 Re: How to be successful on EBay.
Having your own site certainly works out a fraction of the cost of what selling on EBay does. The major advantage that EBay has in its favour though, is passing traffic. We would all love our sites to have even one tenth of one percent of what EBay attracts.
I have dealt with EBay for over seven years now and in that time, I have seen them raise their fees on a whim, effectively remove most shop listings from search results, allow buyers to leave derogatory remarks without redress or appeal and worst of all, alter the feedback system to where it has lost all practical purpose.
EBay like many other rapidly expanding businesses, seem to have set themselves up as a mini dictatorship, rather than listening to the people that provide them with their income every day. It is hardly surprising that sellers no longer see EBay as the marketing opportunity it once was.
Although there has been rumours of sites that will compete with EBay coming into the mainstream, these have yet to happen. EBay is good for exposure of your products, but it often comes with a hefty price attached. | 
