Doin business on E-Bay.

One of the main reasons I got out of online auctions selling physical products was I started seeing several trends.

I was seeing a trend I did not like. What I say here is I would get emails after auction close about dropping shipping fees or if it was a local person if they could stop by and pick it up. I started getting more emails asking questions that were clearly answered in the ads. I felt that I was spending more time answering emails than listing products. I managed to maintain 100% seller feedback but it was becoming much more difficult.

I was already familiar with affiliate marketing at this point.

So I basically realized that affiliate marketing would eliminate some of the issues I was dealing with and I would not have to deal with returns or shipping either. I do not regret the decision in any way.

At one point I was going to get back into it I had even purchased another scale but right at this time they decided to muck with the feedback rules and that is when I decided no besides I was doing well with affiliate stuff I figured my returns may be less.

Don't get me wrong. Online auctions are a great way to sell stuff online and make money it is a great revenue channel.

now is not the best time to become an ebay affiliate, they are bringing in some form of quality scoring on the traffic you send to them, and if your traffic doesn't preform they drop you, alot of affiliates have had their accounts canceled at the drop of a hat very recently.

search the forum theres a whole discussion on it.

andy