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Adrian McKeown increased his www.trademe.co.nz sales a couple of hundred dollars a week in just 10 minutes by automatically listing his TradeMe auctions on sella. Best of all, with no listing or success fees, the money went straight into his back pocket.

“My message to all Auctionitis users is that if you haven’t got round to listing on Sella yet, you are missing out. If you are selling on TradeMe you may as well try Sella as well. You’ve got nothing to lose. You’ll be making more on each sale with no success fees.”

Read his guest post, Why you should be listing on Sella as well as TradeMe, over on the Auctionitis blog.

Are you always wondering exactly how much it will cost to post an item you’ve listed on sella? Having accurate shipping options saves both buyers and sellers time. Fortunately NZ Post has an excellent calculator that shows you exact times and prices.

Happy selling!

You can even add the calculator to your iGoogle homepage, just click the + above.

Auctionitis is an easy way for large sellers and stores to list items on sella. Today they’ve released a new software build that improves and automatically creates shipping options for sella auctions.

Also coming this week are improvements to the sale process within Auctionitis that will make it simple to track and manage your sales on sella. For more info or a free trial check out the announcement on the auctionitis blog.

If you’re using Auctionitis to list on other sites now’s a great time to get your auctions onto sella as well. If you’d like any assistance or would like to set up a sella store then don’t hesitate to contact us.

Wondering what to do with the extra daylight hours?

Maybe the kids want extra pocket money during the school holidays?

Whatever the reason, spring is a great time to clean your house from top to bottom and get rid of things you no longer need or use. Here are 5 tips for running a successful spring auction on sella.

1. Pictures speak a thousand words and you can have up to 10 photos on sella for free. Make sure they are a good size and decent quality.
2. Write accurate titles and descriptions using keywords that will help people find your auction using sella search.
3. Set your auction to close in the evening, sella is busiest between 8 and 10pm Monday to Thursday.
4. Figure out shipping costs in advance and think about allowing pickups as well.
5. Make your auction $1 reserve, people love a bargain and will often bid higher than if you fix a reserve price.

With no fees for listing, selling or extra features it’s a lot cheaper to trade on sella than other sites.
List an item now.

At sella we are always keen to offer advice where we can to new online sellers. Today we thought we would offer some advice to sellers of classified items ( cars, property, animals etc ). Hopefully these tips get your listings out to as many potential buyers as possible

• Take advantage of free services : Putting your listing on sella is a no brainer as there are not any seller or transaction fees. But dont just stop there, remember to post as many photos, subtitles, descriptive info and contact details as possible. Make it as easy as possible for buyers to contact you.
• Post Everywhere: Post listings to as many classifieds sites as possible, including Sella.
• Build a Presence via Your Social Network: Facebook, Twitter and Bebo allow you to build an identity — and get friends talking about and sharing your listing. You can easily link your profile on any of these sites to sella simply by clicking on the links on a sella listing.
• Develop a Local Market: Local classifieds allow you to create your own local market. Buying and selling in your area allows you to eliminate shipping costs, as well as the opportunity to meet customers and develop a client base.

We are excited to announce that we now have an active Credit Card payment facility live on the site. At this stage this is limited to Mt Hutt $1 Reserve auctions but after a short period of testing we will be looking to also offer this service to other sella stores. For more information please read our help section.