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i sell (on ebay and other online auctions - A loose-leaf binder system for tracking your...
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by Lynn A. Wilson
Sales Rank: 1616721
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$8.99
At Amazon
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Ring-bound: 416 pages
Publisher: All Aboard Inc August 22, 1999
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0967440416
ISBN-13: 978-0967440415
Product Dimensions:
9.1 x 8 x 2.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
Product Description
Book Description i sell As seen in ebay magazine.
Do you sell at online auction houses such as ebay, Amazon and Yahoo? Do you have notes written here & there on this & that scrap of paper? Do you scramble to find something to write on when the phone rings and someone is ready to pay? Are you never quite sure what needs to be shipped and who needs feedback?
If this is you, you need i sell, THE BEST WAY TO GET ORGANIZED!
i sell is an 8" x 9" 3-ring binder system that comes with 200 double-sided i sell tracking sheets, 5 tab dividers and instructions. Once you have personalized your tab dividers, they will help you keep track of:
* What items you are getting ready to put up for auction
* What items still need descriptions and photos
* What items are currently up at auction
* Which items have sold
* Which winners need an email
* Which items have been paid for and need to be shipped
* Who is taking too long to pay
* Who needs feedback
Written Record Keeping is super important. Why?
1st: Good Written Records can help you acquire and maintain a high feedback rating. Buyers leave feedback comments based on the service they receive, how quickly emails are answered, how quickly items are shipped and general follow through. Using i sell sheets will help you to take care of these things in a timely manner.
2nd: Most online auction houses only keep records for 30 days. i sell sheets are necessary for when the computers purge your information.
3rd: i sell record keeping is super if you have more than one of these items to sell; the description is already written and you will have the auction results to know what to expect the next time. It's also great if you need to relist your item after the 30 days has passed.
4th: i sell makes it easy to fill out sales and income tax forms. There is a profit/loss section on the back of each i sell page.
5th: i sell records are invaluable if a package that you have sent never arrives or is delayed. You will have all your dates of correspondence and tracking #'s at your fingertips.
6th: These records are great to use for trend analysis. Does a particular class of items get more bids in the fall or the summer? What class of items is hot on ebay now? Spot emerging trends in the records you keep.
7th: If you work at different computers or have multiple people helping with your business, the i sell journal is invaluable. With one record keeping book, all of your employees can easily find out what's been done and what needs to be done.
Good record keeping takes little time and the benefits are enormous! Get i sell and Get Organized Today!
About The Author
Lynn Dralle is a 3rd generation antiques dealer. She is an ebay power seller who sells up to $20,000 a month at online auctions. She is an award winning author and her books I Buy and I Sell will help you keep track of what you buy and what you sell at online auction. Lynn Dralle teaches classes on how to buy and sell at online auctions around the country. Her video series "Trash to Cash" will also help you get started buying & selling at online auction!
Customer Reviews & Comments
Although many readers seem to agree with the review re this being nothing more then an expensive notebook, I for one find "I-Sell" very useful for MY auction tracking purposes. I tried other "systems": auction tracking software, a computerized file, database, alphabetical index card files... Each seemed useful in the beginning. But then there's that auction payment check that arrives late that you'll "record in my system later"... the person who contacts you 3 weeks after your auction closes with no winner & emails of his interest to buy the item before you relist elsewhere; the 11PM arrival of 20+ paypals; your conclusion of Friday night's packaging for Saturday's outgoing mail, to discover 60 emails that were delayed by your ISP's downtime, with most winners wanting express- priority shipping tomorrow; ... & all the rush of events which can occur with auctioning online. In auction tracking, we all intend to record everything properly & immediately, but in haste to tend to more time consuming details, who hasn't jotted down a note on yet another post-it to "record in my system later". FOR ME, "I-Sell" is an easy system, as it's my all- inclusive hardcopy... no need to print out each item detail sheet or final buyer letter; no added paperwork to get filed EVENTUALLY. I easily can pencil in a note on any relative tracked auction page & IT's ALL IN ONE NEAT COMPACT BOOK. I'm highly organized, but I also lean toward the K.I.S.S. theory of recordkeeping [Keep It Simple Stupid]. Perhaps because I auction for charitable purposes &... this is an all- inclusive easy means of tracking for MY purposes... whereas it may not be for everyone. With "I-Sell", one of my books gets filed, & I start another. A seller can choose to invert the slide-in cover sheets to label these books: - monthly, quarterly, annually [for measuring financials & keying in on "Hot Items" & "dogs" for auctioning]; or - alphabetically by buyer [so as to keep a detail on the types of items certain buyers bid on & thus email them of those intended for list]; or - thematically, by item category; or - HOWEVER YOU WANT tO TAILOR YOUR TRACKING SYSTEM. However you choose to use & maintain it, it's an easy system of tracking & unlike the static- inflexible auction software, a seller DOES have some leverage in his own organizational system. Having formerly managed 300K++ documents in corporate litigation cases with the most expensive custom database systems, I know that the BEST system is the one that is UTILIZED & meets the needs of the persons needing to gain access to it. A final word to those preferring to maintain all records on computerized files, unless you do a daily back-up, NO software auction or database system is fail-safe for purposes of tracking... I KNOW, as I've lost 2 hard drives in 3 years from "acts of God"... [ie, an unforseen storm, & a regional "brown out" (in which an electric utilty company- during high-use times, like temps of 100++ degrees- cuts all area power to 50%)...]. We all have had/ heard similar horror stories & most every auction seller maintains SOME form of hard copy file anyway... Why not simplify it with an easy-to-use system like this? As for large E-bay or marketplace auction site sellers, if on a commercial/ network system, none of the typical online auction seller tracking systems is used anyway. Perhaps for professional sellers, a system such as this may seem too mundane, but FOR ME ... selling on sites... THIS IS AN EASY-TO-FOLLOW, all inclusive simple system & MY SYSTEM OF CHOICE!
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i sell (on ebay and other online auctions - A loose-leaf binder system for tracking your...
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Price: $8.99
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