Comments on: eBay Digital Download Ban

By: Rick

Rick — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 06:23:00 +0000

HEY EVERYONE,

GOOD NEWS, here is the latest news on bans.

THERE IS NOW A WORLD WIDE BAN on eBAY !!!!!

USERS FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTRY ARE PROTESTING THE FEEDBACK, DIGITAL ITEMS CHANGES AND THE CONSTANT CHANGING OF POLICY AND CONTROLLING MANNER OF eBAY.

The news states that the WORLD WIDE BAN has caused eBay stocks to TUMBLE AT LEAST 38% in the last 30 days.

Users all over the world are sticking together to BAN eBAY.

Also, TV has banned eBay.

STOCKS ARE TUMBLING, LETS KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK…. THE WORLD WIDE BAN ON eBAY continues…

until death of the eBay dynasour of packages and tape !!!!

By: Peter Jacobs

Peter Jacobs — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:33:48 +0000

E-books are dead . . .

A bold Statement I know, but true…………… Well as far as Ebay are concerned.

If your interested in discovering how you can produce Multimedia Information Products that make you money……… For FREE…. From someone who has done just that for over 26 years, you need to get this FREE VIDEO COURSE today.

Now it’s a shame that eBay has come to this decision, but like many people have already stated. Look for the positives and not dwell too much on the negatives, as this will surely drag you down into a deep feeling of despair and confusion.

Move on, and look for other more lucrative ways that you can make money online. There are a number of discussions on hundreds if not thousands of blogs and websites looking for ways around this current situation. Some I feel will look towards trying to manipulate and deceive eBay and continue to try and sell their e-book and digital products on their site.

Over the last few days, I have listened to audio discussions as well as reading debates on this subject, by very successful e-book marketers and the one thing that is common amongst all of them is they are running scared. Very very scared of the possibilities of losing their current income and the success they have built up over the years.

Now many of these successful e-book marketers have come to a number of conclusions, and one avenue is to convert their current business activities of digital e-books/software into a physical item, and as a successful producer of physical multimedia information products (I had to laugh when I heard an audio discussion describing Multimedia Information Products as something NEW !, or atleast the term Multimedia Information Products )

By: Linda

Linda — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:44:46 +0000

Because I don’t live in the USA, I’ve had to put up with inflated shipping for some time. ($22.00 to mail a sewing pattern to Canada?) So when I discovered digital delivery for knitting patterns whose copyright had expired, I was delighted. I also live in a remote area many miles from the post office so you can see, digital delivery is really important to many of us. I’m so tired of getting screwed by eBay I’m quitting doing business with them. How come they allow their sellers to gouge for regular shipping and say that’s between the buyer and the seller, and then DICTATE how people will ship?

By: Michelle L. Green

Michelle L. Green — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 08:35:56 +0000

I’m not surprised with the change. Ebay is known for making changes to the system; but this change seems to be a bit drastic compared to most of the changes they make. I have a plan to deal with these changes, but I will sure miss the convenience of digital delivery. To those who may be frustrated to the point of giveing up…DON’T DO IT! We are all dealing with this challenge. Although it is frustrating, ebay is just one marketing option. Hang in there, and maneauver around this obstacle.

By: michael

michael — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:45:44 +0000

for me that’s ridiculous!

I prefer use alternatives such as http://www.zipidee.com

sold videos and audio files and next week e-books

for digital goods…hasta la vista ebay

By: Gary

Gary — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:58:19 +0000

When I first read about the ban I was in disbelief because my sales were really taking off but I didn’t waste any time sulking about it. I began looking at the positives of this action and quickly formed a plan and began putting it into action. I see this as an opportunity.

By: Robert Proctor

Robert Proctor — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:35:02 +0000

Doesn’t suprise me at all, Ebay is just going for the dollar and ebook digitial downloads don’t pay them to much so they make us sell using classified ads which are more expensive.

Robert Proctor

By: Dave Ovenden

Dave Ovenden — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:44:39 +0000

As you would expect, there has been a massive reaction from eBay sellers to this announcement. From despair to joy and every other emotion in between, people seem genuinely shocked by this move from eBay.

I’ve been following many of the blog and forum posts and there seem to be 4 main options emerging from the majority of the posts.

To save people having to search through all the comments I’ve tried to summarise them all here:

http://MyNetBooks.co.uk/newsletter

I’m certainly going to try the first 2 options before giving up selling digital products on eBay but some people are quitting without even trying to adapt which, quite frankly, just amazes me. It takes all sorts I guess!

Regards
Dave Ovenden

By: John Tan

John Tan — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:20:31 +0000

Hi Lesley,

What you are doing is great. Repurpose our content to physcial product is the way to go if we want to continue to generate lead from ebay.

By: Lesley Huntley

Lesley Huntley — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 06:05:35 +0000

Wow, this is exactly what TradeMe (New Zealand’s auction site) did a few years back, and it nearly killed me. I had to get a *gulp* job.

I came back though, I simply printed my books and gave them nice recycled card covers. As it turned out, it worked out really well as it almost totally eliminated the competition. I am amongst only a handful of people making their living selling printed information products on TradeMe now.

This doesn’t help people who make their money purely from back end sales from their eBooks however, and I feel for those people, I really do. I hope people who feed their families with these sales are able to come back.

Looking forward to your input Lee.