.
Make sure you don't enter the wrong amount.

Tips

Never overbid on an item there are a lot of same items listed. If there's another item identically priced, bid only a little on the first, and push them both up at the same rate, until you are the winning bidder.
If you aren't available during the end of the auction, consider using a third-party bidder, such as eSnipe or PhantomBidder. These tools allow you to bid at the last minute so you can avoid getting into bidding wars. You will save a lot of time and effort when using those tools.
Many auctions finish without any bids because the seller has made spelling mistakes in their auction eg Britanny Spears. These are potential bargains. Tools like Invisible-Auctions.com, Missing-Auctions.com or Typozay can help you find these auctions and save money.
A great time to bid is during the summer or other holiday periods as many bidders are not in front of their computer so less competition. Make sure you are in front of the computer when the auction ends.
Another good time is to look for auctions that are finishing early in morning or late at night.
Bid odd values - eg $20.09 rather $20 - as most people bid in round numbers. You have a chance to win them with very little additional amount.
If you are paying by PayPal - do a quick search in Google for Paypal codes. Often you can get sizable discounts on your final purchase cost or free postage.
Watch out for postage. Many sellers compensate for low prices (and avoid fees!) by charging high postage. Look at the total amount instead (price + shipping).
Look out for free or cheap listing days. There are usually a lot more auctions chasing the same amount of bidders in the week after these so great potential for bargains.
REMEMBER: people will buy anything and every thing so if you think that something is outrageous chances are that people will want it somewhere.
Check your account before you bid. Don't spend more than you've got.

Warnings

Check your account before you bid. Don't spend more than you've got.
Try to avoid using eSnipe because you could get banned by eBay if caught.

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Discount Shopping with Pikaba

admin — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:58:24 +0000

Pikaba.com is a social shopping site. I consider Pikaba to be Discount Shopping site, because it provide users with the facility to bargain. This article will give my opinions about Pikaba and its features. Please be aware that this is NOT a paid review.

About Pikaba

You can request for cheap products there for the price lower than normal. As a buyer you can interact with the sellers and bargain. As a seller you can seek buyers and provide them with discount deals.

Pikaba.com claims itself to be 'a community-driven online marketplace where members and their friends build long-term relationships with merchants'. You can read more about Pikaba if you want to know what they says they are.

The site has many features for both buyers and sellers as roughly mentioned below. The common place for both are:

The blog, which features news about Pikaba and the changes made to the site, as well as tips and tricks, success stories, and newsletters.
The account manager, which let you manage your profile and everything related.
Rewards for buyers and sellers in the mean of contests.
A community which list the all the members and let you interact with them.

Discount Shoppers

For a buyer, I recommend you to start off by searching for items on sale or anything, using their very visible search form at the top-right corner. For example, I serach for "cars" and here is the result: Cars on Pikaba. The results are quiet relevant to what I am searching for.

If you are not looking for anything specific, then you can browse the products at the products page. I'm sure you can find interesting things because I did. Currently there are about 2000 products listed on Pikaba, and the number is growing rapidly.

If there is no such items you are seeking for, don't just give up. Get ready to be amazed how sellers can quickly react to your "want to buy" requests. Place a request in the product request page and wait for some deals from the sellers, or suggestions from other shoppers.

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As a seller, I have a seller account and already promoted to adviserfor some categories. Would you like to have a look at my profiles? Here is Apmart's Profile on Pikiaba.com. I also could find requests by buyers and provide them with deals or give them some comments.

It's very easy to interact with buyers on Pikaba. The best thing about it is that you shouldn't get flagged as spammers. Ofcourse, don't be too spammy. People love to see your offers. See, this is what make Pikaba different. Seller can list items on sale, and make offers to buyers without regarded as spamming. After all it's true "social shopping".

What's next?

There are more features of Pikaba social shopping site then I could described in a single blog post. Let me stop here for now and the rest of the aventure is on your hand. I suggest you give Pikaba social shopping site a try and come back here, leave your own version of review.

Disclaimer

I'm not affiliated with Pikaba by any mean. I don't make any money or any benefits of this review. This review is all free will and an passionable interest about discount shopping and a way to provide users with personal opinions about a site. I do have an account on Pikaba and I do use it, but I don't claim the information provided is all correct, as it's just my opinions.

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admin — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 21:20:28 +0000

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