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What are the advantages of opening an ebay shop? I'm currently selling buy it now items on ebay. I spend quite a lot on fees so was just wondering whether it would be cheaper to open an ebay shop instead. Can anyone tell me what the financial advantages of opening an ebay shop are?

tanileyfa wrote:What are the advantages of opening an ebay shop? I'm currently selling buy it now items on ebay. I spend quite a lot on fees so was just wondering whether it would be cheaper to open an ebay shop instead. Can anyone tell me what the financial advantages of opening an ebay shop are?

I haven't sold on ebay for a long time now - but the general rule used to be if you have more than 70 buy it now items to list a month then cost wise it works out better to have a shop.

You may well want to consider eBid - which is where I sell.

£49.49 for lifetime SELLER+, which provides:

No listing fees
5 free shops for life
Final value fee of just 2% when using a gallery listing (which is a must)
5 free photo's per listing
Wonderful Google exposure

When you consider that ebay charge £15 for one shop per month - ebid's £49.49 fee as a one off lifetime membership is a real snip (and you can have up to 5 shops).

You can get good sales as well - I think I have something like over 1,700 sales this year (2012).

eBid works for me now

no more expensive listing fees
list as much as you like
and no adverts!