While I believe Ebay is the best auction website on the planet, if you use their auction service EXTRA'S, your profit margin can go by as much as $5 an auction! If you have a 100% selling rate, that's fine, but for most of us who are lucky to make the 30% rate, it can really eat in to your profits.

What to do? For starters, you do NOT have to avail yourself to all of Ebay's EXTRA'S. What are these extra's? MORE PICTURES & TEMPLATES for your auctions. It's perfectly legal on Ebay to use outside help to design your auctions, to put up as many pictures as you want and to choose from a wide variety of templates designed by professionals. How much should that cost me you ask?

That's right! If you didn't know about it, there are dozens of auction hosting websites which you can join for free which provide you with these 2 services. Below is a list of the TOP 7 AUCTION HOSTING WEBSITES on the net which cost you NOTHING to join and use their services. I personally use Auctiva which I have found to be helpful over the years of being an Ebay seller. In addition to the freebies offered by these companies, the added advantage for these sites is that you can store your auctions indefinitely, and when offering the same or similar product, you can re-access the auction, make your changes and send it on to Ebay! It's especially helpful on Ebay's FREE LISTING DAY (when did they have that last?!), or other special sale days, when you can automatically send 100's of auctions at once at the click of a button! You can even Blog your store or item on some of these sites (Auctiva for example) as well, and get added exposure for your auction or store! Again, ALL FOR FREE!

Here then are the TOP 6 AUCTION HOSTING WEBSITES ON THE INTERNET. Explore each one and pick the one that's right for you. If you are an active Ebayer, you'll be saving yourself hundreds of dollars at the end of the year and wonder to yourself, why didn't I see Judaicaman's Guide before! (If you did learn something here, PLEASE! vote on this and my other guides, so that others will know as well. Thanks!)