Think long and hard about that question. Why do you miss working there? I mean sure you made money there, but have you ever been treated worst by a company in your entire life?
The place gives mad houses a bad name and you miss working there. There was a time that I missed the company and found a way to get back on the site. After a few months I quickly realized that being suspended from there the first time around was a the best thing that had ever happened to me as an online seller.
This post is not my usual suggestion of a new site to work at, but a look backwards at why leaving ebay was not a bad thing. I could tell you about the pros and mostly cons of the site, but I have found a short film that does it better than I ever could. Here is a look at the film.
This will be the next stop on our quest to find a home after Ebay. I have waited to write about this site because it is the one that I like the most. If there is a site that will someday grow to compete with Ebay and Amazon may it be this one.
There are many reasons to recommend it and so far the only thing that keeps it from being mentioned more often is traffic. The traffic and the number of members has grown steadily during the last year and it will be just a matter of time before it becomes one of the major players.
It cost 5 dollars to sign up and at first that held me back, but I bit the bullet and it has been the best investment that I have made online. I have done solid and steady business there. It gets better every month.
The staff that runs it are top of the line. They do the one thing that most of use who sold at Ebay wished that they had done and that is to leave the sellers alone. Allow the seller to set up his or her ads, set a price, decide on any extras and conduct business. They do not have a player in the payment market the way that Ebay has. You can use Paypal here or a half a dozen other payment systems including checks and or money orders.
The fees here are reasonable. After you make a few sells you will be sent a bill and you can pay it in full or even overpay a little so that you have some extra in your account to buy banner or side bar ads for your inventory if you wish.
Did I mention that when you put an item up for sale it stays up for sale forever. You can go back in at any time, touch up your listing a little and you are right back on the first page.
Outside of my own website this is my favorite Ebay alternative. If you are going to set up shop somewhere new I would suggest that you make this one of the places that you do it and tell as many people about it as possible. Atomic Mall could be the best of the ebay alternative sites.
If you are reading this you have been either restricted by Ebay or suspended by Ebay and you do not want to go crawling back to them. I am telling you that you do not have to. Pick 3 or 4 sites to start over at. Use these sites. Sell some of your inventory at each site. Pick the ones that best suits those items and you may find that after a few months you are making more money than you were by just using Ebay.
Freedom is not as simple as it sounds. We are each born free and that birth was a painful thing. We got asked to walk away from something that we liked and something that we were good at and that was a painful thing.
Failure is a painful thing, but do not be afraid to fail. We learn from it. We grow from the experience. I have tried dozen’s of sites that did not work out at all. Here I have listed the ones that show promise.
The truth about all of these alternatives to Ebay is that you are still going to have to work at it. Ebay made it seem so easy and during the best of times it was too easy to earn a living there.
You are free to pick and choose now where you will work.
Allow me to leave you with a quote from one of my favorite plays, “Freedom is not just a big word, it is the morning and the bread and the risen son.”
You are not just looking for a place to work. You are looking for a place to be free to work. Good Luck.
