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list of ebay alternatives....
 

Hi, i found a list of ebay alternatives, hope this helps some of you....

Amazon
AuctionFire
AuctionQuests
Bid-Alot
Bid4Assets
BiddersNSellers
BidVille
BluJay
BuyItSellIt
ioffer

have fun
=D

Only a few of these are worth the time though. iOffer and Amazon being the only two that have decent traffic.

Amazon isn't really worth it IMO.

I make apprx 1500$ each month on amazon, not enough to be my main income but definitely a good way to make more cash!

yea, i put them up because i never heard of some of them

HI, Aspkins def. right.
I use ioffer and Amazon, Overstock,
I just consider these "gas money" :)

Gas Money!

Didn't you just buy a couple fuel efficient cars?

eCrater also pretty good, work x10 better then Ioffer. IMHO.
Making there 1-2k monthly.
From Ioffer, with same listings ,made 100$ in 3 months.

lordik what category you selling on there?

Where Else To Sell Besides Ebay ?
 

Where Else To Sell Besides Ebay ?

U could try ioffer.com.

Your own website?

Build a store, and send adwords traffic to it, you might be surprised.

You can try Amazon, iOffer. There are plenty of eBay like sites out there.

UBID is only for businesses am I not correct?

Not to be negative but building your own webstore is hella hard. You have to submit it to all the search engines and make sure you rank good with certain keywords and have alot of back links. My personal experience, it will take you 1 month to build 30+ visits per day organically. My company's website is 6 months old and now with 40 visits per day with a rank of 1,546,600 and so far only 3 sales. What is ebay like 9. ioffer is 1,500. I don't care too much as its not my personal site but if I had it my way, I'd list on ebay, ioffer, ecrater. Those sites already have the traffic, which is why you pay them a commission.

Yes my boss is a cheap scape. He got me to do the website. I am a webmaster noob. He doesn't even want to spend $100 per month on google adwords, while I am spending $20 a day for my ioffer listings. (raking it in now) However, I was speaking of growing your site organically, without artificial google ads, etc. It can take a month just for one of your keywords to show up on google.

On another note, I don't realize why I am paying ioffer close to a dollar every time I sell something. As of now, 90% of my buyers come from google, who clicked on my ad and registered on ioffer so they can buy my stuff. (digital download software). They didn't come from ioffer.com. In fact, ioffer did nothing to contribute to my sale except for the landing page. My download server is not even on ioffer, its on e-junkie. I can simply sell my items via google ad linking to e-junkie page, which is free.

That is why I never minded paying ebay for frees. They got me results. iOffer is just a huge landing page index and you make your own ads. Sorry, I kind of went off on a tangent.

Modee, why don't you write a ebook on your techniques and tricks, it would help alot of us out, id be the first one in line to buy. You can count on that. Also you could limit the number of copies sold so there is no saturation.

Give it a thought.
Your smart. Just another way too cash in, right?

I have looked at several alternate sites to Ebay, and I agree, right now, none of them appear to have the review/sales of Ebay, but if enough folks have had enough of Ebay, we have to start somewhere. I have looked at Epier which is a personally (real person) owned/operated site that is very similar to Ebay (reduce learning curve). As far as I can tell, that is where the similarities end - there is NO listing fee and a reasonable selling fee. Yes, it does have slow sales, but probably not much different than any of the others. Give it a look and see what you think. For small sellers like me who are set up to sell items from around the house and who only want to take money orders or checks, this appears to me to be a reasonable alternative to ebay who is now making it difficult for such sellers as me to continue on their site. Remember - it will take time for this (and probably any of the other sites) to get more visitors/users/sellers/buyers, but it does present an alternative.

I have NO vested interest in any auction site (including epier). I am just a small buyer/seller who is looking for a reasonable auction site and not wanting to be nickled and dimed to death.

The only ones I've heard of are:

ecrater (ecrater.com)
ioffer (ioffer.com)
craigs list (craigslist.org)

I wouldn't say amazon is an alternative as much as the above, and I know craigslist is just a digital classifieds but because it's free it's good, ebay today took down one of my listings, and claimed it was not legit (ONLY AFTER I SOLD IT, PAID EBAY FEES, TRANSFERRED PAYPAL MONEY TO BANK ACCOUNT, & SHIPPED ITEM OUT TO THE WINNER), they are very slow on ebay and I know for a fact the item is legit, it's almost as if someone made a personal attack at my listing, is it possible on ebay to alert ebay of an auction and feed them false info resulting in them taking it down for a reason that was made up? Whatever happened it was ebay's fault, because I purchased the item on ebay to begin with and if it was not legit, they are 100% responsible for allowing me to purchase it on ebay when I did, I simply re-sold the exact same item and they throw a bitch fit because I actually made some profit, ebay-paypal is such a monopoly, they know they can push people around because of it, but if you go to a real bank they have no respect for paypal, hopefully the gullible masses that enjoy ebay will wake up and realise their double ebay-paypal fees are too high and they manipulate auctions and remove them for no good reason, we need to use one of these alternatives until it's as powerful as ebay then use another one until there are no more monopolies that's the only way fair prices are reached when there is competition, like cell phone companies, I suppose the government could eventually break the monopoly, the paypal-ebay monopoly alone looks illegal, sounds illegal, feels illegal, it's like shopping at the store and you find out the easiest and best way to shop is by using a currency that was created for the store, it just isn't right, if the government can break up the Microsoft monopoly (which they did), if the government can break up the Telephone company monoply 'Mob Bell' (which they did), then they can and will eventually break up the online auction monopoly (ebay), and ebay, you will be broken, that's a promise, the people have spoken.

Ebay is the number one auction site. No other can compare.
Just try to play by ebays and pp rules and you'll be fine. Shipping items fast
and providing good customer support is the main thing. Always be nice to the customers no matter how rude they can be.