Amazon Vs. eBay
By ml2blog
@ml2blog (414)
United States
May 27, 2008 11:30pm CST
I don't feel people can earn much money from Amazon and ebay. But Amazon and ebay have different services. I prefer Amazon than ebay. With Amazon, they charge your money when your item is sold. With ebay, they charge your to list your item and also charge the final value of the sold item. In addition, with Amazon, there is no list days as long as you go to Amazon account once a month. With ebay, there is list days and varied fee for each different list days. Ebay doesn't care the unsold item, but only earn your money for listing. Moreover, if your item sold, you also charge final value fee. Therefore, I prefer Amazon than ebay. Amazon, you get charge when your item sold and there is no list days! This is great about Amazon! I definitely recommend my friends to Amazon.
4 responses
@yiranmengyi (133)
• China
28 May 08
Why nor take taobao into consideration just for the reason that you have't had the experience in using it?Maybe it's some gaps in international shopping.But in some field ,for example ,it is all free either for customers or sellers.What is more,its service is also good.I think that taobao can be the winner in some fields when compared with either Amazon or eBay!
@KatieDidit (989)
• United States
8 Jan 09
I think that each has their place. I shop both frequently. As a business owner I think it all depends on what you're selling, what your goals are and how you're trying to get there. And there is of course no reason you can't sell on both.
eBay of late has made some very unfriendly changes towards sellers such as not being able to leave negative feedback.
But it has some advantages that Amazon doesn't like being able to auction an item with a reserve price.
Depending on the item people will sometimes pay far more than it's actually worth if say it has a sentimental value to them. So the item you may get $50 for on Amazon because you set a flat price, you might get $200 for on eBay.
It really just depends. Marketing takes a learning curve. Sometimes we win big and other times we take a loss. Hopefully overall we do well.
@arcidy (5005)
• United States
12 Jun 08
shop at amazon.com because I trust them more then anyother store. There very reliable and there pretty fast with there shipping and they do help when theres a problem which I have yet encounterd and I have been on there a very long time and nothing has ever went wrong never got a damaged item. Plus they pretty much have everything so why shop anywhere else.
