 Steal ebay customers, sell on your own site
ebay has great traffic, but are a pain in the ass to deal with as we all know.
for sellers without external sites, you can instantly create one through inkfrogs auxilary service buyitsellit, which supports bulk imports from current listings.
Once thats done, the question is how to maximize sales on your own website by using ebay's traffic. of course external linking is not allowed in the listing, but am wondering what other methods are possible.
Theres the classifieds, yes.
I know from experience that there are bots that auto delete email addresses from correspodence b/w buyer and seller... I havent tried yet but masking the address ie myemail at gmail dot com, or masking your website address - will this work, if not would any other method work?
How about doing the craigslist multiple post trick, by including a graphic with redirect info, so the bots dont see. Buyers would have to manually enter url, but if you make the advertisement well, it might work. I might give this a try, hopefully it doesnt jeopordize my stealth account... html/php/network experienced please shed some light.
I have a line of products that people like to buy in combinations. So one "safe" idea I had is to list only one item from the product line on ebay, and when it sells I can mail the item with literature directing them to my website. It might not be best for sales, but it will at least minimize dealing with ebay/paypal.
Id like to know if anyone else had ideas on taking advantage of ebay's traffic and finalizing sale elsewhere.
Its unquestionable that ebay/paypal have taken/withheld $$$ from sellers, maybe its time sellers steal ebay's customers!
comments please!
Last edited by reian; 06-21-2009 at 04:04 AM.
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