The story so far.
ebay sales slowed to a crawl and only 1 item was selling, hoops and yoyo plush.
I started to see an interesting trend in the buyers. Most of the buyers had 0 feedback. For a site in a freefall pushing away long time sellers there were still new buyers. These are newer than new buyers, so new they made an account to buy my item. This means that the sales weren’t driven by ebay, they were coming from external sources, most likely search engines since I wasn’t driving much traffic from my website.
Armed with that knowledge I started looking for an marketplace to replace ebay since I had traffic coming from an outside source.
I knew about Amazon, but they’re better for items with a UPC code and the fees are just as high if not higher than ebay so that was out.
I heard about ubid, but they’re for much larger sellers.
ecrater was a big no since the free cart came with all categories listed at the side including adult items in a manner that would seem to indicate that I had items to sell from all of thsoe categories.
In the end I wound up at Bonanzle. I read a post where someone explained that The River was Amazon and The Ranch was Bonanzle. Sales are still mostly hoops and yoyo and mostly to new buyers, but I now have the rest of my inventory up without going broke because Bonanzle only charges a listing fee when the item sells.
New new store location is http://www.bonanzle.com/booths/elevenboxes
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