In addition, knowing that she will lose nothing anyway, she will realize that she can get item up to ten days sooner if she uses BIN option to order it then, rather than waiting for auction clock to tick down.

The strategy I described above is very safe. I use it for majority of my auctions and I always get positive results. At worst, it will take me 3-4 weeks to sell an item, but I wont ever lose money. I just adjust price to compensate for additional fees.

Strategy #3

Another effective way to use a ten-day setting is in conjunction with dutch auctions--or auctions that sell a number of same item. Ten-day auctions will give you longest amount of time to move highest amount of products.

You may also want to feature ten-day dutch auctions, depending on what items you are selling. If you’re selling information products and rely on quantity of sales for profit, this wont be effective; but if you’re selling a number of expensive, high profit-margin items, featuring your auction is probably a good idea.

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If none of these strategies works for you, you should consider following two things: 1) price other Ebay businesses sell your product for. If someone else IS selling your product, there is a reason for it - and it’s probably price. If you cannot afford to sell at a reasonable price, you need to find a new source to buy from. And if your product’s price is reasonable, then 2) you need to redesign your auction and find new ways of pulling in targeted traffic.

Take your list of results and use it to find successful sellers. Look for powersellers, sellers with stores, sellers with large inventories, and sellers with a lot of positive feedback.

Look at these sellers and try to determine exact methods they use to make sales: Do they use templates? --If so, how are they constructed? Do they use a lot of pictures? Do they use ad copy?

What words did they use in title? Is there a subtitle? Is it featured? Is it bold? What date and time did they list it? Is it part of a dutch auction?

Does seller own an Ebay store?--If so, how is that store arranged?

Does seller get majority of her auction traffic from Ebay or does she advertise somewhere else?

How many items are in seller's inventory? What price ranges do her auctions span? How do her prices compare to yours?

Does she purchase her inventory from another Ebay seller?--If so, can you also use that seller to stock your inventory?

There are dozens of questions you can ask and corresponding answers for all of them. You must determine what you need to ask--and then use reverse engineering method to answer it.