RobsHelp Optimized for eBay Business Websites are in the early stages of development and so are not yet available.  Following is a description of how these sites are planned to function and features they will contain.

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eBay as Easy As it Gets! Optimized for eBay Business Websites

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Introduction:  The idea is to provide, with only a one time setup fee, your own website furnished with the tools you need to make selling on eBay as easy as it gets!  This is possible with powerful programs created especially for eBay sellers.

These optimized for eBay business websites will be a little piece of the future.  More than the homepages already prevalent on the web, sites will contain programs just like on your personal computer.  Because, as eBay sellers, you have much in common it is practical and possible now to offer prefabricated websites optimized with tools to meet your needs.  The prefabrication, in turn, allows you to purchase a powerful ready-to-go website at a fixed price that is less than what you could expect to pay for only several hours of design work at typical webmaster rates. As Inexpensive as it Gets:  Hosting fees and development/maintenance expense are the two primary sources of cost in owning a website.  Prefabricated sites spread development cost over many instances and so reduce the cost for each (kind of like mass production).  Use of programs (CGI scripts) creatively designed for adaptability provides for almost all of the maintenance. As Practical as it Gets:  The idea of creating your own e-commerce website can be exciting as you imagine buyers flocking in from all over the world to purchase your wares.  Unfortunately, it doesn't quite work that way.  The web is a deep and dark jungle.  Supposing the right people actually do find your site the odds of completing a sale are slim unless you can somehow demonstrate your honest reputation and reliability.  Enter eBay.  Millions of people already trust the eBay system and with it's built in feedback program over a relatively short period of time they will trust you too.  Bottom line there is no better place to start than on eBay if you have or are considering the sale of items on the internet.  A business website optimized to work hand in hand with eBay greatly reduces the hassle of getting started and once you are established minimizes the time you spend preparing auctions, tracking their progress, and completing sales. As Powerful as it Gets:  Following are highlights of the features that will be built into the prefabricated websites. Your own powerful auction description creation tool modeled after FreeForm eBay Auction Builder Unlimited saving of auction descriptions to use as templates for future auctions Your own personal and completely secure profile enabling automatic fill in of your eBay user name, password, location, and region fields when posting auctions on eBay Integrated photo hosting.  A point and click interface for uploading, deleting, and including pictures in your auctions! Integrated hit counters for each of your auctions posted on eBay Status report summary page showing the status of all of your auctions including their current hit counts Sale completion pages custimizable to each auction.  These pages allow you to efficiently handle after sale communication with your buyers including links to payment services such as PayPal.  Especially useful for Dutch Auctions! An eBay "About Me" page creation and editing tool that provides for links to auxillary pages on your website Personal "Useful Links" page preloaded with hyperlinks to eBay and eBay related services on the web.  Add your own or remove links easily. Compromises:  Ulimately, there really is no substitute for the complete creative control that can be achieved by developing your own website (or pay others to do so at your direction).  While these optimized for eBay websites will be the product of many hours of research and design, some limitations will be inherent.  For example, while you will be the owner of the site and will have the power to change anything you like at the structural level, you would do so at the risk of losing all or part of the built in functionality.

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Rob Bell is not affiliated with eBay nor claims or intends to represent eBay in any way.