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PostPosted: Tue Nov 18, 2003 9:31 pm    Post subject: Website sales v Ebay Reply with quote
Usually, as we know, the best products to sell via affiliate programs are the niche products, or new "craze" products people are searching for on Google for example.

However, when these products appear in bulk, the place where they most tend to turn up, and cheaply, is on Ebay.

Hows does this stack up in actuality; do the web browsing, shopping Internet public at large go to Google or Ebay to find such products?

If Ebay, how can websites, especially with affiliate schemes compete?

Thanks.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 18, 2003 10:10 pm    Post subject: Top Products... Reply with quote
Hi!
Website sales vs. Ebay
The most info-products you will find on eBay are pure crap or illegal sold. People sell products without having rights to do that. So if you are looking at topnotch infoproducts from people like Corey Rudl, Marlon Sanders, .... you won't find there regular products on eBay. So I don't think if you are looking to become an affiliate for top products you wil have any problems to competitors on ebay. The most infoproducts which are sold on ebay are products which are sold with resale rights or master resale rights on the websites. If for example an product is sold for $99 with master resale rights on a website, you could easily get that product shortly after it has been released for a few bucks on ebay. But that don't counts for normal infoproducts which are mostly sold "without" the rights to resell them.
I hope this helped to clarify the competition between Website vs. Ebay

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PostPosted: Wed Nov 19, 2003 12:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Thanks for your comments dk Smile

I should have qualifies the sort of product I was referring to, which are in fact the "hard" products which appear every now and again. For example, the Iraqi playing cards, and other fad products. These are the ones which people search for Google, and also on Ebay. Laser pointers are another example.

For electronic goods and general services fo course you are absolutely correct, and of course services cannot be sold in Ebay anyway.
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