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Mp4 Download – Ebay Success – Buy That Item For A Bargain Price by Okky Jones
The internet has opened a whole new world for the astute shopper. It’s now pretty easy to find rare items that in the past could have taken months or even years to source. Now, thanks to Ebay and other online auction sites, you have instant access to a massive range of new, used and collectable goods, all from your own home with the click of your mouse.
However, this means that an item that once would have gathered dust in the back of a second hand store now has global exposure, and collectors worldwide have the opportunity to get their grubby mitts on it. This could mean a bidding frenzy on Ebay. So here’s a few tips to get you on the right path to snagging a bargain.
1 - Search for misspelled items. With the thousands upon thousands of items listed on Ebay each and every hour worldwide, chances are that there are a lot of sellers that accidentally misspell keywords in the title that will prevent the item from showing up in a regular search. If few people can find the auction, then few people will bid and the final price will likely be much lower than it’s correctly spelled cousin. Tools like http://www.oktshun.com - The Oktshun Engine provide search capabilities to help find some of these misspelled gems.
2 - Don’t bid on a 99c item – watch for later. Sellers list items for 99c for two main reasons. One, the Ebay listing fee is cheaper if it starts under $1, and two, items with a low starting price usually attract a lot more attention. Say for example, two sellers list an identical Nikon SLR camera. One starts at 99c, the other at $100 and usual selling price is around $130. The average buyer browsing the SLR listings will probably just ignore the $100 item, but will be exited by the 99c one, open it up, have a read, watch the item and maybe make a bid. The $100 camera may slip away unsold and unwatched without a single bid, but because of the traffic that the 99c starter gets, the final price may well exceed $130.
By all means, don’t ignore the 99c items, but stick them in you watch list for later. The item with the higher start price may be the real bargain.
3 - Sniping – Just nasty, or a handy buyers tool? When I first started buying on Ebay, I couldn’t understand how I could have the winning bid and then seconds before the auction close, someone would outbid me by a few cents. Then I discovered sniping tools. So if you can’t beat them, join them. They provide some nice features which improve your bidding experience, such as the ability to set bidding limits across multiple items and the option to cancel a snipe if you find something better – much easier than trying to cancel a winning bid. My favourite sniper is called JBidWatcher, which I like for a few reasons. One, it’s a program that runs on your own PC, so you don’t have to sign up to a web site and hand over your Ebay password. Two, it’s Open Source, which means it’s free and the program code is available to be scrutinized by any nerd. If there was any dodgy spyware in it, the whole internet would know! And Three, you can setup bidding limits so that you can set up to bid on many of the same item from different sellers, but if you win one, then it won’t bid on the others. Nice. Just make sure you get the real Open Source version from http://sourceforge.net/projects/jbidwatcher/ (Sourceforge is where all the Open Source programmers hang out) - the downside to the open source code is that anyone can take it, alter it for their own benefit such as adding spyware, and then make it available from software search sites.
4 - Check out the bidding history and then research the other bidders. This can be a lot of work, but for big ticket items, it may be worth it. At the top of the item details, there will be a 'History' link. Open it up to see how many other people are bidding and how many bids each person has. If the highest bidder has made lots of bids, this probably means that the maximum price they've set isn’t much higher than the current bid as they've eased their way up a few dollars at a time to just push the previous high bidder off their perch. The next thing you can do is view the other bidder's feedback and have a look at other items they’ve won. They may purchase similar items regularly giving you an indication of how much they’re willing to pay for an item, which will give you a guide on what you should set your maximum bid to.
5 - Beware shipping and hidden insurance costs. Always be sure to factor shipping and insurance costs into your final maximum bid. Some sellers, particularly those from overseas, will list the item at a low price but have a ludicrous postage amount. In addition to this, they may also have a compulsory insurance amount set too. Unlike the postage amount, the insurance amount is only displayed at the very bottom of the listing so you’ll need to go and hunt for it. I was stung buying an MP4 player from Hong Kong – I thought I was getting a bargain until I won the item, went through the checkout process, and discovered there was a $40 compulsory insurance charge attached. It was in the listing so there was nothing I could do about it, but it was buried right at the bottom where I didn't notice it. Beware!
Most of all have fun. Ebay and other auction sites are a great way to find collectables as well as new and used household items. The convenience of shopping from home is wonderful, and the thrill of snagging a bargain is always exhilarating. Best wishes and happy bidding!
About The Author
Okky Jones is the web site manager for http://www.oktshun.com - The Oktshun Engine. He's a keen ebay buyer and seller and loves helping others achieve online auction success.
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How To Use Mass Article Control – Creator And Submitter Effectively.
I bought this piece of software and I can tell you, it is MAD!
Anyway, I am here to give you few tutorials on Mass Article Control - a MAD software that churns out article in hundreds (thousand) and submits automatically.
Let's work on a example. Assuming you are promoting a product on Weight Loss - it might be your own product or an affiliate product. Then go to any article directory and look for a good article on Weight Loss. Copy it, open Mass Article Creator and paste under Articles To Be Changed.
In article marketing, we have two modules you can employ to re-write the article.
Module 1
This is a situation where you are writing articles to be posted online not for human reading per say but for backlinks. It means that you have lots of articles on the internet with web links pointing back to the blog or website or affiliate hoplink you are promoting.
When you must have pasted the article, do click on Use All Possible Keywords. Later on, click on Article and select Preview Possible Articles and you will see the 1000 articles re-written by this MAD software.
You can select any of the articles you like and click on Save Selected Article to save it in text format viewable through Notepad.
Remember, this module is for backlinks only. You post it all over the internet to generate better search engine rankings. You can imaging what 1000 articles having your affiliate links will do to your income.
Module 2
In Module 2, you now assume that people are going to read your articles or even use it on their blogs or ezines.
Do re-paste the original article on Weight Loss you got from EzineArticles.com under Articles To Be Changed.
Here, you are going to do some little work - you are going to change some keywords in the article with synonyms (words that are nearest in meaning).
Any word you want to change, just click on it and words close to it's meaning will appear under Synonyms For The Selected Word In Current Category.
Now, try to replace the former word with any of the new ones by reading meaning into it. Any of the words that appeared wh
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ich makes sense can be selected and you click on Add Slected. Select as many as can meaningfully replace the old word and add them.
Do the same thing to other keywords you want to change in the article. Make sure the replacing words in the article read meaning to it.
After changing as many keywords as you want, then click on Article and select Preview Possible Articles.
You will now see articles re-written by this Mass Article Creator software. They maybe in fifties or hundreds. Those articles have meaning and can be read by people. Save as stipulated above in Module 1.
You can start posting them to article Directories using Mass Article Submitter.
How To Use Mass Article Submitter.
Install Mass Article Submitter and open it. On it you will see so many things. However, before you proceed, do sign up with the 20 article directories that were programmed on this piece of software.
After signing up and confirming your membership with those article directories, now click on File and select Accounts tab on Mass Article Submitter. You will see the website address of the article directories, Save, Test and Sign up buttons.
On each of the sites, do put your username and password; then click on Test. If everything is okay, you will see Login Successful. If it's successful, then click on Save and continue till you finish programming your usernames and passwords.
When you must have finished, do fill in the boxes as required and remember to paste the re-written article in the Body box.
Now, click on Start button if you are online. I tell you in less than 30seconds, your article is already posted to those twenty article directories.
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