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SellingReally, the consequences are simple: If you post an item for selling you make a contract. You enter a reserve price, and you must sell to any bidder if he meets your reserve. But this is will be your intention.Posting an item is the most difficult part on Auction or Shop?You can choose between both even after having posted your item. Some hints what kind of selling to prefer are given in Rules of the Game.Often it is difficult to choose the right way. Then you should first try the auction, and if it doesn't run properly, you can move your advertisement to the shop - immediately or when relisting after closing the auction. ContentsAdvertise your treasures shortly but truely. Nobody believes statments like "georgeous" or "killing item" and if proved by a photo they are boring. What would you ask if you were the bidder? The answers are the right informations to enter.For many details the posting form has entry fields - no need
to worry
how to place them in the description. Text DesignYou may use HTML. Fine: everything goes. Not fine: you can design a pretty ugly page, using all fonts and colors available on your computer. Restrict your activity to bold face and new line:With <b> you switch bold characters on with </b>
off. HTML is designed to fill almost any screen. In fact, the
lenght of a
line is determined not before it appears on the screen of the bidder.
So
hitting the return key does nothing. If you want a sentence to begin on
a new line, you must employ <br>. If you type: |
ImagesNothing will give a better image than an image. Place your picture or up to three of them anywhere in the Internet, and tell the
form where to find them. Almost any provider offers space for an own
homepage
- and of course also for pictures. If he doesn't, don't worry: lots of
providers offer web space free of charge, e.g.: http://www.freenet.de http://www.imageshack.us http://www.nbci.com We would do either, but many bidders calling photos from the same server at the same time will make the whole pretty slow - the simple reason for the most auctions to proceed this way. Producing an imageA digital camera does it best, and the cheapest will meet Internet requirements. Often a scanner will do - directly or with intermediate paper print. However you do the job, the resolution will be too fine for a fast download from the Internet. Every camera or scanner comes with an image processing software. It can correct some flaws and adust the size. prefers 240 pixels
width. This is almost always detailled enough
and downloads pretty fast. You must not
follow this advice,
brings a stamp and a football yard to the right size. But the stamp
will
have poor quality and the yard will last hours to download.
JPG- and GIF format are supported. Don't worry about the meaning, JPG does it best for photos. Previewafter having entered all, and after placing the images in the Internet (best done first) you'll get a preview showing how your work appears in the Web - and indeed, it comes from the Web. The links to the pictures look almost awfully - if you are lucky like this: http://www.my-server/space-for-all/picture.jpg . Unfortunately with just one typing error you can't recover it from the Internet. The preview will show only a tiny broken-immage icon. You can't do nothing but click back to the editor and seach the error. The easiest is it to view the picture in another window of your browser, and copy its address into the enty form.Don't be Afraid!As long as you didn't click to Post Item in the preview, nobody can view your advertisement. But even later there is no need to worry: You can still edit your posting as long as no bid meeting the reserve was placed on your item. However, bids lower than reserve are removed then, because you cannot expect anybody to stand to a bid after reasonable changes of your description. |
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Heike Ranfft Im Eichfeld 8 41844 Wegberg-Wildenrath Germany |
phone +49 (0)2432 491604 fax +49 (0)2432 491605 email: info@ranfft.de |
Last update: 03-14-09 |