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SELLING ON THE RIVER: The
eBay Seller's Guide to Amazon.com
Steve Lindhorst is
an eBay instructor, and also an expert at selling on Amazon, and
 he's
spilling the beans about why eBay sellers should turn also to Amazon
to sell their products, especially in light of so many recent
seller-unfriendly changes at eBay.
I'm going to be honest here, I used to
love selling on eBay, today I can hardly generate enthusiasm to even
open my eBay account, let alone begin listing on eBay. I am
not alone, a great many other people are tiring of eBay and worried
that arbitrary changes to rules and listing fees can spell a quick
end to their online ventures. Remember when eBay banned
digital goods from its entire UK site and all but one tiny area of
its American site? About one week's notice was given,
insufficient time for people to react whose entire income depended
on selling digital products on eBay. Literally within days,
thousands of people saw all or most of their income decimated; It
just wasn't fair, and there's no saying something similar won't
happen again soon.
As Steve Lindhorst says, eBay used to be
fun, a lot of fun, but it doesn't help to have all your business
eggs in one basket, in this case eBay's basket, and it makes sense
to at least spread your business across a range of selling
platforms, including Amazon. Read below what The New York
Times said about eBay, or rather about Amazon, in the run up to
last Christmas, and why eBay, usually THE most likely place to make
your fortune over the Christmas period, was beaten from the podium
by Amazon.
If any of these recent eBay
changes affected
your
business doesn't it at least make sense to check out what Amazon can
offer?
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Digital Goods Auctions Banned eBay.com and eBay.co.uk
March 2008
Dailed Seller Ratings instituted
April 30, 2008
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Neutral Feedback counts toward
negative rating
July 2008
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Changes to eBay’s fee
structure – a discount? or a fee increase?
February 2008
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"Best Match" becomes default
way of sorting search results
March
2008
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Sellers no longer able to
leave negative comments for buyers
May 2008
And there are
MORE changes "to be announced"...
how will they
affect your sales?
On April 4th, General Manager of eBay North America,
Stephanie Tilenius, said: "expect to see bold change and faster
change in the future." She also said, "by this time next year
eBay.com will be unrecognizable in comparison to today."
If you think it's time to move
on or to seek additional trading platforms, isn't it time you let
Steve Lindhost show you how?
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