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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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.

Good luck with your online business and please take a moment to share this post with a friend.

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 Or Restricted, Move on to Bigger and Better

            Ebay Suspended or Restricted, Moving On
           

Introduction:

    You just got suspended or restricted by Ebay and you have no clue why.
You are shocked and confused.
    They sent you a violation message with a series of letter and number that really seem to amount to nothing. You have investigated both on the site’s forum and on google what this EE or MC suspension and or restriction amounts to and you can find no real information. 
    Your first impulse after this is to go to Ebay and beg for forgiveness and to
plead please take me back.I promised not to do what ever you said that I did.
Of course they have not really said a thing and the sad truth is that they may
never say a thing. 
    Why should they?
     Ebay does not have to.
    Your feedback is perfect and your customers love you.  So what?  The do not care about Sellers on Ebay. You need to understand that there is a thousand people waiting in line to take your place. 
    Allow me to introduce your choices. 
    You could beg Ebay to take you back.  Just tell me what I did baby and I
promise not to do it again.  If you are one of the few people that the do manage
to offer a reason to it will sound insane.  You will be given a bunch of hops that
you can not jump through.  A mountain too high to climb and a promise to
welcome you home if you can prove the existence of God and provide his mother’s
maiden name. 
    In other words begging does not work.  
    So this leave you with choices.
    First I mentioned begging; go ahead if you have to and come back in
two or three weeks and continue reading from here.  Secondly you could just
quit.  Don’t get mad at me.  Think about it.  There was life before Ebay and you can go back to that life now. 
    You could try to go the Ebay Stealth route.  Many have tried.  It works for
a little while.  Some have made it work for years, but is this any life to live.  Acting
like the criminal that Ebay has accused you of being.  Changing your name and
paypal and address to get back on Ebay?
    How about moving on and up.  Ebay is where you started, not where you
should have planned to work forever.  Like your first job in a fast food place you
did it, you learned something and you moved on to bigger and better.  It is okay
to walk away.  I admit that it is scary, but many of us have done it. 
    Over the next few post I will try to aid you in mapping out your life free
of Ebay.  We will look at newer site.  Discuss the pros and cons and maybe when it
is over you will have a website of your own.
    The next few Blog post will be about other marketplaces such as Amazon, Ebid and Ecrater.  There are more, but that is a sample list.  We talk about most of them and of those I do not mention I am sure that someone out there will tell me about it.