Selling on eBay

pmc-1990

Just wondering if anyone on here is operating an eBay store and if so is it worth it?

I know the products I would be looking at selling are popular on eBay UK but I would be focusing on selling in Ireland due to brexit taxes etc. it would make it hard to compete with the UK vendors. I'm just not sure how much traffic eBay Ireland gets these days. I was trying to find data on it but couldn't get anything.

Interested in hearing from others who already have experience in the field,

Gloomtastic!

Given the population difference, I would assume that Ireland would be about 10% of the UK market.

However, if you market it correctly, and localise your content, you could target the rest of Europe as well. That’s 700million-odd people.

NewbridgeIR

I sold items (LPs, CDs & DVDs) on Amazon UK Marketplace, Ebay UK and Discogs for many years.

Just two sales to Ireland in that time.

Bellaj

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121376784#Comment_121376784

A few questions on ebay.ie, I had been using a .co.uk site which was ok but didn't sell anything to outside the uk on it. When I used a .ie account, I can't send offers, promote listings or use the global shipping program.

Is anyone else the same? Is it just my account or are all ebay.ie accounts as restricted?

Can you have a ebay.ie account and list on ebay.co.uk?

Thanks!

NewbridgeIR

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121423037#Comment_121423037

I never had an ebay.ie account just the UK one. Not sold anything on it since Brexit properly kicked in

Bellaj

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121425948#Comment_121425948

Thanks. That's the problem reallly. The .co.uk won't sell anything outside the UK and the .ie is so restricted you hardly sell anything anywhere!