Auction Sites

Auction Sites

1. eBay

   • You’d be able to sell in a hotly visited environment
   • You’ll be able to expose your products to a wide array of prospects
   • Layout is easy to list items
   • Fees are not as high as Amazon fees
   • largest potential market - close to 200 million members
   • No special skills needed
   • Easy to list items
   • Competition is stiff
   • Less profit on popular items
   • As a seller you need to pay fees both to use the site and as commission on your sales.
   • eBay policies dictate and require you to take only certain kinds of payments, limit what keywords you can use and put only certain text in your listings
   • Inability to sell digital goods (for instance, you are not permitted to sell electronic artwork or eBooks outside of Classified Ads).
   • Artists, crafters and authors will especially find that, unless the item they are selling is something well known and often searched for or related to a popular keyword, it will be hard to attract buyers on eBay.

2. Etsy

   • Fairly easy to post new items, tag, ship etc.
   • Etsy is well known and respected by customers

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