A Tisket, A Tasket, Don’t Put All Your Dropship Eggs Into eBay’s Basket!

If you are an ecommerce entrepreneur who is selling solely on eBay, you are probably making a potentially very bad mistake by putting all of your eggs into one basket.

For most smallish sellers with home businesses in dropship eBay sales or other auction or Fixed Price listings on eBay, it is entirely too risky anymore to make eBay your only venue for selling.

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Why?

Simply because the policies that have come with the “Disruptive Innovation” ---as the CEO of eBay, John Donahoe likes to call the train wreck of the past two and a half years---are definitely not seller friendly.

Unless you sell a huge amount of merchandise on eBay, it would only take two or three unreasonable or dishonest buyers to ding your DSRs and feedback badly enough to get you suspended for 30 days or longer.

Most people can’t afford to lose their livelihood for a month or more. If eBay is your only source of income and you have even a mini-run of bad luck with buyers….you won’t have an income for a while.

This is not a happy situation in most cases.

So, think ahead. Do your best to be an excellent seller with great customer service, etc. Unfortunately, though, that won’t always save you from unfair negative feedback or low Detailed Seller Ratings.

So, hope for the best but prepare for the worst!

Preparing for the worst means that you should be set up on other websites. There are eBay alternatives, good ones! Whether it’s Amazon, Bonanzle, Etsy, Boocoo Auctions, eCrater or any of the other alternative selling sites; you should already be a presence at one or more of them.

That way, if you are unfortunate enough to encounter a few snarky buyers or scammers, you can weather the storm of a suspension from selling on eBay by having alternate sources of income from your products.

Even if your eBay sales are good at the moment, it’s always a good idea to hedge your bets. So check out some of the eBay alternatives today!

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