Comment by Elliot

August 6, 2008 @ 11:03 am

IAs a seller, I checked out ebid and i must have looked at 30+ items and not one single bid on any!! Is that normal? That seems crazy! Not very promising.

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Comment by fatreap70

September 1, 2008 @ 4:15 pm

Thanks for the great info! I had not heard of most of these, but will try them out. I am also fed up with eBay with the way they turned corporate. I think W**M*** is now listing on there as “Buy”.

This is a big turning point for eBay. They are going to lose so many sellers if they keep letting these corporations sell on there. Losing sellers means eBay also will lose a lot of their flavor. Eventually, losing their flavor will lead to losing customers.

I don’t understand why people price items so low to where they are making pennies on an item. Nothing P*ss*s me off more than when I research an item (on & off eBay), buy a quantity of that item, then in a week or two, someone else has the same item on there for only pennies higher than what I paid for it, if I’m lucky. I know some of this is my fault for not finding better suppliers or not buying bulk enough, but you get my point. I’m just a regular guy, not a corporation.

If people would just be cool and not so greedy, more people could make a living selling online. If I could make $5 each on good items, I would be happy if I could sell about 20 items a day. The way it is now is I have to try to sell one or two big items a day. I would rather sell these big items at a lower cost, but I don’t have the smaller items to fall back on for some of the profit loss on the bigger items.

I hope the places you listed turn out better. By the way, I also checked out eBid and it was just a bunch of ads and links. eBay must have bought them out already.

Comment by Sandy

September 14, 2008 @ 1:42 am

I have had over 130 items on ebid and have nothing over $2, and set it up to where buyers pay actual shipping. Haven’t sold anything….ever (in 16 months). Not a fan of ebid.

Just my 2 cents.

Comment by Eves Booth

November 24, 2008 @ 7:34 pm

Great place to be is bonanzle.com This is a free listing and low fvf site.

I’m also on eCrater but havent’ sold a thing. Been on iOffer for 5 month, sold very little. Forget Ebay…ate up all my profit in their fees.

Bonanzle, been there for little over 2 month but sold more than I did on iOffer. There is a great family feel and a very open forum board with many people helping anyone new. I would suggest to give it a spin

Comment by Elliptical

March 13, 2009 @ 12:24 pm

So many options for ebiz owners. It is really good to have competition to ebay. So that the fees stays low.

Comment by Richard Lyman

June 2, 2009 @ 5:28 am

A lot of these places, Ebid. bluejay, are great places if only the buyers would show up. Instead tumbleweed has shown up in their place. I want to try out this overstock.com but I fear it’s another dude. Ebay and Amazon need competition but so far the buyers aren’t looking elsewhere. In other words, it’s not the venue that we need in order to sell successfully elsewhere, it’s the venue that attracts customers. I was on bluejay for year, listing items that would sell in 1 to 2 days on Amazon or ebay. In one year on bluejay, no sales. I took all the items off bluejay, put them on ebay and sold them all immediately. What good is no fees with no buyers.

Comment by Tony Ford

July 22, 2009 @ 1:11 pm

Hi there,

I know this is an older post, but I thought you guys might like to know of another place to sell online called ArtFire.com.

ArtFire is the fastest growing marketplace in the handmade industry where artists from all over the world can list and sell their handcrafted items. On ArtFire, members can set up a virtual and fully customizable storefront where they can list items for sale with absolutely no fees. But ArtFire is so much more than a marketplace, it is a community. Members can interact in the site forums, join together in craft guilds, and even become involved in the construction of the site. With promotion tools such as Rapid Cart, which allows members to post a miniature storefront to their blog, and Market Hub, which allows members to link out to their other online venues, ArtFire is revolutionizing the craft marketplace. Although ArtFire is still in beta, it has grown tremendously in the last nine months, with more than 30,000 members and more than 300,000 items currently listed for sale.

Comment by michael

July 30, 2009 @ 10:16 pm

try http://www.bonanzle.com or http://www.shoptimesaver.com for buying. They are both user friendly and get many visitors.

Comment by Sandra

October 19, 2009 @ 9:12 am

Honestly,

I have tried most of these venues mentioned here.

I have not tried eBid, or artfire.

In my experience the only venues which have customers are eBay and Amazon.

I have sold one item on iOffer, Bonanzle, Stootsi)and Buy It Sell It.

I have been on these sites almost a year. I do like the set up of iOffer, Bonanzle, and Stoootsi they are friendly and easy sites to use.

I would like to find some venues which have ‘customers’ and not only sites which ’sellers’ go to add their merchandise.

Sandra

Comment by GraveYard Angels

November 8, 2009 @ 5:56 pm

I was on ebay for a long time and they got more of my money than I did. It’s ridiculous! They would do alot more business if they were fair with their fee’s. I could have 25 items listed and if 5 of them sold I still had to pay listing fee’s on the items that didn’t sell. It was not profitable for me. Plus I got ripped off by sellers all the time and ebay always sided with them.
I had one person who bought a dress from me, wore it and returned it. I know she wore it because the tag was missing and there was dirt on the hem. And I had one person who claimed they did not get their item, which was a one of kind vintage gown, that I was forced to give her the money back so I was out the money, the shipping cost and I lost my dress! I never ship anything without tracking confirmation since then. It does not good to have no return policies if ebay is going to screw over the buyers anyway. You have no say in your policies, the buyers have more rights.
I sell now at Etsy and it is wonderful! It’s only for handmade, vintage, things such as banners/avatars/business cards or items such as buttons, fabric, beads etc that others can use to make things. It is such a dramatic difference, it’s like another world away from ebay.
I can post an item,,, and it’s only .20 to list it, it stays up for 45 days!!!!! and the fee I pay after selling is soooooooooo much less percentage than ebay. I have had alot of luck there. I have things listed on DaWanda as well, free item listings, you don’t pay anything unless your item sells… but no luck, I sold 2 items to the same buyer and she never paid and I am having to pull teeth to file an unrecieved payment to get the fee’s dropped.
Kaboodle is a community that allows you to place the items you have on sale from other stores in a list on your profile. You don’t actually sell things on there but you get alot of traffic to your shop site and items because your items become so much easily searchable. I couldn’t find my items through a google search until I started using kaboodle and now they come up just like w**m**** or any other corporate sellers items.
Sorry I talk alot I just wanted to let everyone know about etsy.com and kaboodle! They are great!

Comment by GraveYard Angels

November 8, 2009 @ 5:57 pm

I meant that ebay screws over the sellers not the buyers.