Should I sell on Amazon or eBay?

Shall I sell at EBay or Amazon?

  • I want to sell some used phones and I was wondering which website would be better: eBay or Amazon? Can you please explain why you think it is the best. Thank you for your help.

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    You can only sell on Amazon if they have the headphones in their databank - and you can only sell at a fixed price. Charges are higher than ebay if the item sells and they stipulate how much you can charge for p&p - it's a flat rate. Ebay lets you sell anything, either at auction or using fixed price ('Buy it Now'). You set the postage rate.

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Amazon. Its much better. 1- Generally Amazon is a better place to sell stuff but not for everything. For selling electronics and some special stuff you should get a sort of permission from Amazon to be able to sell your item. 2- You may sell everything you want on Ebay. You make your own listing but to sell on Amazon you should sell whatever is available on their website. If it is not available you should recommend it to them and after their approval you get a chance to list your item. 3- Ebay is an auction website. Amazon is not. Amazon used to have an auction website but they were not successful on that, they closed it down. 4- To sell your item on Amazon you should be patient. Amazon has less visitors and you might end up with waiting more for your item to be sold. 5- From my experience I should tell you that Amazon fees are tiny in compare to Ebay fees! There is no listing fee in Amazon but in Ebay they charge you as soon as you list your stuff for sale. They both have final fees if your item is sold. 6- In Amazon you name your price, so you will get at most as much as you list it for but in Ebay sometimes quite amazingly you may sell something in a very higher price than you had originally thought! So, in summary if you are not in rush use Amazon. It has tiny fees and you get a fair amount of money for what you want to sell. Also, The reason is that you will have less hassle should you have to return an item. Ebay is a big place with lots of frauds going on these days (everyone knows this who is a serious eBay buyer or eBay-seller!) Ebay and Amazon are competing for years but until recently eBay was taking the lead in marketing and selling. This has shifted and Amazon is taken the future lead due the extraordinary customer support for sellers and buyers. (According to market researchers-Amazon will be the number one in future for ’garage sale’ and will take over eBay’s monopoly.) But a eBay buyer can run into a lot of trouble when he/she needs to return an item. The customer response of eBay is very slow, and sometimes non-responsive- while Amazon responds (usually) in a period of 24 hours (but most of the time much, much faster than that). Most market researchers have found that Amazon has less frauds, a better customer support and better ’fee options’ for sellers than eBay does. Market researchers have also found that Amazon is far more reliable for sellers and buyers than eBay is. Lastly,1. No, you don't get charged if the item doesn't sell. That's one of the greatest advantages to selling on Amazon. If the item does sell, they take a small commission (usually a few bucks, depending on how much the item sells for), but if it doesn't sell it's not a problem. You're not charged a cent. 2. When they do take their cut of the total, it's taken immediately out of the transaction, so you don't miss it at all, nor do you need to pay them at a later date. 3. It's fairly easy to use once you get the hang of it. It's kind of a long process though, but I'd be more than happy to give you more information! Email me if you'd like to know more and I'd be happy to send you all of the information in an email.

Kate

Ebay is a great and easy way to sell

James

Ebay! So easy to use, and straight forward! Amazon is more complicated!

AirCadet.

Definitely Ebay.

Kaven

EBAY. It's so simple it's unbelievable

Anon

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