Email a copy of 'Why Consumers Buy and Sell Used Goods on eBay' to a friend
Ina Steiner
Ina Steiner is co-founder and Editor of EcommerceBytes and has been reporting on ecommerce since 1999. She's a widely cited authority on marketplace selling and is author of "Turn eBay Data Into Dollars" (McGraw-Hill 2006). Her blog was featured in the book, "Blogging Heroes" (Wiley 2008). She is a member of the Online News Association (Sep 2005 - present) and Investigative Reporters and Editors (Mar 2006 - present). Follow her on Twitter at @ecommercebytes and send news tips to ina@ecommercebytes.com. See disclosure at EcommerceBytes.com/disclosure/.




“The most pressing sustainability reason for these buyers and sellers? Keeping perfectly good products out of landfills.”
Give Me A Break – ROTFLMAO
I’m wondering how valid this report is, since eBay doesn’t seem to have a good handle on specifics within the collectibles categories.
Are they lumping collectibles in with used consumer goods?
FLIPPING.
Make a bit of profit selling used.
It’s the American way.
Now to force corporate to lower the take rate back down to a palatable 3%.