The key to success on ebay is photos, photos, photos followed by DECENT description. Learn to use the html facility so you can drop very large, detailed pics in the guts of the auction ... so much preferable to using greedBay's pissy little picture thingie that costs you a bleedin' fortune over & above the blood, sweat & tears they already extort!
The bigger/better the pics and the more comprehensive description (even pointing out faults/issues) the less problems you'll get from dipsticks later, no nasty surprises for the brainless out there, and there's a huge proportion of those. This will also ensure you're driven less mad by fewer buyer questions, most of which deserve to be published for their blatant stupidity.
Go in on the basis that your buyers know absoutely nothing, they're ALL newbies who haven't got a clue and you'll be far more successful.
Never, but never upset a buyer - they can leave you negatives but you can't reciprocate, no matter how evil the prick/pricklette was.
LMFAO - do I sounded jaded? Prolly because I am, sold $20k per month on ebay for 5 long & mentally tormenting years to come out with 10,000 f/back at 100% positive but, oh, the stories I could tell you. I dealt only with hunters, bikies and collectors of Franklin-Friggen'-Mint they're far from being the easiest people to deal with 
DO NOT restrict your shipping to your own country only, you cut out a vast market of people wanting to buy who'll spend far more than your own cash-strapped people, especially tobacco if you're willing to ship - [u]there's a HUGE untapped market there but so many dumbasses don't believe they can ship it out of USA which is ridiculous, they can!
Stats: Female "Proud Pretty Pipe" Smoker, lover of all things aromatic, especially mens' armpits!
Technophobic fool who can't work out how to invite friends, so if you want to be mates with moi, you'll need to do the legwork involved, but only if you have a great SOH and don't dump on others!
