In order to sell your items effectively, we have put together a list of tips to help you sell more.
Represent the items you are selling fairly and accurately. If you have a manufacturers description and specification, be sure to include these to help give your potential buyers a real sense of the item.
Respond promptly to buyer questions. This shows that you are always reachable, giving your potential buyers confidence.
Review your buyer's feedback. This will give you a good indication of how reliable they are for buying items.
Clearly state your return policy in your listing. Show the terms of your "after sale" policies, so buyers are aware before bidding.
Maintain records of postage receipts as proof the item was posted.
Keep copies of any proof of your item's authenticity. If you claim it to be a limited edition, and proof is available, then let the buyers know.
Verify payment before shipping items (including holding cheques until they clear). Before sending out the item, be sure to have the payment cleared. If you prefer to do this, make it clear to the buyer in the listing, so they know what is to be expected.
Only ship items to the verified billing address on the buyer's credit card account (if applicable).
Use extra caution with:
International payments
Revised shipping information
Unknown or new buyers
Unusual bidding activity
Orders shipped "rush" or "overnight"
Dutch auctions
On a Dutch Auction, the auctioneer has more items of the same product for sale. The bidder will enter a maximum bid he is willing to pay for an item, and the number of items he wants to purchase. The highest bidder(s) will receive the number of items they have bid on, and the remaining bidders will receive the number of items still available. Buyers are able to bid more than once for the same item.
Feedback system
Once a sale has been processed, both the seller and the buyer will be able to leave feedbacks for each other. The feedback rating is from one star to five stars, and a feedback comment can also be left. The feedback can be left from the “Feedback” tab from the Members Area. The feedback can only be left once, and it cannot be edited afterwards.
The site admin will reserve its right to delete malicious or untrue feedbacks.
Item watching
The item watch features lets you keep a close eye on any auction without having to place a bid on it. This feature means you can be kept up to date on how an auction is doing and prepares you to place a winning last minute bid. You can watch any auction by clicking on the “Watch this item” link on any auction page.
Auction watch
The auction watch features notifies you of newly listed auctions which contain “keywords” you have chosen. For example if you are looking for a “Playstation 2” you could enter in those keywords from within your member’s area. Each time a new auction is listed containing the term “Playstation 2” you will be notified via this web-site. You can enter in as many keywords as you like.
Members Area
Members Area
Once you have successfully logged in using the login forms from the main page or from the login page (click on the “login” button from the page header), you will be redirected to the members area page. This page is divided into four tabs:
a. Bidding
On this page, you will be able to see the items your currently bidding on, as well as the status of the bids, items you have won, and watched items. By clicking on the “Auction Watch” link, you will be able to add keywords for auctions your interested in. An email will be sent to your email address every time an auction that will contain the keyword in its name or description will be submitted.
By clicking on the “View Details” link from the Won Items area, you will be able to see the details of the seller, and make contact with him in order to perfect the sale.
b. Selling
There are three areas available on this page.
The “My Opened Auctions” area, where you will see details of auctions you currently has open; if no bids were submitted yet on an open auction, you are able to edit the auction.
The “My Closed Auctions” area, where you will see the auctions submitted by yourself, and that were closed. You can choose to edit, delete or re-list a closed auction.
On the “Sold Items” area, you will see the items you have sold, and by clicking on the “View Details” link, you will be redirected to a page where you will see the details of the buyer. If an end of auction fee is set from the admin area, then the seller will have to pay for the end of auction fee in order for you to see the buyer details.
If, after the seller has contacted the bidder, and no sale has been made, you can claim back the end of auction fee. By clicking on the “Claim back end of auction fee”, a claim back request will be sent to the site’s administrator, and will be evaluated for fee refunding.
c. Feedback
From this page, you will be able to see the feedbacks you have received, and leave feedbacks to other users.
d. Personal Info
You can edit your personal information using this page, except for your username. You can also change the password for the account. If the password and confirm password fields are left empty, and then the password will remain the same.
How To Sell
Once you have signed up for an account, you will be able to sell items through the site.
In order to do that, you will have to click on the “Sell” link, and you will be redirected to a page, you can then select the main category of the product or service you want to sell. This feature has been made in order to ease the subcategory choosing process. No items can be sold by choosing only the main category; you will have to choose a subcategory for it.
The second step is entering the auction details, settings, payment methods available, and choosing a category. An image that will come with the auction is free of charge, but the admin may charge for adding additional pictures.
On the Auction Settings tab, you can choose the type of the auction, the start price, whether to activate buy now or set a reserve price.
Also, you will be able to choose what type of bid increment to use, the progressive one implemented into the site (that can be edited from the admin area), or a custom one. If you choose the custom one, you will have to enter an increment value.
You will also be able to choose whether to feature the item, and the duration of the auction.
After setting the location, shipping and payment and subcategory, and by clicking on the “Next Step” button, you will be redirected to Step Three, where you can review the auction before submitting. If everything is in order, you can click on the “Submit” button, and will be redirected to the payment page, or a confirmation page, if no fees have to be paid. The auction is activated once the payment is confirmed by the payment gateway, or instantly, if no fees need to be paid.
Registering
Registration is simple and only takes a matter minutes. To start the signup process, click on the “register” link at the top of this page. Only users with the age over 16 years are able to register.
The next step is to fill in all your information, failure to supply all the required information will result in an error.
By clicking on the “Register” button from the bottom of the page, you will be redirected to a page with a link to the payment gateway if the signup fee is activated, or to a confirmation page, if signup is free.
Your account will be activated instantly if there is no signup fee, or once the payment has been confirmed by the payment gateway.
How To Bid
If you have spotted on item you would like to place a bid on you can do so quickly and easily by following these steps:- (1) Login to your account – If you have not registered you can do so within 5 minutes (2) Visit the auction page (3) Towards the bottom of the auction description page you will see a “bidding box”, you can use the shortcut link to the bidding box if you wish. (4) Enter in your bid, note you must bid above the minimum bid required (5) Click on the “place bid” button (6) You will then be asked to confirm you bid, once you have done so your bid will be entered, if successful you will receive a confirmation message. If you bid fails to outbid the current high bidder you will be offered the option to place a higher bid. Proxy bidding can aid your chances of winning an auction and help avoid you being outbid at the last moment. To place a proxy bid enter in the maximum price you are willing to pay for the item. If another user places a bid on the same auction automatic bids will be placed on your behalf in accordance with your maximum bid amount. With proxy bidding you will pay the lowest possible price until someone else places a higher bid. There is another way of bidding: Buy it now auctions. Buy it now prices are set by the seller, if you agree with that price, you can click on the “Buy Now” button which is displayed on the auction details page. After clicking on the button you will be re-directed to a confirmation page. On a standard auction that auction will end instantly as the item has been sold via Buy it now. On a Dutch auction, you can enter the amount of items you wish to buy (depending the quantity available).
If you purchase less than there are available in total, the auction will remain open with the number of items left available after you have purchased the amount you want.
Wanted Ads
Wanted ads are a new and increasingly popular feature. As an advertiser you can list adverts for items you want and sellers can submit offers for items they are selling. It’s a quick, simple and hassle free way of sellers being able to meet buyers demands.
Advertiser (Buyer)
List a new wanted ad and wait for sellers to contact you with offers. If you receive an offer your happy with you can bid on the item!
Sellers
Browse the wanted ads and if you see one that matches an item your selling make an offer and tell the buyer you have just what they are looking for!
Shops
UKNo1.co.uk allows you to have your very own shop front.
Promote your products to thousands of people within your own shop front complete with your own logo.
To set up your shop:
Login to MyUKNo1
Under the members area menu, choose "Store"
Select "Yes" for Enable Store
Click on "Create Shop Front URL"
Fill in the text box below for your shop name
Fill in the text box below to add a description
Upload your company logo by clicking on "Browse"
Choose the categories you would like to be in your shop from the list below.
Click "Save Settings"
Your shop can be edited as many times as you wish, allowing you to update information as needed.
Image Resizing
In order for your images to display, they need to be up to a maximum of 400kb(kilobytes) and 500 pixels in size.
Your images will need to be resised accordingly, and saved in JPEG or GIF format.
Due to the nature of different software and camera packages, we cannot list a full set of instructions on how to resize your images, so please consult your software user guide.
However, if you would like help with your images, please contact us: support@ukno1.co.uk
We have now provided a link to Microsoft's Powertoys Image Resizer, to allow you to resize images easily and quickly.
Powertoys Image Resizer can be downloaded from here:
Open the folder that contains the pictures you want to resize. In Thumbnail view, right-click any picture you want to resize, and click Resize Pictures.
2. In the Resize Pictures dialog box, click the size you want your photo to be, and click OK. In general, Small is a good selection for most of your needs, such as e-mailing pictures or posting them to a Web site.
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The original file, flowers.jpg, is still intact; and a new, resized file, named flowers (Small).jpg, has been added to the same folder.
Resize multiple photos at once
To resize a sequence of photos at once, click the first photo in the sequence, hold down the SHIFT key, and click the last photo in the sequence. All the photos in between those that you clicked will be selected. Follow the steps outlined previously to resize the sequence of selected photos.
To resize nonsequential photos in a folder, click the first photo, and hold down the CTRL key while you click the other pictures you want to resize. Once you have your photos selected, follow the steps outlined previously to resize the selected photos.
Advanced features
Image Resizer includes some additional advanced features. Click the Advanced tab to show the following options:
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Custom lets you manually set the size you want for your photos.
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Make pictures smaller but not larger constrains resizing to only sizes smaller than the original photo.
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Resize the original pictures (don't create copies) permanently applies resizing to your original photo.
Remember, download from here as well as other features from Microsoft. Please read the terms and conditions, outlined on the site.
If you need any further assistance, please email support@ukno1.co.uk and we will be happy to help you.
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