Selling on EBay

That subtitle doesn’t begin to cover the different types of business that can be conducted on eBay, helping boomers make money with opportunities for many different kinds of selling and buying.

Many of us know about selling off some of possessions on eBay to get over a difficult time… and many went on to setting up an eBay store – buying stuff offline and selling it at auction or for a ‘buy now’ price. A tactic of many sellers is to channel the immense amount of traffic eBay gets to their real online businesses.

Boomers also know eBay as a good place to bid on books, music, clothing, sports equipment, all kinds of collector’s items and ‘antiques’

Selling ebooks on eBay was rather simple until March 31 2008 when EBay put a stop to all digital sales (the term ebook stands for electronic book). The attraction in selling ebooks was that delivery could be made by simply emailing a link to the buyer, meaning the seller could be building a mailing list by getting the name and email address of the buyers, making it possible to send follow-up emails.

Whatever motivated EBay’s change of policy, it caused quite a lot of consternation in the ranks of ebook marketers… many felt they had lost their main source of traffic generation.
That’s right, some were making little money with their low priced digital products after paying eBay fees, besides trying to conform to eBay’s rules, all so they could benefit from eBay’s enormous amount of traffic to build up their real internet business.

However, human ingenuity took over very quickly substituting other means of delivery and ebooks are being sold on eBay using methods such as transferring the ebook to a CD that can be listed as a physical product in eBay’s auction or ‘buy now’ categories, or selling the digital ebook using eBay’s classified ads.

Look for an upcoming post providing detailed information about those options.

Fran

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