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eBay Express Offers Exciting New Selling Options
Recently eBay launched its new "eBay Express" and it's almost certain to be a major profit
center to eBay sellers.
As everyone knows, eBay began as an auction site. Catering to small, mom and pop sellers,
eBay evolved into a more traditional online shopping channel with its stores and such features
as Buy It Now (BIN) which allows buyers to purchase merchandise immediately, rather than
waiting for an auction to end.
With eBay Express this transition to online store is complete, although eBay will certainly retain
the auction format for which it is most famous.
In 2005 eBay bought shopping.com and the similarity in format between the two is apparent.
The format is almost identical although there are far more items on eBay Express than
shopping.com. For instance, this morning in 'women's apparel' there were "469,207 matches
found" on Express and "79,000 items from 525 stores" on shopping.com.
One great difference: with the eBay Express system every purchase goes to the same
shopping cart, even though there are thousands of merchants. The shopping site, on the other
hand, leads directly to the individual store that owns the displayed merchandise.
eBay sellers cannot sign up for eBay Express, although they can opt out. Instead, the
merchandise is automatically listed if it's in the BIN format or if it's listed in an eBay store. At
this time, there is no charge for this dual listing on eBay and eBay Express, although I feel
certain that this will change in the future and that eBay will charge for this service.
Sellers will receive not only more exposure for each item listed, but there are other
benefits as well:
1. Buyers can choose to purchase multiple items all in one transaction, just like any traditional
store. If the buyer wants eight different items, it can be handled in one transaction, with one
payment and one shipping charge. This is so much simpler than dealing with eight different
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