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.

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.

Ebay Suspended, Life in the Amazon Jungle

    EBAY SUSPENDED, Life in the Amazon Jungle


    Let us visit the legendary Amazon.  No not the jungle, but the mega site.
    We have left Ebay. We need some place to visit until we find
a home or at least a cool apartment with ultra low rent to set up shop.  How about
a quick stop at Amazon?  It is Ebay’s number one competitor. It is gigantic
and depending on what you sell it is a good place to visit.
    Amazon sellers are subject to sales metrics.  This would not be bad if
they gave out automatic feedbacks after a month or two from buyers who just
do not feel like it matters and to them it does not, but to someone who needs to
maintain a high metric it means a great deal.  You can have your
money frozen and booted from the site for not maintaining that 97 plus rating.
Which means you can sell 80 items, get 48 feedbacks that are thumbs up 2 that
are thumbs down and 30 non feedbacks and you have fallen below the metric
and you can get hammered by a buyer for any reason.  That is the one thing that
Ebay and Amazon have in common. 
    This answers why so many people sell books for 1 cent.  Just trying to
maintain that metric so that they can sell the big stuff.  It is a place to visit.  You
can earn some money there and you can use it as a platform to market yourself.
We will get into the marketing of ourselves later. 
    Back to the subject. The best item to sell on this site is books.  Be it
actual books or Ebooks that you write.  Which Amazon will be more than happy to
help you sell if they are good and become popular. Ebooks, writing them and
marketing them are another subject and you can find a ton of information about
that on Youtube.  What ever is your niche market you will find a place for it
there. 
    What I am saying is that Amazon is a place to visit.  Look at it as a
gas station.  Refill your tanks.  Check the tires.  Buy some over priced chips
and get back on the road.  There are a few towns down the road and we are
going to find a home for you in one of them. 
    Good.  I see a sign post.
    It says Ebay? 
    No, god no.  That can not be right.
    It says Ebid.
    Ebid?
    Let’s pay a visit.