the best way to sale your stuffs online, comparison of amazon and ebay.
Posted in Tai Chi on September 13th, 2011 by rain – Comments Offi work for a wholesale company, and we have huge listing on both amazon and ebay, in this review im just going to write the the fees,and the listing Structure。
1, The commissions,
listing in amazon.com they charge you pretty much everything for 15%, anything you sold and they going to 15% from you, the 15% is from the total item value and shipping together.
which is very hight,
Amazon Pricing Page http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=1161240
In Ebay, the commision is varety 7.0% of the initial $50.00, plus 5.0% of the remaining balance, all the way up to 11%, which is alot less then Amazon.
Ebay Pricing page, http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/fees.html
2, Listing
Categories Restricted In Amazon, they have listing requirements, some categories you have to get approved from amazon to list, for example clothing and accessories, if you have to contact amazon and get approved, they will ask you to make product image fit their qualification .
UPS,ISBN, code require in amazon for most listing,except in everything else you do not need the code.
The best part listing in amazon is there is no Time limited,
categories in Ebay, you can listing in any categories you want to, you do not need to get approved to listing in there.
you do no need to fill in UPS or ISBN code, its their listing option,if you have thats fine, you dont you still can listing in there,
Listing time, ebay have to type listing, AUction for 7 days, or fixed price for 30 days or Good Till Cancelled, those two type listing both charge a listing fee from 50cent to 3 cent, listing feen is depend on your account level, anchor store you only pay 3cent for listing a item, when listing expired you have to realist them,
3,Account Fees,
Amazon charge 39.99 for Pro merchant.
Ebay charge 19.99 for basic store,Premium for 49.94 anchor for 299.95,
Overall they both advantage and disadvantage, Ebay listing is alot cheaper but more complicate you have to relist everything, for amazon, they charge you higher commission fees, easy to manage, but cost more.
