Selling on eBay

Richard Lowe

• 10 april 2026
• 9781946458513

Samenvatting:

eBay used to be simple. You listed something, someone bid on it, you shipped it out. The whole thing took about twenty minutes and felt like a garage sale that never closed. That eBay is gone. What replaced it is a corporate marketplace with managed payments, algorithm-driven search, seller performance metrics, and policies that change whether you're watching or not.This book is for people who want to sell on eBay the way it actually works now, not the way it worked in 2005.Richard Lowe has been selling on eBay since 2003. He has watched the platform transform from a scrappy auction site built on community trust into a sophisticated marketplace that answers to shareholders, not sellers. He has adapted to every major change along the way, and he knows what still works, what stopped working, and what was never worth doing in the first place.Selling on eBay: A No-Nonsense Guide to Profitable Selling covers everything from setting up your account and writing listings that convert to managing returns, handling difficult buyers, navigating Seller Hub, and building a real business on the platform. The book includes coverage of dropshipping compliance, automation tools, promoted listings, and the performance standards eBay uses to determine whether your listings get seen or buried.This is not a get-rich-quick guide. eBay requires work, patience, and a willingness to keep learning as the rules shift. What it offers in return is a real sales channel with hundreds of millions of active buyers and the infrastructure to reach them.If you want cheerleading, this is the wrong book. If you want to know what you are actually dealing with and how to build something that lasts, read on.