If you ever want to buy a warship, or kit yourself out head to
toe in genuine military equipment forget eBay. There is a new
player in town, the British Government or The Ministry of
Defence (MOD) Disposal Services Agency to be precise.

They have now launched a new web site at www.edisposals.com ,
which offers a wide range surplus and ex-government military
equipment at knock-down prices. This has got to be a good
source of supply for onward sellers and I suspect many items
purchased from this site will find there way onto eBay.
However, if you are interested you now have the option of
purchasing from the source from source, the MOD.

Among the items currently on offer you will find aircraft,
ships, and strangely enough an 8 man Cambridge rowing boat. You
can also buy IT, medical and dental equipment as well as items
of memorabilia. If it is clothing you are after and camouflage
green is your colour there is a huge range including “his and
hers” combat clothing. If you are concerned about your personal
security how about an armour plated Land Rover Discovery or an
ex police motorcycle or a Quad bike.

"The DSA recognizes that with more and more transactions being
carried out online, we must adapt our approach in order to
maximize the return to the Ministry of Defense and to the
taxpayer," said DSA spokesman Les Taylor.

He added that the site is likely to appeal to specialist
collectors, scrap metal merchants, adventure training companies
and scout groups. And I would think eBay resellers.

Although you could kit out your own military force you will not
be able to arm it because the site does not offer any arms or
ammunition and certain of the more sensitive items on offer can
only be sold to registered buyers.

Traditionally the MOD has sold its Government surplus at
specialist auctions in various parts of the UK. I suspect that
if this new web site proves successful then we can expect to
see the scope and range of this site to increase in size and
range. No doubt other Government departments will be looking at
this option with interest.


About The Author: Dave Bromley is an Internet marketer and
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Few things are more frustrating than visiting an eBay store and
be presented only with a mile long list of items that one has to
scroll through. It is very difficult to find items in a long
list if you are looking for a particular type or genre of item.


What many eBay store owners do not seem to realize is that eBay
buyers are not desperate to find and buy their particular items.
There are so many auctions going on at any particular point in
time, that the browser Back button is probably the most used
function when browsing or searching for items.

The default sort order for the listing display in an eBay store
is listing end time, with those auctions ending soonest
displayed at the top. There are other listing sort orders
available as well, but unfortunately none of those are
necessarily very well suited for a store inventory display.

The primary means at your disposal to make it easier for an
eBay buyer to find what he or she is looking for are the
categories.

Think of the categories as virtual aisles in your store. You
need to use those virtual aisles in your store to guide the
buyer through the merchandise on offer.

The easier you make it for the buyer to find the desired item,
the better the chances that the person will buy your item and
not someone else's.

You know your merchandise best and know how you can slice and
dice the types of merchandise into meaningful categories.
However, do not limit a particular item to only one category.
With an eBay store, you can list an item in two different store
categories free of charge. Make full use of it.

An eBay buyer might miss an item while browsing one category
but notice it in the second category. This is synonymous to
putting cans of the same cream in both the dairy section and in
the baking section of a groceries store.

You cannot predict all the uses that a buyer will have in mind
for your merchandise, but you can at least cover off the most
obvious ones. When a buyer visits your eBay store and sees the
categories, they will first think of what they want to use the
item for and see if there is a matching category.

You can have up to 300 different categories in your eBay store.
Make full use of it to help your buyer easily find the item (or
even similar item) they want to buy.

Generally, a person visits your store wanting to buy something,
i.e., with money in hand. It is a great loss when they leave
your store because they couldn't find your item that is hidden
amongst tens or hundreds of other items.


About The Author: Jason Griffith writes eBay Store reviews for
http://BestAuctionStores.com
(http://www.bestauctionstores.com), a site dedicated to
providing eBay Buyers with the ability to review and rate eBay
stores.