Which ecommerce platform is best for beginner, ebay/amazon or own store?

Every eCommerce platform has its shortcomings, but the easiest one for newbies to use is Shopify.

I'm not sure why you think you need "exclusive" rights to sell something with your own store. All you need is to be an authorized dealer.

I also don't know why you are assuming that all kinds of places will beat your prices. Many manufacturers have MAP pricing so nobody is allowed to sell for less than that, putting you at the same price level as everyone else. Your job is then to convince people to buy from you by presenting much better information than 99% of other websites do about their products. Hopefully, you do not think that having the lowest price is the way to more sales. It almost never is; instead, it is the way to lower profits and a business model that rarely can sustain itself.

Finally, I'm not sure why you believe that you will find competition easier on Amazon or eBay. Those are probably the most competitive places you can possibly list your products and they both take a hefty fee for commission on each sale. I'd much rather take my chances getting people to come to my website (via organic search or paid ads) than be lost in a sea of competitors on eBay or Amazon.

Shopify is good but a clean wordpress site with Woocommerce is a viable alternative.

Shopify is great for small businesses/or beginners..

Certainly, Shopify as a new comer.

In my opinion, there are three schools of thought when it comes to ecommerce.

1. Build your own store on Shopify, Wordpress or wherever and drive your own traffic with paid ads. This approach is the hot new thing. You can dropship from Aliexpress, set up all kinds of cool apps and plugins and make a really nice looking store. But you have to spend a lot of money driving traffic with Facebook, Instagram, or Pinterest. It can be lucrative but you have to be good at running and managing ads.

2. Amazon FBA. You buy the stuff and ship it into Amazon and they take care of the shipping and customer service for you. This is what I currently do and it is great if you have the budget to buy inventory, rank your product listing, and pay for some ads. It is very competitive on Amazon but the traffic is immense and you can do very well if you have enough capital.

3. Amazon and eBay where you handle the shipping. This is the easiest model in my opinion. You don't have to have a lot of inventory, you can do arbitrage if you want, you don't have to run ads, you don't have to have a huge budget. But, you still have a lot of competition, you have to ship everything yourself and it's really hard to scale this model.

4. Ok, here's kind of a bonus model. Use a print on demand service that creates and ships all your items when an order is placed. Gearbubble integrates with Amazon and I do this too. You can scale your business easier and cheaper than Amazon FBA, you don't have to pay for inventory, you don't have to run ads if you don't want to. But you do have to have the budget to pay for the products immediately after they're ordered. You have a limited amount of product types to choose from, and you have to have to design the products or pay a designer to do it for you. You also have to have a lot of different products to have a chance of making a decent amount of money.

There's a lot to consider when it comes to ecomm. I hope this helps.

Amazon is incredibly easy to set up on the Associates aka affiliate side of things, but like any platform, the ease of use has little to do with the amount of time and energy and practice you need to put into creating helpful content and building strong connections with niche leaders.

Put in the time on the creating and connecting side of things and you will be good to go, no matter what reputable digital storefront route you take.

As you said your new to ecommerce so i will suggest you to take minimum experience by working with other ecommerce, and then you start your own ecommerce store. Obviously, Shopify is the best option to start your ecommerce business...

amazon is good

Ebay is best for beginner. No need to invest money. Just need to keep listing
product from amazon to ebay.

Coming from someone who worked from the ground up. Start with ebay get used to selling posting and increasing revenue. The general day to day of dealing with a business in online sales of pyshical goods. It's the easiest platform to work with once you get past paypal restrictions and such. Whilst doing this build a seperate site that you can send your customers too. IMHO shopify it the most simple one to setup and it supports paypal. The only downfall is the waiting time it takes to send from payments to your actual bank account. But if you have a decent cash flow it's a good platform to work with.

You can do what many do and list items from amazon on ebay. But you risk stock issues, payments holds etc. So if you are going to try to do something like that make sure you have some funds just in case your waiting for a payment. Personally I don't do it, I buy in bulk with items I know are going to turn a profit. It's a risky business.

Good luck! Oh yeah and stop researching setup an ebay/paypal gain some trust and feedback over your first 30 days then start earning more cash. Don't use dropshippers chances are everyone else is using them oh and don't pay to use one either, that would be silly. Dropshipping was invented for warehouses to get rid of dead stock it's free advertising in a way. If they can't sell it some fool will sell it for them. If used it myself when I have had dead stock just put the word around that they keep the "profits" lol.

Shopify one of the easiest eCommerce platforms however this will take money and time where on eBay there is already a traffic and audience looking for your products.

I would say Amazon
it's harder to get traffic from eBay unless you upload a lot of products, most of the time it will need some tool, most people on eBay are simply relisting item from Amazon and resell it
Shopify is getting hard recently year because FB ad cost is going up
For Amazon , i have been doing it for year, i love it for some reason
1. the traffic quality is good
2. it's easy to rank
3.the conversation rate of Amazon ad is high (much higher than FB)
4.i can use their FBA warehouse to help me with the fulfillment

It Depends on whether you have your own web store, offline shops. If yes, then you can proceed with selling on multi-marketplaces at a same time.
eCommerce Marketplace Software thus are new trend in eCommerce Technology.

I would like to prefer both ebay ans amazon wood be better for an beginner.

From point of mine,i would like to advise you start from Amazon.I had been working on a own store,it was very hard to make success unless you have the strong ability of driving traffic to your own store.

Amazon has its own advantage of huge traffic which means you do not have to think how to drive traffic,what you need to do on Amazon is study the A9 algorithm.

I would suggest you to go for WooCommerce and create your own store. WooCommerce is an easy platform for you to begin with and a lot cheaper than Shopify. This open-source platform has a variety of plugins and themes that you can use to automate and manage your own store easily.

Amazon and eBay will leave you will less control on your products, pricing and the brand recognition which you can easily create if you market your own store on Facebook and Instagram correctly.

As a newbie, you should definitely go for WooCommerce.

Hey,
If you a beginner then I suggest you to go with Magento Ecommerce website.
Amazon, Ebay are the nice but there terms & conditions are very complicated you have to give some percent of your product to them when you sell you product. But if you hire any Magento Developer it will take low cost and build you your own Ecommerce website that you will handle with your own hands & Magento is very amazing in Ecommerce its themes, Extensions, Perfomance are great.

Think about this.
Thank you.

Try the following:
-Shopify
-BigCommerce
-Magento

Personaly I use ebay as they are very helpfull and they have a very wide range of products , they are super easy with their affliliates and vey helpfull, do not forget to shorten affiliate URL with tinyurl.com as I do

Hello,

It's best to start with Ebay for several reasons:

- Variable costs to sales made except ads insertion fees
- Get used to the competition
- See which niche products sell best, and at what prices
- Test the reliability of suppliers in dropshipping (products, delivery ...)
- Easy to manage interface
- Learn how to make good product sheets
* ...

My advice is that you will have to start choosing a good Niche LARGE and observe the demand. after a while you choose your best selling products (or visited), you build your own site and you sell them on it.

Another tip is that you have to learn how to get traffic right from the start, and you'll know what to do when you want to create a site.

Of course it is better to build your own store. There are a lot of benefirs а that - you'll be thу owner (no restirctions, etc) and you can sell your store is tired or whatever

Creating his own store is always better but in starting you need to sell the product on eBay/Amazon. Because if you open his own store you need more patience for the growth. So I suggest you to eBay/Amazon for selling product.

My advice would be to start selling on Amazon and Ebay to learn how it works and if you are good at it you can branch out and open your own store. Ebay and Amazon are fairly easy and straightforward to get started using.

Hii Dear,
There is no business without risk you have to bear Risk for growth and survival. I can understand your situation and I recommend you should open your own store because you can check on Amazon, eBay their commission rates are very high. It is better if you open your own store because the return you would get on Amazon, eBay is very low. You can check it in this link https://services.amazon.in/services/...n/pricing.html

Amazone is good Option. Wordpress site with Woocommerce is also good.

EBay is easy to use for the beginner there's no denying this.With eBay you're able to build up your online reputation with good practices - the key is keeping customers happy