The Secrets of the "Mercado Livre"

Many people have, perhaps the panic syndrome to buy things over the Internet, especially when we talk about product sales sites, like people we don't know, who sell products almost anonymously, but in this publication, you will learn how to see sellers reliable, in addition to knowing how to sell your products, and not be negative.

How to buy online? Does this generate any kind of panic? Calm! It is safer that you go to the store and buy something. As well? Simple, in the store, the seller does not know the product, speaks well of it because he needs his commission, always pushes you the most expensive (and almost always something that we will regret later) and we always have a lot of inconvenience when finding the product another store, on sale or with a lower price, and you, after all, won over by the seller, still made installment payments that charge about 13% per month of interest, right? This tutorial will teach you how to succeed in Mercado Livre!

Reliable Products

First of all, always look for what you really want, and be sure to always search for the "lowest price" in the list, typing in the search field exactly what you want. At the top of the page, there are always links to filter what you want in more detail, such as the region where the product is located, and important product details. In the case of a pen-drive, there is the capacity filter, in the case of notebooks, there are filters for netbooks and notebooks, or by brand, such as Positivo, Lenovo, IBM, or Apple only.

When you find the desired product with the favorable price condition, enter the ad and look for information about the seller, and how is your reputation in Mercado Livre, as well as comments from other buyers, other customers like you, to know if it is really a good one salesman. Below is an example of a product, with a seller with a good qualification:

Qualification is extremely important, but it still does not guarantee a product sale guarantee, or full security if you deposit the money in the seller's account. Hey, calm down, deposit into the seller's account? That's it. When you click on buy, you receive an email with the data that is sent from the seller, usually always including the account for the deposit (which is often much faster to buy something by making a transfer, than to pay for Mercado Pago, which in some cases takes even longer). 

The Free Market, knowing this, offers a protection plan to the buyer of the product, depending on the qualification of the seller's reputation, and depending on the value of the product. Even salespeople with a good reputation may not have the following protection:

It is very important to buy protected products as shown in the table, see that depending on the reputation, there are limit values, of which Mercado Livre itself, in case there is a problem with payment and disagreements with the seller, of which they pay you the amount that you paid into the seller's bank account.

There are, new sellers, who do not have a reputation, that is, the reputation shows as "gray", because the amount of sales of it is so small, that the Free Market has not been able to qualify it yet. Protection exists for up to R $ 140.00 on products purchased with it. Products above this value, Mercado Livre is not responsible.

Sometimes, the value of the product is above the value of protection, so try to see in the comments, how people are commenting on the purchase of products from this seller, and what the people think, just like you, they did the buying previously, and seeing the reviews, is of utmost importance for the conclusion of a good deal with the seller.

Beside, a Gold Leader Market, with 96% positive qualifications.

Meet the Seller

Never fail to pay attention to these reputations, according to them, so is the level of customer satisfaction of this seller.

Market Leaders are the best sellers on the free market, usually having a large amount of sales, and all sales were successful sales.

Occasionally, they occur with salespeople who cancel many sales, that is, it is that salesperson who gives up selling, has no patience with the customer, but even so, he is trusted by the majority of users who bought with him.

Average, depending on your qualifications and sales made, shows that some sales you made were negative, or because you stopped selling to many people, or were successful in several, and in a few, were negative.

Avoid salespeople at this level, they are either inexperienced beginners or have more negative qualifications than good qualifications, and there is no open market security program for these salespeople.

Payments

Mercado Livre has Mercado Pago, which is a solution for paying products quickly and efficiently, offering security to customers, perhaps more to customers than to sellers, since if the customer does not release the payment after receiving the product, the seller stops receiving the amount paid for the product, remaining at a loss. In addition, if the customer does not qualify the seller with a positive, neutral or negative qualification, the seller needs to pay the product ad fee, which in certain ads such as the Bronze ad is 9.5% of the total value of the product announced. Other ads, such as the featured ones, are usually only valid for products that are more expensive, since they cost a fixed amount for a fixed period of days, regardless of the quantity of products.The amount charged for each product sold in these paid advertisements is; depending on the product and values, lower than the rate of traditional ads.

Receiving your Product

Salespeople always ask for the zip code to contact Sedex or Pac via the contact email. Most of the time, people prefer Sedex to places close by, and PAC to distant places, since Sedex to distant places, many times ends up having higher values ​​than the product itself.

Some people insist on asking to send products by registered letter, mainly as memory cards. It turns out, there are places, where there are post offices, that maybe allow this type of shipping, however, they are rare, customers insist on asking for this type of shipping, especially for sellers who live in São Paulo, where this type of shipping is extremely and strictly prohibited. You cannot send anything other than printed bond paper, or notebook sheets, or any other type of paper over registered letter. Nor can documents be sent by registered letter here in São Paulo, but as in Curitiba, Paraná, the post office allows you to send any type of document by registered letter, such as birth certificate.

Qualify the Seller

If the product arrived on time, and is in excellent condition, just enter the Free Market, and on the initial page of your account, there is a link to "There are sales to Qualify", and make a "Positive" qualification, and include your comment, like "Great Seller! Quick and honest! I recommend it to everyone in ML!". See below:

Sell ​​on the Free Market

To start selling a product, just go to the home page, and look for the "Advertise now" button, and you will see a page for you to find where the product you are going to sell fits, according to the category, and click "Continue ".


 Beside, you are seeing a thumbnail of the website page, where you must put the information of your product that you will sell.

Do not put your contact details in these fields, as your ad may be blocked and you may be blocked from using the website for deviating from the rules of the website.

Put information that is easy for anyone to see, and determine the price, whether the ad will be a "Closeout" (auction of offers) or a "Direct Sale" (or Buy Now). There is the option to start the finish from R $ 1.00 or with a starting price that you can choose.

After that, fill in the acceptable form of payment, since Mercado Pago is mandatory for most sellers, for most products that are sold.

Mercado Pago is the way for the customer to pay with various payment options on the market today, such as boleto bancário, credit and / or debit card and online transfer.

In addition, there are fields that are filled in by the seller, such as "To be agreed", or "Money" when it comes to selling and buying with cash (for example, when the seller is a store, and it does not cost the customer to go until the store makes the purchase, avoiding shipping costs.

Put below, who is responsible for the cost of shipping the product, if the responsibility is the customer's, or if it's free, or if it is "to be agreed". You can enter fixed values ​​for various shipping costs, such as carrier, Sedex, Pac, and others. This is automatically added when the customer purchases through Mercado Pago.

Choose now the type of ad for your product, in this example, Bronze appeared, which is free, but if there is any sale of the product, it costs 9.5% of the product, and the Silver ad, which keeps the ad at the top of the list. listings during some research, with the cost of R $ 10.00 even without selling the product, and before, as in the bronze ad it cost R $ 19.00 in this example, in the Silver ad, it is only R $ 9.00, and these other R $ 9.00 will be charged only if the product is sold.

Finish

You leave your product for a period of approximately 10 days, and community users offer values ​​to your product. At the end of these 10 days, there is a winner, who is the final buyer, who offered the highest value. You and he must complete the sale, or fees will be generated, even if it is not done by the seller, but it is optional for the customer to stop buying (but must start from him, and he must, necessarily, qualify as neutral) or negative the seller for the fee not being charged).

Buy it now

The most used by stores and companies, which set a fixed price, and can put several items for sale at the same time in the same ad, in addition to the buyer user not waiting for the days for others to bid to be the winner of the auction, it is very faster because normally, the sellers have it in stock, and then send the product to the customer, via Pac or Sedex. Depending on the product, products on sale may be cheaper than "Buy Now" products, but the big advantage is the user who wants to quickly buy something he wants (like me, when I buy, when I barely click on Offer, I already imagine the product in my hands, I almost even ask for the Sedex 10 for the seller, which is about R $ 8.00 or R $ 10.00 more just to receive it as soon as possible).

In addition to the Free Market, there are many reliable online shopping sites, which end up being an intermediary between the customer and the seller, from which the customer can clearly resolve any doubts, see if he wants to buy or not, see detailed photos of products, in addition to having the right to search Google to see if the information is really true, in addition to asking the seller questions, without having any commitment to buy the product, and without being ashamed to "look at the window" as long as you wish, without anyone disturbing you.

Nowadays, (own experience), buying in stores is a inconvenience. Salespeople do not have in-depth knowledge about the product (because there are a lot of products in the store), in the window there is only the price and no more information about the product (as in Casas Bahia, I will buy, it is always a nuisance for employees when watch me arrive, because they know very well that I arrive wanting to read the entire manual of the device, or just take the model and access the internet to see details, because they always do not understand what I want, much less myself. over the internet, all product specifications open in the "Product Description" field: D