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Advertising your business through your eBay customers. What do you think?
 

Let's suppose I am selling jeans. In every package I ship I put a small piece of paper telling the customer about a company I have where they can buy used electronics.


Do you think this will land me in trouble should a customer or a potential competitor report that to eBay?

Re: Advertising your business through your eBay customers. What do you think?
 

Great way to drive traffic to your own website! Probably best that it be related to their product, though... Especially with those pesky clothing customers lol

Re: Advertising your business through your eBay customers. What do you think?
 

So inserts inside packages won't bring any trouble in your opinion?

Re: Advertising your business through your eBay customers. What do you think?
 

I have to say "it depends". But here, in America, with the things that I sell, it does not cause me any problems.

I COULD see it being a problem in some situations, though.

Re: Advertising your business through your eBay customers. What do you think?
 

Many eBay sellers who I BUY from put a card or a flyer in their packages advertising their website or products. I don't see any problem with that, and in fact have actually ordered using those details.

Re: Advertising your business through your eBay customers. What do you think?
 

I can't see this being a problem but does seem like a waste of time. How many sales do you expect this will get you?

Re: Advertising your business through your eBay customers. What do you think?
 

I know a couple sellers personally who ship thousands of packages a day. If I could work out a deal with them to put inserts inside their packages advertising my website, I could reach thousands of people on daily basis.

Re: Advertising your business through your eBay customers. What do you think?
 

Nope, that's perfectly fine and I encourage you to do that.

At the same time, put in a thank you note and ask for positive feedback,.

Hell, take a picture of a puppy from the pet store and pretend it's yours and send it too!

Re: Advertising your business through your eBay customers. What do you think?
 

This actually works like a gem! :clap:

Re: Advertising your business through your eBay customers. What do you think?
 

Care to elaborate with some examples? :bird: