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[Journies2107]

I am in the US, is there websites that i can use that target austrailian buyers? Trademe i believe is just for austrailian and NZ residents. I have items that seem to do real well in that part of the country so how do i get those customers?

[tulsue]

Hi

Seems like we all feel the same way about ebay. Their fees are killing any profit we can make, and now the Paypal situation, it seems like they have become very greedy of our sweat and tears!

I agree with the person who said we should boycott them. I have also tried ooztion, but do not seem to be getting any buyers there either.

I have a friend who owns a dress store in the shopping centre and she has also been having a hard time - no custom.

I am thinking about starting my own website, but find the idea of building a website a daunting task, but then don't want to have to pay thousands for a site.

any ideas?

[jaded1]

Ebay has dried up for me as well. I did well there up until about 3 months ago. Now items I sold easily for $40 or $50 bucks are netting 1/2 that if I'm lucky.

I think it's more about the economy. We are truly in a recession people. there may not be that much disposable money going around.

unless you got a big raise lately I can guarantee you that your net worth is down. money in stocks ? real estate ? your toast.

personal debt is at all time high, foreclosures, and crazy gas prices.

I follow the economy and I've never seen it this dismal. Perhaps this is why ebay and starbucks and walmart ... (the list goes on and on) ... are reporting bad numbers lately.

don't mean to be negative just a realist who has invested in stocks for the last 15 years. It's ugly out there.

we need to look at selling items that are in demand. The staples if possible. As for me ? I'm not buying any new golf clubs this year, ipods, TV's ... can't afford to. I think most are feeling this way...

my 2 cents...

[planes]

Are you selling on the US or AU version of eBay?

I opened another eBay account just to spread my wings so to speak and have seen some brisk sales.

My collectible items are moving pretty well and Im going to the shop I get things from this week and will list like mad.

For you Australia guys. I have an idea for you. The first person that PMs me will get the idea. It not a super idea but one that might get you some decent startup money for other things.

Its not a link to some website and Im not making any money off of it in any way. I'm just feeling a little generous today.

You wont get rich but you might get a few hundred dollars in your pocket, maybe more. Its an eBay idea.

US version.

[bayericlowe]

No it has not dried up, this is false.

And you know why it hasn't? Because of me and a few other people.

We've brought over 500 new eBay members and buyers to that site and literally funneled them thousands of visitors.

eBay should thank us for starting the wheels turning again after all that terrible negative publicity, which they deserved IMO, and maybe they will learn their lesson.

Maybe eBay will finally start treating their retailers/sellers with the respect they deserved. I did not have to do that of bringing hundreds/thousand plus people there so they could shop at my store and shop at eBay, craiglist etc. I did not have to give anything at all and I don't give to stingy corporations.

But I've sold out of most of my stock so no, it didn't dry up it slowed down. But then again, unlike all of you I generate my own traffic without any help. I generate by the hundreds, the thousands, to anywhere I link it up. So maybe this will do good things in the end as I started getting more active on Amazon.

Here's to a productive time and to sell out of everything I have, I wish you all luck as well and tell eBay and uBid to straighten up their act & start treating everyone good again. Ban the scammers!

are reporting bad numbers lately.

Disagree, its all in how you do your business. I think eBay and so forth will feel the recession because they're greedy or because they've been stupid.

And they don't thank me whatsoever, I definitely got business going for them again and I sure don't work for them I work my own business. I feel almost no shocks of the recession being that I don't rely on them.

As an independent business I generate traffic on my own automatically and literally flood it through like a gushing waterfall. Profits of $10 per item for my last stock sell out, which is insane, and its not over either.

Basically I have discovered the secret rule, the secret formula. 'The secret' and there is no price tag that can be put on it. It all has to do with your approach. Marketing message plus traffic, is the key to sales. No matter what. If you can't generate traffic in the range of 200-380 or 400 visitors a week or 1000 in a month then I believe you are going to sell very little.

But if you can, if you truly understand the bumpy road it is and look outside the box to let it all come to you.....then you will always succeed. Regardless of conditions, anywhere, and well...I find that interesting.

I will never tell anyone how the massive occupying residual machine works for them, and how it should always work. I am not allowed to because it will harm other's profits. But you can have the same, just look into SEO marketing and find the proper magnetic traffic machine for you.