eBay Fraud Scams exposed

Lots of eBay sellers are asking what are other places to sell online aside from eBay.

There are the usual good suggestions like
amazon.com
base.google.com
craigslist.com
ioffer.com
ecrater.com
rubylane.com
ubid.com
ola.com
ebid.net

Each seller presents a unique set in the type of items as well as sales preference format. I cannot say enough of good things about Google when it comes to eCommerce.

• Search Google for your product.
  A good example is a search for
  RCA Victor Phonograph
  then pay special attention what comes up

  I see:
  craigslist
  GoAntiques
  and independent websites on page 1 results of Google/Google Base results

  This will help you identifying sites you can list your products THAT COME UP ON GOOGLE search well

• If you have unique product that is not common you can build your own store under your own domain name and come up almost immediately on page 1 Google search

  Do a Google search for Mosaic Mailbox and you will see our site with custom mosaic mailboxes as #1 on Google search results. It’s only a spiffed up WordPress blog and it took about 60 days to get to#1 spot on Google natural search results.

• Did you know you can IMPORT your eBay store listings to homestead store hosted pages? You can create a homestead store and import your eBay listings with few clicks of a mouse into a homestead store front Your import options include:

  The ‘Build Catalog Using eBay Listings’ feature, which allows you to create products from your eBay listings and then select the products you would like to copy into your Homestead Storefront catalog. eBay listings include eBay Store and individual listings based on your eBay seller account. You’ll find the ‘Build Catalog Using eBay Listings’ option in the ‘eBay Tools’ area of Store Administration.

  The only drawback I see with Homestead hosting is their unstandard web addresses they assign to home page and product pages.
  If you check out the featured sites here you will notice that the catalog item pages have this “bok?” in the web address which makes it rather difficult to move your store to another web hosting provider. So you may want to consider using a standard web hosting company who offers osCommerce store web hosting and enter your items manually so if in the future you want to move your store, you would not be stuck with a proprietory platform.

• Remember to register your domain name so your ecomerce livelyhood will not depend on whims of a 3rd party. You can move your store to another web hosting company any time as long as you have your own domain name, remeber if your store is http://www.ebay.com/antiquetreasures or http://antiquetreasures.ecrater.com the moment you leave those websites, your store and your customers will go poof! So placing your store under your own domain name, such as www.antiquetreasures.com is critical to your long terms success.