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.