How to advertise your products on ebay. How to start selling on eBay. Secrets of SEO optimization of a personal page on eBay. Starting price and images of your lot

If all your accounts have already been prepared and you are mentally ready to start selling goods at the largest trading platform in the world, then this article is just for you. After studying this article, you will be able to put your first product up for sale yourself. And immediately after the content of the article, you will find a video tutorial about the process of putting a product up for sale from a time-tested intermediary. It is possible that after watching the video tutorial you will not have to read the article further.

Summary:

The content of this video tutorial fully corresponds to the real process of listing a product for sale, with one exception - at the very end of the listing process you must enter the address of your PayPal wallet! This is described in more detail below. The video tutorial shows an expanded product sale ad editor, while the article focuses on a simplified editor that successfully copes with its task.

Starting the process of listing a product for sale and selecting a category

Displaying goods on eBay The easiest way to start is with the page that is shown at the last stage of editing a user account and adding permission to automatically withdraw money from the account PayPal under the buyer protection program eBay. This page looks like this:

The link to it should be saved in your bookmarks, unless, of course, you read and followed my recommendations. On this page click on the button List your item. If you do not have a link to this page, use this link that I found for you in the help system eBay. You can also find a link to the beginning of the display of goods for any product you purchased, unless, of course, you want to sell the item you bought on eBay or is it similar to the one you want to sell.

You will be redirected to the first step of adding a product. You need to enter the approximate title of your advertisement for sale; in most cases, a short name of the product is sufficient. After entering, click the Get started button

You will be presented with the most relevant categories for a given title. Use the checkbox to select a product category. The further success of your trade depends on your choice, since an incorrectly selected category will not allow a sufficient number of potential buyers to see your product in the search results.

If the search results do not give a suitable result, you can select a product category manually, continue listing the product by clicking on the link or the Browse categories tab and go down the category tree to find the one suitable for your product.

Regardless of the method that suits you, after selecting a category, click on the Continue button.

If you want to sell a fairly common product, you can try to find it ready description. Use enter the name of the product, its model in the line and click the Search button. You may be shown the most relevant products from this category. If you want to sell one of which is offered, select it and click on the Sell your button. When choosing such a product, you will no longer need to add its main characteristics to the product description; several stock photos of the product can also be automatically added. We will consider the option of putting a product up for sale when there is no description of an identical product and will create one ourselves. Click the Continue with your listing button.

Choose how to create a product description. Fundamentally, these methods differ only in a more detailed (or rather simply more colorful) division of information into sections and the number of photographs that can be added in this product description editor. We will create a description of more in a simple way in a form called Keep it simple. Click the Go button in the column with the name of this form.

Creating a listing for selling an item on eBay

IN open form When creating a listing, all added information is divided into 5 semantic sections. In the first section, enter the title of the ad. Be sure to indicate in what condition the product is being sold: new – “Brand new”; new in box – “New in Box” or “NIB”; used – “USED”; used in perfect condition - “USED Viry Nice”.

Also in the header of the form for creating a product ad there is a link to go to the advanced editor and a Save for later link to save the current ad to drafts.

In the second section of this form you can add up to 4 photos. The minimum number of photographs is 1, but it is possible without photographs if the lot itself does not require it; maximum – up to 12 photos, which can be added in the extended lot creation form. For $0.35 you can choose an additional service Gallery Plus, which will allow potential buyers to see enlarged photos of the product in the search results.

In the third part of the simplified form for creating a lot description, you must indicate the technical characteristics of the product and give it detailed description. This example uses screenshots of the process of putting a lens up for sale, so the column headings technical characteristics are replete with various expressions from the photo world and in addition to the standard Brand and Model, there are specific ones: maximum aperture, focal length, lens type - fisheye, standard, macro, and so on. All these indicators need to be filled out, because the more presented true information regarding your product, the fewer questions and misunderstandings the buyer has and the greater the likelihood of a purchase.

At the bottom of the third part of the form there is a text editor for creating a back description of the lot. Describe the condition of the product, give a true assessment of its performance, and also indicate special conditions payment, return and delivery of goods, if any. If you do not send goods to African countries, South America also report this.

The fourth section of the form regulates the financial relationship between the seller and the buyer; it requires:

1. indicate the method of sale: auction, sale at a fixed price, auction with a fixed price, format for selling goods with an offer of a price Make Offer and auction with reserve price are available only in the advanced ad creation editor;
2. enter prices for the selected sales methods;
3. add available methods delivery and their cost;
4. determine whether it is necessary to hide the advertisement for the sale of goods for residents of countries where there is no regional eBay site;
5. indicate the order processing time in WORKING days;
6. Using the “tick” switch, mark the possibility of returning a product that matches the description if for some reason the buyer is not satisfied with it.

It is worth noting that in the “simplified” ad editor on the site ebay.com Only American delivery services are available such as , FedEx, UPS, that is, you will not have the opportunity to choose any other delivery method and, accordingly, will not be in the list of delivery methods Russian Posts and even Russian Post. Adding Standard Methods international delivery such as Economic Shipping, Standard Shipping, Expedited Shipping only possible in the advanced editor. To go to the advanced editor, follow the link Switch to form with more choices, which is in the header of this editor. In the advanced editor, scroll the page to the appropriate section and indicate the city in which the product is located. After this, you will be able to add standard delivery methods to the list of used ones. This is described in more detail in the video presented at the beginning of the article.

In the fifth section you just need to indicate the address PayPal, to which the buyer's payment must be sent. It is also possible to block the acceptance of bets from buyers who do not have a linked account. PayPal. This free feature will allow you to avoid unnecessary problems when, after winning an auction, the buyer refuses to purchase due to the fact that he is unable to pay through PayPal.

At this point, the process of creating a listing is completed, all that remains is to find out the amount of the fee for listing the lot for sale and carefully check the information that you provided. When listing the first 50 lots within a calendar month, you should strive to reduce the cost of putting the item up for sale to zero. After checking the information in the ad, click on the Save and preview button.

On the next page you will be shown the created ad, as it will look in search results and when viewing the ad in a separate browser tab. If you are satisfied with everything in the created ad, click Continue.

You will be shown a message notifying you that the item is up for sale. After this, you can go to the My eBay section or tell your friends in Facebook that you are selling a product on eBay!

From the following article you will learn what to do after the goods have been paid for by the buyer: how to properly pack and send the goods, how to deal with the tracking number that you receive in the mail?

In this short article I would like to show you how you can put an item up for sale. Of course, as you understand, an auction is not a disinterested thing and you have to pay for trading on it. Therefore, here I would like to look at how to minimize eBay commission fees and further show examples of listing goods on eBay without any paid services.

First of all, let's look at what commission fees on eBay consist of:

1. Fee for listing a lot for sale. That is, simply for exhibiting the lot, it turns out, you also have to pay. But not everything is so sad. You can list 50 items every month on eBay for free.. This is quite enough at the beginning of trading, I still do not go beyond this limit. If you sell more than 50 items monthly, then eBay will charge you $0.30 for each item for listing the fifty-first and subsequent items.
2. Commission fees in case successful sale. If the product is on sale, then the platform eBay will charge you 10% of its value.. Therefore, be sure to take this into account when calculating the price of the lot.
3. Fees charged by Paypal for payment processing. They make up 3.9%. Also take this figure into account when setting the price.
4. Fees for Additional services eBay, such as: highlighting a product in the search, displaying in recommended products, increasing the duration of the auction over 10 days, adding more than 12 photos to the gallery, setting reserve prices when bidding at an auction.

In fact, if you display up to 50 products per month and do not use additional paid services, then you don’t pay anything for displaying the goods, so if you don’t sell anything, then you don’t lose anything (except, of course, the costs of purchasing goods, if you had any). And in case of sale, you will be charged 13.9% of its value. Therefore, simply increase the price of the product by this percentage. Moreover, 13.9% is taken from the sum of the cost of the product and the cost of delivery, so it does not matter whether you include the cost of delivery in the price of the product and select the “Free Shipping” option or set the cost of the product and the cost of delivery separately.

Instructions for placing a lot.

Now that you are familiar with the trading conditions, let's look at two examples of listing goods on eBay. In the first case, the video tutorial will tell you how to put a pair of shoes up for sale. This example is artificially simulated to simply show the process. In the second case, there will be more modern and detailed text instructions for selling tar soap. It's already real example of what is sold from Russia in large quantities. And remember, the main thing is to start trying it yourself, because you can read instructions endlessly, but true experience comes only when you try to do everything yourself. Each situation is unique and somewhere you will have to think with your own head, but I think after looking at the examples given, you will have fewer questions. The main thing is not to be afraid and try.

Selling on eBay - Example 1. Displaying boots (video tutorial).

Selling on eBay - Example 2. We are displaying tar soap.

Now let's look at how to list a product on eBay using the example of selling Russian tar soap.

My account settings are set to English. If you have Russian set, then some menu items will, accordingly, be in Russian. However, not all parts of the sales interface are translated from English, therefore, it is much more convenient to use English. In addition, if you intend to trade with foreigners, then it is better to immediately get used to the terminology in the original language. The entire description below will take into account the English-language interface.

Select in the top menu of the site “My eBay” – “Selling” (My eBay – Sales)

A form opens in which you need to specify the name of the product. The name of the product should, if possible, be written in the way that a potential visitor would look for it through the search bar, so don’t hesitate to use keywords. In addition, since for such a product as Russian soap there may be a Russian-speaking buyer living abroad (as a rule, emigrants from the Russian Federation and CIS countries), I duplicate the name of the product in Russian. In this case, I am selling 2 bars of soap in one lot, so I write the following text in the title: “Russian Organic Birch Tar Soap 2 PCS | Tar soap - 2 bars.” After specifying the product name, click “Get started”:

A form for selecting a product category appears in front of you. Select the desired category. If you find it difficult to choose, you can find similar products from other sellers and see in which category they are located. In our case with soap it is “Bar Soaps”:

After selecting a category, click the “Continue” button and get to the next step, “ Create your listing”, where we will need to make a detailed description of the product, including the price and terms of delivery and return. There are two options here, either work with this listing creation form, or switch to a simplified form, for which you need to click the “Switch to quick listing tool” link. If you want, you can try the simplified form, but personally, I always work with the extended form, so we won’t switch anywhere. Let's start filling out the form in order:

Title– This is the title that users will see in search results. We filled it out in the previous step, but if you want, you can edit it here.

Condition– condition – select New (well, I wish I could sell used soap - ;))

Add photos– a very important step, here we add photos of the product. Without photos, selling anything in the 21st century is generally pointless, so try to prepare high-quality and clear photographs of your product in good resolution in advance. Personally, after taking photographs, I edit the images in Gimp or Photoshop: I remove the background and make the image brighter and more contrasting. You can add up to 12 photos in total without additional fees. And this is what the images I added look like:

UPS– barcode – I never bother with this parameter, select “Does not apply”

Brand– brand, brand – you can select from the list or enter your own. Naturally, in this case there is no such thing in the list, so we manually enter “JSC “Neva Cosmetics”, Saint-Petersburg”:

Size type– type, size – they offer a choice of Regular, Sample Size and Travel Size. Select "Regular".

Formulation– shape – select “Bar” (bar).

Country, Region of Manufacture– country and region of the manufacturer – set “Russian Federation”

After all our body movements, I got the following picture:

Next comes the “Details” section, where we can give detailed description product. How better description, the higher the likelihood that the product will be found and that it will be attractive to the buyer. I filled it out like this:

If you have been making purchases at this auction for several years now, then you know that many sellers have very beautiful descriptions and even contain images. This is possible if you switch to the “HTML” form. Of course, knowledge of html is necessary, and images must be uploaded to some image hosting and links to them provided here. In a separate article I will talk about how to make a beautiful description with minimal knowledge of html so that anyone can figure it out. While, in principle, a simple text description is sufficient, many limit themselves to just that.

Go to the section on cost of goods and delivery “Choose a format and price”

On eBay, you can either put an item up for auction or set a fixed price, as in regular online store. I prefer to trade at a fixed price "Fixed Price". Next we set the price of the product. I recommend paying attention to the option “ Allow buyers to send you their Best Offers for your consideration"(Allow buyers to send you best deals for your consideration). For example, you put up a product for $10, and the buyer wants to buy it cheaper, he can send you an offer to sell the product, for example, for $8, and you will already consider it and, if you want, sell the product on the proposed terms. In this case, I do not select this option, but often it can be useful.

In field " Duration» we can specify the duration of the ad. When placing a product for free, you can post up to 30 days - that is, your ad will be displayed for no more than 30 days and then, if no one buys the product, the ad will be removed, but it can be placed again. The “Good ‘Till Canceled” option (submit an ad indefinitely until the lot is withdrawn by you) is paid, so I do not recommend choosing it.

Below you are offered to send part of the money from the sale to donate to some fund. Since I’m greedy, I haven’t donated anything to anyone yet and always put “I do not wish to donate at this time”

We go to the “Select how you"ll be paid" section - and indicate the Paypal account where we want to receive money and where we will receive a refund from if there are any problems with the order. We also check the box "Require immediate payment when buyer uses Buy it Now" (Require immediate payment when the buyer uses the "Buy it Now" button).

Go to the delivery section “Add shipping details”.

On eBay delivery divided into domestic and international. Moreover, since there is no separate Russian eBay site, delivery for us will always be international. And the internal one is actually delivery within the United States (or within the UK, Germany, Australia, if your account was created on these sites, but I have not met such users). In other words, if you are registered on ebay.com, then you are considered an American user and therefore you are required to separately indicate delivery within the United States (U.S. Shipping) and separately delivery to other countries (International Shipping), including, by the way, Russia. Therefore, in our case, we simply indicate the cost of international delivery here and there. If you want to include shipping costs in the product price and deliver free shipping, then in the U.S. Shipping set the “Free Shipping” option, and in International Shipping just set 0, as in the picture below:

Handling time– order processing time is the time from the moment the buyer purchases the product until you send it to you with the tracking number on eBay. If you don’t work anywhere and plan to devote your time to trading on eBay work time completely, then you can set it for 1 day, but if you are busy with something else, then set it up to 3 days, like I did. But in any case, it is better not to bid for more than 3 days, this may turn off the buyer.

Here you can change the Item location by clicking on the “Change location” button. Here you need to indicate where the item will be shipped from. If you send it yourself, indicate your location. You can simply indicate your city, or only your country. If this field is not changed, then the auction will be set to a fragment of the address that you specified in your account.

The remaining fields may not be filled in.

If you did everything correctly, you should see the inscription “Your fees so far: $0.00.” This will mean that you do not need to pay fees for listing the product.

We click “Continue” and see a message stating that we “saved” 30 cents, since 50 products have not yet been displayed this month. Below we can see the choice of “Post our product”, “Preview”, or “Edit” again if you don’t like something.

Click “Preview” and if everything is good, then we publish it. You can also save your listing as a template so that when you post the same or similar product in the future, you won't have to fill out all the fields. Click – “Save this listing as a template and use it to sell similar items”

After this you should see the inscription “Congratulations!” and text stating that you have placed your first product.

Now, after placing the product, you can go to personal account in the “Selling” menu and look at your item. There you will see the number of views, how many days until the end of the ad and other data:

If someone buys your product, it will be displayed in the section Sold and you will be required to ship it and provide the buyer with shipping information. A separate article will be written about this.

If no one buys the product within 30 days, it will be displayed in the section Unsold and if you wish, you can set it again by clicking on the “Relist” button.

In the following articles, I will talk in detail about how to ship a product, how to provide shipping information, how to create an html template for product descriptions, and much more.

That's all, I wish you successful trading!

Do you know what determines the success of trading on eBay besides having a unique or high-quality product? You will be surprised, but this is knowledge of the secrets of SEO optimization of your sales pages created at this auction, which we personally, after quite a long study, counted about 10. All of them are easy to use, although despite this, once you put them into practice, the likelihood of successfully selling your lot will immediately increase several times.

And the rules that explain how to start selling on eBay are as follows:

1. Using keys.

The main search element of any ad created at an auction is the title. Therefore, you should start SEO optimization with it, making sure to insert a search key or keys into the title. And there may be several of them.

Having studied the queries used by eBay buyers, we know that 60% of them consist of just one word - “jeans”, “scuba”, “LEGO”, etc. Therefore, this is the first thing you should use to SEO optimize the title of your ad. The first, but not the only one, since in the request approximately 30 percent indicate the price of the product, as well as its quality - “new”, “used”, “second-hand”.

Also, approximately 15% of buyers search using the following keywords: “inexpensive”, “cheap” and others.

2. Use of multiple languages.

It should also be taken into account that 92 requests made by eBay users are made on English language. Therefore, if you are ready to send your goods abroad***, be sure to create a description in English.

*** - And for this you should not only choose the appropriate postal services, but also clarify the presence or absence of customs duties, as well as whether the product can be sent abroad - all this is indicated in the trade advertisement.

There are 2 methods to do this correctly:

the first is to create two parallel pages offering the same product - in English and Russian;

create bilingual advertisements using two languages ​​at once; An example of this is “Used scuba gear inexpensively. Aqualung second hand cheap.”

3. Choosing a national eBay affiliate is the most important thing for anyone who wants to learn how to start selling on eBay.

It is also worth remembering that today there are about 40 national eBay branches created for users from Poland, China, Ukraine, Russia, Thailand, etc. Creating a separate account for each of them allows you to increase sales several times. As for solving the language problems that you will have when creating a description for a product, the same Google Translator can easily solve them.

4. Working with the description.

The description itself is divided into 3 parts:

first – short description product located on the page immediately below the lot name;

eBay is the largest online marketplace in the world and one of the largest one-stop buying and selling communities. With such a massive audience in one place (171 million users worldwide), the increased potential for visibility makes it easier for sellers to promote their products or businesses on eBay. This is why so many sellers come to eBay to attract a huge audience to the site. Many large sellers even sell at a loss as part of a customer collection strategy.

For example, some large sellers use a 99 percent auction strategy to collect data.

As eBay evolves, so do social media marketing and alternatives for promoting listings. The title of the game on eBay should be at the top of the search and be noticed. While eBay tells us that listings will rank higher in searches when titles are optimized and keywords are included in titles, there are some additional things sellers can do to catapult their listings to the top of searches. Some cost money, others just take time to actually do the marketing.

eBay Promoted Listings

New feature in 2017 is version advertisement eBay, similar to Facebook advertising. Promoted listings are a way to place items at the top of searches. Sellers generally pay for higher placement. Here's how it works.

1. Sellers choose which listings they want to promote either by selecting a category or selecting individual listings.

1. Sellers choose a bid from 1% to 20% of the sale price. eBay actually offers a report on listing ranking trends with promoted listings, so if sellers aren't sure how to be competitive, eBay provides a weekly category trend report based on the average and maximum bid rates set by sellers using promoted listings. We update this information weekly." (eBay.com)

1. Sellers are only charged if the item being sold sells after a buyer clicks on the ad AND sells it within 30 days. So, not before the fees start, only after the transaction fees after the item is sold.
2. Sellers have access to data showing ad performance and clicks, so they can adjust promoted listings to achieve maximum results.

Use social media

Promote eBay items on Twitter, Pinterest, Facebook page and Instagram. Use this technique sparingly, as you don't want your friends to get tired of your constant posting and dishonesty or unfollow you. Promote unusual or hard to find items. During the 4th quarter, when people are buying holiday gifts, you may want to be a little more liberal with your promotions. social networks. Just be careful it's not overkill.

These are just a few simple techniques that require very little overhead and apply to every eBay business model or market. The key to consistently selling and making money on eBay is focused on the details in each listing. Using these strategies can help increase your visibility and promote both your eBay listings and your eBay e-store.

Creation of advertising boxes

1. Promotional items. Use this type to use one or more Store elements. Sellers can highlight items that are recently listed or are about to go out of stock, both of which receive a boost in search. Select items manually or allow eBay to automatically include your items.
2. Provide links to other parts of your store. eBay says: "Use this type to provide buyers alternative ways search for products in your store. Custom links can point to the Store category, a custom page in your store, another eBay page, or custom search results. or images that provide access to these other pages. Choose from preset graphics or provide your own. Graphics not matching standard sizes in location, will be changed according to size. "

1. Create your own ad unit. Create your own unique ad unit to show information such as shipping and payment details, links to the newsletter signup page Email or testimonials page. Merchants can write their own HTML code for custom ad units, but make sure they are mobile friendly. You don't want to do all the work to get a buyer on your listing and then lose them because they can't read the listing on mobile devices.

Thanks to the internet we have websites like eBay And Craigslist, whose user traffic amounts to millions of visitors daily. At the same time, these sites are a source of the strangest offers that can only be found on the Internet. I studied carefully eBa y and other similar sites. As a result, I ended up with a small list of advertisements published on eBay that you have to see with your own eyes to believe.

Fortunately for these websites and unfortunately for users, some of these ads were successful. They not only made a lot of money for those who published them, but also defrauded those who fell for the bait. Some may ask what I mean by " ridiculous ads on eBay" Of course, the word " ridiculous" can be interpreted in different ways, but we can't help but agree that some of these ads are absolutely useless on this online marketplace. Even though you can always find something amazing here, you shouldn't forget Golden Rule: God saves the best, because in most cases, when you see some ad and think, “ it's too good to be true”, in fact, this is what it turns out to be.

Don't let this article discourage you from shopping on eBay, because 99% of the time, this online marketplace is used for legitimate transactions. From my own experience, I can say that on both sites you can find the necessary thing at a low price. It is worth noting that eBay is included in the ranking of the 10 fastest growing brands in the world.

15. Piece of Mars

Let's start right away with one strange product, a piece of Mars. Believe it or not, a piece of the planet Mars has been posted and sold on eBay. This might not be the strangest item to ever sell on eBay. Upon further investigation, the opening bid for this item was $450,000. As a result, it was purchased at the above price. The ad was originally posted in 2003, and although it seems like such an item might not be legal, it turned out to be so.

They say that finding a meteorite that was part of Mars is very difficult, but fortunately one of them was sold on eBay, and brought the seller a huge amount of money. In this particular case, the sold meteorite was further examined and its belonging to Mars was confirmed.

14. Grilled cheese sandwich

According to several different sources, a fried sandwich with a slightly distorted image of the Virgin Mary, was purchased by GoldenPalace.com on eBay for $28,000. According to the product description, the sandwich is 10 years old and is part of popular culture. The item was originally listed on eBay with a bid of $99,999,999. I would be shocked if anyone would shell out that much money for a grilled sandwich that had been bitten into.

Honestly, I'm amazed that anyone bought a sandwich for almost $30,000, but that's a different story. However, under the circumstances, it is not surprising that a gambling website would spend so much money that they could invest it in other funds. According to the CEO, the sandwich was used to raise money for charity.

13. Advertising on the forehead

After I heard about this ad, I wondered how often people use their forehead as an advertising space. To my surprise, this is quite common. Apparently, the idea of ​​advertising on foreheads dates back to 2003, when an article was published about using foreheads to advertise.

The ad in question was posted by a man named Andrew Fisher, who once sold the space on his forehead to a company Snorestop for almost $40,000. Fisher used temporary tattoos to promote the logo of a company that helps stop snoring. This man was nicknamed the Forehead Guy ( Forehead Guy). When I found this ad, I never would have thought that people could do something like this, but essentially this is great way promoting your business and certainly unconventional.

A few years ago it was announced that dessert Twinkies stop releasing. This caused huge outrage among angry buyers and hobbyists. Twinkies. Moreover, a couple of advertisements for sale were posted on eBay Twinkies. Unfortunately, none of the lots were successful. People thought that Twinkies will become a collector's item due to its discontinuation.

Fortunately, no one fell for this bait, since the company producing this dessert announced that they were not closing the business, but were just going to release Twinkies according to a new recipe. Unfortunately for the sellers, all their attempts to get rich quick remained a pipe dream. It’s wildly funny to me that in the 21st century people can fall for this.

One of the most unremarkable advertisements that I accidentally found on eBay was an advertisement for the sale of shot glasses, or rather stacks of Nickelback. There are clearly sellers on eBay trying to capitalize on the hate surrounding the band Nickelback, telling people how they can cope with the existence of this group. Fortunately, these lots are much more harmless than others, since they do not look like a scam.

What's more, the shot glasses seem to be selling at a fairly low price. However, I think the only reason people buy them is to throw them at someone when you're angry, or just to smash them on a cement floor. In my opinion, stacks Nickelback are in bad taste, but if used as intended, they can be beneficial. Of course, they are suitable for starting a conversation, but nothing more.

10. Prison toilet

This item shocked me at how common it is on eBay. Believe it or not, they are legal and can be purchased in large quantities at a time. Numerous listings on eBay are trying to auction off prison toilets in pairs of 2, 3 and 4. Unfortunately, you won't be able to save money on stainless steel toilets, as the minimum price is $300 dollars, sometimes even more.

This lot arouses curiosity in large part because I have never met anyone who prefers a prison toilet to a regular one. However, I think they could be useful for businesses that do camping, etc. In my opinion, you should avoid these types of offers if you are just looking for a regular toilet. It's not worth the money or hassle.

9. Soap

If you're very concerned about how good you smell, you definitely shouldn't be looking for soap on eBay. Honestly, just take a couple of minutes to drive to your nearest supermarket and I assure you, you will spend less than on eBay. However, this has not stopped some individuals from setting up a store selling soaps on this online marketplace.

The soap I'm linking to was listed on eBay with a piece chewed off. Completely incomprehensible, the soap actually sold for approximately 0.06 cents. It is clear that you would not spare more money to buy soap in the supermarket, but this particular soap was chewed. Come on! If this is something you want to have in your collection, it is better to give up this desire and let the post disappear without a trace.

8. Bigfoot on toast

Of course, the hunt for Bigfoot is a familiar topic that comes up again and again today. People are willing to go to great lengths to prove that they have seen Bigfoot. Thus, on eBay one could find advertisements for the sale of toast with the image of Bigfoot. Any skeptic will give the most obvious explanation that, most likely, a special toaster was used that imprinted certain pictures on the bread.

As you might expect, these listings are not as rare as you might think, although the prices on these items suggest otherwise. The item I'm referring to was listed on eBay for 0.01 cents and finally sold for $33.35. There are a lot of things I can't explain in these times. If you're desperate to spend $40 on burnt toast, maybe it's time to reconsider your priorities.

7. Graphing calculator

I remember how in high school The guys had huge graphing calculators. I, of course, know about their certain benefits in various areas of mathematics. No wonder they are up for sale on eBay. Perhaps those kids who wore them during their school years don't know what to do with them now, because they realized that mathematics is useless in everyday working life.

Lately there have been graphing calculators on eBay for half the price of retail calculators. This indicates not only that they are stale, but also that the demand for them varies from “ small" before " no».

6. Britney Spears' hair

eBay has collected some of the strangest products in its history, one of which is Britney Spears' hair. This does not mean an artificial wig, but the star’s real hair, which she shaved off in one of the salons. Undoubtedly, this salon was responsible for the cut hair and, instead of disposing of it, put it up for auction in the hope of getting easy money.

Unfortunately, due to eBay's policies, the auction was quickly closed because it violated the rules. The auction was resumed in 2007, and the hair sold for $1,000,000. In general, fame has its ups and downs, and celebrities are aware of certain consequences.

5. Hollywood Sign

Under the advertisement for the sale of the original Hollywood sign, it was indicated that someone had the opportunity not only to buy it, but also to pay a decent amount for it. The Hollywood sign was created in 1923. It was put up for auction to fund other projects. Not surprisingly, the original Hollywood sign, listed in 2005 for $300,000, sold for a manageable $450,000.

If the current owner needed to complete a large project, I think with this sale he could easily do it. Such things are not extraordinary, such as airplanes or buildings, which were also sold on eBay, but they also have buyers who have enough money to buy them. But I would never buy something that size just to display it in my yard.

4. New Zealand

I was never told that it was possible to auction off a piece of property or even land on eBay. True, there is no guarantee that you can sell it there. So, someone tried to sell New Zealand on eBay for 0.01 cents, but as with Britney Spears' hair, eBay decided that this was against their policy and closed the auction.

In 2008, the price for New Zealand at auction reached over $3000, but I believe eBAy would not allow entire countries to be sold. If it were legal, anyone could hit the jackpot by selling a city or country. I can't deny that this for sale ad is a lot of fun. If I had the opportunity, I would do the same thing.

3. Toilet paper with the image of the President

It doesn't matter if you're a Hilary Clinton fan or a Donald Trump fan, there's toilet paper for everyone. It seems like the people behind this just have fun printing images of presidential candidates on toilet paper. Honestly, I think this is a brilliant idea. I can't think of one the best way show your attitude towards a certain candidate.

If you're looking for toilet paper that doesn't just feature actual candidates, the Barack Obama toilet paper will appeal, although it's not as popular as the ones mentioned above. The price of such toilet paper varies from $2 to $6. If you're planning on stocking up on toilet paper for the winter, it's worth checking out eBay.

Have you ever thought while out with friends that it would be a good idea to have a stink spray with you? Thanks to eBay and what you can post here unusual goods, you can buy a portable stink spray for yourself and your friends. This purchase may be the best choice in a friendly company or if you have nothing to do at home.

Imagine someone is upsetting you at work or at home, you quickly whip out your trusty stink spray and create a stench so bad you can't stand it yourself. I don't condone people going into other people's houses and creating an unbearable stench, but given that such a product exists, people are already making fun of each other using this spray.

1. Canned Unicorn Meat

If unicorn meat exists, why buy plain old meat? Clearly, eBay is once again no stranger to strange items, including inedible items that may not be eaten in any form. Not only eBay sells similar products, but Amazon does too. Before you go buy these canned foods, read the description and you will see that this meat cannot be eaten.

On the other hand, in the description you can find funny wording, for example: “ No deception - the unicorn meat is real! Great source of glitter!