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By kaizan28

No ebay here.
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Best Alternative Auction sites to ebay

If your sick of expensive ebay fees, or ridiculous feedback rules, or your looking to expand your online business, then checkout some of the alternative options to make sales online.

Although Ebay remains the most popular site for selling and making money, if you list at all these other sites, then you can make more easily, and not have to rely on just one site for your income. Its also a great way to reach out to customer who are also sick of the run around they have had on ebay, with their expensive fees, and direction.

This is the most comprehensive list on the intenet. Updated regularly.

  1. ioffer.com
  2. webidz.com
  3. ebid.net
  4. CQOUT.com
  5. Shopit.com
  6. BlueJay.com
  7. Bonanzle.com
  8. Wensy.com
  9. AtomicMall.com
  10. OnlineAuctions.com
  11. USIFF.com
  12. Amazon.com
  13. wigix.com
  14. Get it or Sell it.com


If you have any other sites, then please leave a comment and i will add to this hub and make it a good resource for selling.

Ioffer Logo

Ioffer Logo
Ioffer Logo

ioffer.com

Ioffer.com is a fixed price site, and a great alternative to ebay.

Here you can make an offer in the hope that the seller will accept, along with just purchasing items at the fixed price option. It has a slightly less organised feel to it than ebay, but it works well on this site, as there is lots of things to be found.

Communication

This is great if your a seller, as the site really promotes interaction, and communication between buyers & sellers is shown as a pop up on your screen instantly, so communication is fast & easy.

Fees

The listing fees are 0.
The final selling fees are very cheap.

How to Sell

Great features here include, bulk uploading via .csv spreadsheet. You can also upload listings via an SMS text message, with a picture.

User Base

Very Large amount of American, and also european.

Design

Very Clean layout, and if your looking for an ebay alternative that still has a nice clean layout then this is it. The site is easy to navigate, and your seller options are all easily accessed from the menu that has big icons. Much better than the alternative ebay text links.

Cool Features

There is a constant activity stream showing on the homepage, where each item, & bid show up for a moment, before dissaprearing to make room for the next few updates.

You can tweet or add to most social networks direct from the page of any auctions.
Unlike ebay that has no such features.

You are notified that your data feed is available to download & then import to froogle.

Difficulties

The Currency of the site is dollars only. You can still buy & sell in other currency's, but you obviously have to be aware of the exchange rates.

Payments

Google payment is accepted & also paypal. Along with the new amazon payments, if your american. 

Amazon

www.amazon.com

This is one of the giants of online commerce.

Amazon is a catelogue of existing products & details, that you can easily take advantage off to quickly list products, choosing your quantity, and specific description, and selling in their marketplace. This is intergrated to look professionally part of amazon, and is very poipular amounst buyers.They enjoy the professional & secure setup that Amazon maintains.

You can also upload new products into the amazon catelogue, which is very good,

Although rather than an auction site, Amazon is all fixed price.

The fees are quite expensive, but you can list as much as you want without paying, and you only pay fees once an item sells.

The fees are taken straight from the item selling price, so you never have any big bills at the end of the month. You can reduce your fees if you subscribe to a power seller programme for a monthly fee. If your a large seller this is very much worth it.

ebid logo
ebid logo

Ebid

www.ebid.net

Free to list under a one of lifetime selling fee. If you don't want to pay this then you just pay a very small listing fee. There is a small final value selling fee on any items you sell.Final Fees for a sale are less than ebay listing fees!

Your buyers can remove negative feedback. You also have the option to bulk upload alot of items. You can open multiple stores, and if you have subscribed to the lifetime seller programme, then you can open as many stores as you want.

This is a popular auction site, and has a good community spirit.

Cqout logo
Cqout logo

CQout

www.Cqout.com

This is a very basic auction site, which is free to list on, and has a very clean interface.You do pay a final fee for selling but it is very small. There is the option to bulk upload items, however it is a very poor service. The admin staff actually complain if you bulk upload more than once, so you only really have one shot at your upload.

Also the payment withdrawl is an automatic once a month process if you use their inhouse securepay system. You can accept payments via other options however.

There is no web 2.0 features such as social networking intergrated into this site.

How many of these sites do you use?

How many of these sites do you use?

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Do you prefer auction sites or websites?

Do you prefer selling on auction sites or websites?

  • Auction Sites
  • Websites
  • Both
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Which Alternative Ebay site do you like best?

Which Alternative Ebay site do you like best?

  • Ioffer.com
  • Ebid.net
  • Cqout.com
  • Webidz.com
  • MyBiSi.com
  • Shopit.com
  • BlueJay.com
  • Bonanzle.com
  • Wensey.com
  • AtomicMall.com
  • OnlineAuctions.com
  • USIFF.com
  • Amazon.com
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Has ebay gone down the toilet?

Has ebay gone down the toilet?

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Googie  says:
2 weeks ago

I’ve been using http://www.job-lot.com for selling all my unwanted items which is a classified ads website. It’s currently free to list things, eventually their will be a small fixed submission fee per item.

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