Finally... a Chance to Follow-up on My Ebay Test!

Hello,

First, I want to thank each of you who offered your thoughts on my ebay selling system test. :-)

Secondly, I want to apologize for taking so long to be able to post a response, and an update on my 2nd cycle of ebay testing. I have been swamped in my businesses and projects. :-)

Hank is 100% correct... I cannot give out my ebay seller ID.

To do so would be to alter the test itself. How? Well, as you probably know, when you conduct a test, you *must* control the variables as much as is possible.

Then, you make changes… one at a time. In this way, you can monitor how the changes affect your results. So, for me to post my ebay ID # would be to throw the test into total disaccord.

For example, let’s say someone from sowpub.com went to look my ebay listings. Already the test has become invalid because that individual did not find my ebay items for sale by the *system* I created.

Also, if anyone from sowpub.com placed a bid on one of my ebay items… one has to ask, “Were they influenced in any way because they had read one of my sowpub.com postings? Or, had they had previously corresponded with me by email, or purchased one of our products online?”

Basically, what I’m saying is that I have to conduct this ebay test as controlled as possible to get the most accurate test results. If I decide to sell my ebay selling system, I don’t want to provide inaccurate test results. Why? Because although maybe in the beginning I would sell my system, if the system didn’t work as promised, in the long run it would come back to haunt me, my business, and my reputation.

And for a few quick bucks, “It ain’t worth it.” :-)

O.K… now to update you on my 2nd round of testing this ebay selling system. :-)

I have 9 items listed… with an investment of $10 (I will keep my items averaged out from my total purchase investment). And, I have 4 items that have been bid on so far.

Yet, if my first test was any indication, you can get bids right down to the very last minute (literally) on an item that up to that point had not even been bid on.

Right now, my total return is up to $27.30. Not a great deal, right? However, this test still has 3 days of bidding to go. Remember, this is an auction site… and there is a lot of psychology (or poker) going on here. The bidders want to get what they want… and, at the lowest possible price. Just because you don’t have a bid *does not* mean someone is not planning on bidding on, and winning, your ebay item. :-)

Also, please remember, my test is *not* based upon seeing if I can get a huge amount of money… I’m testing to see if my ebay selling system works! There is a difference.

Why? Because if the ebay selling system works… than the money will follow!

Thank you again for all of your thoughts and comments.

Cordially,
Diane Everroad

P.S. Oh… I forget to mention… in my cycles of testing, I will be using different types of items to list on ebay. Again, it’s the selling system I’m testing, not the items I list for sale. I want to know, “Will this system produce the same results no matter what I have listed?”


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