Discover the Greatest eBay Alternative

by Andrew Thomas
http://www.squidoo.com/ebay-alternative

If you are a small to medium-sized seller on ebay, you already have what it takes to double or even triple your online sales, and no, I am not talking about selling on eBay. You already know how to do that. I am talking about a viable ebay alternative. I bet you even remember the first item you sold on ebay. I can; it was a viewmaster from the 1960's. Ebay use to be so much fun, and almost everything you tried to sell got bids. That was then. It doesn't work as good anymore.

You see, with every peculiar change ebay has been making recently, such as not permitting sellers to leave anything but positive feedback for buyers, the continuous fee increases, and not being able to include a link to your own site from the "about me" page, sellers are eager to leave ebay: they want choices. Ebay has also changed their search function and as an outcome, buyers are not finding what they are searching for, so they leave the site. That coupled with ebay soliciting big corporations by affording them an unfair advantage over the small seller is putting small business owners, many who have made their living on ebay, out of business.

Ebay's online success has been due to it being different. It has been the world's largest flea market. I remember being able to go to ebay and find unique items you would never see any place else. It seems the current people running ebay, do not understand what made ebay the phenomenon it was. When folks go to ebay, they are not there to pay retail for junk imported from China like the big companies provide. They are looking for interesting finds, great prices on goods and a fun bidding experience. They go to ebay for the community atmosphere where people come together of different backgrounds, cultures, or even countries for a common item. What the heads of ebay seem to want, it to become just another shopping mall on the internet. How sad.

If you are a current seller on ebay, and you are still earning money, then by all means continue to sell on their site. But please, consider also selling elsewhere so the next time ebay creates some new, strange rules that try to do away with the smaller seller (and they will), you will have an additional source of revenue to fall back on.

Where can you sell your goods if not on ebay? I can guess what you are thinking. I wager you believe I am about to advise you to seek out some new auction site and give that a try. Nope. There Is not presently any other auction site that can compare with ebay based on traffic.

There is a site that will enable you to sell your items without listing fees. You only pay a fee if your product sells. It is also a web site, that for the first time this past Christmas, beat ebay not only in traffic, but in sales as well. In fact, this web sites traffic has been systematically rising. For the first time, since executing its strange rules to squelch the smaller sellers, ebay's traffic has begun to decline. People are leaving ebay.

So where should you sell your items? How about Amazon.com? The very same Amazon I am sure you have shopped at for books. Have you noticed everything they sell now? It is limitless. They are very user friendly, and are hoping you will give them a try. Many ebay sellers, both former and current are having wonderful luck selling at Amazon. It is truly the best ebay alternative.

Discover the best Ebay Alternative and protect your business from getting shut down. Go to my site at http://www.squidoo.com/ebay-alternative to learn what happened to me, and how to effectively sell your products on Amazon. Don't let what happened to me happen to you too.

Article submitted Monday, June 09, 2008 & read 161 times.

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