In The new year I will open a new shop where a small part of it will be an ebay shop where I plan to sell for other people..on an ajustable scale..even no sale no fee..
how do I stand with ebay..In saying that I will sell on Ebay...?cheers.Mike
2006-12-17 20:52:22 · 6 answers · asked by mikemelmillie 1 in Business & Finance ➔ Small Business
how you charge your clients is not important to eBay....as long as eBay get the commissions and listing fees which will ultimately come out of your pocket if you are not going to pass the charges on......you should have no problem with eBay
2006-12-17 20:55:23 · answer #1 · answered by askaway 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a small PC shop in my town that sells PC perhipherals and also sells items on Ebay for people for a fee. It's something I thought about doing myself, but when I worked out the costs after the fee's for Ebay and Paypal etc, it wouldn't be very profitable for me and people would be quite reluctant to give me their products to sell, when they see what they will actually get back.
Anyhow, Ebay won't mind you doing this like thousands of other companies, as long as you pay them the fees due for listing and selling, you're really helping them and sort of acting as an agent would for a catalogue. You're just taking a small cut.
2006-12-20 13:18:59 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A lot of companies have been piggy-backing on eBay such as ISoldIt http://www.i-soldit.com/index.asp . While eBay is a little antsy in terms of buying keywords in the pay per click arena with their trademarked name, they have been fairly open to companies who help them get more people to do business on their site -- and that's your whole point, to get people to use eBay more.
For your peace of mind, it is best to drop a note to eBay Headquarters atttention to their Legal Department and explain to them what you plan to do. It is always good to have their approval in writing:
eBay Inc.
2145 Hamilton Avenue
San Jose, California 95125
My concern though is your planned "no sale no fee." I suggest you look carefully at ebay's fees and the number of auctions that ends WITHOUT a single bid. Even if you do not sell the item, you get charged. If you are willing to eat that charge for your customers, you better be charging them a very high commission rate to compensate for that loss. And you better have guidelines as to how many relists you can do for the item, because you might find items that don't sell even if you relist (and pay ebay listing fees) 10 times.
2006-12-18 06:07:51 · answer #3 · answered by imisidro 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No problems with them. Ebay won't care if you're selling goods on behalf of someone else, they're just happy to take their fees. If you're saying that you will advertise on Ebay, it's more free publicity for them.
2006-12-18 15:32:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Register yourself on ebay as a 'Trading Assistant'. You get the opportunity to write up your T&C's on there. You need to consider, if they'll be dropping it off to you, or if you'll be charging petrol. When they get their money, invoices, commission, etc
Personally I don't think it's worth it, unless you're selling high value goods. Bear in mind you're the one that has to carry the chargebacks/refunds.
2006-12-18 09:04:03 · answer #5 · answered by Crystal 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
as long as you pay the fee ebay wont care
2006-12-18 04:54:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋