The Basic Requirements

Okay, all eBay newbies, here's a "quick" primer - I'm not going into extreme detail here, hopefully enough to get you started if you're interested.

First things first! You need at least a computer and scanner or digital camera. A scanner is handy as you can easily scan small flat items such as jewelry or coins and achieve great images as well as photographs made from a traditional camera. The drawbacks are that scanning photgraphs is time consuming and costly if you're having to take pictures of your items, take them or send them off to have them developed, and then scan them into the computer. If you've already got one, though, and would rather not buy a digital camera 'til you've explored this business of eBay selling, it's the least expensive way to go.

If you have or would like to purchase a digital camera, the minimum you need for eBay is one with a resolution of 640x480. A lower resolution results in pictures that are of very low quality and less likely to get bids - few people want to take chances on something that isn't well represented in a photograph. (By the way, although you can sell without pictures, there are very few things that most people are willing to buy sight unseen. I know personally that I'm a very visual person and when I'm eBay shopping, I don't even look at items which don't have a picture listed!) A resolution higher than 640x480 may result in pictures that take so long to show up that your prospective buyers will often give up before viewing them - in this day and age of technology, few have the patience to wait even 2-3 minutes for a picture to show up......

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