Life After/Without Ebay???

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Hi,

So I started to sell on Ebay this year, I got to Top Rated Seller, then put to Below Standard even though I qualify for Above Standard, just another underhanded tactic by FeeBay. So it hurt sales and put restrictions on my account to hold funds.

Now I qualify for TRS again, just waiting for the next review. Anyway I was still getting sales, But late Sept and Oct has been dead with no sale for days now which has me worried Ebay is finally dead.

I would like to have more control over my income online. Ebay is very unfair to sellers, and a buyer having a bad day can crush a seller on ebay with negative feedback. I give good customer service, give refunds and fully cooperate, but if a buyer wants to be an ***hole they will not remove the feedback in most cases, they hurt the seller and nothing happens to them, very frustrating business model.

I wanted to know if anyone has moved on from Ebay to more success with another online business or eCommerce store please?

I have a great deal of experience online creating websites and online marketing.

Thanks in advance for any good suggestions,
Kyle
#after or without #ebay #life
  • Profile picture of the author DubDubDubDot
    What do you sell on eBay?
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  • Profile picture of the author Hartmann
    Fulfillment by Amazon seems to be the buzz at the moment...it's something I'm looking into but have no results to speak of as yet.
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  • Profile picture of the author onegoodman
    Used to be top seller on eBay as well, and run away because of their fees.

    I would say this might be the right time to move to your own website. I did it before and it worked for me.

    If you have the budget, nothing better than running a business from your own website.

    If you have a contact list of your eBay buyers, you may be able to start by offering a discount for going through your website.
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  • Profile picture of the author Meharis
    Originally Posted by kyleoxenham View Post

    Hi,

    So I started to sell on Ebay this year, I got to Top Rated Seller, then put to Below Standard even though I qualify for Above Standard, just another underhanded tactic by FeeBay. So it hurt sales and put restrictions on my account to hold funds.

    Now I qualify for TRS again, just waiting for the next review. Anyway I was still getting sales, But late Sept and Oct has been dead with no sale for days now which has me worried Ebay is finally dead.

    I would like to have more control over my income online. Ebay is very unfair to sellers, and a buyer having a bad day can crush a seller on ebay with negative feedback. I give good customer service, give refunds and fully cooperate, but if a buyer wants to be an ***hole they will not remove the feedback in most cases, they hurt the seller and nothing happens to them, very frustrating business model.

    I wanted to know if anyone has moved on from Ebay to more success with another online business or eCommerce store please?

    I have a great deal of experience online creating websites and online marketing.

    Thanks in advance for any good suggestions,
    Kyle

    kyleoxenham,

    Get into the FBA program of Amazon. A total different game.
    You don't have to worry about shipping products at all.
    Amazon.com Help: Fulfillment by Amazon (NO Affiliate)

    Meharis
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  • Profile picture of the author vedremo
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    Use ebay for your purposes. It has good traffic and it's easy to pouch customers to your own website with an incentive voucher.

    One brand that did this really well was a supplement store here in Australia. They started out with just ebay, and after a year they were sending me 'order on our website for 5% off ebay prices" pamphlets with each order. the coupon still works some 2 years later as its an ongoing campaign they have to get customers to order from their website and not on ebay. reliance on one platform for sales is very dangerous, build a moat.

    Their strategy is perhaps the oldest one in the book, but it works.
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  • Profile picture of the author JohnyEnglish
    Ebay is the place to give free item.. Ebay suspend any accounts they want without notice..
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  • Profile picture of the author Jim Cockrum
    Originally Posted by kyleoxenham View Post

    Hi,

    I wanted to know if anyone has moved on from Ebay to more success with another online business or eCommerce store please?
    I use both eBay and Amazon FBA and still love both.

    eBay: For unusual, non-barcode items or niche items I'm trying to grow an email list around (i.e. you can set up zapier.com to automatically invite each of your eBay customers to join a corresponding email list based on the product they purchased. If you want to see how to set eBay to grow your multiple email lists, search youtube for the video titled "Use one eBay account to grow multiple niche email lists on autopilot" - you'll have to sign in to view it b/c youtube thinks it's age inappropriate for some reason! (very odd...but that's youtube for you)

    Amazon: More shoppers are HERE rather than eBay. Find profitable items using any one of multiple strategies, or create your own product or bundle (not that hard) and using FBA you are left with only the responsibility of shipping the products to Amazon (or having them shipped there with your labels on them- many of my students have set that up with suppliers). What you CAN'T do with Amazon (and get away with it for very long) is grow an email list of followers. Amazon will shut you down @ the first hint of that action.

    If you go with ONLY Amazon you should have other businesses going where you are building a long term list of customers...b/c Amazon won't let you do it.
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  • Profile picture of the author excell99
    I have had nothing but grieve with Ebay in the past i would suggest take this as a blessing and don't look back!
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