Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Ebay Restricts Information Products

New Ebook Policy On Ebay
Last monday was a big announcement at ebay about "digital products"
Here is the related link:

Ebay Policy

From March 31, eBooks and other digital download products can no
longer be listed in auction format. Instead, they must be listed as
a Classified ad.
My take on it is that eBay is overreacting to an issue they’ve been dealing with for awhile. The heart of the issue is feedback manipulation.


For many of you, this announcement is going to come as a nasty shock.

My first suggestion is that you list your eBooks as classified ads. You won’t be able to earn feedback points, but you’ll still get the most important thing from your eBook sales… qualified leads!

Now as far as feedback is concerned, you can still sell your eBooks (or other digital items) on CD or DVD, if you list them on eBay as a physical product.
For starters, up-sell opportunities are now going to be tripled. Yes, tripled. Physical items are taken way more seriously by customers, so there’s going to be more chance of your other offers being viewed and actioned. And don’t let’s forget that this is actually the most important part of selling digital items anyway!

I suggest that you sell your physical product cd’s for $7 + shipping and handling (which should be pretty cheap). That equate to a similar profit after costs are taken into account, as to selling ebooks. And you should get quite a few leads out of this.
It’s potentially good news for those that:

Understand the power and potential of eBay classified ads

Realize that eBay very likely has just given us permission to include external links in our classified ads.

The good new (once again, as with all major eBay announcements that seem to go against sellers) is that the CUSTOMERS are still there on eBay. eBay is pouring marketing dollars into attracting them and it’s our job to find ways to funnel them into our businesses. As long as the customers are there we’ll be there finding creative ways to market to them.

You can check out a solution offered by my friend Dave: he teaches you how to create an auto-run CD and get someone to burn and drop ship them for you! Nice one Dave.See details below:
Quick & Easy InfoProducts Creation Guide




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