On April 1st 2008 Ebay dropped the hatchet on many of those
who are selling digital products on their network. While
this news devastated some, this is actually good news for
legit sellers. This puts the sellers of the 1 penny
e-books down for the count. In the past this was a way to
greatly manipulate your feedback as well as boost ACRU fees
almost devilishly. With that said, the change will
actually bring back respectability to Ebay's digital
products section.
As a seller of digital products myself the news at first
was scary. However a warmth overcame me shortly as I
realized this was actually a very good thing. It seemed
far to often with Ebay, that people were selling useless,
rehashed and often unfinished low quality products within.
Many times these e-books were marketed for a penny and used
to build up one's email list and add extra increases to
their feedback score. Most of these type of e-books
offered little to no value to the reader whatsoever. Ebay
realized the problem and had been working for a while now
to put an end to this. Throughout April they expect to
clean up their inventory greatly, by removing such gimmicks.
This opened up two options for anyone selling digital
products on their network. The options were either to
adapt or leave a rich cash harvesting empire behind. Even
though Ebay now offers the classified ad feature where you
may still place a digital product, most are not willing to
go that route. The classified ad option does not allow one
to collect feedback, nor are transaction actually done
through Ebay. You must now add your own link or Paypal
button to make the sale. The other way to still sell an
e-book or digital product on Ebay is to have a physical
product created with it and offer the digital product on a
CD or DVD instead. That option simply isn't in many
marketers line of sight and may in fact, be to expensive.
Time will tell how the classified ad or CD/DVD options fare
on Ebay but one thing is for certain this will help clean
up much of the manipulation of sales, email accounts and
feedback scores. Just the other day I already noticed a
decline in amount of e-books and digital products listed on
Ebay. If someone was looking to sell digital products on
Ebay now is probably the best time. Right after something
changes is usually the best time to get in on what is bound
to be a good thing.
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Michael Brown
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