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If you are an eBay merchant, you can use the tremendous popularity of this site to generate business for your web store, or even your offline store. However, eBay doesn’t want you to
simply use their auctions as a way to push people to your store, which seems fair enough. (And they also have an important pricing rule, the same as Amazon’s: you can’t sell a product on your site for less than you list it in your eBay store.)

But that doesn’t mean you can’t use eBay to promote your web site; in fact, eBay is pretty liberal in what they do allow. There are several things you can do: (more…)

■ Hundreds of thousands of people have made money through eBay, many of them enough to live on.
■ It’s very easy to get started selling through eBay. You can literally post your first product in a matter of minutes.
■ eBay provides a number of different ways to sell. You can sell through an auction or fixed price, through the main listings, or in an eBay store.
■ eBay provides tools to increase the likelihood of safe transactions, such as PayPal Buyer protection, eBay Standard Purchase Protection, and a feedback mechanism about buyers and sellers. You get paid, and the buyer can purchase with confidence. (more…)