How to make a website like eBay or Amazon?

You need a good website. Join a hosting, most of them have a good script installer such as Softaculous. Choose any store script, classified script, there are hundreds of them.

You crazy.

Lol how am i crazy? I just have a big goal in my mind and i want to take advantage of it. I just need something that i can work with so people wont think the website looks like a scam. Then once i make profit ill invest in it to make the website better.

buy an ebay clone and just modified to your niche needs. dont spend to much money at first, test out the idea.

There are many cheap eBay clones out there, if you want to grab anyones attention, it must be unique! maybe buy and sell + social media. Like Facebook + eBay together, it must be really professional which would probably take $50,000+ investment on programming alone, then a few thousand on designing and many thousands on marketings to get things heated up.

Check out thepocketwatchshop.com. I am opening
this auction site on Sept 1. I bought the Wordpress auction theme from a company call Sitemile.

I find that Shopify is the easiest to use of the major eCommerce platforms available. The platform also has a large 3rd Party community, so finding the perfect theme should be easy enough.

I think actually starting out Amazon or Ebay would be a better bet than trying to be them. These businesses have huge scale and intrinsic advantages.

Plus, they have traffic (customers) and you don't need to put any capital down. Why not start on their platforms, learn, build a customer base, and go from there?

a site like ebay or amazon is going to take either years of individual programming or thousands upon thousands in programming fees. You could start with something simpler and scale up as you begin to profit.

Hi,

I know 100% what you feel, I had the same and I did it.

First, I wrote the plan, it took me 4 months and 64 pages, wrote the idea into detail.

Second, I looked for a trustable programmer, who would not steel the idea, together we made an estimate, how much time it would cost. 12.000 hours of programming we calculated, with 3 persons at the same time.

Thirth, finding investors, when you not have a network, like me, it can take a long time. More than 12 months and I raised half the money we needed.

Fourth, start programming, for more as a year we just program program program.

Fifth, we went online to fast (http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...blic-soon.html)

Sixth, results after one year in SEO (http://www.warriorforum.com/adsense-...t-website.html)

Seventh, I loved it, we are still working working working, every day, to make it better and better.

Eight, forget about holidays, free time or family planning the next years.

But one thing I can say…. JUST DO IT!

If I were you...and considering your dream and goals...I would go back to the
drawing board...and start with a business plan...in step-by-step detail...

I would study everything I could get my hands on regarding this business model...

I would practice and experiment with both the modeling styles of Ebay and Amazon...what I mean is, learn to buy and sell on both platforms...and take notes of your successes and failures...each and every one...

Buy and sell, buy and sell...and study everything...research everything about these two business models...RESEARCH, STUDY, RESEARCH STUDY...

Sleep with these two 24/7/365...dream, practice, study...and never let anyone
tell you it's an impossible endeavor...because it's not!

If you quit, you'll never have your Ebay or Amazon empire...yet if you don't quit,
and follow the above advice adamently...you will have your success...

This will take some time...yet since you love this...really love this...this will be
your 'labor of love'...

The long nights and days...the backaches you'll have...the eye strains...the headaches...the frustrations...the agonizing doubts, weariness...and the continual
nagging in the back of your mind..."I can't do this"...then this is when you tell yourself..."Yet, what if I can?"

Always, I mean always...KNOW YOU CAN...ALWAYS...

And continue on...until one day...YOUR EBAY AMAZON DREAM IS REALITY...

Remember this...always...always...

Never quit...Never...

Hope this helps...

Pm me if you need anything...and I'll try...

@ThePocketWatcher: here is the auction theme you were talking about: WordPress Auction Theme | Auction Script | SiteMile.com

hello, its complete theme and script, its two into one.

EBay and Amazon are vastly different businesses, do you want to sell items, or auction them? There are plenty of ecommerce platforms and amazon/ebay clones that you can use to build a basic site, don't expect miracles from them though!

for sure you cant match ebay or amazon with a script even if its super complex. But i advice you start very small, and on a niche, then as you grow get more advanced.

OP: Nobody can give you the advice you're looking for. None of us are qualified to compete with eBay or Amazon- if we were, we'd already be doing it and rolling in the $$.

Now, I'm not saying that it's impossible to do. Nothing's entirely impossible. But you're going to have to do the reading. You're going to have to do the coding. Read up about the history of Amazon and eBay, and how THEY developed their sites. Learn everything there is to know about the competition, and you'll be in a better position to know what to do from there.

Good luck.

halochaox - I would ignore most of the advice here,if you simply want an auction style platform that performs the same BASIC functions as ebay,ie,brings buyers and sellers together and you take a small transaction fee,and looks familiar like ebay,you DO NOT have to spend tens of thousands.I know this as a friend of mine has an auction site in a particular niche that has all the functions you'd need to create a profitable business in the correct niche.He paid a few hundred dollars to get the site up and running.Unless you intend on scaling it up to an eight figure business I would start on shoestring and prove you have the right market and the right offer first.Hope that helps.Sometimes throwing money at an obstacle simply stifles your imagination and problem solving skills.

Because you understimate the money/time/effort that went int the branding of the business.

site what $40,000???

Branding $100m+

could just buy them out though? $4billion+


Good luck with though.

If you want to create e commerce type of portal, then you may focus on updated product then, you have to generate online product listing as soon as possible, i have done that many times...

You crazy.I can't give you the advice you're looking for.sorry

Hi there you would need a front end and back end website that allows your customers to set up a registration and become members. This will allow them to manage their own products and pricing. Unless you have a lot of coding experience then this site will cost you a lot of money and can't be built on the free website building platforms. If you are looking for a very simple to use site building platform that has a lot to offer with no coding experience I would suggest you check out this video and all the feed back from satisfied users site http://www.xsitepro.com/index_r.html...tmedia&w=video it is very simple to use and has a lot of features. You can get a lot of support in their forums to help you with your builds. Like coding to copy and paste into your site if needed for special features you want to add to your site. For a very small investment it will allow you to build unlimited professional websites.
I've just built a website using this program check it out as a sample. No doubt people have built better ones. Jaymartmedia Apps Ltd - Main

Hi,

First research your idea, then go for building.

Check out this website buy & sell mom,kid items | Priceables, it's similar to ebay.

The marketplace industry is imploding, it comes down to trust from Google delisting and lowering rankings to visitors now realising they cannot trust the supply chain, too many fake items. Look at the eBay LVMH settlement. If you do, keep the view short term 1-2yrs, after that it becomes pretty messy.

Sites like e-bay, amazon offer a mixture of multiple vendor management and enterprise version stores. This has facilitated many products to be displayed in these websites. Hence you can create an online store using multiple vendor management.

If you're short on money to start an ecommerce site, Woocommerce plugin is free at Woothemes.com and they have free Woocommerce themes as well. All you'd need is your domain and hosting to get started.

See the following video to know how to build an website like eBay and Amazon.
Good success!

I can say that the best and fastest way to implement the sites such as ebay or amazon is through use of wordpress and the themes that are already in place. It is time saving and being able to see that you want the project implemented soonest, you better find the best deal for the themes and have things running. As you gain popularity, you can then start building the website from scratch, taking into considerations the little things that lack on the current one.

Saying you want to do something similar to eBay or Amazon, to me sounds similar to saying you are planning to colonize Pluto, even though you have not yet learned how to build a jet engine. However it is not that difficult to actually build a website using things like Joomila and Magento, and then modding them, I would highly suggest you not try doing it from scratch, because the chances of you actually getting your money back from such an endeavor are about the same as winning the lottery.
I am in my mid 40s and all the epic dream chasers I know are dead broke these days. I would suggest to aim for something a little less epic, the main reason being that the world is not fair and Amazon and Ebay will crush you with billions in advertising if they see you coming up on their heals, trust me, they have done this to me and probably millions of others. Amazon made up nearly halve of all AdWords income for Google last year to thoroughly dominate the retail internet. The act of getting enough people to sign up and start posting on your website will likely cost you millions in advertising once the site is functional.
There are actually thousands of other big websites out there that are trying to compete with ebay and amazon, but you have never heard of them, likely just like they probably won't hear of you.
I would suggest building an affiliate website to get your feet wet, and you could then of course convert that into an online marketplace at a later date.
Best of luck to you. Personally if I had the millions needed to be successful in such a thing, I would go just go live on a beach instead.
Here I wrote this a few years ago, maybe it will help
http://ezinearticles.com/?So-You-Wan...re?&id=7079567

This video basically how to get consistent income with Amazon:

its totally depends on how old your website is??and its depends on traffic,keywords and SEO...