T_Miller - 11:28 pm on Jul 29, 2009 (gmt 0)

For us, we sell personalized widgets and widgets that are often re-ordered, so it has been good for acquiring customers for future sales (off eBay). If we sold one-off, never see 'em again items, the value would be considerable less as a sales channel.

I'd never recommend eBay be anyone's *only* sales channel.

But a lot of people take the bait and build their "businesses" around selling on 1 or two venues like eBay, Amazon, Etsy, etc. Same people can't understand why they don't make money when they try to compete based on price at 15-20% GPM—they forget to figure in the 12-15% cut eBay takes. ;)