How to make an eBay Auction look Professional with Free Templates

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make an eBay Auction look Professional with Free Templates

Upgrading an eBay auction with templates is a great way to make a listing stand out. A professional and well put together auction, can increase confidence in you as a seller, and also help sell the item. Learn how to put a simple auction together for free, and avoid paying extra fees from eBay.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

10 minutes
Item to sell
Digital camera
Account at photobucket.com

Step 1

First take pictures of your item. Make to take enough pictures to give a potential buyer all the information they need.
Step 2

Upload the pictures to photobucket.com. Photobucket is a free way to host your pictures. Why should you host them yourself? It allows you to add unlimited pictures to your auctions, with no added cost.
Step 3

After uploading your pictures on photobucket, open a new tab on your browser (ctr.t) Its time to find a free template for the auction.
Step 4

Go to the Auction Template Resource Center.(Link in resources)Here you can find free auction templates.
Step 5

Take a look around this site. Find the templates that work for you. The templates range from very easy, to more advanced editing HTLM.
Step 6

After you have picked your template, add the image URLS off of photobucket. Get the HTML code and open a new tab for eBay.
Step 7

On eBay, sign in and click the tab "Sell my item". After choosing your category and title, head down to where it says "Describe your item". Click on the HTML tab, and copy and paste your code you created on your template page.
Step 8

And there you have it, you just created a professional auction for free. This gives the auction a great look, at no extra cost.

Comments

Pinkraider said

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on 1/4/2009 Thanks! I actually have an item to put on there now and was wondering how to spruce up my auction!

DIVA808 said

on 12/26/2008 Thanks, I've wondered about this and now I don't have to anymore. Thank you.
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dlcass said

on 12/16/2008 I've been selling on eBay for years and there are lots of great tools for doing it better and cheaper. These sound like good ones. Thanks for the tips.