AUCTIVA is an excellent 100% free service for eBay sellers. 

This is an all-in-one website

that really makes the eBay selling process simple.  In the long run you can save a ton of

time and money by using Auctiva.

  Auctiva’s one-page listing tool dramatically reduces the time it takes to list each auction.  The

scrolling gallery helps you cross-market and increase customer traffic.  Profiles will save you both

time and sanity in not having to type repetitive information into hundreds of listings.  Unlimited image

hosting, with supersizing, gives you one central, safe place for all your auction images.  And the best

part is:  Auctiva’s auction management tools are FREE!

  You can list, upload hundreds of images, create numerous profiles for different auction items, design

a store and scrolling gallery AND have access to a huge collection of auction templates.  What I love

most about Auctiva is that this is very simple - just step by step.  You go down the line and choose the

title (subtitle if you want to pay to add it, I rarely do this) and then select the category that this will be

listed under.  This entire listing process cancels out the need to EVER click the Sell button again on Ebay! 

EVERYTHING you need is within this site. This website does it ALL for you. 

  You can select the extra Ebay features if you would like to add them.  You pick the category inside Auctiva

and even add your shipping details within this site - enter the weight and the shipping methods you will use or

enter the flat-rate and shipping methods. It does everything else FOR you - on automatic!

  When you are ready to begin creating a listing, step by step directions are given for each portion.  Many options

are available to add if you want, and if one is not free then it is coded with a green $ next to it meaning that extra

eBay listing fees will be added. When you are all finished, or THINK you are all finished... a few features I especially

like are available at the bottom left of the screen:

*Preview - Click to preview, see what your listing will look like once placed.

*Check for errors - Click this to make sure everything you stated is consistent and you

haven't left anything out.  DO use this, since even small errors can be costly on eBay. It's

like spell-checker, and has caught oversights for me many times. Usually my errors have been

something about shipping, or else I forgot to include a gallery photo.  A quick click is the

fix and on you go.  Doesn't catch EVERY error, but many.

*estimate eBay fees - Click to get a preview of what it will cost you to post this listing.  

My average listing fee is now only about 35 cents, since Auctiva does not charge for many of

the services on eBay.  (Paypal fees are extra, though).

When you are finished adding options, details and pictures (all step by step and all really

created with the novice in mind for ease of use), you just click either SAVE (so you can come

back to it at a later time), POST (immediately posts the auction to Ebay), or SCHEDULE (set

to start the listing at any time and date you want).

More about the SCHEDULING feature:

With this FREE feature, you can select your auction to start at a certain date and at a

certain time.  You might stagger your auctions a few minutes apart from each other - that way

if there is someone who wants to make multiple auction purchases then they have a chance to

bid on the other auctions.  You might try to target peak times when scheduling auctions since

that is when most people are online.  While views differ on this, it has been proven that

eBay's peak traffic time is Sunday evening. In general, weekends and evenings tend to get

more eBay traffic than during the work week schedule. So if you use this feature to start

auctions so that they will end with these times in mind, once you set the schedule you don't

have to go back and do anything for it to list.  Easy and automatic!

More about Photos:

TONS of photos (24 per listing to be exact) can be added to your auction, all for free.  Photos are also CLICK TO

SUPERSIZE - also a free feature.  The 'see my other auctions' feature rolls a slideshow view

of ALL photos from auctions you have active at any given time. This is an excellent feature

in terms of bidders who might want to buy other items from you, since they do not have to

even click anything to find them!  You can also safeguard your photos from being copied by

others - it disables the right click to save picture feature. 

Auctiva Advantages:

PHOTOS
* Store your photos on the website instead of taking space on your own computer.
* Add a ton of photos (with click-to-supersize) for free at NO charge.
* Protect your photos (right-click-copy is disabled).
* A rolling screenshot appears on ALL auctions so bidders can easily see photos of other
items you have for sale without clicking anything.

FREE SERVICES (that you pay for elsewhere)
* Free backgrounds/templates - many to choose from.
* Free service with NO contract required.
* Free slide show photos of all auction listings.
* Free photo hosting - Use the Auctiva site to store and manage all your photos!
* Free Auction scheduler - ONLY Auctiva offers this service FREE.

SIMPLE to use
* You never even have to open Ebay to list an ad - do it ALL on Auctiva.
* Store your 'terms of sale' and whatever other info you like to include in your listings
once, then reload same template over and over.  Never reinvent the wheel.  The ONLY part you
have to enter is the photos and description of that particular item, all the rest is entered
automatically.

EXTRAS        
* You can even elect to use Auctiva for your shipping insurance if desired and EARN $ when your
buyers add insurance to their purchases.

  There are a couple of other hosting sites similar to Auctiva such as Turbo Lister and Seller

Sourcebook, yet I prefer Auctiva over other auction hosting options.  I find Auctiva to have

the best features AND to be by far the most user-friendly of the three. You DO need to spend

some time initially watching the online tutorials to get the basics of using the site, just

the same as using any new system.  The tutorials on Auctiva are very well-done and watching

them will save you much time and money in the long run.



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