By selling on eBay, you're connecting your business to more than million global buyers, and over one billion dollars spent by Canadians on eBay each year. Consider some of the benefits of listing on one of the world's leading ecommerce platforms:.
Every day, eBay invests in acquiring new traffic and technology so you don't have to. A marketplace like eBay provides access to the scalability and technology that can complement your existing online and brick-and-mortar channels. Sell on eBay under your own brand or a white label. The eBay marketplace allows retailers to create separate channels for inventory while ensuring you receive the buyer traffic necessary to support strong price realization and sales.
Low costs and minimal risk allow you to concentrate on your product. Selling on eBay changes the rules of the export game. By providing seamless access to international customers, you can expand your sales beyond local and national markets with just a few clicks.
In fact, many of our sellers are multi- or omni-channel sellers with inventory on a variety of platforms, both online and offline. Whether you're starting off with a brick-and-mortar store, an online store on a different platform, or with nothing at all, here are a few ways that selling on eBay gives you an edge over the competition:.
Some marketplaces may demand that you price your items so low that it dissolves your margins—or worse, they simply change your pricing as they see fit.
From the point-of-view of the seller, everything is handled by the app, including having the buyer pay for the product.
The recent innovation of utilizing a touchscreen for navigating an online store proves that it has a high potential and can yield high profits. PayPal now has networked with different retail stores that can help products reach potential customers faster.
The e-commerce site has integrated with many retailers using large touchscreens where the buyers can touch the screen and buy a product. Once the product is purchased it is sent to the buyer quickly. The touchscreen is considered to be a shift from the mobile shopping and it transcends the boundary of the stores. The best part, however, is that the sellers have complete control over their products. A seller can describe their item with the help of appropriate keywords that will help potential buyers find their item.
In addition to keywords, a seller can take photos of their product, and post those photos on eBay. The added photos can help a buyer choose to make the purchase. So a seller has complete freedom when it comes to managing their product. Some items may not be sold through eBay, but you may be surprised what you can sell. You can even sell professional services. Since the services offered by eBay transcend international boundaries , products can be sold and shipped internationally.
Presentation of the products is an important issue. You need to be careful about the keywords that you use to describe the product.
There are limits on eBay—if you accept returns you must give buyers at least a day window, for example—but on Amazon, the policies are narrow and set for you, meaning that returns must be accepted and buyers have 30 days to make them. Some categories on Amazon say, those related to consumer electronics aren't open to all sellers. Instead, sellers go through an approval process that denies many.
On eBay sellers can sell in almost any category once they meet and maintain the basic requirements of being an eBay seller: a credit card or bank account on file and not having made your feedback profile private. Selling on eBay through PayPal revenue is available the moment the buyers pay.
It can be used immediately anywhere that PayPal is accepted, or even anywhere that Mastercard, Visa, or debit payments are accepted for sellers that have applied for a free PayPal debit card. Amazon sellers wait 14 days to see the funds released to their Amazon Payments account, then wait another week or so for the funds to be transferred to their bank account before they can be used.
Don't know the value of something or prefer to sell via auction? No luck on Amazon, where you'll have to specify a fixed price for anything you sell, sometimes without guidance if the item is a rare one. On eBay, you can list an auction and let bidders decide how much it sells for.
Amazon doesn't do these kinds of transactions, either. If you're selling Toyotas rather than toys or houses for flipping, there's no reason to consider Amazon.
Amazon doesn't have the global reach that eBay has at the moment, so if your primary buyers are customers that aren't likely to be in Amazon countries basically Western Europe plus China and Japan, with some of these sites being limited in their catalogs compared to the main U. Amazon's end-to-end selling process is somewhat more complex than eBay's, with the selling-oriented functions of the site somewhat hidden and more difficult to use.
There are also delay-inducing options like FBA Fulfilled by Amazon to consider if you want to be competitive. Getting started with eBay selling is somewhat simpler. Have a PayPal account? Already have a credit card on file at eBay? Click the "sell" button and follow your nose through the selling form and you're a seller with an active inventory.
Nonetheless, eBay's feedback system, its mechanisms for saving favorites sellers, searches, listings , discussion boards, groups, answer center, and other similar features—and the flexibility that sellers have in creating listings and making buyer-seller discussions public—lend eBay a much more community-oriented feel.
These features are what many including CEO John Donahoe mean when they refer to eBay as a "flea market" venue; there is always something happening on or around eBay beyond the mere clicking of "Buy" buttons and remitting of payments. With all of this said, it's important to keep two things in mind as you decide where to sell.
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