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Opening an eBay store?

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  • 22-02-2013 4:06pm
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    Peterdalkey
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    Have been kicking around for a while the idea of listing our 20-30 top online selling products in a new eBay store.

    Would love to hear feedback from anyone who has been doing this alongside an existing ecommerce presence.

    Cheers

    Peter


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    rainbowdash
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    For a start Ebay and paypal fees combined are now about 10% so you need to factor this into the price, on the plus side it costs very little to list items on Ebay unless they actually sell, so apart from a bit of time setting up the listings you have very little to lose.


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    Peterdalkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,091 ✭✭✭Peterdalkey


    Thanks, good points. We already use an eBay payment option on our existing sites, so that remains as is. For the eBay site we would not be offering the full range of quantity price breaks, just the minimum quantity, so the margin will adequately cover the eBay charges.

    I was hoping for some feedback from those who have/ had an Ebay store and a regular eCommerce site on areas as to how customers viewed it, or if they are at all interested.
    Did the eBay store presence increase or decrease the regular site sales revenues?
    Did it attract a different customer type/profile of customer.
    Are regular eBay sellers more likely to buy their own supplies from another eBay vendor? (Our products would be widely used by those selling on eBay).

    I am sure it is a case of suck it and see but just wanted to get whatever pointers others may have learned from their own real life experiences in this area.


    cheers

    Peter


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    TheWaterboy
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    I find ebay very expensive - there are listing fees, selling fees, paypal fees and then the monthly shop fee. Unless you have a very niche and exclusive product then you are competing with 1000s of other people on price alone. Such is the market, people are very price conscious and lower prices with decent P+P are always going to sell. If you can compete on this level then you can do well but you need to have high volumes of sales.


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