EBAY SELLING

[yasdilr36]

Hello everyone,

I have a business making handmade items. I would like to join Ebay to increase my sales. I have been doing business in Sri Lanka myself. One problem with ebay, right?

Thank you so much

[bearswatching]

What does  one problem with eBay mean?

[yasdilr36]

Because it is made in Sri Lanka

[yasdilr36]

I have heard that Sri Lanka is blacklisted on ebay

[mtgraves7984]

It depends on what you're making to sell. There will be more than one "problem with eBay" for Sri Lankan sellers. Good luck.

[yasdilr36 · Accepted solution]

Thank you so much..

[kensgiftshop]

@yasdilr36 

Register in Sri Lanka as a business

Get a Payoneer account.

Sign up for Managed Payments and attach your Payoneer account so you can be paid.

It'll take a few weeks to get everything approved.

While you're waiting, go here:

https://sellerschool.ebay.com

[downunder-61]

Okay, you have just chosen your own reply thanking others as the solution, so you are most definitely very new and oblivious to how things work on eBay as a whole. 

No, Sri Lanka is not black listed, but you do need to register as a business with your own government before you can legally receive funds from selling, once you do that you create an ebay selling account and link Payoneer to it. As you have a busiess in SL already, this should be an easy step.

All new sellers need to research everything they can about ALL area’s of eBay not just Selling

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It is not just a matter of list, sell, send - you need to learn what to do when a customer wants to return an item, (and if the seller is drop shipping this can be a headache) and what to do if a customer claims an item is not received - again a drop shippers nightmare. Research shipping costs for off shore buyers. Do a search of eBay and see what is selling well and make sure you can match the quality and prices.

I have a read a number of posts where the new seller has no idea and is getting hit with negative feedback and unresolved cases being handled by eBay (which dings a sellers account) because they do not know the processes to avoid this.

Read, read, and read some more is the only way new sellers will survive the first month.

Most new Sri Lankan sellers use this: https://sellerschool.ebay.com/

[ckimodog]

I don't believe Sri Lanka has been blacklisted on ebay. However, I do know that many sellers from Sri Lanka continue to  break many rules and policies, not just on ebay but customs as well.

Many ignore plant and seed restrictions only to have their accounts suspended for doing so.  Many countries have suspended shipments from Sri Lanka because of this constant violation.  Had they attended the seller school and perhaps taken a business course, they may have had a chance to become a better seller.  Most choose not to and the result is being permanently banned from ebay, only to come here and complain about it, even thought they were warned to follow the rules prior.  

[yasdilr36]

Thank you so much  for giving me a very important answer to my question. I will follow ebay seller school and start selling

Have a nice day !!

[yasdilr36]

Thank you so much . I will follow ebay seller school and start selling

Have a nice day !!

[yasdilr36]

Thank you so much for letting me know about this. I studied a lot about ebay selling and I think I should join ebay selling school and learn everything and sell.

Have a nice day

[7606dennis]

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@yasdilr36 wrote:

I have heard that Sri Lanka is blacklisted on ebay

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I haven't heard that.  Of course, your government has some specific laws in place that makes it more difficult but that is your government.

By the way, the handmade items still have to have a market for them.

[fab_finds4u]

Why did you mark your own thank you reply as an accepted solution to your question? That's wrong of you to do that. 

That shows us you have no idea how to behave on eBay.  I look at that as padding your statistics. 

I've only seen newbie Sri Lankans and lately a troll from the US mark their own post as the solution to their question.

Please don't do that again if you post another new topic.  

[onefootflipper]

You are also attempting to enter a market that is absolutely already flooded. The number of new sellers offering the same or functionally identical items from Sri Lanka is absolutely much larger than the number of customers interested in or willing to purchase those items.  You can't even reliably go on what has supposedly sold in Sri Lanka due to all the fake sales and feedback manipulation going on with new sellers from your country.

Too many new sellers with the same things creates a situation where it is essentially impossible to earn anything because you will be competing against people who are actually losing money with every single sale.

Drop shipping things from China doesn't actually work because your profit margins will be razor thin and all eventually eaten away by returns and other problems associated with the items.