Ronnie

I just wanted to make a quick post to say thanks Aus for telling us about wagglepop and ecrater. I have had a quick look at them and I see what you mean about wagglepop looks very similar to eBay. I will have a browse around it now and ofcourse ecrater.

I had never heard of them before. Surprising really as I have been doing a lot of research lately on selling on other selling platforms as I am in the process of creating my first product which will be about making a profit by selling outside of eBay. I actually came up with this idea before eBay came out with this ban, so for me, I think it may be a good thing, certainly as far as my first eBook is concerned. If anyone is interested keep an eye out on my blog by clicking on my name above and opting in to be the first to hear more about it.

John, I want to extend my thanks for everything you have done for your readers, subscribers, customers and coaching students especially since the digital ban and also while moving house. I take my hat of to you.

Good luck with the move and don’t forget to enjoy some time with your family too. You know what they say, all work and no play….

Marc Sampson.
http://www.marcsampson.com

I did a search for ebook. It’s now down to a little over 2000 listings. There are still a lot of people selling digital products though. I see some people are selling CDs. It seems like most people though aren’t making any more money.

I have a digitial powerseller that I watch. Based on searching her completed items, it looks like she’s still doing her normal volume of sales. It looks like what she did was just tack on an extra $2.97 shipping fee and added to the auction description that the product is on a CD-ROM. She also added a link to the auction for international buyers saying that they can’t buy her auction but if they click on the link they can buy it via digitial downloand. The link takes you to her Ebay store where she has classified ads set up for the same auction.

I’m going to watch her a bit to see if she maintains her powerseller status and if so, I’m going to buy a CD-ROM off her to see what it looks like. I’m curious to see if she’s got a professional package like John is talking about or if she just burned her package to a standard CD and shipped it.

Roosevelt Cooper
http://www.web204mlm.com

I just found a seller of ebooks and wallpapers on eBay who has solved the non-digital download problem by selling/sending a postcard through the mails to his winning bidder. On the card is a Redemption Code that will allow an instant digital download of the digital product he has sold them. Pretty clever, and if you are in a far flung part of the world a postcard is a lot less heavy than a CD/DVD and a lot less apt to get lost!

I wonder how this will work out for him?

Best, David~

Interesting solution! I imagine, that after the Redemption code has been used for a limited amount of times, it expires.

Just guessing. I know that the script I used for delivering digital downloads via a preset download page could expired after an hour, a day, two days, a week – whatever I set the script to do for that particular product.

I was asking eBay Customer Support about Classifieds and got basically a form letter BUT this one had a NEW WRINKLE in it I had not seen before! If anyone has any more information on it, I would love to read it. Among the usual stuff put out at this point from eBay was this:

***Note***
Classified Ad listings do not generate Feedback unless you are using Best Offer.

Huh? This was from someone who signed himself:

Sincerely,
Zack D.
eBay Customer Support

Well, Zack, you could have explained THAT ONE a bit more!

Anybody hear this before?

Regards, David~

I did a search on Ebay today for ebook and there’s only a little over 5000 listings on there. I believe the week before it was at 15000. By the way many of the listings up there are actually up there illegally. They are offering digital downloads and they are not appearing in the classified ads section.

It looks like once Ebay catches wind of this and shuts them down there is going to be a huge hole in the market for digital products. The smart sellers that are able to capitalize on this stand the chance to profit immensely from this change.

Roosevelt Cooper
http://www.web204mlm.com

Something inside me kept saying wait. It made
no sense because I have been reading and buying
your stuff for a while now.

The timing seemed so right…

But for some unknown reason this time I actually
listened to my little voice and now it all makes
sense.

Change is hard, change is good, change is a b…

Good luck with everything,
Paul Bergman

I have now completely revised the way I trade and ebay doesn’t feature very highly in my new business model.

So ebay will be losing my ebay shop subscription, mye listing fees and sales commissions.

I’m sure it’s only a drop in the ocean to them, and even if all ebook retailers did the same thing it wouldn’t hurt them.
But I’m voting with my feet and walking away.