Holly Mann Proved Herself Right

Since my website is not working, I have been busy with other online activities. One of them is eBay selling. I have been an eBay seller since last year. I have 34 points with a 100% positive status. I happen to be registered as a travel agent so I thought I will post one travel deal trhough eBay.

It is hard to sell travel on eBay, its partner company has to validate you and you have to pay a joining fee plus $9.95 monthly fee. It is too much for me since I am not planning to post travel deals on eBay on a regular basis.

Good thing, I can still list the travel deal as 'other travel' which means I don't have to be registered or validated. I did that. It was okay. Then I thought I would add my email address and travel website. To my amazement, the eBay system accepted it and even made it clickable. To make the story short, I was able to post my listing. End of that portion of the story.

Now, I read from Holly Mann's ebook, Honest Riches that eBay does not allow you to put links in the description. She then shared a trick on how to overcome this restriction.

While writing my product description on eBay, I was kind of testing the water. In my mind, I expected that eBay would not accept my listing once I submit it. Then, it went through with links and all. I thought Holly Mann was wrong. Or that her advise was no longer applicable. Maybe now, eBay accepts links unlike before.

Well, Holly Mann proved herself right. Exactly 24 hours after I posted my travel listing, I got an email alert from eBay saying that they ended the auction because of invalid links. I could not use links/URLs because it is against eBay policy.

Meanwhile, I already had three watchers for my listing. I lost all of them. I wrote eBay and asked if they could relist the item but minus the links. And eBay did reply back one day later. They said they could not relist it again because once they end the auction, the template is not saved. Good thing is, I could relist the item myself. This time, I'll be more careful not to put links and follow Holly Mann's technique.

Sorry, I can't share the technique here but you could learn about it and more other useful things when you buy her eBook.

Happy internet marketing, everyone... and wish me luck!