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Originally Posted by Zach  Just wondering if anybody is an active eBay seller, and if you're having success with it. |
The trend how among smart traders is to use eBay, so you don't have to sell on eBay. Sounds confusing? It's not. eBay is a great lead generating tool. For example, enter "iPod stickers" or "ebook" in eBay search. You'll see that a ton of them is being sold for pennies. There is no way it's profitable. So why do it?
Simple, you sell something for a few pennies and get persons name, email, address, phone. You build your own mailing list (I've heard of people who generate a list of 20000+ customers selling penny items on eBay in one month).
So now you have a list of X thousand people who bought iPod stickers. Based on the type of iPod sticker they bought, you can guess the iPod model. You send them a catalog of iPod accessories and do business outside eBay. Now you don't have to compete on price. And you are not dependent on auctions. You can mail them repeatedly. You can rent your mailing list. You can swap lists with other iPod retailers.
Same thing with eBooks. You can sell eBooks for pennies. Based on the topic of the book (Dog Breeding or Public Speaking) you generate the list and then sell them other products offline or online.
Hope that helped.