[Halcyon]

Ok a few tips for you from what I've learned over my time on ebay:

1. Research your item you are selling. You can do a search to see if your item has sold in the past and for how much.
Helps you to set an appropriate kick off price.
Also check out the competition and do a search to see if the same item isnt already listed for cheaper than your kick off price.

2. Think ahead. You dont want your auction ending in the middle of the night. Pick a time during the day, preferably at the weekend when people will have more time to browse your item.

3. Include a photo. Helps to sell an item over any description.
However, dont forget the description. You need a photo AND a description.
And make sure its a good quality photo.

4. Keep it simple and use some formatting to make it clear for people to read your listing. You can use normal html tags.

5. Get the category right. And check your spelling. No use listing it if people cant find it because of some little typo you made.

6. State additional information and postage and packaging information. Accept to ship all over the world to open up to a larger audience.

7. Encourage buyers to ask a question if they need any more info.

8. Don't stick any clashing colours, moving backgrounds, or music.
People want to read the info straight away so keep it tidy.

9. Avoid your auction ending friday mornings between 8-11am as that is ebays down time for maintenance.

10. If you know its something popular, you could post links to it on specialist collector forums with a link to your item.

11. Accept several different methods of payment.

12. If you want to be really cheeky, Fill your listing with additional words so they come up in more searches.