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eBay Banned the Sell of Digital Products

eBay Banning E-Books, Digital Photos, Digital Videos, Website Design Services and More

By Michaela C., published Mar 27, 2008
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Yesterday when I started my work day at 8am, I looked first to my emails; usually I read 5-6 and delete the rest of them.

One title caught my attention "Digital Items Banned On eBay", I looked to find the author... it was John Thornhill, the king of Digital Products, a person I know, trust, learn from. I decide to read it! This one wasn't a spam for sure!

I discovered that starting Mar. 31 the Digital Items will be banned on eBay. OK! But why such a short notice?

My opinion is: eBay is doing now what Google did in June 2006. They try to clean up the junk, and stop the abuse and manipulation of feedbacks. But, as in 2006, a lot of good people a suffering as well.

Let's see what exactly they a banning:

- e-Books

- Digital audio recordings: interviews, seminars

- Digital photos

- Digital Videos

- Affiliate Marketing Services: squeeze pages, pre-sale pages, landing pages

- Websites Design Services

- Domain Names Services

- Graphic Design Services

- Specific eBay items as: Digital Sewing and Knitting Patterns, Digital Recipes etc

- And any other service delivered instantly electronically, it is a long list, it really is!

Lets see why people like to sell on eBay digital products even though some of them are selling at a really peculiar price, example same e-Books a selling from $0.01 to $0.99, must be some good reason to sell at such a low price:

- People love instant delivery, you pay now, 2 minutes later you download the product, and it is yours.

- Some publications, e-Books in particular, a stuffed with affiliate links and the seller is not making money with that particular product but in time he is selling a lot of profitable products via affiliate links, his visibility is higher, his opt-in list is growing.

- Any product which is listed on eBay is taking advantage of the eBay traffic, eBay's huge customer base.

- In some instances, you take advantage of eBay traffic and in addition you advertise you business as back-end and make a lot of money in the process. A perfect example are classify ads.

eBay Banned the Sell of Digital Products
Date: December 31, 1969
San Jose, CA USA
Takeaways
  • See what is banned on eBay.
  • Find out the positive effects.
  • MyDD will help a lot in future, see last link.
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http://www.ebaydigitaldelivery.com This sucks for honest sellers, that sell their own product. Why not restrict bs ebooks, and raise the starting price on digital deliveries to over $1.00 ; Also restrict feedback on any digital delivery. This way only useful items will sell. I sell a few of my own items on Ebay. It least it pays some of my Ebay fees. For example, I wrote a Ebay Fee Calculator program. They are useful and they sell easily at $1.50 to $2.00 range. But if I now have to sell them on CDs, I have to add in extra stuff to ship and raw material like CDs. Price has to jump to $4.99 for no reason. http://www.ebaydigitaldelivery.com

Posted on 03/28/2008 at 1:03:43 PM

 
find out how at http://www.tubemastery.com

Posted on 03/28/2008 at 3:03:50 AM

 
THE SOLUTION TO THE EBAY BANNED DIGITAL ITEM PROBLEM... YOUTUBE We sell on ebay why? because it has the traffic and traffic = sales! well Youtube has just as much traffic (more in fact, lots more). So learn how to draw the traffic from Youtube insted of eBay, its easier then you would think! Ive been doing this for a while now anyway, and it produces better results then eBay! 3 Ways YouTube Generates You Targeted Traffic! YouTube doesn't just give you traffic from its own regular searchers. But, you can get traffic from it in 3 ways. These include: 1. From those searching on YouTube. There are countless hundreds of thousands that come to YouTube on a regular, often daily or weekly basis. They then find your videos by typing-in a search query on the site. For example, if you have a video on "Tatoos," then when somebody typed in this term, they might find your video. Traffic from YouTube.com starts coming-in within mere hours of submitting your video. 2. Listings

Posted on 03/28/2008 at 3:03:33 AM

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