Here's what I got from the web:

Daily peak visitor-ship is between 8:00 PM eastern time and 10:00 PM pacific time.

Typically, Sunday is considered the best day to end an auction followed closed by Saturday and then Friday.

- When I was really into reselling, I tried to make sure the sale ended on Sunday night. Most people work weekdays which then would allow them an opportunity to bid on my item if it was still up during the weekend.

depending upon the category you sell in peak times could be very differnet. video games is probably younger people, baby clothe are stay at home moms so probably during the day, etc

Have you ever come close to selling worth of 100K a month? If not then you have nothing to worry about. If so make sure you use every penny of that 100K and the next month you can call up and get a 35% increase so next month you have 135K worth of merch, next month more.

I've done over 200K a month on ebay consistantly and would caution you if you are approaching anywhere near that slow your role. They will start holding a quarter of your sales for 90 days on top of taking at least 10 grand from you. your better off slowing your role and selling a bit less than getting holds and reserves put on your account.

I don't think that is necessarily the best method, some people just don't sho pon eBay as their primary shopping method and only occasionally need to go to eBay to acquire certain things. When I first signed up for eBay I bought 1 thing then I did not buy anything else for about 3 or 4 years. Then I bought and sold a bit in a certain category to obtain some items I wanted with little money investment. This was before I got into storage auctions. Now I have fairly decent feedback IMO not too high around 250 with 100% + but I still only buy maybe once every 2-3 months. So I guess I am saying long history low feedback only tells me they just don't buy on eBay that often, not that they will be a problem buyer. I would be more scared of a 1 month history with 50 feedback already, because most sellers leave positive feedback as soon as the item is paid for, then that person scams and gets kicked off eBay but not before getting a bunch of free product and wasting a bunch of sellers time and money.

good point, i know people who are like i hate ebay but every now and again go there looking for a used car part or something like that

I have a store so I get to use the "require immediate payment" option. As soon as it's bought they have to pay for it or the sale doesn't go through.

I could be wrong but I don't think you have to have a store to require immediate payment, I think just buy it now listings and not auctions

For most people the 12 free pics is enough. Some don't even use all those, and the pics they do publish are so amateurish it's a wonder they ever sell their items.

I use the 12 free and up to 20 within the text as html inserts. That 20 would include the 12 free ones, so another 8 pics not shown in the regular eBay area.

IMO, the pics within the description are what sells the item. They are larger and I can put appropriate comments below the pics to explain the item. I can also circle some aspect in red pointing out a bonus aspect or a "wart"

Pictures within listings actually harms you search wise though not terribly so I guess you have to make a decision is having good pics with descriptions worth a bit of a knock in the search dept?

Not criticizing you I'm running into the same thing and have chosen to harm myself a bit in search for a more professional presentation and more informative listings. What mine is in reference to is using templates. This is incredibtly stupid since ebay themself provides templates but ebay uses the fist 150 words of your title as the main determining factor in ebay search algorithm. If you have plain text your first words are probably 1 Ounce Silver American Eagle Coins MS89 US Mint etc, etc, etc. Basically all relvent stuff. If your using a template on the other hand your first 150 characters are going to be nothing but <dsfdsasdfd3483743843> and basically just HTML code so I'm not showing up the best I can. I've heard this directly from ebay reps and other big time sellers so I believe it to be true.

Now in my case I find most people are using templates in my category so most other big sellers aren't getting an advantage over me. I rank pretty well in search so dont think its affecting me that much and more importantly I've decided that having a professional presentation and well laid out description and pics outweighs any minor knock in search I may get for doing things with a template.

Bump, sorry i hate hwen people bump things but I'm surprised nobody has commented or has any interest in this subject, especially when I've heard so many people say they choose not to be power sellers or top rated sellers because they dont want to have to accept returns. This basically sovles that problem, you get to offer returns and get all the benefits that come with it from a search algorithm perspective as well as in being able to be a top rated seller and power seller and take advantage of shipping and fvf discounts as well as better search ranking. First off this discouraages returns but if someoen does return something at least your paid for your time and shipping costs. Surprised more people aren't interested in this

I have the DVR set to record them all. Every now and then I'll watch an episode when I have some free time. When the shows first came out, I was glued to the TV...didn't miss an episode.

yeah early on i kinda enjoyed it, after learning the truth about the show was a bit turned off but more so seemed like the show took a different direction and they turned it more into a drama than a reality show about our industry