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.
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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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.
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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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.
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.
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.
