SaleHoo

[grahamg]

Everyone who's discovered the ebay slap, are all down and going, "what do I do?" :(

The plain truth is, work with it, as I have been testing the market for the past 6 months and I have found if you advertise on the classified ads, I saved money because there is a "hidden" way not to pay any Final Value Fees, so ebay, has shot themselves in the foot, they WILL lose revenue. :twisted:

What I mean, is that I used to sell on ebay and my auction fees every month were between £1000 - £2,570, compared to my classified listings that cost me $9.99 for 30 days, I only had 5 products to sell, but I sold alot of them, so even with all the extra promotions, a single listing cost me $9.99 + $29.99 = $39.98 x 10 (relist after 14 days) $399 80 (£199.90) compared to $5,140 (£2,500.) Which would you rather pay? :wink:

To be fair, the sales do drop off after 17 days for the classified ads, but at the end of the day, I was saving money.

Yes, you can burn your information products to CD or DVD, but it's the shipping, I'm in the UK and to ship to the US is unrealistic. There are company's that offer the service of burning and shipping for you, however they charge $1.75 per CD. :idea:

So to sum up, I think it's a bad decision on ebays part, however it will stop people "killing" the products, selling ebooks for $1.79 and that, it will open it up for the real marketers...and an opportunity to make some real money.

For example, you could offer a CD of the information product, when they go to pay, you can offer an "upsell", so they can get the product right now charge them an extra $19.99 and your problems solved. You make more money and ebay don't get any fees on the upsell, apart from paypal. 8)

Think outside the box...

[jimmy_salehoo]

Things will get better, Im not happy about the changes. But That does not mean I will leave ebay. Thousands will be out of business. And thousands more will leave. But in the end there will be alot less spam on ebay and More then likely you will get higher prices for your items. So many are moving away, thinking that they can make it somewhere else.

But there is a great point to the above post. You cant just rely on ebay. I learned this. Ive sold so many items on other venues for more then they were selling for on ebay. And I have sold over $100,000 worth of retail products on ebay in the last 6 months. Right now most of my higher priced items are not even close to being listed on ebay.

Craigslist , classifieds, amazon and many other places are great places to sell the same stuff and you can generally get more money. Every buyer goes to ebay for deals. The other sites buyer goto get products plain and simple and they want to do a quality transaction. With all the crap that goes on in ebays market you will get more serious buyers elsewhere.

Also create your own site. It generally does not take alot to create a website. You may have to do a little homework. But in the long run you can make better money using your own websites then ebay. And dont use just one website. Create several. This way you bring more attention to your products. Use ebay as a way to promote your site. Send flyer's to all of your buyers promoting your own website.

[bayericlowe]

Well unlike you good sir, I do not use eBay.

In fact they aren't my selling point at all.

I own my own store which is a full running business.

Basically the only thing that I do, is run items from my store through a local eBay listing or Craiglist etc, I hardly ever pay a dime.

No more than $5, $3 etc. I never pay this ridiculous amount of money of $1500 to sell out all my store items.

And do you know why? I've learned to be self-reliant, I generate traffic for myself by the thousands. I can't tell how to everyone, but I do it all the time and I proudly do it on autopilot. And I basically go to sleep, take orders, do it again and move on to the next one.

Only beware always of scammers, if they're from another country be positive that Paypal/Googlepay has verified their address. I never ship anywhere overseas, EVER, at any time unless its double checked.

Sold to Hungary, the U.K., to Russia, to Canada, Netherlands, and China so I know my way around the channel. And its rough but I just nod and deal with it, the traffic always comes. That's easy.