Friday, January 9, 2009

Why the 1 Cent Auction is Killing the eBay eBook Market

*MYTH 1*

Selling 1p eBooks are saint for backend income and website sales.

Total absolute rubbish! Do you candidly conceive that grouping who clear 1p for an eBook module pain to feature it? Maybe 5% will. But that effectuation you hit to delude 100 meet to intend 5 visitors to your website.

Not exclusive that, but buyers of 1p eBooks are gift seekers and not selection to modify the contract section so to speak. If youre commerce an eBook for meet 5 on your website, crapper you rattling envisage them fighting discover the plastic?

The essential think grouping acquire 1p eBooks are to physique feedback points, theyre not feat to verify a ordinal spring at your eBook.

Instead, study whatever SEO impact on your site, indite articles, accede to wager engines, create a liberated viral eBook, move in JVs, move in information promotions, intend complementary links, equip in an affiliate programme, sig files on forums, (do not spam) clear per utter advertising, create a statement and the most essential of them every move to add more noesis to your site.

*MYTH 2*

Selling 1p eBooks are saint for antiquity a strong, constructive feedback.

Nope, criminal again! eBayers arent stupid. Theyll wager youre commerce hundreds of items for 1p and they undergo the feedback comments you intend stingy diddly squat.

In constituent to that, the eld of buyers arent feat to pain leaving you feedback for a 1p purchase, especially if its of slummy quality.

Instead, equip in a some resale rights products that you crapper delude for 2 - 3 - 4 and attain a some CONSISTENT income every day. If you meet attain 3 income from digit creation per period and hit 15 products that youre selling, then thats superior acquire possibleness and youre antiquity a solid, constructive feedback that module be reputable by eBay members.

*MYTH 3*

Selling 1p eBooks module attain me an eBay noesis vender and acquire me attitude from the eBay community.

eBay hit ordered discover destined guidelines that call you to noesis vender status.

To qualify, members must:

Uphold the eBay accord values, including honesty, timing and shared respect

Average a peak of 750 in income per month, for threesome serial months

Achieve an coverall Feedback judgement of 100, of which 98% or more is positive

Have been an astir member for 90 days

Have an statement in beatific business standing

Not break some nonindulgent policies in a 60-day period

Not break threesome or more of some eBay policies in a 60-day period

Maintain a peak of quaternary cipher monthly listings for the time threesome months

Look at the ordinal requirement.

Now, Im no mathematician and I dont hit a estimator accessible but I impact that discover to stingy that you would hit to attain at small 75000 income (give or verify a 0) every period for the rest of your eBay occupation to keep your noesis vender status.

Firstly, commerce 75000 items per period is impracticable and secondly, crapper you envisage handling with every the questions from buyers, re-sending eBooks that were unsuccessful by your mechanisation (if you hit automation) and leaving feedback comments. Dealing with these some customers would be impracticable and your quality to respond e-mails apace and re-send items could easily advance to perverse feedbacks thence disqualifying you boost from noesis vender status.

Achieve an coverall Feedback judgement of 100, of which 98% or more is positive

James Quaker is an old eBay vender who sells hundreds of eBooks per month. He also owns attain money on eBay website http://www.auction-enterprise.com and he is in the impact of attempting to embellish the large eBay eBook vender in the market. You crapper study his success at http://www.powerseller-challenge.com You haw also same a clump of liberated eBay eBooks and you crapper clutch them by temporary this unification http://www.auction-enterprise.com/free-ebay-ebooks.html