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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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.

CLICK HERE

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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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.

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 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.

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Ebay Suspended, Try Sell.com or Blujay

            Heard about Sell.com Or Blujay.com

    Sell.com has been around a long time and for those who first fleed from the borders of Ebay this is usually one of the first stops. I believe that it was the second stop for me. There are a great many good things about this site and some that I would change.

    First the traffic is okay. You will get views here and depending upon your price point you will get sales. Next the design, it looks as if it has not changed  since they started it. The look could use an updating. Don’t get me wrong it is not bad, but there are better.

    When you first sign up here your first listing is free that is a good thing. After your first sale you are gonna have to start paying for listing your products. This good or bad depending on how many items you sell and how long they take to sell. I would prefer the percentage based way of paying for your presence that most of the sites use. Now don’t get me wrong, I do not prefer the massive bite that Ebay and Ioffer take once an item is sold, but it some how feels more fair if both the seller and the site get paid only when there is a sale. If you want to pay up front you might as well buy a domain, some hosting and put up your own website. Check the link at the end of this post if that is something you wish to investigate.

    Overall I would say that Sell.com is worth the effort. Put some of your best selling items up for sale here and see what happens.

    Next is a nice little site named Blujay.com. It is free to set up your store here and they take a very tiny bite of your final sale. I like it for what it is. It is bare bones basic in its design and your account set up. This site is not ranked in the top ten of alternative sites, but I have done surprisingly good business here. I have kept a footprint of ten to twenty items here and some months I have racked up double digit sales. It is not for everyone, but if your price point is low you could do well here.

    The cons about this site are: first the traffic. It does not get a great deal of traffic. It is not well known. The look is about as appealing as a plate of mash potatoes. There is not much that you can do to separate your items from the rest of the crowd. Even if you spend the money to become featured you are still not going to gain much in the visibility department.

    Since Blujay.com is free to join you might as well set up shop there.

    With each store that you put up you are occupying more online space. Your products will be seen by more people. Maybe never as many as saw them on Ebay, but you will no longer have to depend upon Ebay for your lively hood. You will be creating many sources of income. All of these sources in the end can lead you to the day when you have your own website and become the boss of your own business.

If you wish to explore setting up your own website I would like you to click here and watch
a 50 minute tutorial video that will explain step, by step how to get a domain, buy hosting and then set up your own website.

    Doesn’t that sound cool? My own website. The day will come when you will no longer say I work for Ebay or Amazon, instead you get to say that I work for myself at my own website.

    If you need more time that is okay. We have other places to visit and other options to explore. Down this road there are more sites and beyond them is the valley of online classified ads.

How About Bananza?

                Selling On Bonanza(formerly Bananzle)

    The first thing that you will notice is that this is a great looking site. It stands
out from the rest of the crowd.  You will have your own booth where you set up and
edit your sale items. They have a monthly site feature called a Rush, where if you
choose to join your items will become part of a massive full site sale.  You will discount
your items from 10 to 50 percent and this sale does generate a lot of extra attention.
    That is the good thing.  The bad is that though the site does have traffic, sales
have been slow there for almost everyone I have come into contact with.  Visually and
customer service wise it could easily be the best of all the Ebay alternative sites. I like
everything about it better than Ebay with the exception of profit. This site needs a
massive marketing push. It could be so much more than it is.
    So as a place to work I would say yes.  Go ahead and open a booth.  Now if my
plans for you have not become clear yet allow me to help you see the whole picture. Your
road to Ebay independents is one of opening a number of stores at a number of locations
with the end goal of opening up your own site where all the traffic and sales will
belong to you. This will not happen over night and you are going to have to take
baby steps to get there, but once there you will never have to deal with Ebay or being
Ebay suspended.
    If you feel as if you are ready to try to open your own business and build your own site
I would like you to click here. You will be sent to a site where you will learn for free to build
your own site. The video tutorial will take about an hour, but it is either learn it in an hour
or spend hundreds of dollars to have someone else do it for you.
    Of course if you are not ready yet I think that we will visit Sell.com and Blujay next.

A Place Called Ecrater

                Ebay suspended,
 Ecrater.



    The page layout is not great.  It is pretty standard.  You can not do many ad ons
or anything in the way of banners.  You do not have the option of setting your items
apart from the rest.  That said, there is not much to complain about here at Ecrater.
    You can list for Free there.  You have sort of your own mini webstore and you
can list as many items as you wish.  In as many categories as you want.
    Ecrater uses Adsense and they are willing to share revenue with you.
    Did you get that one?
    Share revenue with you.
    Depending upon how many items you have up and how much traffic you
generate this can be a good thing.
    On the other hand because of the ease of signing up and posting the market place
is a bit flooded in some key categories.  The competition is stiff.  You are going to
have to go lower margins on your price points to get some separation from the competition.
Because of the limited traffic you are going to go through dry sales periods, but if you
have a hot item or two you can generate a lot of sales quickly.  Ecrater has become a
place where the bargain shopper goes for items with a set price rather than having to
deal with the auction set up at Ebay.
    One more con about the site, customer service is not great.  If you manage to get
someone it will feel as if you are talking to someone, but not an actual human being.  Not
saying a robot responder.  It will feel more like an alien who has not completely grasped
the concepts of logic or reason.  Do not get me wrong they are ten times better than Ebay
because they will actually respond rather than sending a form letter that tells you absolutely
nothing.
    Many former Ebay sellers look to Ecrater as the first and best alternative.  I will not
go that far, but on this move that we have undertaken this site is one worth planting a
flag upon.  I am suggesting that you set up shop here.
    What?
    Is this it?
    Is the journey finally over?
    Are we moving in?
    Yes and no.
    Say what?
    Rent a room here.  Or as I look at it, a display case.  Let’s put up some product
here.  You can list everything that you have.  After all why not, it is free to do so.  I do
not believe any of us can earn a living here, but we can make some money here.
    The answer to your question is that we are not moving in.  This is not our final
stop, but if a friend will let you stick around without paying any rent and will actually
give you a few buck (Adsense) to sleep on the sofa then why not.
    If you have not figured it out yet.  The moving on from Ebay plan involves multiple
stops along the way.  We are not going to be able to do it all at once, but it will get done.
We will not stop and we will not fail in our mission to achieve freedom.
    Summing up, Ecrater is a solid place to hang a open for business sign.
    We are not done yet.
    So let’s go get some items from the trunk of the vehicle, leave them here for sale
and then we can hit the road again.
    Our next stop is a place called Bonanza.
    No, no, no, cut that out.  There is no massive ranch run by a old man and his
sons.  Paw and little Joe will not be there.  Although it is located on the  west coast and
does have a west coastal laid back kind of feel about it.
    Will you please stop humming the Theme music.
    If you would like to bypass this journey and create your own website please visit me by
clicking here
     I can offer you free help with building your own website and the full video tutorial will
take about an hour.  If not then fine, let's go visit Bonanza next. 

Ebay Suspended, Let's Talk Ebid

    Ebay Suspended

Ebid.
    Not much traffic driving in here.
    No worries, the sellers parking lot looks pretty full.
    Come on, let’s go inside.
    I have been kind of looking forward to this, another auction site.
    Page design is solid.  Easy to set up an ad.
    You can do this for free here or you can sign up for the all
purpose lifetime membership.  At the moment it will cost you 49.49
for this membership.  I do not honestly know whether or not this membership will help you will sales here.  I am not at this moment willing to risk the money until I have more evidence that it is worth it.
If Ebid could promise a quarter of the sales traffic that Ebay offers
then I would be willing to pay twice that much to join.

      Let’s look at the pros and cons of working here.

    Ebid is a Google marketplace partner, but lately who isn’t?

    Registration here is Free.

           Minimum listing fee is Free.  The maximum fee is 0.05.
    Minimum final value fee is Free and the max is just 3 percent.
    That is the good.  The bad is there does not seem to be enough
traffic to promise steady sales and by steady sales I mean at least one
sale per week.

    They use Google Adsense and unlike some sites they offer you
no control over the ads and no share in the revenue.  It also seems
that this site has attracted a great deal of over priced and out dated
stock.  I am not saying that many of the sellers here are lazy, but the
free listing seems to equated in some eyes that it is okay to flood the
place with junk that only a drunken lunatic during a lunar eclipse would
be interested in.

      Ebid could become a strong rival of Ebay if it believed
in itself.  Do not get me completely wrong here, I understand that Ebid
does much better business in his home base the UK than it does here
in America. You could do worst than setting up shop here. Here is a link
if you wish to visit and sign up and try it.



    We are looking for a new place to do business and despite the
look and feel of this place Ebid at the moment is not going to be it.

    Back to the vehicle.  We have a promising place to visit.

    Have any of your ever heard of Ecrater?

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.