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10 Sure Ways To Kill Your Online eBay Business In A Hurry
Killing off your business online eBay business may not be as hard as you'd imagine it to be. So if you still want to end up in the 'dead in the water' with your successful eBay business - or your brand new eBay business - here are 10 simple ways to accomplish just that.
Way To Destroy Your Successful eBay Business #1: Refuse To Answer All Those STUPID Questions
Don't trouble yourself with emails: Your customers are just a waste of time as it is. eBay businesses are meant to run themselves, after all! Don't even bother with giving informed responses to your customers' questions regarding an item.
Way To Destroy Your Successful eBay Business #2: End Your Auctions When Your Customers Are Asleep
You should allow auctions to end at any time. Very few customers will remain to even care about your auction if it should end sometime in the early morning hours. What would be the point of going through all the trouble of arranging your auctions to end at a good time?
Way To Destroy Your Successful eBay Business #3: Adamantly Refuse To Adjust Your Prices
Decline to provide discounted prices. You know how much your products cost, you are aware of how much profit you need, and you are not willing to negotiate at all. If they don't like your prices, they can just go buy from someone else, darn it!
Way To Destroy Your Successful eBay Business #4: Mail When You Get Darned Good and Ready
You can post whenever you feel inclined. Be certain that your customers are left waiting around, trying to figure out for themselves when their purchase will finally come in the mail. They will most likely buy from another seller the next time.
Way To Destroy Your Successful eBay Business #5: Don't Bother With Those Time-Consuming Descriptions
Use really brief descriptions, and be sure to write in a lot of mysterious abbreviations. This definitely will make you appear to be sophisticated. Why not just rewrite the title in the description? Think about all that time and effort you'll save!
Way To Destroy Your Successful eBay Business #6: Make Your Listings As Gaudy As Possible
Make your listings look gaudy. Use as many flashing light, colors and animations as you can to guarantee your customers a headache. Always write in CAPITALS as much as possible - especially the big, red ones. Use font types such as Comic Sans or Impact. To make it even more special, try to add some loud - VERY loud - music to your listings.
Way To Destroy Your Successful eBay Business #7: Don't Worry About Telling The Truth - Customers Will Understand
You can deceive people with your item's description by saying it works without any problems, when it fact it does have issues. You can say that your item is in mint condition when it actually has a scratch or two. Your customers won't care that the item isn't the way they thought it was.
Way To Destroy Your Successful eBay Business #8: Don't Spend The Time Or Money To Add Pictures
Don't bother with posting pictures of the item - it is too much trouble, isn't it? If shoppers are fussy enough to even want to look at the product before bidding on it, then just forget about 'em. Who needs such picky people, anyway?
Way To Destroy Your Successful eBay Business #9: Sell Junk
Sell worthless products - it is just eBay, after all. Quality ought to be someone else's business. For that low price, what did they expect?
Way To Destroy Your Successful eBay Business #10: Confuse & Mystify With Secretive Reserve Auctions
Use reserve auctions. Lots of sellers won't do this because it frustrates customers, but if the buyer can't show a bit of determination, then he should just go away. After all, this is truly is one of the best methods used to push customers away. As soon as they've read 'reserve not yet met', they'll be hitting the 'back' button in the blink of an eye. They can just bid on 'regular' auctions if they don't like my policy.
See? Destroying your online eBay business isn't that hard, is it? Just follow any or all of our ten steps above to almost instant destruction.
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