Additional Strategy to Find Good Items to Sell in eBay

Last time we talked about approaching local shop owners in your area and you should be able to look for a lot of partnership opportunities which can help you setting up your eBay business without the need to worry about the stock. However, some of you may have experienced difficulties with certain hesitation from the shop owners. The most common concerns they have are probably:

- No idea how to determine the shipping cost as they sell face to face all the time
- No experience how to manage the shipping process
- Not frequent internet surfer and may have difficulties to manage everything thru email
- No printer to print out the invoice or delivery order
- No time to stop by the post office while they have to stay in shops most of the time

For a person who is not used to PC and internet world, it may not be easy to persuade them to start a new online distribution channel though they know it could bring them additional revenue. Man are natural born to resist change.

However, the same concept can be applied to people who don't own local shops, but are familiar with the online sales, i.e. people who have their own shopping sites or sell in online markeplaces other than eBay.

There are tons of auction or C2C marketplaces in the world. None of them is as popular as eBay, but there're still lots of traffic. A lot of them may focus in the market in particular region or country. These sellers decide not to sell in eBay because of a lot of reasons. The most common concerns are the price structure and strict policies by eBay. Language barrier is a common factor, too. If you come from a non-English-speaking country and you're good in English, you can act as a bridge between the global market and a lot of sellers in your local marketplaces.

So once you've identified potential suppliers in different online marketplaces, you can send them emails and tell them what solutions you can offer to bring them additional revenue. Most of the time you can get a response within a day or 2 as these people are from the online world.