Selling on iOffer Part 4: List a Single Item

After a thorough understanding of how Want Ads and Snag a Sale leads to selling your items on iOffer, it is time to finally list your items.

To the right is a Simple Listing Form on iOffer.

1. Choose a category and sub-category.

2. Use a title that is rich in keywords.

3. Describe your items in as much details as possible.

This is what buyers will see on your item listings. The more information you put, the less questions buyers will ask and the more likely they'll buy the item after reading everything they need to know about it.

If you're HTML savvy, I would recommend you click on Edit HTML and add your own flare to your item listing. Colors, fonts, sizes, your item listing can look that much better. Here's a little HTML help if you're not too familiar with it.

4. Choose 4 different sets of unique keywords for your items.

These keywords, along with keywords in your title, are crucial to your item listings. They may be the thing that makes or breaks the deal. These are the words that buyers would type in to get to your item. Make good use of these keywords, as well as keywords in your item description as well.

5. State an asking price.

You can leave this blank if you want to let buyers make an offer to start, but I highly recommend you to put a price so buyers have an idea to start off. If they like it, they'll buy it. If they don't like it, they'll make you an offer. Plus, you must have a price to submit your items to Google Base, which I will get into later.

6. State the shipping costs.

Be reasonable. Don't trick people by having a cheap asking price and charging $100 for shipping. iOffer charges the final fee on the combined total, so this trick will not work. Feel free to add a couple extra bucks for handling, but again, be reasonable.

7. Add pictures.

Pictures are FREE on iOffer, so add as many as you want. Get pictures from different angles so buyers know exactly what the item looks like. If you were buying something, you would want to see more pictures too, right?

After you've done all that, your listing is set. Preview your listing to see what it looks like. If you're okay with it, create the listing and before you know it, your item will turn into cash.

iOffer Want Ads

Want Ads are self-explanatory. They are what they are; ads for something you want.

iOffer Want Ads are better than other want ads because they're FREE. Read the 3 little logos up at the top and you'll quickly understand how it works.

1. You post a FREE Want Ad and tell the whole world what you want.

2. Your Want Ad will be posted to the whole world. Anyone looking for it will find it.

3. When someone responds to your Want Ad, you'll get an email telling you to do something about it.

Why am I talking about Want Ads?

Because it's the perfect ending spot about buying and a great way to start talking about selling.

When you, as a buyer, can't find something, post a FREE Want Ad and it'll find you.

When you want to start selling, browse new Want Ads to see what buyers are looking for and list those items first.

Why iOffer? Free Tools and Features

Why should people use iOffer? I've compiled a list of reasons why I started using it:

1. FREE listings

2. FREE seller store

3. FREE picture uploads

4. FREE multiple web addresses that link to you

5. Non-Auction Format
Making offers and negotiating with buyers and sellers make me feel like I'm shopping in person, rather than trying to make the highest bid in the last 5 seconds of an auction.

6. Mr. Grabber
It lets you transfer your items over from eBay, Overstock, and Sell.com. You can also transfer your eBay feedback rating so your buyer/seller reputation is intact. The best part is it's also FREE.

7. Store Widget
You can easily customize a widget for your store and post it all over the web, for FREE.

8. Group Offers
When you make an offer, you can make the same offer to other sellers who are selling similar items. Whoever accepts your offer first gets the deal. This seems like I'll get what I want quicker as a buyer, and probably a better deal too.

9. Events
It's sort of like a chatroom where people can get together and mingle away, while promoting and selling their items. How cool is that?

10. Live Notice
I thought this was a neat feature. I'm sure many sellers are online all the time, and this feature will pop up messages in your face when you sell an item or someone asked a question about your items or anything like that.

11. Community
I like this part the most. I mean, everything I've listed so far are awesome, mainly because they're all FREE, but as a newbie, I like how the members at iOffer are so nice and easy-going. They have hundreds of community clubs and I can guarantee that you will find some sort of help in any club.

Wow, sorry didn't think my list would go that long. And sorry that you had to read through everything. I'll try to add some pictures next time to even out the text/image ratio.

Am I missing anything else? Feel free to make comments and add some other features that I may not have found yet.

- iOffer Dude

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Welcome Introduction

Hello everyone!

As an iOffer fan, just wanted to spread the love, the joy, and the word out about iOffer. I've been using it for a bit of time now, and it's been pretty sweet.

The economy is bad, so we all need to find other ways to spend our money, or not spend any at all. One way to keep spending is to buy less, or spend less and get the same amount. That's where iOffer comes in. I find their fees to be cheaper than other eBay alternative sites, and their community members are so nice and helpful.

Therefore, I created this blog to share my ongoing experiences with iOffer. I hope you will begin to enjoy this blog, as well as iOffer itself! Until next time, keep your eyes open for more changes and updates.

Browse around iOffer yourself and tell me what you think...www.ioffer.com

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