Ebay and Its Digital Product Restriction
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Dave_Nicholson]Dave Nicholson
Ebay has announced that you can no longer sell your digital products from their website. This means that a large variety of digital items like e-books, software, audio and video will not be provided through eBay in digital form. You cannot send the download links of digital goods to your customers. This ban has been enforced by eBay due to a number of reasons. For instance there were quality issues relating to the e-books and various other digital products. Other reasons included security and user dissatisfaction, in case the products were not of a certain quality. eBay simply tried to maintain the highest level of quality on their website. The e-books sellers and authors were quiet alarmed by the new restrictions implemented by e-Bay, but these new policies also have a good side to them.
Many authors and programmers spent plenty of time and effort in creating their e-books or computer applications. However, large numbers of people started using eBay to get these e-books at cheap prices. They could purchase them for as low as 99 cents. By changing its rules, eBay has increased the value of all the e-books sold on their website. In simple words, the excess amounts of books that have saturated the boards are suddenly valuable. Now people will purchase these e-books at an adequate price. This is great news since people will be able to read the original contents of the author by paying him the due share.
Ebay's restrictions have provided new opportunity for media duplication and distribution services. With ban on digital product sales, people are left with only one alternative. They can sell their digital goods in the form of physical CD's that can be purchased from the e-Bay website. Writing these CDs can be a simple and easy task. You just need a CD/DVD writer for this purpose. There are many CD burning softwares available to assist you in this task. Using this software, you just have to drag and drop the folder containing your e-book to the location you want it to be written. This location is normally your CD or DVD. Then click the burn or write command, to write the CD. Usually, the media duplication and distribution services are there to assist you in writing, packaging and sending these products to your customers all at a very low cost.
Ebay has started the trend by restricting the sales of digital goods. Other auction sites will follow in eBay's footsteps. This means that all those low quality products will not be available on the auction sites, putting an end to customer frustration. This will eliminate baiting. The sellers will provide top quality goods and restrict themselves from selling any products that are not up to the required standards. eBay's digital product restriction has caused panic for most of the sellers but it has also provided opportunities to many creative sellers, who have adapted to the change in the marketplace by selling CD versions of their products.
For more information go to: http://www.digital-media-solution.com
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Saturday, May 10, 2008
EBook Business Needs An EBay Store
Why Your EBook Business Needs An EBay Store
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Richard_Gilbert]Richard Gilbert
No matter what you are selling, an eBay Store is an absolute must if you are looking to get serious about it. Opening an eBay Store will give you a more professional look and enable your buyers to browse your items with ease. Of course there are eBay fee's attached to having your own store however they are relatively small and the benefits will definitely outweigh the costs.
1. Reduced Fees -
Although a store does have a monthly charge of its own, overtime you will notice that these fees may in fact begin to balance out, as listing items in your eBay store is considerably cheaper and can cost only a few cents to list items for months at a time. Now at the moment this might not seem like an impressive saving, however if you are at a point where you are selling hundreds of eBooks each week then you'll know that your eBay can rapidly mount up. You'll find that many top sellers chose to list the majority of eBooks as Store Inventory items only to reduce their fees, and list only their best selling and most popular eBooks as regular auctions.
2. Your Own Web Address -
The main benefit of having an eBay store is that you will be given your own web address, which will look something like "stores.ebay.com/yourebaystore"
This is a unique web address that will never change. When people click this link they will be taken directly to your store. Now it's just a case of promoting that link and driving people to your store. There are countless ways to do this; it's all about being creative, and you'll find some great advice on eBay under the "Promote Your Store" pages, located under "Manage Your Store".
3. List Items For Extended Periods -
Whereas listing an item under the normal procedure on eBay allows a maximum of 10 days only, listing your items as Store Inventory gives you a variety of options. For mere cents, you can choose to list your items for 30 days, 90 days or even "Good 'Til Cancelled", which means that your listing will keep showing until you decide to manually cancel it.
Making the most of this available option means you will not only be cutting down and saving on your eBay fees. But will no longer have to spend hours and hours each week uploaded new items. Once you've added it to your store you can simply forget about it and let it run its course.
4. Added Statistics -
Opening an eBay store will also provide you the added bonus of being able to monitor sales and auction traffic far more precisely than with the standard eBay toolbar. By using the full capabilities of the Manage My Store section of eBay, you are able to access many sales and traffic reports allowing you to monitor how your business is growing. What is particularly clever is that the figures displayed on your sales reports will take into consideration any deductions such as eBay and Paypal fees, therefore, giving you a very accurate evaluation of your business and profits.
Richard Gilbert is successful online entrepreneur who has been selling on eBay since 2003. He now operates a website specializing in helping eBook sellers to succeed. Visit him at http://www.allaboutebooks.net
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By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Richard_Gilbert]Richard Gilbert
No matter what you are selling, an eBay Store is an absolute must if you are looking to get serious about it. Opening an eBay Store will give you a more professional look and enable your buyers to browse your items with ease. Of course there are eBay fee's attached to having your own store however they are relatively small and the benefits will definitely outweigh the costs.
1. Reduced Fees -
Although a store does have a monthly charge of its own, overtime you will notice that these fees may in fact begin to balance out, as listing items in your eBay store is considerably cheaper and can cost only a few cents to list items for months at a time. Now at the moment this might not seem like an impressive saving, however if you are at a point where you are selling hundreds of eBooks each week then you'll know that your eBay can rapidly mount up. You'll find that many top sellers chose to list the majority of eBooks as Store Inventory items only to reduce their fees, and list only their best selling and most popular eBooks as regular auctions.
2. Your Own Web Address -
The main benefit of having an eBay store is that you will be given your own web address, which will look something like "stores.ebay.com/yourebaystore"
This is a unique web address that will never change. When people click this link they will be taken directly to your store. Now it's just a case of promoting that link and driving people to your store. There are countless ways to do this; it's all about being creative, and you'll find some great advice on eBay under the "Promote Your Store" pages, located under "Manage Your Store".
3. List Items For Extended Periods -
Whereas listing an item under the normal procedure on eBay allows a maximum of 10 days only, listing your items as Store Inventory gives you a variety of options. For mere cents, you can choose to list your items for 30 days, 90 days or even "Good 'Til Cancelled", which means that your listing will keep showing until you decide to manually cancel it.
Making the most of this available option means you will not only be cutting down and saving on your eBay fees. But will no longer have to spend hours and hours each week uploaded new items. Once you've added it to your store you can simply forget about it and let it run its course.
4. Added Statistics -
Opening an eBay store will also provide you the added bonus of being able to monitor sales and auction traffic far more precisely than with the standard eBay toolbar. By using the full capabilities of the Manage My Store section of eBay, you are able to access many sales and traffic reports allowing you to monitor how your business is growing. What is particularly clever is that the figures displayed on your sales reports will take into consideration any deductions such as eBay and Paypal fees, therefore, giving you a very accurate evaluation of your business and profits.
Richard Gilbert is successful online entrepreneur who has been selling on eBay since 2003. He now operates a website specializing in helping eBook sellers to succeed. Visit him at http://www.allaboutebooks.net
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