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How To Sell on eBay With Only Your Phone!

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what's up guys and girls welcome to

another video

allison actually had a good video idea

today so that's what we're doing

t-shirt oh it's backwards upside down oh

it was

bit way cooler um so i made a video the

other day about like

listing stuff really fast and we use a

desktop to list everything

but ali had a good idea where we should

show people like how to list stuff

purely from your phone from your mobile

device and a lot of people ask us like

is it possible to do ebay without a

computer true

so we're going to show you like what we

feel is the easiest way to

get started selling stuff on ebay when

you don't have good supplies you don't

want to go buy a lighting kit you don't

want to buy

buy a camera a camera or expensive a

background

um or a computer anything like that so

we're going to show you like

what would be a really easy way just to

take your pictures get the stuff listed

on ebay and go from there

yeah yeah so first thing obviously is

you need the item we're going to use

this t-shirt

we're going to do it easy we're going to

use an easy item which is a black

t-shirt

i think that shirt smells it's i mean

the pits no you didn't get a whiff

oh i do you put your whole face

oh my god i was like i was like driving

smells

bad and then i realized it was the shirt

so first things first wash your stuff if

it smells bad you're gonna wash it but

let's pretend that it's already been

washed

it's right for the sake of this video

okay

um so there's ebay has a background

removal tool built

into their app there's also another app

called

photo room we don't use it because we

use cell hound for most things but

photo room will remove the backgrounds

for you i think they do a better job

than ebay's background removal

free it's free but they put their little

like branding on it okay so you make it

bigger and cut it off

you could do that or you could just pay

the i think it's like 60

60 bucks a year or something like that

um not a sponsored ad like i said we

don't even use it but

you can pay that fee and then that

branding's gone just crop it up

but let's uh where should we take

pictures um well

as long as that's far away from me right

now we're gonna do it on the concrete

okay so a couple tips when you're doing

this is

uh if you don't have a good lighting

source use natural light

go outside on a good sunny day try to

find a spa

flat location in indirect light yes

indirect light and um you also want to

try to find like a

solid background it doesn't have to be

uh it doesn't have to be white

because you can use that background

removal tool but you want it to be solid

you don't want like crazy patterns

because the

the tool won't really work that well so

typically the sidewalk

your driveway the side of your house on

you know you can do a cardboard box but

you just want it to be indirect sunlight

and flat yeah so that it's not all wavy

and i mean you can just honestly buy a

sheet

for four dollars at walmart in the

future if you want to or a couple of

pieces of poster board stick them

together

and that'll make it easy to remove the

background so let's go find a spot

for this one should i get my blower out

and blow a spot for the vape yeah it's

kind of leafy out here so get your

blower

let me get the tools oh we also have a

measuring

tape because you still want to get

measurements of the item so

you know measuring tape okay

this looks like a good spot yeah all

right

safety first

so you don't need a mannequin you don't

need any

anything too fancy flat lay is fine

you don't even have to hang it up i just

want to get it laid down

safety goggles check oh i just ran into

car that hurt

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so lay it out flat try to get the

wrinkles out as much as you can

i like to take the tag and like fold the

tag down like that

tuck it in yeah so yeah

that should be a pretty good first

picture

phone most phones nowadays can take

good enough pictures for ebay so if

you're using an iphone what i like to do

is i'll show you this quick just scroll

over to the square mode

because that's what ebay likes for the

pictures is square and you can just

take a picture if you tap on the screen

too it helps brighten up the background

there's our picture you can still see

the concrete and everything in the

background but it's a good picture yeah

actually even yeah even if you didn't

remove the background

that would still be okay and it would

still sell but let's try

so obviously you want to download the

ebay app make sure that you sign up for

an account

so when uh when we're listing stuff like

i said we don't list from the phone most

of the time but when we are listing

stuff from a mobile device

it's really easy you're just going to

search for a similar item

so i'm going to type in vintage

nutmeg jordan shirt jordan b.o shirt

so once you search for the item you go

filter scroll down

show more click on sold items

and it'll pull up all the recent sales

right

so that's a recent sale of this shirt

but that's really low

that's a really low price for this shirt

i should have bought that one so we're

going to take

this listing here sold for 84 plus

shipping

so the best way to list when you're

listening for mobile is find one that's

sold and then click on

sell one like this so click on sell one

like this and that'll automatically

start the draft for you on ebay so the

title goes in there already the item

specifics go in there already

all you have to do is like change things

up a little bit and then add your

pictures

so when i add my pictures because i took

that one already i can add them from my

photo library

click add photos oh and look it

automatically removed the background for

me i didn't even have to go into it

wait what yeah so it automatically

removed the background for me

you can touch it up you can click no no

yeah

so let's do not now so i can show the

difference there's the photo before the

background removal

if you click on this tool down here

frame it up click on continue boom

background remove wow hit apply so now

there's the main photo

looking good and if somebody has a white

shirt what they could do

might be difficult to remove the

background on concrete you can get four

pieces of poster board

tape it together and it's going to make

a big space for any white or light

colored items

and then you can just remove the

background that's black

true against white true yeah or

something

you could get a can of paint and just

paint your your

kitchen floor yeah just do that or like

over the carpet too it works well

usually over the carpet works best yeah

and

it's like full no carpet's not flat

enough yeah

so you know obviously we suggest taking

more than one picture you want to take

at least four pictures

a minimum of four minimum of four

someone asked in the comments too on the

last video that i did like is that

totally necessary where did you guys

hear that we heard that directly from

ebay employees

so people that worked in ebay

programming people that worked on the

ebay's like search algorithm they said

if you take at least four pictures

you're going to get a better boost in

so that's why we recommend doing that

and it makes sense that ebay would

actually

put in like a minimum picture request

for their algorithm to pick up to push a

listing higher

right like obviously it's going to be a

better item if you take more pictures

opposed to just one picture absolutely

for the most part i mean they probably

figured

four was that magic number yeah the

other thing is

we only recommend the first picture has

to be

white background so using the background

removal tool for the first picture is

if you're if the other 10 pictures don't

have that it's okay

but now that ebay automatically does it

for you like that that's pretty easy

and then the other thing is let's test

that photo we did front and back

would it have removed the background for

both or only the first one i don't know

i've not seen that because we don't do

the listings here let's take another

picture

let's go to our camera and take another

picture actually on the ebay app and see

what happens

so now i'm taking a picture actually in

the ebay app this isn't on my phone

so it did not remove automatically

remove the background

but if i click on the picture i can just

do that again

continue and it i mean it does a good

job

i feel like we should try it with maybe

a white shirt

on concrete and see what happens it

probably wouldn't be good but let's try

before we do that let's try the photo

room app

too which i have to redownload

because my phone has no memory i think i

have it on mine

do you well it's downloading fast and

this will be a good comparison because

the photo room app does it actually like

in the in the app so it automatically

does it as you're taking the pictures

ebay you would have to upload them and

then it's an extra step you know

to automatically do it so i'm going to

take the picture and you can just click

background removal and it's good ready

to go

it cropped it in you cropped it into

that right aspect ratio

oh which now it makes it more difficult

to remove that it does but that's not

really even a big deal because it's not

on the actual item so you could leave it

if you want to

so you could do it that way you could

use ebay's

uh background removal tool like i said

photo the photo room one does

seem to work better with other items not

just like you know this is an easy one

to do because it's just a black t-shirt

on a

you know not hard to remove background

and then the other thing you want to do

is get the measurements

so you measure from hit pit

oh my knees

all right so you get your measurements

from pit pits 19.5

19.5 29 inches

29 inches so one thing that we like to

do as well because

we put the measurements in the item

description too but

people buy from pictures a lot of the

time now so they're buying from mobile

they don't click on description they

don't see the measurements so if you're

listening entirely from your phone one

thing you can do

is just go into like your notes like

that and type it out

chest 19.5 inches length 29 inches and

then if you just

screenshot it like that and then you can

you know

you can make it square

and then just add that as a picture to

your listing so now when people are

scrolling through the pictures

they have the measurements right there

easy way to do it from your phone so and

then just to go back to the listing

really quick when you're listening from

your mobile device um i do suggest you

change the title up a little bit

obviously make sure the right size and

everything's in there

make sure your item specifics are as

filled out as you

can you know can be obviously you want

all the required ones in there make sure

your category is right add a description

you can copy and paste the description

from your phone if you want to do that

obviously add in your pricing do all

your shipping stuff and preferences

um and then you list it so it's really

it's not that hard to list stuff

from your phone like i know it's very

easy i know people who run

everything from their phones yeah and

ebay is probably the hardest app to list

stuff from your phone like it's a lot

easier on poshmark

shipping from your phone is going to be

annoying

you can um you can print stuff i mean a

lot of printers have mobile printing

you can print stuff from your phone

right that's the only thing that i would

say is difficult on a phone

actually when it comes to like the items

sold yeah when the item's sold yeah

yeah the shipping that's true doing the

listing on a phone

is very doable and you don't need a

camera and you don't need lighting

that came out great one other thing that

i will suggest

is even for those of you guys who are

listening from a mobile device

is save your pictures first of all and

still do what i said in the other video

and batch your items up and do

everything at once

so like i would take all my pictures at

the same time set everything up and take

all my pictures all my measurements at

the same time

and then i would list everything at the

same time from my

phone so i'm not like taking i'm not

doing it i was just showing you that way

to show you the process but i wouldn't

take a picture then go to ebay

find the listing create the listing list

the item i wouldn't do it that way i

would take pictures of all 20 items

then i would sit down and list

everything from my phone yeah the only

other thing that i'll i'll reiterate

again is

start small that's all you need is a

phone that can take a decent picture

some good natural light a tape measure

if you're taking pictures of clothing

you really don't need much to start

selling online and it's

not a good idea to go and put a bunch of

expensive photography equipment on a

credit card

and well definitely not yeah yeah it

doesn't make sense go buy like a

you know expensive camera doesn't make

sense yeah well even now with how good

phones take photos it's not typically

necessary if you have a good phone with

a good camera

to buy a camera right yeah you don't

have to buy a camera you don't have to

buy lighting yeah so hopefully you guys

enjoyed this video that's how we started

out by the way when we first started

getting onto ebay and selling stuff we

did everything pretty much from our

phones

if you guys have any suggestions for the

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