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community-team@ebay wrote:

 

 

3. Making use of the search terms - using the main search bar on the homepage online or via the app can act as a handy tool if you know how to use it. Think of what words or phrases you will want to use to create your listing and then pop them into the search bar, the more results returned from the search, the more popular it is and therefore more people are searching for it (and will hopefully stumble across your listing)

 


Hmmm.

So if you had two copies of Romeo and Juliet - one a paperback and one an original manuscript in Shakespeare's hand, which one should you list on eBay?

 

By that reasoning, you should list the paperback because there are more of them already listed, and therefore more people want it.  And you should chuck the original manuscript in the bin.  There aren't any others on eBay, so nobody would want it.

 

Of course, you couldn't actually sell the paperback at a profit, since the going rate is around £1.64 including postage....

 

Surely the ideal eBay item is one in short supply, not the one that lots of other people are trying to sell?