Ebay Buying and Selling Advice

I am not a power seller, but I have sold about 50 items on Ebay for decent prices. Here is my distilled advice, for what it is worth:

• Schedule your auction to start on a Sunday afternoon, which is when Ebay is busiest. Most bids come during the first and last few minutes of an auction.
• Take six good, clear photos, and use the PicturePack option. Do not use generic photos. Include close up pictures of any blemishes, these will save you from unhappy buyers.
• Write your own text; do not use the automatically generated item descriptions, even if they are available. Keep it short and precise.
• Pad the shipping charges, but with care: $4 or so is a good amount to pad. Buy and use an inexpensive postal scale.
• Require PayPal payment.
• Include Canada as a shipping option.
• Good items to sell are small, brand name consumer electronics, such as cameras and mp3 players. Expect to get about half of your original cost back.
• Great items to sell are well-known but no longer available toys from the 1960's and earlier. Unassembled plastic models in the original boxes can sell for a surprising amount of money. My big win on Ebay was selling an Aurora King Kong from 1963. (Do not bother with models that have been assembled.)
• When buying on Ebay, always use Auctionsniper and the BidGroup option. To determine how much to bid, do a search on Ebay using the "show completed auctions" option.