I sure am glad it’s not all doom and gloom. And until you prove otherwise, I’ll trust that’s it’s all going to be okay. I guess I’ll just wait for that report…

As usual, great advice. I think there will be small businesses and beginners that don’t want to or can’t tackle the technical (although not hard maybe intimidating) stuff and don’t like the clerical stuff.

I am putting together a simple setup that will provide services to these people on a personal basis. Although providing this service would definitely not be for everyone, I think it is right on target for “compulsive organization freaks” like me.

Looking forward to your report. You can’t imagine how much I have learned from you by filtering “gold nuggets” from your e-courses, emails, blogs, etc.

Carol

Thanks for more excellent information John. I wrote an article yesterday for people reading a magazine I work for and I am in the same frame of mind as yourself, namely that the news is probably much better than most people currently realise.

I hope you don’t mind me reprinting the article here, it might help someone.

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The news emerged recently that eBay will no longer be allowing digital download goods of any type on auction, fixed price or shop listings as from 31st March 2008.

They gave less than 7 days warning for a change in eBay policy that has tremendous impact on thousands of hitherto successful eBay sellers.

That means you can not:

– sell instant download items through the digital delivery system eBay introduced just a few years back where, immediately someone paid using PayPal, eBay itself told your buyers exactly where to go to download their goods.

– take payment and send products as email attachments.

– take payment and send download details directly through eBay’s message system.

It was all so easy, it took just a few minutes to load each digital product on to eBay, then the whole thing worked on autopilot, even while you slept.

NOW IT’ S ALL GONE – THE CARPET HAS BEEN PULLED FROM UNDER YOUR FEET!

That’s the bad news!

The good news is:

Actually that was also the good news! This new policy is potentially a blessing in disguise for many sellers of eBooks and other digital items such as software and resell rights packages.

The changes are only bad news for people who can’t or won’t adapt to whatever options remain for selling digital items on eBay; it’s also bad news for the few rogue sellers who used digital products as a means of getting a bad name for themselves and anyone else selling those items on eBay.

You see, the reason eBay says they have banned digital download items is to prevent people offering digital download products with intention to manipulate feedback points. It sometimes happened that people would buy, or sell, hundreds of digital items, literally for pennies apiece, and grow feedback of hundreds or even thousands of points within days. That high positive feedback score was used by a tiny few to fool other buyers into considering them trustworthy individuals, whereupon they’d use all this credibility to sell high price items on eBay with no intention ever to fulfil orders received before their crimes were discovered and they were finally expelled from eBay.

So it follows, once the rogue element is gone from eBay, the vast majority of eBook sellers can now get the respect they rightly deserve and probably see their profits grow as a result of these short notice changes.

So I don’t quite fully understand why so many people are worried on and off the Internet about how these new changes will kill their information publishing ventures. They’d soon change their minds had they listened in on conversations in a PowerSeller forum yesterday whose members came to the conclusion that these changes are actually hugely beneficial for most information sellers.

Let’s face it, most people selling cheap eBooks weren’t in it for the money, they were using cheap eBooks to grow a list of buyers with intent to sell again to those people outside the eBay system. It worked like a charm and it went like this: someone bought, you added that person to your mailing list, then you mailed those people every week or so and you’d almost certainly turn one in five buyers into regular buyers (Pareto’s theory aka the 80:20 / 20:80 rule).

So, although you might be making little or nothing selling digital products on eBay, you could very easily generate hundreds or thousands of pounds in easy profits every time you remailed those people outside the eBay system.

But wait, there’s even better news to come, because eBay has not actually banned digital products from their entire system as most people think.

As eBay was quick to point out after many hours of answering thousands of complaints from eBook sellers, you can still use eBay Classified Ads to sell your digital items or fulfil them on CD or convert them to print format instead.

Physical products, on CD or paper, have higher perceived value than digital downloads so profit margins can be greatly increased for the same titles that have so far proved popular on eBay.

Plus, there are still many ways to grow a list on eBay that don’t involve selling at a loss to get a person’s name on your mailing list.

Let’s cut to the chase right now, let me tell you why you can still grow a profitable list on eBay; why you can still make a fortune selling digital and other information products on eBay; why this unexpected ban might actually be a blessing in disguise.

The old system was easy, definitely, you set up the system and left it to make money for you 24/7, even while you slept. It was so easy that few people even noticed eBay had introduced a great new system called Classified Ads until the old system was threatened. The fact is classified ads., on and off the Internet, have for centuries been an effective and inexpensive way to promote products of all types, including information. Classified Ads work outside the traditional eBay system, you don’t actually have to sell direct from a Classified Ad., their main purpose is to generate leads for products you are allowed to sell outside the eBay system.

One reason I gave up selling downloadable products on eBay a few years back was the sheer nastiness that sometimes ensues if an individual has trouble accessing their product and wants someone to blame fast. That someone is you, the seller, and instant download eBook sellers often found their feedback packed with undeserved and downright nasty negative comments.

Here’s the best news of all: feedback does not apply to eBay Classified Ads., there are no final selling fees of any kind to pay, and a Classified Ad. can run for 30 days for just a few pennies a day.

– Classified Ads. are less problematic and less expensive than most other eBay listing types and they are just as effective at selling.

– You’ll get banned from eBay for promoting affiliate products through traditional auction, fixed price and shop listings, but you can list affiliate products all day long in Classified Ads. which, incidentally, also respond to eBay searches, unlike some shop listings.

– There are many ways to grow a profitable mailing list on eBay, selling cheap digital products was just one way and arguably not the most effective way to grow a mailing list. You can, for example, write and link eBay Guides and Reviews to your About Me page where you are allowed to promote affiliate products. You can write articles or post in blogs and forums and again draw traffic to your About Me page to join your list and generate regular buyers for outside eBay sales. You can …

….. oh, I can think of so many great ways to turn this ban on digital products entirely to your advantage …. but I can’t tell you about it here, or I’ll probably be writing this article forever.

Those two free reports mentioned a few days back, possibly three, will be ready very soon and they include, working titles only right now:

* How to Sell Wads of Information Products Using eBay Classified Ads.

* How to Grow a Mammoth Mailing List, Free of Charge, Entirely on eBay

If you’d like a copy, it should be ready in a few days, please email me ah@meanderpress.com and I’ll let you have them as soon as they are ready.

I’m hoping to add another report called ‘100 Places to Promote Your Information Products Free of Charge That Don’t Involve eBay.’ This one will be ready very soon, it’s very comprehensive, and it includes the exact system I use each day to promote my own information business.

I agree with John, in fact as I said when this first came acout, all you need is a website. The fact that eBay has done this has its great advantages – we no longer are confined to “everything else > information products” and a huge hole means we can still deliver the products digitally as described below.

Ebay still allow free postage and still allow local pick-up – it is therefore for the buyer to decide whether they have a CD with the details on or “pick up” from your site. This allows you to use Adsense on your site for extra income traffic and of course you get more exposure.

I panicked at first as I am just about to branch into lucrative domain names – but even they DON’T have to be delivered digitally, all it takes if eBay insist as such is a printed letter showing all of the new owner’s rights to the domain, which can, too, be “picked up” on your site – for each digital item I ever sold I did it this way, set up a secure page for the buyer to sign in and then they got their product link hosted on my server and related Adsense ads and affiliate freebies all the while – think outside of the box on this one and it is actuallly genuinely an exciting (and incredibly stupid for eBay’s benefit) move on eBay’s part.

Don’t worry if you do not have a site, I can build you one, as basic or as much as you like for as much as you can afford. My site is http://cybamart.com, I sell the sites on http://cybamart.com/cybasites but contact me at admin@cybamart.com as I will build one for you catered to your budget just so long as you promise me – you’ll NEVER give in no matter what life (and eBay) throws at you!!

Stay defiant. Merril

Hi Books 999,

I’ve sold quite a few physical items in the past and you are absolutely right to be concerned about ensuring that you have received payment up front before you send out your item.

You can do this quite easily by, first of all, making it clear in your auction listing that you require cleared funds before you will post the item. Then, after the item sells, simply hold on to it until whatever payment option you have given your buyers has gone through, whether that’s Paypal (recommended), cheque or whatever.

You can also make this clear in your post-sale emails and you can set up payment reminders to help as well. At the end of the day it’s quite simple – no payment – no sale!

Ebay also have a process for dealing with buyers that don’t pay that gradually escalates. If they don’t pay after this you get a refund of your final valuation selling fee and you can re-list the item for free.

I personally still don’t believe selling digital products on eBay is dead and I am going to try both the classified ads route and the CD option. I believe that there must also be a way to link the two methods via your ‘About Me’ page using links off of your auction listings.

I’ve also summarised much of the comment and feedback on this issue at my newsletter site. There seem to be 4 main options and you can read more about the pros and cons of each of them here:

http://mynetbooks.co.uk/newsletter/ebooks/what-are-the-options-now-for-ebay-ebook-sellers.html

Best regards,
Dave Ovenden
DaveOvenden.com

G’day John,

Thanks for the update. I appreciate your help as I am keen to keep my site http://www.ebookbargains.com.au forging ahead despite ebays digital ban!

Peter
http://www.homebasedwealth.com.au

One concern about selling CD versions of ebooks is what is to stop someone selling-on the CD they have bought in much the same way as someone can sell a secondhand book. This would get round the copyright advantage normally posessed by an ebook without resell rights.

The gurus have always advised to build lists and move into joint ventures with other list owners anyway. Now is the perfect time to do just that.

Thanks for keeping us updated with the latest news and how to continue to use eBay to keep selling.

Good Morning:

These comments are most revealing. The entrepeneurs, of all sizes, will not be stopped.

EBay is only one site. Big, yes – but not the only frog in the pond. Without that competition, one or more of the many other smaller auction sites will energe and take up that segment of the market.

You could buy a script, set up a site, and be the new big dog on the market.

I am going Thelma’s route. Started planning some weeks ago.

Why be locked into a position where your entire success or failure depends on companies like EBay, or Adsense – where you can be blown out of the water with a single shot by decisions over which you have no input or control.

Here is a plan for a one person mimi mecca.

Pick your niche and set up a blog. While promoting it, write a good ebook on one aspect of the subject. Put it in a sub domain and direct readers there. Offer an affiliate program through Clickbank, etc.

Write a second book on another aspect of your passion and repeat steps above. Most hosting accounts allow for unlimited sub domains, so your mecca only needs one domain name. A lot less than EBay fees for a year of service.

Make some lesser versions – viral marketing, and give them away by the truck full.

If your book is a good one, it could be still selling ten years from now, and you will have added 20 or 30 more to your mecca and have become an established and respected author. You own mecca.

Repeat the above as many times as you like in as many subject areas as you want. If you have a flair for whimsy and imagination, then the world of children’s books is a never ending market place. It just keeps growing and growing and …… Think about it.

A disaster, guys, is only a disaster if you let it become one. A tornado tearing down your house is a heavy duty disaster, hard to recover from, but you don’t quit. This one is not nearly so nasty and, in fact, can lead to independence and empire building – – if you are not careful.

Thanks for your good work over the years, John. Most appreciated.

Jim Parsons

Hi John, Many thanks for your time and efforts. It seems that many of your Newsletter subscribers are being abit naive and lazy about all these new forth-coming changes regarding Ebay. Whilst waiting for you (John) to come up with an answer why not brain storm individually. Why not see how you can capitalize on the new changes and see how it will affect your personal business tomorrow. You have to see the business opportunity in all of this. If you personally are not keen on sending out physical products team with another seller and offer this as a partnership. Of course there is always the professional and trust factor but the problem with self-employed people is the lack of delegation and trust that kills their business and potential growth. Before Viral products as John in the previous blog mentioned we all sent things via traditional Snail mail.
Yes I know we are in the 21 Century and email and electronic delivery is next to none but new changes are nothing new to the world. The unfortunate outcome I personally feel is for those of our fellow brothers and sisters in the Third World whose postal system is pretty much none existent. Please spare a thought for them, as this news will not sit comfortably with them. Can we all try and create or come up with a service or solution that helps those marketers in the Third world and less fortunate countries.
We all love to be successful but we are in this together!! I feel very strongly about this. Fortunate for me I reside in the UK and have access to all the riches and resources available from most of the world. I am in the Entertainment industry and was researching and reading Internet Marketing material for the past 6 months. I have a digital and physical product the intent to launch very soon. I am not quite there where most of you are but I soon will be. I will definitely consider setting up the physical delivery side to this much-needed service now. I think we should stop thinking Micro and start thinking Macro not ‘Me but us’ when you think of your world globally wonderful things become opened to you from the universe. Try it see what happens. I personally am thinking of my own answers I will welcome John’s but no disrespect you all have your own brains use them and aid John and others. Become Marketing Leaders not followers. If there are any Third World or unfortunate post delivery Marketers worried about the new changes please get in touch with me and send our concerns maybe we can provide a good, quality reliable delivery service for you at a reasonable cost your clients can pay for. My email is kojotawiah1@hotmail.com please do not send me pointless emails as we are all busy trying to make a living please make your emails relevant to post. Subject Ebay changes. On that note. Many thanks if you post this out John. Keep up the splendid work I hope we can add to the solution and not the problem!!
Take all marketers, to all your success and greatness. The Watcher!!!

For those of you selling non-informational digital products, it seems the ebay announcement was slightly misleading…

After a long conversation with three reps over live chat last night it was confirmed that items such as ebay user tools (sniper software, fee calculators, templates and such) can be listed within the ‘ebay user tools’ category as before, but as a classified ad. A little positive news for those, like me, that were facing the prospect of forced miscategorization (is that a word?). This will probably be good news for general software sellers as well.

Next step though is to find out exactly what can and can’t be done with a classified ad, such as linking to external sites, or adding a payment button (off-ebay)… the current help page is near enough useless as I’m sure many have seen!

This go right along with what I’ve been telling my customers and lists. My biggest question for you, John, is what does this do for your 90-day challenge, and when can we expect a new version?

I agree mostly with what John is saying and trying to do just as he has. I used to always look at the brighter side of eBay’s stupidity but something I don’t see anyone talking about is the customers of the sellers that will have to change and adapt to survive.

John states there will be a huge gap and suddenly everyone will want to buy physical products. That I have to disagree with. Just because eBay is taking an axe to the digital items on their site doesn’t mean that people will automatically start foaming at the mouth for physical products.

There will be a gap that is for sure but that gap will be in digital products, and whoever can figure out a way to continue to deliver their products digitally will be the one who gets all the business from this fall out.

Don’t get me wrong, I believe in what John is saying, and I’m sure many sellers will improve their sales because they will be improving their offerings, but there will still remain a market for digitally delivered goods because you will never get rid of the customers NEED to get their products NOW, not three days from now, but right after they click the buy button they want their product.

Like I said, those who figure out how to continue to sell around eBay’s policy will reap the true money.

Enjoy … Scott

I think that all of the moaners and whiners are just big babies and refuse to get their head in the game.

Work is not easy but you don’t need to work if you work smart…read…think about what you’re doing and come up with a way to make your work less labor intensive.

Maybe it’s time to refocus and rethink your plan. If you’re helping people…you’re helping yourself…’pay it foreard’…so who are you helping?

You’re not livin unless you’re learnin. Learn to write classified ads on ebay…wanna see a lead-in for anything your can think of… look at this…use that in your ebay classified ad

Do something like that in your ebay classified ad. There’s always the old standby…squeezepage.

C’mon…this is the greatest opportunity that ebay has offered since it’s beginning…jus do it.

~~gourmet coffee snob~~
Always Drink Better Coffee
spotajavacoffee.com

I for one welcome the change in policy, as the first thing I do when I purchase a e-book digital is burn it to CD myself, that way I have a backup copy if my computer has a hissy fit.

It will also show me the way to sell digital items on our own Auction site here in New Zealand Trade Me, as the have always had a policy of no digital items.

Good Luck to all you ebookers.

Hello John and everyone else,

John, you are absolutely right about the opportunity
that opens up with this policy change. Every change is
difficult to adjust at first because we all got too
comfortable doing something over and over again.

As you know I am the creator of the Ebay automation
System “MyDD” which automatically delivers digital
items DIGITALLY after the purchase. At first glance,
you would think that I would be devastated with this change.

In fact I got many emails wishing me good luck with this.
The reality is, I welcome this change with open arms.
As a digital product seller AND as the MyDD creator.
The way I see it, MyDD will become a more necessary
tool than before now that to cost of doing business
rises, people need to get smarter and use good marketing
(such as upsels, list building, automation etc)

This is part of doing business. Sooner or later, the
low hanging fruit will be gone. Good business people
go on to great success, where all the rest disappear.

I strongly believe that AUTOMATION IS and WILL
continue to be a top priority for the digital seller.
Buring CDs manually takes TIME, and TIME comes at
a premium.

In order to have the TIME to invest in growing a
business, you need to automate as much as possible
and delegate certain tasks

My team and I are working hard on adding a brand
new feature into MyDD that will enable sellers
to AUTOMATE the Shipping of Physical CDs and DVDs
on complete autopilot (hands free).

We expect to release this feature on April 1st
and will be FREE for all MyDD owners.

I look forward to playing ball in the new
clean field of eBay.

-Socrates Socratous
http://www.SocratesBlog.com

HI JOHN
I’m just getting started on the internet,eBooks and just joined
Planets MS.I’m just a newbie but after reading all the post from
today and monday i’ve picked up on a lot of useful information
thanks everyone for the tips and motivation to succeed.

As always Grasshopper

Awesome John,

I am looking forward to your report.

Internet is crazy, I was just going to start again selling digital product and everything changed!

Hi John,

Although I agree that there are many ways to look at the current situation the fact remains; eBay is penalizing thousands of people because of the actions of a few. I agree that the selling of a physical item does have its advantages but the decision to sell a physical item should be one that I myself can make. Now that decision has been made for me and I am forced to completely revamp my business in 6 days.

I spoke with Silver Power Seller support and the rep was extremely helpful. He understood my concerns and for the life of himself he could not understand why eBay was doing what it was doing (these were his own words). His one recommendation was to send emails expressing your concerns to suggest@ebay.com. He said it might not make any difference, but it would definitely not make any difference if the messages are not sent.

I have just sent the following message to suggest@ebay.com. I would encourage others on this blog to do the same. eBay has made changes and revisions to its policies in the 11th hour and it is never too late to try. Please be sure that your messages are polite and professional so we have a change of being heard.

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In one fell swoop, eBay has eliminated an entire sector of evolving and cutting edge commerce because of a few bad apples. Instead of imposing bans on particular sellers who have obviously manipulated the system or raise the minimum purchase price of said items, eBay has destroyed the businesses of hundreds if not thousands of honest, hard working sellers.
I myself am disabled and the ability to sell legitimate digital delivery items through eBay has allowed our family of 5 to weather the recent economic storms that have impacted our nation and our family. By removing the sale of Digital Delivery items on eBay the economic future of my family and I have come into serious doubt. I am a Silver Power Seller and have been an active participant in keeping eBay a fair marketplace over the years. I actively report other sellers or items that are not abiding by the rules and do everything in my power to stand by those same rules.
And what do I get for my years of loyalty and 10’s of thousands of dollars in fees; 6 days to change my entire business model. I have spoken with dozens of other people within my business community who are feeling the same pinch.
eBay’s solution of using Classified Ads as a solution is short sighted and honestly ludicrous. Ask 100 eBay buyers or sellers what Classified Ads are on eBay and how to use them and perhaps 2 or 3 of them will have a firm grasp of what they are. The rest, like myself, have no idea about what they are. Previous of this week, I had never seen them on eBay or had used a Classified Ad.
This is also reflected in the amount of education and support eBay itself gives to Classified Ads. To the best of my knowledge there are 2 pages devoted to the use of Classified Ads in eBay’s help system. However, there are numerous questions that go unanswered. eBay itself has made no effort to position Classified Ads to the eBay community at large and they are somewhat viewed as an afterthought.
I would seriously hope that eBay would reconsider their position and not make such a knee-jerk reaction in dealing with a category of sales that is truly the next generation of the marketplace.

Name and eBay account

My earlier thought on including i-frames – just checked and that is in violation of standard ebay TOS

To PAUL
I was told by ebay Platinum Powerseller Support that it is not a violation to put direct paypal payment links inside classified ads. I was told that the ONLY way to sell digital items is to sell via classified ads, which means automatically there has to be some form of payment button inside the website.

Why would powerseller support tell me this, if its a violation of ebay policy? They are not banning digital items, they are just forcing people to use classified ads and avoid the ebay feedback system entirely.

You cannot list different items in one classified ad. This is the text from Ebays webpage here: http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/policies/classified-ad-policy.html

“Listing multiple items, properties or specific services in one Classified Ad is not permitted, unless the items, services, or properties are being sold as a bundle or lot, or as a multiple quantity listing.”

so bang goes that idea, it also says . . .

“Classified Ad listings must comply with all existing eBay Marketplace policies including eBay’s Listing Practices policies (including but not limited to Accepted Payments, Keyword Spam, Miscategorisation, No Item, and Links policies) Prohibited and Restricted Items Policy, and rules pertaining to Intellectual Property (How eBay Protects Intellectual Property (VeRO)).”

So Pauls message to David could be correct depending on the Ebay staff member dealing with it at the time, no matter what Powerseller support has told Rich Boy. After all it does say ‘policies including . . . . . . Links policies’.

You can view the links policies here: http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/policies/listing-links.html

I think many Ebay staff are as confused as we are!

I think cds and dvds are the way to go. I found some software that create autorun cds and created a small guide to show you how to do it. You can download it from here:

http://www.rlb-publishing.co.uk/cdrun.zip

I’m sure it will come in handy for many of you especially as the software is free.

Richard

Hey John

Hope your’e well mate.

As you know I DON’T GURU bash – but I have a educational audio on my blog made by a member of my team – that I am sure will benefit YOUR readers.

*** Play The Audio NOW ***

VISIT: http://www.ray-johnson.co.uk

Regards

Ray

Hallo, Again!

I just went to eBay to check out how folks are using Classifieds and let me tell you – it is WILD! Some Ads sell directly to the reader with a Paypal Button. Some link to “more information” which is their off-eBay website sales page (mini-site) where there is a Paypal Button or Clickbank link. Some link to their own eBay store. Some others have html-ed their entire STORE into the ad so that on the left side of the page you have all of their store links. Some link to opt-in pages. Prices vary from one cent to thousands of dollars for ebooks and physical products in these ads.

There are a ton of income systems, and more than a few ebooks. I tried to find some of the item titles with an eBay search and found them all coming up in the results.

Go check them out.

I have emailed Paypal to ask if their Buttons are allowed in eBay Classifieds. No word, yet.

Best, David~

You cannot put any links in your classified ad… even paypal payment buttons!!!!!! To sell, the buyer has to contact you through the ebay system or you put a phone number and the buyer calls you. After that, and if he agrees to buy, you send him an invoice!!!!

What a stupid mind behind all of this!!

Below is a paste of Brian Burke (The Smart Guy!) answers to this question of adding links to your Ad:

Posted by shipscript post #696:
Brian,

• Users need to know if there is a links limitation in Classified Ads.

• If the products are for sale on the member’s website, can the Ad include links to ALL the selling pages?

• Can the Classified Ad link to any other websites for additional info on the item?

Thanks,
-ship

Regarding links; members can’t link off eBay to a site that directly offers items for sale.

So, they can’t use the classified ads format as a way to redirect people to their store. It’s not a sign post for their website.

They can use the classified ad to directly offer items, and offer the buyer the ability to contact them directly, or purchase an item. For example, if a seller has 10 templates, the seller could list all 10 with a code (e.g. template 1), offer PayPal and tell the buyer to identify which template they are buying when they pay via PayPal.

Thanks.

Brian

Brian Burke
Director, Marketplace & Feedback Policy

You can read this post from the source below:

http://forums.ebay.com/db2/thread.jspa?threadID=1000671814&start=800

Johnnnnnnnnnn, please comment Save Us!

Yes, ebay AU will stop it and do the same as ebay US.. i posted few days ago about it.. i contacted them and they said so..

The same is for ebay UK.. i was unable to list items in the everything else category few days ago… i got a message saying thet may not allow listings as well.

E-books are dead . . .

A bold Statement I know, but true…………… Well as far as Ebay are concerned.

If your interested in discovering how you can produce Multimedia Information Products that make you money……… For FREE…. From someone who has done just that for over 26 years, you need to get this FREE VIDEO COURSE today.

Now it’s a shame that eBay has come to this decision, but like many people have already stated. Look for the positives and not dwell too much on the negatives, as this will surely drag you down into a deep feeling of despair and confusion.

Move on, and look for other more lucrative ways that you can make money online. There are a number of discussions on hundreds if not thousands of blogs and websites looking for ways around this current situation. Some I feel will look towards trying to manipulate and deceive eBay and continue to try and sell their e-book and digital products on their site.

Over the last few days, I have listened to audio discussions as well as reading debates on this subject, by very successful e-book marketers and the one thing that is common amongst all of them is they are running scared. Very very scared of the possibilities of losing their current income and the success they have built up over the years.

Now many of these successful e-book marketers have come to a number of conclusions, and one avenue is to convert their current business activities of digital e-books/software into a physical item, and as a successful producer of physical multimedia information products (I had to laugh when I heard an audio discussion describing Multimedia Information Products as something NEW !, or atleast the term Multimedai Information Products )

I invited many of the Ebay Ebook top Sellers to contribute to the show. But have realised, that a more indepth discussion or help package would be better.

John

One thing that has been missed here.. is that eBay.co.uk do not have an “Everything Else” catagory for classified ads!

http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/sell/adformatfees.html#list

TomC