Comments on: 7 things you need to know about eBay http://www.smallbizpod.co.uk/blog/2008/11/19/7-things-you-need-to-know-about-ebay/ The small business blog of SmallBizPod - inspiration and practical advice for entrepreneurs Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:03:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: eBay Elsewhere : links for 30th November 2008 : TameBay : eBay news blog and forum http://www.smallbizpod.co.uk/blog/2008/11/19/7-things-you-need-to-know-about-ebay/#comment-150972 eBay Elsewhere : links for 30th November 2008 : TameBay : eBay news blog and forum Sun, 30 Nov 2008 19:47:29 +0000 http://www.smallbizpod.co.uk/blog/?p=1305#comment-150972 [...] only person making lists this week: Mark Buckingham has 14 sizzling sales tips for eBayers, while Dan Wilson tells us 7 things we need to know about eBay on the always excellent SmallBizPod. Dan also wrote what is, for my money, the best eBay post of [...] [...] only person making lists this week: Mark Buckingham has 14 sizzling sales tips for eBayers, while Dan Wilson tells us 7 things we need to know about eBay on the always excellent SmallBizPod. Dan also wrote what is, for my money, the best eBay post of [...]

]]> By: Smallbizpod Scribblings : Dan Wilson : eBay expert, social networking, online community, ecommerce, stuff http://www.smallbizpod.co.uk/blog/2008/11/19/7-things-you-need-to-know-about-ebay/#comment-150954 Smallbizpod Scribblings : Dan Wilson : eBay expert, social networking, online community, ecommerce, stuff Tue, 25 Nov 2008 02:24:01 +0000 http://www.smallbizpod.co.uk/blog/?p=1305#comment-150954 [...] and the superb smallbizpod podcasts. So it was a pleasure to scribble some thoughts for the smallbizpod blog about things people should know about [...] [...] and the superb smallbizpod podcasts. So it was a pleasure to scribble some thoughts for the smallbizpod blog about things people should know about [...]

]]> By: Dan Wilson http://www.smallbizpod.co.uk/blog/2008/11/19/7-things-you-need-to-know-about-ebay/#comment-150953 Dan Wilson Tue, 25 Nov 2008 02:02:16 +0000 http://www.smallbizpod.co.uk/blog/?p=1305#comment-150953 @ed from builaskill. Only one correction: I am not a vzaar employee or working for them. eBay and Amazon represent the two big marketplace opportunities from a UK perspective. eBid, Tazbar and others (I wish I could name them) still aren't offering significant cut through for serious numbers of sellers. A website does, frankly, represent a huge opportunity for any online vendor and I cannot recommend it enough to anyone who wants to sell online. It is, also, really very inexpensive. As for Auctionbytes, (whilst I respect the Steiners) it's too bogged down with anti-eBay invective to be a pleasure to read any more. @ed from builaskill.

Only one correction: I am not a vzaar employee or working for them.

eBay and Amazon represent the two big marketplace opportunities from a UK perspective. eBid, Tazbar and others (I wish I could name them) still aren’t offering significant cut through for serious numbers of sellers.

A website does, frankly, represent a huge opportunity for any online vendor and I cannot recommend it enough to anyone who wants to sell online. It is, also, really very inexpensive.

As for Auctionbytes, (whilst I respect the Steiners) it’s too bogged down with anti-eBay invective to be a pleasure to read any more.

]]> By: Adaptiv Media http://www.smallbizpod.co.uk/blog/2008/11/19/7-things-you-need-to-know-about-ebay/#comment-150951 Adaptiv Media Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:11:39 +0000 http://www.smallbizpod.co.uk/blog/?p=1305#comment-150951 Great read, exposing eBay's dastardly new(ish) policies. Since killing off its digital information products I have used eBay only a handful of times. I used to spend a vast amount of my time on eBay. So much so that I was probably addicted to it. Not for buying - I was just amazed by everything about it. An absolute phenomenon. There are just too many crooks on there now and it just doesn't have that communal feel it used to. I'm so glad I branched out. After doing my research and development in a lot of my spare time, I am now reaping the rewards of having my own network of information based membership websites and will not be selling anything other than personal items if necessary. Great read, exposing eBay’s dastardly new(ish) policies. Since killing off its digital information products I have used eBay only a handful of times. I used to spend a vast amount of my time on eBay. So much so that I was probably addicted to it. Not for buying – I was just amazed by everything about it. An absolute phenomenon. There are just too many crooks on there now and it just doesn’t have that communal feel it used to. I’m so glad I branched out. After doing my research and development in a lot of my spare time, I am now reaping the rewards of having my own network of information based membership websites and will not be selling anything other than personal items if necessary.

]]> By: Sunday Papers 23 November 2008 - BuildaSkill.com http://www.smallbizpod.co.uk/blog/2008/11/19/7-things-you-need-to-know-about-ebay/#comment-150943 Sunday Papers 23 November 2008 - BuildaSkill.com Sun, 23 Nov 2008 07:10:50 +0000 http://www.smallbizpod.co.uk/blog/?p=1305#comment-150943 [...] the week he turned up on Alex Bellinger’s blog “SmallBizPod” with a post called 7 things you need to know about eBay.  SmallBizPod also has a Facebook entrepreneur-group that celebrated exceeding 1,000 members this [...] [...] the week he turned up on Alex Bellinger’s blog “SmallBizPod” with a post called 7 things you need to know about eBay.  SmallBizPod also has a Facebook entrepreneur-group that celebrated exceeding 1,000 members this [...]

]]> By: Ed http://www.smallbizpod.co.uk/blog/2008/11/19/7-things-you-need-to-know-about-ebay/#comment-150942 Ed Sat, 22 Nov 2008 15:52:49 +0000 http://www.smallbizpod.co.uk/blog/?p=1305#comment-150942 Good old Dan The ex-eBay employee is always a good read (no, seriously, he is), and always ready to plug his current employer (the video in eBay listings company). What I do get fed up reading is how Amazon is the logical alternative or additional channel to eBay. That would be true if it had eBay's "open to all globally" policy, but the truth is that unless you are located in a very, very, very short list of countries, you're not allowed to sell on Amazon. Even eBid have embraced the Amazon lock-out methodology - for about six weeks now they've blocked (at server access level) anyone not within the 18 countries where they have websites - and that's about a dozen more countries than Amazon allows sellers to register from. There are other channels out there - hundreds if not thousands of them - and whilst TameBay focusses on eBay and sometimes mentions Amazon or eBid, if you want to see all the options, you need to be visiting sites like <a href="http://www.auctionbytes.com" rel="nofollow">AuctionBytes</a> and <a href="http://www.buildaskill.com" rel="nofollow">Buildaskill</a> for the wider, truly global, news about alternative channels ... and the uncensored, not yes-men, uncompromising analysis of all those channels, but especially the big names. After all ... bad news sells, good news doesn't. Ed Good old Dan

The ex-eBay employee is always a good read (no, seriously, he is), and always ready to plug his current employer (the video in eBay listings company).

What I do get fed up reading is how Amazon is the logical alternative or additional channel to eBay. That would be true if it had eBay’s “open to all globally” policy, but the truth is that unless you are located in a very, very, very short list of countries, you’re not allowed to sell on Amazon.

Even eBid have embraced the Amazon lock-out methodology – for about six weeks now they’ve blocked (at server access level) anyone not within the 18 countries where they have websites – and that’s about a dozen more countries than Amazon allows sellers to register from.

There are other channels out there – hundreds if not thousands of them – and whilst TameBay focusses on eBay and sometimes mentions Amazon or eBid, if you want to see all the options, you need to be visiting sites like AuctionBytes and Buildaskill for the wider, truly global, news about alternative channels … and the uncensored, not yes-men, uncompromising analysis of all those channels, but especially the big names.

After all … bad news sells, good news doesn’t.

Ed

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