How to Pick the Best Day to Start and End Your eBay Auctions

There are several helpful articles available for eBay sellers. Not all days are created equal with eBay auctions. Here is the basic run down:

Steps

1. Learn the best times for ending your sales.
   • Sunday evening is the absolute highest time of bidding activity on eBay. Maximize your auction by planning it to end at about 11 pm eastern standard time on Sunday.
   • Friday and Saturday. Friday before 6pm can be a good day for your younger person and student market. However, weekend days are usually better than weekdays.
   • Monday and Thursday. Monday's are fair because a lot of people surf the net (and especially eBay) during work to help with "after weekend withdrawals". Thursdays are ok times to end your eBay auctions in the spring and summer because many people will cast their bids before they leave for weekend trips.
2. Avoid the low bid days.
   • Wednesday. For whatever reason, Wednesdays are one of the worst days to launch your eBay auction
   • Tuesday. Tuesdays receive the lowest number of bids out of all the days of the week.

Tips

• When setting up an auction you will see that eBay offers five duration choices. There are 1 day, 3 days, 5 days, 7 days, and 10 days.
• For most products, the shorter auctions are best with the 3-day being the ultimate. The theory here is that most people are impulse buyers. They don't like bidding on an auction they are going to have to wait on. The 3-day auction will give you enough time for your item to get exposure, while satisfying those hungry impulse buyers.
• The above selection works well with most products, including things such as jewelry, clothing, leather goods, electrical items, digital cameras, clothing accessories, designer brand name goods, popular collectibles, etc. However, with items that are hard-to-find like rare collectibles, you should definitely opt for the 10-day auctions.
• The reason for this is that your market is smaller, so you want as much exposure as possible. The 10-day auction eBay offers is perfect for this. This is also the case for high price items as well, such as what you'll find in eBay motors -- cars, motorcycles, etc.

Article provided by wikiHow, a wiki how-to manual. Please edit this article and find author credits at the original wikiHow article on How to Pick the Best Day to Start and End Your eBay Auctions. All content on wikiHow can be shared under a Creative Commons license.