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Hi all,
I’m still extremely small but growing rapidly. My store has 219 items in it as of right now. I made 19 sales last week and did 39 listings.
I think selling on eBay is much better than the usual early retirement plan most people go with!I’m an Amazon textbook seller, and the restrictions haven’t hit me at all yet (fingers crossed). They are mostly on new books and the really popular high-priced books. There are a lot of fakes coming in from India and China and Amazon is cracking down on them. I do believe the Amazon train is derailing, though. They are doing everything possible to force us out or into wholesale, and most manufacturers won’t take companies like us or refuse to let us sell on Amazon if they do.
I’ve experienced this attitude quite a bit here in south Florida. I’ve had people refuse to sell to me at yard sales because they suspected I was a reseller. They didn’t even ask. Some people have a problem with anyone else making a profit, yet they have no problem giving their money to giant corporations that are also making a proft.
eBay is where the scavengers like is hang out.
That’s one of the reasons I like it so much. My father was a scavenger, and I guess it’s in my blood. 🙂
I’ve only watched part of the series, but it really disturbed me that it made all of us “evil” resellers out to be semi-reformed petty thieves. Our business has an image problem as it is and this show didn’t help, at least not from what I’ve heard from people I know and read on the internet.
