9 Points of Comparison for Selling on eBay and Amazon

I have been offering on Amazon since 2006 as a shipper satisfied vender and in 2010 we moved into FBA. Since moving to FBA, our deals have become just about 800% and we have been extremely beneficial. (FBA implies Fulfillment By Amazon –You send your products into Amazon in mass and they handle the transportation, returns and client administration).

 

I get a considerable measure of inquiries asking me what are the contrasts between offering –and profiting, on eBay versus offering on Amazon. We now profit on Amazon than we do on eBay, however regardless we offer in both venues.

Amazon vs eBay - Nine Key Comparison Points

Numerous eBay merchants have thought about whether it's truly worth offering on Amazon. Some vibe there are an excessive number of tenets and it wouldn't be justified regardless of the exertion. I've picked twelve purposes of correlation that may help dealers settle on a choice.

Fees

Amazon's bonus and FBA expenses work out considerably higher than eBay's, however we offer a lot more on Amazon that we profit in general.

Format (Auction vs. Fixed-price)

eBay Auctions are the most ideal approach to get market esteem for utilized, vintage and collectibles. eBay is better on the off chance that you are offering interesting things and need the best costs. In any case, Amazon is the ruler of new items. The one special case is utilized books which offer great on Amazon

 

Amazon is the settled value ruler, yet eBay has moved unequivocally in that bearing by making light of barters and empowering altered value postings. The favorable position is in the purchasers. The Amazon purchaser is more prosperous, and pays a higher normal cost for items.

Stability

Online retailers depend on the soundness of their picked stages to work easily. Changes cost time (and time is cash). Dealers have created frameworks that permit them to rundown, offer, and convey things. At the point when guidelines change, or things don't work, the frameworks separate and benefit is lost.

 

Amazon has had not very many real changes in the previous couple of years and even those are genuinely minor. Despite the fact that there are a few limitations, they for the most part finish what has been started, and are authorized reliably. At the point when changes have been made, they tend to stick and dealers can conform.

 

eBay rolls out real improvements consistently, including Feedback, expenses, how the web index works, digitally conveyed things, query items, Detailed Seller Ratings, and more are not out of the ordinary. eBay rolls out their significant improvements in the Spring and fall. Merchants have been extraordinarily influenced in genuine and saw ways. A few changes have been taken off, just to be turned around bringing about considerably more horror among venders.

Feedback

Both eBay and Amazon have an input framework permitting purchasers and dealers to record their impression of an exchange. Both destinations permit purchasers to leave negative remarks for merchants. Both locales just permit dealers to leave just positive remarks for purchasers.

 

The eBay society has given substantially more weight to input than their Amazon partner. Amazon purchasers can see the merchant's criticism score, however tend to disregard it more promptly than eBay purchasers. Amazon's A-Z Guarantee may have a course on this by making the purchaser feel more ensured when acquiring a thing.

 

Amazon does not "'drawback"' merchants, as eBay does, by moving them down in the outcomes when customers play out an inquiry. eBay does this by considering the dealer's criticism score and making them less obvious to customers, as opposed to giving purchasers a chance to settle on the decision themselves. (Be that as it may, if your criticism turns out to be exceptionally poor on Amazon they may suspend your record.

Branding

Amazon confines dealers from contacting purchasers and advertising to them. eBay used to permit this however didn't really does.

Late changes at eBay have essentially wiped out the capacity to utilize eBay as a lead producing device for off-eBay business. eBay has everything except taboo any outside connections from any eBay pages including custom store pages, and About Me pages. This has successfully killed eBay as a "'marking"' instrument.

Another method on Amazon (and you can do it on eBay as well) is private marking. You make an item and put your own particular private name on it. Along these lines you generally own the purchase box on Amazon.

Taxes

Commercial center dealers are in charge of the business charge on any things sold on Amazon.com, and if important, they for the most part include this expense into the cost of their things.

Both Amazon and eBay gives an instrument to gather the duties notwithstanding the deal cost. Along these lines the expenses don't eat into the vender's benefits. Be that as it may, albeit both destinations will gather and pay the charges to you, you are still in charge of recording and paying the expenses

Average Sale Price

Amazon purchasers are rich, and willing to spend more on comparable things and are less deal seeker mindset. eBay purchasers tend to search for deals, and will hold up through a bartering to spare a buck or two.

As a vender, I'll pick the purchaser that will spend more. I have really utilized eBay to source items at absolute bottom costs, that sold for good benefit on Amazon. Amazon purchasers regularly don't look on eBay, and they eventually pay more.

Payment Methods

Amazon venders must utilize Amazon Payments to acknowledge installment. That is it. Amazon gathers the installment, and stores it into your financial balance twice every month. They gather and store the assets without any expenses included. (Yet, they do assume the praise card hazard which PayPal does not)

 

eBay merchants can acknowledge PayPal, and charge cards.

 

Amazon merchants don't need to send solicitations, installment updates, or track unpaid things. In the event that Amazon can't gather the installment, you don't have a deal, and your thing is still recorded on their site. eBay's framework is essentially more work, additional time, and eventually costs more to oversee as a merchant.

 

Shipping

There are two approaches to offer on Amazon – Merchant Fulfilled (you deliver the thing to the client) or FBA (You transport your things to Amazon and they handle the transportation and client administration

 

In the event that you Merchant satisfy, Amazon gives venders a "'transportation credit"', in light of a thing's classification. This doesn't generally cover the full dispatching sum, however typically does. The sum is settled by Amazon. You can't request more from the client, and regardless of the fact that the delivery credit does not take care of your transportation costs, you should dispatch the thing. Since the delivery credit is altered, it can be figured in when setting your cost.

Summary

There is no doubt eBay is best for a few things, while Amazon is best for others. Be that as it may, the cover is extraordinarily extensive. Most by far of things that offer on Amazon will likewise offer on eBay, and the other way around.

 

The essential thing to recollect is the customers are distinctive. While you and I may shop on a few destinations, numerous Amazon customers are extremely faithful to Amazon and won't visit eBay. Some eBayers feel it would be a transgression to shop on Amazon. By offering on both destinations, you are conceivably getting a huge number of extra eyeballs on your items.