This morning I heard on the radio as reported by ABC national news that only about 8% of  registered eBay users actually sell anything on eBay.

I thought that this was an amazing piece of information that I wouldn’t have been able to guess at an answer if I were asked.

Most everyone going to eBay is there to look around and kind of “window shop”.

The purpose of the news article was to point to the method many people use if they have items they want to sell on eBay.

Many people use small stand-alone businesses that do the selling for people who don’t want to do the selling themselves on eBay.

Most of us know there are these eBay selling businesses, but we probably didn’t know that the vast majority of sellers on eBay are not ordinary people selling just an item or so here and there just to empty out some closet or garage.

There are of course the usual household items sold by ordinary people. But it is mainly people actively engaged in selling goods and products as a small business that makes up the marketplace array displayed on eBay.

This just brings to light once again that even if you don’t want to go through the arrangements of locating products you could sell on eBay, you can easily have all the business you could handle by setting up your own business selling other  people’s items on eBay for them.

This could be a small home-based operation to a store-front business on Main Street and also a business that could be marketed online for customers as well.

Till next time,

Jackie