Ebay-home Recently ,while selling on eBay, I ran into a little know fact about eBay – it’s actually possible to use eBay to sell homes. I don’t mean auction homes (although you can do that too) – but sell them more traditionally by using the service simply to get exposure and generate leads! eBay supports formats other than auctions including fixed price and classified ad formats as explained in their helpful guide for those looking to use their service for the purpose of selling a home.

The process is pretty straight forward:

  1. You create sign up for eBay
  2. You “Sell” your property using the the "ad format" option to generate leads
  3. It will cost you $150 for a 30 day listing or $300 for a 90 day listing
  4. Leads are routed to you via email

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A benefit of using eBay is that your listing potentially gets exposed to 147 million potential regional, national and international buyers. According to eBay, there are now over 370,000 property page views each day. Additionally, they have great support for vFlyers. You can cut and paste your flyer and widget HTML directly into your eBay listing to create eye-catching ads.

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Home Sellers Resources

If anyone has tried using eBay to sell a home let us know. We would love to hear about your experience.

 
Posted by vFlyer Blog on 06/20/2007 01:26 PM   Comments (13)   vflyer, selling, ebay, homes  
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13 Comments on Selling Homes using eBay?!

JUN
20
2007
451,081 Points 64 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Outside Blog Called Shot Master
I too have seen these ads on Ebay but were not sure how they worked or mor eimportantly IF they worked. I hope someone chimes in who has tried them-it would be interesting to see if they got results. Ihave also seen time shares listed as well but in an auction format.  Thanks for posting this...inquiring minds want to know!
1:40pm • #1

You can advertise on EBAy? That is a great idea. It would be great to see if this works for anyone. Thanks for the post.
2:08pm • #2
Wow, they're selling everything on EBAY now.
2:17pm • #3
299,368 Points 9 Featured Posts Outside Blog
Definitely food for thought...  I would love to hear from anyone who has actually utilized the service!
4:18pm • #4
wow that got my attention, I hope that someone that has sold on e-bay will take the time to tell us about it
11:07pm • #5
JUL
06
2007
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Hi:

As a full time real estate auctioneer I have used eBay to supplement our auction marketing for the past 7-years.

We sell two to three properties per month at Internet auction most of them low end lots.

eBay has been a very cost effective tool for us as auctioneers.

realtors are going to have to overcome the trust issue with the public and a lot of negative attitudes towards realtors in general.

The public trusts licensed accredited auctioneers so it is really helpful for my sellers. 
2:51pm • #6
JAN
01
2008
180,787 Points 5 Featured Posts Called Shot Master
I wanted to bump this up - has anyone used Ebay for their real estate listings? Used VFlyer on Ebay?
10:59pm • #7
JAN
02
2008
226,433 Points 5 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Outside Blog Attended Rain Camp

What kind of leads are being generated--quality?  quantity?

How do you handle qualifying a bidder as "solid"
9:19am • #8
JAN
23
2008
1,375,168 Points 7 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Outside Blog Called Shot Master

Howdy vFlyer

I did not know folks could do that on eBay. Dose the buyer get to have a home inspection on the home?

Have a good one

Dale
5:06pm • #9
APR
18
2008
 Great information! I want to check into it! Thanks for posting!
11:59pm • #10
DEC
09
2008
145,309 Points 1 Featured Post Outside Blog Hit Router Attended Rain Camp

Thanks for the info. I have posted several homes for sale on ebay..for the extra marketing. Never sold one! But one time, a fraudulant buyer "bought" the home  and ebay took just under $10k from me for fees. The home did not sell and it was a prank. It took more than 6 months for me to receover the money.
2:26pm • #11
MAR
12
2009
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Has anyone had any luck with eBay lately?

We used to sell 50 to 100 properties a year there until late 2007 then we dropped them in early 2008.

 
8:31pm • #12
JUL
31
2010

I am not trying to spam here, I just want to inform others on how to save and get extra money back from their purchases.  If you do buy a home or property on ebay doing this will save you a TON of money. 
I am addicted to ebay which is why I use bigcrumbs.  Bigcrumbs gives you money back for purchases you make with ebay and many other stores.  Just go to their website www.bigcrumbs.com and look at all the stores.  All you have to do is sign up and start earning cash back.  I was a skeptic, but it really works and is safe.  If you decide to sign up please add me as your referal.  Then people you refer will make you extra money.  My bigcrumbs name is

Macattack28

I hope this can help even just one person save some of their hard earned money. 
Brian
7:44am • #13


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