store management

[bestseller20092]

Hey i want to know if its  legal to manage store of other person on eBay ?

and if it does, what is the process of that? 

[chrysylys]

I'm not aware of any laws that prevent it.  There may be some site policy issues.

Explain further what you mean.

[honestabe411]

Why wouldn't it be allowed?

Any eBay's terms and rules as well as their contact info is all here as well. Probably best to do that rather than accepting what a stranger says on a forum..at least with something like this.

[myboardid]

You would be an employee of their eBay business, just as if you would be an employee of McDonald's if you were flipping burgers in their establishments.

Of course it is legal, the huge sellers here employ people to do the various eBay tasks necessary to keep their businesses going. 

[mistwomandancing]

Many eBay sellers that *become successful* have to hire some help finally.   It gets to the point where they simply can't do it all themselves anymore.  

[laylajames9]

@bestseller20092  You can manage the account but if you need phone support eBay will only discuss the account with the owner or an authorized user. The owner can call eBay and add you as an authorized user.

[jklfindings]

I used to contract out to companies and run thier eBay for them.  Completely legal with no issues.  If you are an actual employee of the company, there are no issues.  If you are doing this as contract work, I would suggest writing up a contract between you and the company.  You need something on paper and signed that states exactly what you are doing, expectations for auctions listings (are you starting everything at .99?  will they be giving you prices to list at, or is it at your discretion?), what access you do or do not have, and how you are getting paid (hourly or a percentage of sales etc).  I would personally suggest staying away from managing thier Paypal account though...  Just be wary, if the business has never used eBay, expectations can be a little high.  Last business I did this for had a ton of case display watches, Rolex, Breitling etc...  They were the watches that customers could look at and try on before buying one, so they were scratched, sometimes missing links, no boxes, or papers.  The company didn't understand why no one on ebay wanted to pay full retail for these watches.  "They've never been sold, they're brand new!"