Paypay and Ebay Breaking Up

                Paypal and Ebay Breaking Up

                When I first heard that Paypal and its parent company Ebay was breaking up I laughed until I cried. The biggest hammer that Ebay has had over its sellers was the added impact that an Ebay suspension could led to a Paypal suspension and or an account freeze. This has happened to thousands of Ebay sellers and the result was to cripple their businesses. Many only sellers lost everything when this happened.
 

                The break up will in the short term mean next to nothing for those whom have had their businesses hurt of destroyed by this unholy alliance, but for those of us who have moved on to start our own online stores it is good news. Amazon is top dog amongst online retailers, but Ebay is still a huge monster that occupies second place.  As Ebay’s power and influence decreases this allows those of us who have set up shop on countless other websites and of course our own online stores to see a growth in our own businesses.

                There are rules that keep companies in most industries from forming monopolies to drive out and or control all other businesses smaller than them. When Ebay and Paypal began their rises they were not covered by anti-trust laws that would have kept them from doing all that they have gotten away with for the last ten years.  Without Paypal to lean on Ebay will begin to lose market share. This has happened during the last three or so years leading up to the moment when they parted company.

Now an independent Ebay is going to lose more and more of its share of the online marketplace due to the simple fact that it had created the virus that will attack it from all sides. The virus that will attack it are those tens of thousands of sellers that it suspended or restricted during the years. Those ebay suspensions were placed upon sellers who generated tens of thousands of dollars each month. Those former Ebay powersellers have two things in common. They learned how to sell a tremendous about of product online and they all have a burning hate for the company that left them out in the cold.  Soon Paypal will face the same issues as more and more avenues to collect payments open up online.

                Today I would like to suggest that instead of trying to get back on board a sinking ship you take a chance. Build your own ship. Build it as large as you want to and take command of it.  If you are under a suspension now is the time to move your business to the dozens of other online retailers options. Sell on all of them at once and connect all of this new activate to the personal webstore that you are going to learn to build.  For a quick tutorial on how to build a site click here.  

Good luck with recovering from your Ebay suspension and do not worry there are countless opportunities out there for you. The best days are ahead of you. You wanted to be an online seller not because you wanted to work for Ebay, but to be your own boss. When you were suspended or restricted did you feel like a boss or an employee? Today you can change that once and for all.

Ebay Suspended, Preparing for The Day

If I suggested to a young person that the day will come when they must leave home and move out on their own you would consider this sound advice. Why is it not when talking about ebay.  You sell on ebay. A large part of your online business, perhaps all of it comes from ebay or that other giant Amazon.

    I understand the relationship. I started there myself, but I moved on after I woke up one day to find my that account had been restricted. In that moment I realized that I did not work with Ebay, in their eyes I was working for Ebay.I started my own online business so that I could be my own boss. Perhaps many of you did the same. Today is another short a quick talk about the need to have options.  You will want to do this if for no other reason than to earn extra money until the day comes when you will need it as your primary source of income.


     First thing that you need to do is to go out and sign up at other online sites. It is like dating after a break up or in this case before one. There are over a dozen other sites online where you can import your feedback from ebay or amazon and start selling today.

    Next you want to begin to build your own website where you can direct your present customers to. You will do with every sale you make. You will include in every shipment a note to visit you at your website. You will offer a great discount for those who come there to purchase from you. Ten to twenty five percent off to capture this customer. Sounds a bit steep, but if you take into account the ebay fees that you will not be paying then you have ten percent right there. You will also develop a email list from those whom you have sold to in the past. It will not be easy, but who ever said that starting and growing a business was easy?
   

Ebay sold you a dream. What they offered was not what they delivered, but what you did get was an education on ow to sell items online. Time to take that knowledge out into the world.


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Ebay Suspended, Getting Back To Business

Ebay Suspended, Getting Back To Business

If you are reading this then you have most likely been suspended by Ebay. If you are a few days into your suspension then I do not know if you are ready to hear any of what you are going to be told. If you are a month or more into what will most likely be a life time suspension then I think you are now ready to think about the future.
  


 You had a business. You were making money and beginning to plan for the future then the suspension hit you and it was ten times worst than being fired, because usually when one is fired they feel that the axe is coming. Ebay does it like an assassin. You never know it is coming until you are face down in the dirt.

You can either lay there or you can get up and take the lessons that you learned along the way to your own website or other online marketplaces. If you want to know about many of the other online marketplaces you can read old post at this blog or you could purchase my book. The link is the picture along the side of the post.

Here is a former ebay seller who has some important information for you how ebay looks at its sellers.

    

 Next I would like to ask you once again to look into building your own website. There are hundreds of thousands of people who run their own websites for fun and profit. It is not that difficult. You can do it. You maybe thinking that you did not prepare for this and you do not even have a list of former customers to contact. Sure you do, if you still have a live paypal account. Every email of every one who purchased from you in the past is recorded there. Download a full copy of those emails and send each and every customer a message telling them about your new website and what you have to offer.

You can take paypal payments and or use a shopping cart service to process payments. This is something that you can learn how to do in an afternoon. The great thing about most shopping cart services is that over the long term they cost you less than paypal and your money is safer with them. Paypal can freeze your funds for up to 180 days, these services understand that your money is your money.

 

Remember that being suspended by ebay or restricted by ebay does not have to be a death sentence unless you allow it to be. A ebay suspension can be the greatest opportunity of your business lifetime if you take advantage of it. Thank you for visiting and please take a moment to share this post with a friends and to add me to your google plus.
 
  

Ebay Suspended, Looking Forward

Ebay Suspended, Looking Forward

There are any number of reasons that ebay can and will come up to suspend your account. Through no fault of your own you can get suspended for life.

If you find yourself ebay suspended oe your ebay sellers acount has been restricted and you are looking to get back on board I would suggest that you think this over.

Do you really want to go crawling back?

Can you create and run a health business with the threat of suspension hanging over your head? Trust me if you have been suspended once you are much more likely to be suspended again and again. The hoops that they make you jump threw are largely to insure that they can positively identify you so that when you are suspended again that you will not be able to use that or similar information to get another account.


    

 I also recommend that you look at your other options. I have tested them out and earn more without ebay than I did with them. Sure it took a while to build my level of sales back up again, but I would never go back to ebay. There is just something to be said for freedom and certainty. You signed up with ebay because you wanted to run your own business. You found out quickly that you were still an employee and now you have been given a chance to start over the right way. Take that chance and embrace this opprotunity to have the online business that you were promised when you signed up with ebay.

Below is a video for one such alternative that is becoming more and more popular.

   


 
     

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Your Ebay Recovery Plans

Your Ebay Recovery Plans

I can give you a map on how to continued working and selling online. Their are hundreds of former sellers with different ideas of what you should do next, but in the back of your mind you must already have your own idea.

If it is to stealth your way back onto Ebay or to plead your way back into their good graces then I am not the one to aid you in that quest. I have been there and done that. Even when it does work it feels kind of degrading.

We are business people and we are forced by a company that we generate income for to ask permission to do just that?

Recovery is just that. You are trying to recovery from something that happened to you. Who recovers from a bad relationship by changing their name and face and getting involved with the same person again. Sooner or later the result will be the same.

We are here to talk about business. You are not a business person until you are in control of your business. How the business runs and how fast it grows. As long as you work at Ebay or even Amazon you are limited in that quest. You will always work for them instead of being in a relationship where you are at least equal partners.

What I am going to suggest again is that you take your online business on the road. You post your items for sale at other sites that would love to have you as a partner. You learn from these experiences and build your own website as a home base for all the things that you wish to market. The luckiest sellers to have been suspended by ebay or restricted by ebay were those sellers who had their own websites to fall back on. Those websites kept the cash flowing while they figured out the next moves. The next moves usually involved setting up shop at other sites and using their existing connections.

What are existing connections? Access to names and email addresses that we already have. That is going to be a future post. To conclude this post I would like to suggest that you go out and look at the new online marketplaces that are competing with ebay. Ebid is one such site. There is a banner link below for you.

If you want a walk through list of the best sites along with the basic information that you need to set up shop at many of these sites I have written a little book that you can find at iTunes, Barnes and Noble and Amazon for the low price of 1.99. The price is so low because I needed this kind of advice when I first left Ebay behind and every dollar was dear to me. The title of the book is Powerselling After Ebay.

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Ebay Suspension, Bouncing Back

Ebay Suspension, Bouncing Back

-“The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom.” - George S. Patton Jr.

Perhaps you are coming to grips with returning to Ebay may not happen. Perhaps you do not want to return after the way they have treated you. The suspension came down with out a real explanation of why. After weeks ebay still refused to tell you why you ebay account was suspended or how to get back your account back to good standing.

If you are ready to move on and to try a different way of doing business let’s talk.

 -“Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. ”  - John R. Wooden

It is time to look at what you can do to get back into business and then do it better than ever before.
The first thing that you need to do is to find a new base to operate from. Ebay was where you set up shop. Now you need to find a new home for your online business. I would suggest baby steps. First you will want to register at other sites and to put your items up for sale there. I have written a ebook that list most of the best sites and how to used them click the image of it below to get find it. You can also find my book at iTunes,Barnes and Noble and Amazon.

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Next you could set up your own website. A website of your own can become a base of operations. You can market your items direct to the customer. You are free of all fees except for hosting which can be less than five dollars a month. Building your own website is something that you should look into even if you are an active seller on Ebay. You can always direct customers from there to your site. Many of the mega sellers on Ebay have their own websites. Having their own website has helped many sellers to survive an ebay suspension, never missing a beat while they worked to have their ebay suspension lifted.

You should also look into affiliate marketing and drop shipping.

When I first started at Ebay I knew nothing about affiliate marketing and had only heard about dropshipping. Since leaving Ebay behind I earn a great deal from affiliates. All you need is a page to market from. You could use a hosted site that you own or a free blog or even your facebook page to post affiliate ads and start earning money. The best thing about affiliate advertising is that they are free to set up. Site like linkshare will sign you up and get you started.


Next there is drop shipping and digital items. The number one site for digital resale items is Clickbank. Also free to sign up with. Also if you have an ebook that you wish to sell you can post it there once you have paid a membership fee and you will have others marketing your items for you. Many people have made thousands of dollars a month from clickbank.

Drop shipping is a bit harder to make work. There are so many companies that claim to be drop shipper, but many of them are actually retailers who are selling to you at full price and suggesting a mark up price that it will be hard if not impossible for you to get from your customers. Be careful when selecting a drop shipping company for your online store. I am offering up one world class option below. They are well respected and will give you a chance to make a solid profit.

Just because you have suffered an ebay suspension does not mean that you must sit on your hands or crawl on your knees. You can bounce back from this. You can run a successful online business without them.
You can and will be a success at what ever business you chose. Now is the time to take the steps that will make this happen.

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The Ebay Alternative World

The Ebay Alternative World

You are probably here at this site because you have been suspended by Ebay or have suffered through a Ebay suspension. The most realistic approach to this situation is to move on with your online life. Leave the Ebay suspension in the rear view mirror and open up shop else where. It will be difficult, but all things are difficult at first. The fear of the unknown is the thing that makes it most difficult.

I remember the first time I suffer through an ebay suspension, while I was working to get my account back up and running I looked around for other places to set up shop and earn a living. It was not the easiest experience, I had to go through trial and error over many weeks. Even after getting reinstated at Ebay I continued to search for Ebay alternatives. I never stopped investigating all of the possibilities. So when another Ebay suspension came along (they are never one and done) I was ready to walk away. Yeah, sure I missed the traffic a bit and the auction style of the site. In the non ebay world of the online merchant you have to work a little harder for the next sale, but sales do come and business does grow over time.

There is also the profit per sale value of selling at other sites than Ebay. Those massive fees that ebay charges can really cut into your profits. Between Ebay and its personal bank Paypal you are giving up ten percent or more of every single sale. As a power seller I would look at my monthly fees and they were hundreds of dollars between the twon companies. While at some of the online marketplaces that I would at now my fees are barely noticeable. There is also the cool fact that you get to accept check and money orders at the other sites. Along with Amazon and Google Checkout payments.

The world of Ebay Alternatives is big and getting bigger each month with the first and always the best choice being your own website. That is another post for another day. Just take a few moment to investigate the other marketplaces where you can work. I have listed many of them at this site and even written a book that gives you step by step ways to find these sites and to set up your accounts and to start making money there.
There will come a day when you look at being suspended by Ebay as the best and not the worst thing that has ever happened to you and your business.

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My Ebay Recovery Book

My Ebay Recovery Book

I started this blog almost a year ago to help those who had found themselves in the same situation that I had a few years ago.

I had been suspended by Ebay.

I had watched a thriving online business go from a few thousand dollars a month in income down to next to nothing. I had to scramble to recover. I had to deal with telling my family that times were going to be hard for a while. I promised them at the time that I would find a way to make it all right again.

My first move was to sneak back on Ebay. Why not? It was all that I knew. I went the ebay stealth route for a few months. Then I got caught again and lost all the effort I had put in. The difference is that during that second time spent working at Ebay I treated it as something that I could not depend upon. I worked on building up my presence at other sites. I began to move my business away from being dependant upon Ebay and even its pay system Paypal. So when the second Ebay Suspension came because they found out that I was still me, (what was I thinking) I was now making as much money off site as I was at Ebay. I was making more money from using other payment methods like Google checkout that I was at Paypal. Keep in mind that for many a Ebay suspension or an Ebay resctriction can result in a Paypal restricted accout or a paypal suspension so you need to plan for this as well.

This takes me to the topic of the day. While writing this Blog I have been working on an Ebook to help those who want to start over. A lot of the information in the book is on this blog. A lot of the information is more focused and in greater detail. I am not going to sell it for 29.99 on clickbank. That is a crazy amount of money for information that is available to those willing to do the research and put in the hours of hands on work. I did this for four years. I learned through trial and error how to earn a living without Ebay. I am talking a few thousand dollars a month. You could make six figures as an online seller, but the trade off in time away from my family, I have a small child, is too much at the moment for me to undertake.

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The basic information in this book will help you to build a business that will enable you to earn what you wish to earn as an online seller. There are enough sites out there with enough traffic to replace Ebay as the source of income for your family. My little ebook will give you the basics about those sites and what you need to do to make money there. The price of the book is 1.99. I got yelled at by members of my family for not charging more. I am not trying to get rich off of this book. If I charged more I could make more, but there are so many former sellers out there who need help without getting robbed or without being sold a bill of good about how easy it is to get back on Ebay. My response to those guys who write the stealth books is yeah it can be done, but why would you want to go crawling back to a job at a business that does not want you. When I became an adult I realized that it came with responsibilities and choices. After being suspended by Ebay I chose to crawl back for a while until I was strong enough to walk away on my own terms. The price of my book is set so that people who really need it can afford it. I see a day when those who happily sell on Ebay will be buying this books as a prep course for the day that they will be able to walk away from Ebay without worrying what they are going to do to support their families.

This has been my shameless plug for my book. After you buy it, please review it and tell others about how helpful it has been to you. To check it out and to read a few sample chapters click on the click here caption beneath the image of my book cover. You can now also find the book at Amazon, iTunes and Barnes and Noble.

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New Online Markets

            New Online Markets

    Just because you spent months or even years working at Ebay this does not mean that they were ever the only place to work. I worked there because they were the most popular and were convinced for the longest time that Ebay was the only online marketplace.

    The experience of the last few years has taught me that this is not the case. There are many other online marketplaces to sell at. More and more come on line each week. Someday one of them will grow to rival the once great ebay. I say once great because there was a time when it was a wonderful place to conduct business. That was before they began to attack the small time sellers. The mom and pop home business owners. They did this with raised fees and new rules and endless restrictions and ebay suspensions for insane reasons. If you are reading this post you are here because Ebay went out of their way to make you feel unwelcome there.

    There are on the other hand many sites that make you feel very welcome. They not only want you to sell at their sites, they need you and the skills that you will bring.

    My advice is to sign up at a few of these sites and see how it goes. I am one of the former power sellers that has found a way to generate four figures a month is sells by selling at other online marketplaces.

    My second piece of advice is to review your sales history. You can do this by visiting paypal. Download a list of all of the emails that belong to those who purchased from you in the past and invite them to visit your new store fronts at the sites that you move to. You can do this mass emailing yourself or you can do it by using a clever little trick I have learned. You can sign up for a free trial with one of the email marketing services and use that trial as a way of marketing to all of your former buyers.  It works great and if you opt out before the trial is over you have reached all your past customers with a great marketing campaign and did it without spending any extra money only time.

    You can also visit sites like Ecrater and Ioffer and the only other auction site online that is seeing steady grown, Ebid. Below you will find a brief video about them and a banner link to their site. If you like the classic Ebay auction format rather than the fixed price format then Ebid is probably where you should set up shop.



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After The Ebay Suspension

    I have read your comment a few times. I understand the situation that you find yourself in. Many former ebay sellers have gone through something similar.

    First I do not work at ebay. I am a former Powerseller. There are thousands of us out here. I am one of the few who decided to offer aid and comfort to those who  face the restrictions and suspensions that ebay seems to dole out for reasons that become harder and harder to understand.

    I am going to try to offer you both aid and comfort. First things first. You are not dead, you are just badly wounded. If your paypal had been suspended as well you would be facing a greater challenge.
    Here are the steps I recommend before contacting Ebay again. (At the end of this I will offer phone numbers for customer service at ebay. )

1. Just incase all fails and you are not allowed as a seller at Ebay you need to set up shop at as many other market places as possible. Start with Amazon. You need to start there first because once you become a seller there you will need two weeks from your first sell to request a payout.

    Next I would sign up with Etsy and Bonanza. Selling on Bonanza is largely about networking and getting to know others who conduct business there. Next you will need to sign up with Webstore, Craigslist, Ecrater and Yardsellr.  Also you should sign up with Ebids. They are a promising new auction site. The traffic at none of these sites except Amazon can match ebay, but the combined traffic can help a seller survive while he or she seeks to grow business at their own website.

    Most sellers do no realize that they left ebay with a list of possible customers in hand. This list is the emails addresses of all your past customers stored at Paypal. If they have done business with you before they are likely to do business with you again. If you have something similar to what they purchased before contact them and make them a offer. You do not even need a store front to do this. If or when you have a deal you can send them an invoice using paypal tools and or google checkout.

    It will not be easy to overcome an ebay suspension or restriction, but it can be done. Too many believe that they are married to ebay. That they are the only place to work. Getting past this is the beginning of the path to financial freedom.

    Okay for those of you who wish to plead with ebay here are two customer service numbers that have gotten some results. Call between 9 - 6 during week days for best results.

866-540-3229 press# then enter zipcode, then press 0.  This is a number where you may actually reach someone who may call you back. 
Second number is 866-643-1607.   You may get a real person to talk to.

    Understand when Ebay restricts you as a seller, but keeps you as a buyer, they are doing what amazon has done for years. They are willing to take your money, but not willing to help you earn a living. When I first got suspended by ebay I tried to get that suspension lifted. Nothing I tried worked. Then I tried to go back on the site under different names and addresses. That only held up for a while. In the end the thing that has gotten me through the last five years is to do it myself. Selling at other online marketplaces while building my own. It has worked for thousands of us. It can work for each and everyone of you. I make more money now selling at ten different sites than I ever did at Ebay and the fees are far less. Not to mention if a suspension ever comes your way at any of them so what you have over a half dozen to fall back on and you have your own website as well.

    I know that running your own website sounds like sci-fi but it is not that difficult I have designed a page that can show you how to build your own wordpress site in about an hour. You can click here to visit it.


    Okay that is it for today. It has been such a while since I was suspended by Ebay that I forgot how it felt at the time. I thought the world was ending. Now I realize that a whole new world of possibilities were being revealed to me. Freedom is a scary thing, but never a bad thing. Freedom is the morning and the bread and the risen son. Freedom in what ever form or shape it takes is gods gift to everyone. Freedom forces us to make hard choices, but in the end they are always our choices and that can not be underestimated.

    Good luck and please keep in mind that hard work is its own reward and what you face now has been faced and overcome by others who have come before you.

A Few Ebay Stories

            Ebay Stories

    Some have asked why am I doing this blog. What is the point of creating a blog based upon the idea that the biggest online marketplace is not a place that one should attempt to earn a living at.

   The answer is that if Ebay was what they once were I would say go right ahead and set up shop, but not at what they have become. You can not build your business and your future around a company that can kick you off of their site for any number of reasons. In America everyone is entitled to a trial unless you are a seller at ebay.

    I could tell you about my horror stories or I could allow some other former sellers to tell you about how their careers at ebay ended.


    Look it will never be easy to walk away from a place where you have become comfortable. What I am suggesting to those of you who still sell there is that you go out and get a back up plan.  If you have already been suspended by Ebay then I suggest that you move forward with setting up shop at other sites.


    If you are beyond the urge to work at sites belonging to others then I would suggest that you build your own website.   There are a lot of services that can help you do this for a small price. If you want an instructional on how to DIY your own wordpress website click here.

    Okay that is it for today. Tell a friend about this site, add us yo your google plus and have a nice day.

Ebay Suspended, Try Sell Digital

                Ebay Suspended, Try Digital Products

    You have lost your Ebay account or have been ebay suspended. You may be in the process of appealing this decision or only now you are coming to grips with the fact you may never be able to work there again.

    How will your business recover from this?   

    How will you make up for the loss in income?

    If making money was easy then everyone would be doing it.

    You have acquired a skill set while working at Ebay and you can turn that skill set to your advantage. You know how to market and sell things online. You did it for months if not years on Ebay and now it is time to move on.

    Allow me to help you with this process. Many of my earlier blog post list sites where you can sell instead of Ebay.  This post is about finding new ways to make money using your skills. One of the ways is to sell digital products. There are sites like Click Bank which you can join for free that will provide you with many such products. There is also a site like Payloadz which provides digital products as well as allowing you to offer your own for sale. Perhaps you should look into this now that you have been suspended by Ebay or restricted by Ebay.

    Here was a quick review of the Payloadz site. Visit it and perhaps you will find a new way to generate some income. I try to never say extra income. I have never had extra and outside of professional athletes I can not imagine many people who actually generate extra income. All income falls under the category of needed income.

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Ebay and The MC999

                Ebay, The Document Dump

    You have received the MC999 suspension notice and it basically says that this has happened to protect the eBay community. You are shocked by this and you immediately contact them requesting information on how to get back into good standing.

    They will suggest that you send them information to help them verify you and if you provide all the information required you may be reinstated.

    That is the big lie.

    You can provide all of the documentation that they have asked for. You could provide DNA samples and this will not help. The ebay suspension notice that you received was just a way of telling you to get lost.

    What about the appeals process?

    It is a joke. Perhaps at one time it mattered, but during the last two years or so this is just another way of telling you to get lost. I have tried to be nice with this blog about what is going on at Ebay, but enough is enough.

    If you are still working at Ebay, why.  If you actually depend upon Ebay to pay the bills what are you thinking?

    Picture a company that can change the locks and move location at a moments notice and that is where you are working.

    I started this blog with the intend to help you to move on and it is not getting through to many of you. You believe that you are married to Ebay and perhaps you are, but she does not love you anymore and the bigger truth is that she never did.

    If you want love and respect from a company you are going to have to build it yourself.

    But, I don’t want to build my own site. I want to work for someone else the rest of my life. I want to be terminated at a moments notice. I want to give a massive unfeeling corporation control over my existence.

    Seriously?

    Really?

    Are you that damn needy?

    If you have to earn a living at online marketplaces fine, but at least have the common sense to open up shop at a half dozen such marketplaces so that if one goes down then at least you will wake up the next morning with four or five other locations still featuring your items. If you decide to go stealth and get back on Ebay, back yourself up by franchising yourself.

    Ebid, Ubid, Amazon,Ecrater, Sell.com, Ioffer, Etsy, Craigslist and many other sites are sitting out there waiting for you. Use them all and then if you have the time and are willing to put in the effort get your own website and push it. If you can’t afford a website they you can use your facebook to post some items.

    I would say good luck with getting back on Ebay, but that would be a lie. I do not believe that it is a good idea that any of us return to them.

    That is it for now, remember to stumble us on stumbleupon and to mention this site to a friend. If you want help with building your own site then

I have included a banner link below. Also a link to one of the sites that I mentioned. I believe that you can sign up at Ebid for free.

    Maybe the next post will be about those fees that Ebay charges. Man I really miss paying Ebay and Paypal a combined 10 plus percent on every sale.

Ebay Seller, Time to Move on.

            Ebay Suspended, How Long?

    The question is how long will it be before you decide to move on. It was a solid business a long time ago, but during the last few years they have become an unpredictable entity that discards any and all sellers who they deem unworthy of remaining in their presence.

    They suspended or restricted you for no reason and you thought they did this to hurt you. Perhaps it is time to look at this in a whole new light.

    Ebay did you the biggest favor of your life.

    Ebay set you free to become an independent business person.

    All of us have started off working for someone else and many of you believe that this is the only way to live. Going from one job to another searching for a company or organization that will value you enough not to let you go without warning.

   We plan our lives around that job. We plan our future and that of our family around a job that can and most likely did go away. The world’s economy is in crisis; this means that so is the economic well being of what ever business that you work for is at risk as well. Ebay is so big that they do not see this and will not until it is far to late. They believe that they do not need you and all that you bring to the table. They believe that they are too big too fail. But they are not and when they do fail you will be one of the ones who feel lucky that you got out before they did.

    The time has come to expand your business knowledge. To grow and to diversify. Below is some advice from one of the most popular voices in business.



    Here you will begin. You will learn about new site to conduct business while you are doing the most important thing. While you are constructing your own website.

    Think about that. My own website. My own brand. My own company that someday will become big enough so that I will need to hire employees someday.  At this blog you will find a solid list of other blogs where you can run your online business. Also I would like you to look at and visit the resources that I suggest for you.

    Today I offer to you one such resource. They can help you to build a website if you feel that you are not ready to do it all by yourself. There is nothing wrong will seeking help in an area where you do not yet possess the technical skills to do it yourself. So here is the a banner for a site that you can visit to aid you in building your own site.





    If you are the do it yourself kind of person, they I have constructed a page with basic tutorials on how to do it yourself, you can  CLICK HERE to visit it.

    Good luck and remember to stumble us on Stumbleupon and add us to your google plus.

Ebay's idea of help.

                Ebay is Insane

    For those of you who are powersellers or have been with the company for a long time I would like to ask you a few questions.


    Why?

    Why are you staying?

    Why do you trust this company?

    They have for the last year been restricting sellers in the most insane ways possible.

    The new policy of restricting sellers for having the nerve to sell too many items.

    I am talking about the new account limitations they have invented.

    In other words they decide on how much you can sell and how much money that you are allowed to make. Didn’t they tear down that wall? Didn’t we get rid of the Soviet Union?

    Below is a video discussing what is going on at Ebay.



    Sounds sane to you? If it does you must work for the head of the company. If it does not why not move your business to other sites and then start your own website. The worst thing that can happen with your own site is that it can act as a good back up plan. You can send your regular customers there and you do not have to pay yourself sellers fees. You can take checks and money orders and you do not have to pay paypal fees. “But running my own site cost money,”You say. Yeah a few dollars a month, but less than what Ebay and Paypal peels you for on an average sale. Less than ten bucks a month at Hostgator and GoDaddy.

    “I don’t know how to build a website of my own.”

    Really, I can help. Click Here  and visit a page I have constructed to show you how. The tutorial is free. If you decide to go ahead with building your own back up plan I have included discounted links so that you can do it all for less than ten dollars.

    That sounded like a sales pitch? Not really. I am giving you tutorials for free. Why? Because I want Ebay to go away. If everyone who work there or use to work there finds a new home then the mission will be accomplished.

    Good luck with your journey to freedom, add us to your google plus, mention us to a friend and stumble us on Stumbleupon.

Why Do You miss Ebay?

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.

Atomic Mall

                      Atomic Mall

    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.

Yardsellr

                    Try Yardsellr

    Next stop on our replace Ebay at any cost tour takes us to the site known as Yardsellr. This site has been around for a while. They are easy to sign up with. I do not believe that they will ever be a rival to Ebay and the main reason is that there is not evidence that they wish to be.

    Yardsellr is a nice little site and seems that they are comfortable being what they are. The layout is pretty simple and easy to navigate. Yardsellr seems to be a site that depends upon social media and interaction. This may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but face it social media will be an important part of the future of this kind of business. (Speaking of which, if you could find the time to add us to your Google plus and or stumble us on Stumbleupon that would help us out a lot.) So if you have a presence on facebook the social part of this site will be easy. Yardsellr may not be your last stop on your road to freedom from Ebay suspension, but it is a good place to set up shop.

    Here now is a basic video review of the site.


Final note for today if you are looking for places to wholesale supplies for your online business, I have built a website to help in that area. Whether you sell book, clothing or electronics I have found a few sources and if you are interested then  click here.

Why not Your Own Site?

            Best Ebay Alternative, Your Own Site

    Face it, the best alternative long term to Ebay is your own website. The number one reason is that it is yours and it belongs to you. You run it, you promote it and you collect all of the profits.

    And isn’t that what we are really talking about here. Profit.

    We are in this to turn a profit and earn a living.

    Some of us did that at Ebay for a time and then we either moved on or were forced to move on. At the end of the day it will always come down to the first rule of nature. To survive you must adapt. The dinosaurs could not and that is why they are not here anymore. Leaving Ebay has forced you to adapt.

    Right now you are probably adapting to working at new sites and getting use to the routine where ever you are working at the moment. Wouldn’t it be great to have your own website? Filled with your own content. Selling or marketing anything and everything that you wish?

    You would be your own boss and I can help you to do this.

    You could either pay someone or a service to do this for you. Or you could do it yourself. Why do it yourself? You will learn a skill that may come in handy down the road. You will save a great deal of money. Face it people want hundreds for website building. Why pay them or me? Do it yourself. I got a free tutorial set up for you. It will walk you through getting a domain. Signing up for hosting and constructing website. The tutorial is less than an hour. The time from start to finish will be about two hours total and you will have a site of your own. You can come back to this post and click here when you are ready, if you are not ready to do this today. The site you will be sent to will also have pages listing wholesale suppliers for your business.

    Okay my DIY sales pitch is done. If you are not ready to branch out on your own I understand. Next stop will be a site named Yardsellr.

A site called Etsy

                Heard Of Etsy?

    A great many former Ebay sellers have moved over to this wonderful site. It is not for everyone. It a site to buy and sell vintage and or home made items. The best way to look at this site is to see it as a cross between Ebay and Amazon when both sites were worth being a part of.

For a flat rate of about 20 cents you can list your items. They charge about 3.5 percent for each transaction.

    If this place fits within your sales niche this is a great place to conduct business. The traffic is great and if your items are quality you can make a steady income here.

    There are some very successful sellers here. Many of them have been there for a while and have developed a solid following. I have been told by someone who does well there that the key to growth is having  high visibility, being very active on the forums and getting to know people. Also you should have your own website if possible so that you can steer traffic from there to your site. Face it you will still have to pay a final value fee no matter where you sell unless it is your own site and for those of us who worked at Ebay for years you never know when those fees will jump. So if you want to build your own website click here  and you will be shown a do it yourself tutorial for free.

    Lastly about selling there. Do not try to get into price wars. Sell your items for what they are worth. The buyers there understand better than at Ebay that quality items cost money.

    Look it, getting over having been suspended by Ebay or restricted by Ebay and or Amazon is not going to be easy, but once you have moved on to bigger and better things you will wonder why you were so concerned in the first place.

    Coming up soon we will talk about Paypal and its restrictions and suspensions. All of you should keep in mind that paypal and Ebay are part of the same company. If you are leaving Ebay behind there will come a moment when you will have to leave Paypal as well.

    Okay, good luck at Etsy and please feel free to post comments and if you wish to mention where you are selling now. There are a lot of Ebay alternatives and if you know of a good one let me know or if you have created one yourself let me know about it and I may invite you to write a guess post about it.