eBay alternative ?

[mypaintstyle]

Any advise on compatible sites to move my eBay business to ? Anyone with experience ?

[rebell45]

I believe you mean comparable sites. Thee aren't any, eBay is the big fish in the pond.

[Anonymous]

Yeah, not taking this bait.

[varebelrose]

Well, depending on what you mean by compatible, there are some that allow you to directly upload your current listings and also import your feedback. But, users of this community board should be aware that we are not supposed to name them nor encourage others to look at other sites.

[soh.maryl]

Am fairly certain that eBay frowns rather heavily on folks who use eBay's site to recommend other sites to people.  

[bigdeals.etc]

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@Anonymous wrote:

Yeah, not taking this bait.

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Ha ha ha. Hey OP, is that you @Anonymous ?? New account huh?

[katzrul15 · Accepted solution]

"Compatible" as in gets along with e-Bay?  (Hint - none)

Similar to the format/platform?  Yes, there are several.  They all use managed payments though, so perhaps not what you are looking for?

If you go to the top of this page, there is a "search" bar for the "Selling" board.  Search there as there are many recent posts about where others posted and postulated about moving their business to.  Several posts quite detailed that the board mods did not poof, so they might be helpful.

E-Bays frowns on using their boards for other posters to "suggest" other places for you to move to, in order to sell.

Would suggest doing some research on their "traffic" and of course, having your eggs distributed among several baskets, is typically, not a bad idea.  Our eggs (for me as a Seller) visit more than one site.  Helps to diversify.

Good luck!

[vintagecraze50]

Nope—None of them have the traffic and long time custromers, and the selection of so many things as this website.

[vintagecraze50]

Oh I Wishe Trinton and Alan were back, they were great!

[vintagecraze50]

They really developed this board very well and participated more actively than the current folks. I miss them.

[bigdeals.etc]

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@vintagecraze50 wrote:

Oh I Wishe Trinton and Alan were back, they were great!

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Yup. Miss you guys. Not the same here without you. Hope you're dong well.

[chapeau-noir]

A very short search on Google will answer your questions.

[varebelrose]

"They all use managed payments..."

Not true, the ones I am thinking of still allow payment via Paypal. That may change in the future, sure. At least one is based in the UK, even though most sellers are US based, FWIW.

[jonathankirkland]

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@vintagecraze50 wrote:

Nope—None of them have the traffic and long time custromers, and the selection of so many things as this website.

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And this is why, for now, ebay is still king in many, many categories and in the top few for all the others. I've explored other places and believe me, in every category I checked even the up and coming more popular other market places had literally 1-10th to 1-20th as many items for sale and I can only assume much less traffic than that even...