ebay ebiz help...

[AnthonyL]

Hi,

Other then the activities surrounding starting out your business, it's important to keep in mind how many ongoing activities there are when you are running a large e-commerce/eBay business. While you as the business owner are more interested in sourcing products, making partnerships and marketing your business the other more repetitive eBay related functions get to be too time consuming (like leaving feedback, sending e-mails, etc...). Check out some of the software platforms that are out there at the Auction software Review.

My company, Sell Center is composed of e-commerce experts as well as a software tool call Laris. You can give us a call anytime if you have questions. The system manages eBay, Amazon, Overstock and automatically generates an e-commerce website which is all linked together with one inventory system.

We also have a partnership with a drop shipping company called DSDI or Drop Ship Direct. They're definitely worth checking out.

As far as the one post saying to not use eBay, that's not entirely true. Yes, eBay can be expensive, but with the right tools, tactics and research you can most definitely make a good amount of money with eBay and your own website. We call this multi-venue management. Basically, it's the idea of having products promoted on various sites, including your own and the strategies involved with this idea. There is an eBook out there outlining these strategies at www.multivenuemanagement.com.

Well, I hope some of this information helps you in your search.

[JEccles]

We also have a partnership with a drop shipping company called DSDI or Drop Ship Direct. They're definitely worth checking out.

I agree that DSDI is worth checking out. They are one of my favorite suppliers, with one major exception, make sure to keep an eye on their inventory - they do not notify you when things have gone out of stock. I've had the burn me once and now I only list items that I feel they have sufficient quantities of.

[AnthonyL]

From my experience, they are the best large drop shipper at dealing with inventory issues and are willing to help out along the way. They have a couple of new services to that help alert you of inventory changes - after signing in, go to the warehouse homepage. Then reseller menu, under product manager there is the ProdUpdate and Daily update list. These really help keep track of changes to particular products as well as a whole daily list. If you call them up, they will most definitely help you out.

[JEccles]

From my experience, they are the best large drop shipper at dealing with inventory issues and are willing to help out along the way. They have a couple of new services to that help alert you of inventory changes - after signing in, go to the warehouse homepage. Then reseller menu, under product manager there is the ProdUpdate and Daily update list. These really help keep track of changes to particular products as well as a whole daily list. If you call them up, they will most definitely help you out.

I will give that a try. I had thought they had some type of system in place but could not find the information when I needed it. Thanks

[opensourceforce]

Also...most shopping cart platforms will track the sales tax numbers for you, and others can have a Quick Books module added to provide more help for your tax and accounting details.