Hints on how to sell on A'gon?

I have about 60 transactions on A-gon, and I always try to talk by phone with the seller / buyer. If you provide a phone number with your ad, many buyers will call you, and I find that a short conversation tells me more about the person that reading an E-mail.

I try to offer things at as low of a price as possible, but within reason (i.e., 25 cents on the dollar is probably not very often going to be "within reason"). People love a bargain, and my stuff (not very much yet, but that could change at some point) has always sold fast.

The stuff about packing is important.
The use of solid 2" foam on all sides between the inner box with the product, and the outer box is a great start. With this sort of double boxing you will not have nearly as many problems with shipping.
The rest I don't have much to say... Though I have sold a few items.
The selling of stuff folks might want goes pretty fast.
The stuff no-one wants.... hah.
Anyway, good luck.
And don't feel pressured to accept the 'first' offer to buy either. If you get several offers to buy in a short time, first, your item is desirable, second, the price is right or a bit low, third, you get to pick whomever you want of the potential buyers.

Elizabeth makes a good point about packing. In every case that I received items that were damaged in shipment, the sellers (most of who had excellent feedback and lots if it) said it was all the shippers fault. That's BS most of the time. Packages get handled and dropped - that's a given, but if the items were packaged with the care Elizabeth describes, using boxes suited to the size/weight, it will eliminate 90% of the damage in shipment. Furthermore, the extra care required is a lot easier than dealing with claims and returns.

What Elizabeth and Bdgregory said!

Both of the sellers who sold me electronics packed the items to the hilt, and I was extremely impressed. Pardales packing the Dodson 217 Mark II D DAC and Lak packing the Shunyata Hydra--Lak even TRIPLE boxed the unit (partly because he was also sending cords). It's hard to adequately express just how much these two sellers impressed me with their attention to detail.