Running a Successful eBay Shop for Charity

By Toby Lattimore

Do you work for a charity and want to find another way of raising money? Then why not set up an eBay shop for charity?

This easy to read guide shows how you could raise between 40 and 50 thousand pounds demonstrating the model which has been a proven success for Toby Lattimore over the past three years. You will learn what you need to setup, how to enlist and manage volunteers, where to find donations and sort them, tips on which items sell on eBay, a step by step guide to the weekly process and more.

Do you work for the retail arm of a charity? Does it have an eBay shop? If not then it should have. If you're receiving donations then read this guide.
You will see how easy it is to start up your eBay shop and earn thousands of pounds for your charity.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Toby Lattimore
• Release date: Jun 18, 2012
• ISBN: 9781476196251

Toby Lattimore

Toby Lattimore has spent the last three years working for two Hospice Charities in Southern England, after teaching art and design at a college for two years. Along with his duties at the Hospice he also lecturers in the evening at Hertfordshire University on Website design and Art.

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Running a Successful eBay Shop for Charity

by Toby Lattimore

Copyright 2011 Toby Lattimore

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Table of Contents

Introduction

1. The Beginning

1.1. Start up criteria

1.2. What you won’t need!

1.3. You’ve set up your space

2. Team Work

2.1. You’re the man! (Or woman)

2.2. How do I contact people to form an eBay team?

2.3. What roles will my eBay team have?

2.4. The employment process

2.5. Working with eBay volunteers

2.6. Making progress

3. Donations

3.1. The big questions

3.2. Keep it donations

3.3. So what does sell on eBay?

3.4. Managing your donations

4. The Process

4.1. The end of the month

4.2. Correspondence

5. Continuous Education

5.1. Methods of informing

5.2. The hidden costs?

5.3. Upgrade your eBay account!

5.4. Contact details

Introduction

EBay is an internationally recognised brand and an internet phenomenon. It has adapted and fought off competitors to be the leading auction website and make billions of pounds. It is an open market that allows anybody, with a bank account, to register and effectively sell what they want within reason, across the world. The accessibility to products has opened up all kinds of business opportunity to all kinds of people, whether it is a supplementary income, selling off your unwanted Christmas gifts or a specialist business making millions simply by working with eBay. It seems that just about anybody can tap into what eBay offers. But there have been a few acceptations, areas where eBay has strived to accommodate.

Charity was one such area but eBay did an amazing thing. They decided to give charities access and allow people to represent charities and even let everyday Listers to donate a percentage of their sales to their chosen charity. In return eBay also allowed a percentage of the fees to be refunded to the charity Lister. This system is regulated by Mission Fish, a charity in itself, that works closely with eBay and facilitates the monitoring of the monies collected for each registered charity.

This eBook details one particular system which I have now run for three years for two separate charities. It’s not about hypothesis or guess work it deals with what has happened to me and my team of charity volunteers and covers the whole process of