Going by your feedback received and left, you will be selling items of interest to young males?
This is a difficult demographic, and one rife with fraud.
First, be careful when you are writing your descriptions. Poor grammar and spelling are a signal to scammers that the seller is either careless or poorly educated. Use spellcheck and don't use textspeak or other cutesy slang. That's for chatting with your friends not selling expensive items.
Describe as if you have no pictures. Picture as if you have no description.
Write your listing on a desktop or laptop, but check it on a mobile. Much less information appears on the mobile and yet many of your potential buyers will be shopping with one.
You have 80 keystrokes free in your title, which is your best (and free) advertising. Did I mention that titles are free?
Put your brand/size/colour first in the title-- this is part of the 'mobile' shopping question.
Sell what you know; Know what you sell. I'd be an idiot to try selling hiphop CDs or fancy sneakers. You probably shouldn't try selling lace tablecloths.
But also: know what you don't know. Owning a mobile phone doesn't mean you understand the problems with retailing mobile phones.
I would advise only selling to Canada and the USA.
I would suggest selling in US dollars, because Canadians (and the rest of the world) understand US dollars, and Americans , the largest economy in the world, understand nothing else.
The default Sell Your Item form only gives Canadian dollars- look for the Advanced form in the dropdown menu.
Shipping is a huge question.
On expensive items, I would suggest using Free Shipping.
Don't panic.
Free shipping means you include the cost of shipping and handling in the asking price for the item.
Which is cheapest:
A $20 item with $50 shipping?
A $50 item with $20 shipping?
A $70 item with Free Shipping?
This calls for a little number crunching if your items are bulky enough to require parcel rates. These are dimensional and regional, which means that the postage varies according to the size, weight, and destination of the parcel.
Play around here for a while.
https://www.canadapost.ca/web/en/pages/parcelscon/default.page?gclid=Cj0KEQjwrdetBRCJg92s44SB77IBEiQ...
If you decide not to use Free Shipping, use Calculated Shipping so that your customer sees the amount of shipping to his doorstep when he is shopping. (If he looks. BDR- Buyers Don't Read).
Again, KISS- many of your customers (if I have guessed right about the demographic) are using mobile phones and are impulse buyers. Make it easy for them to buy with no surprises.
And.
This is important.
When your buyer pays, Paypal will hold his cleared payment for 21 days against your good customer service. Nothing personal, this is a Buyer Protection policy that is applied to all new sellers.
There will also be limits on the number and the value of items you can list, for the same reasons.
Nonetheless.
You are required to ship within seven days, to keep your Seller Protections in place.
A small bonus, if you buy Paypal shipping labels you get a discount from PO counter prices on many services of 5% to 18%. And this payment is taken from the Held funds.
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