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.
 
  

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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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.

    Okay that is it for now. Try to add us to your google plus and to stumble us on stumbleupon. Thank you and have a nice day.

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.