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

[walkingupwards]

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?

[ebaystealth1974]

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

[walkingupwards]

Originally Posted by ebaystealth1974

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

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

[ebaystealth1974]

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.

[nickopedia]

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.

[Leader2dark]

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?

[walkingupwards]

Originally Posted by Leader2dark

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?

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.

[SaiJin]

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!

[WEI]

Originally Posted by SaiJin

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!

This actually works like a gem!

[walkingupwards]

Originally Posted by ebaystealth1974

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

Care to elaborate with some examples?