Best Websites to sell on? Leaving Amazon.
So after 14 years. We are done with Amazon. I know many are feeling the same way lately. This use to be fun. Not anymore. What are the other websites that everyone is selling on? TIA.
Best Websites to sell on? Leaving Amazon.
So after 14 years. We are done with Amazon. I know many are feeling the same way lately. This use to be fun. Not anymore. What are the other websites that everyone is selling on? TIA.
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Seller_4zBzdtgCyS9EI
Totally depends on what you are selling. Abe for books, Ebay for anything, Walmart for brands.................
Seller_HRcJa1gdGHeov
Hear you, we are (kind of pushed us out) gone as well. The 2 biggest next to Amazon are eBay and Wal-Mart; as others have stated it really depends on what you are selling though. For smaller volume items that are on the rare side, we have had very good success with eBay (we sell toys/games) but Wal-Mart is getting better. I have heard Mecari is pretty decent for clothes and if you are good with social media Whatnot is solid. Do not overlook starting your own website; not cheap and requires work, but you control it.
I will say it is very hard to replace the value that Amazon brings; but the increasing ridiculousness makes this platform inherently unstable.
Seller_cCwRiCrjZMd4T
We're 9 years on Amazon now. Have been over one million in sales for several years nowfor over half that time and just a two person operation. We're in our last Q4 to close down our business. The balance on the scales have tipped with the recent slew of extra fees mixed, polices and increasing fraud. Profit continues to diminish while the stress is increasing. We're now down to 450 FBA listings from our average of 1K. This was a hard decision to come too. If Amazon could wake up to what they are doing soon then we would stay. But I'm not holding my breath.
Seller_Z3SAB32tx2ORv
it is all the same, Global Ads placement is the key! US based businesses free ride is over! We have no content, we are consumers, the content is global and the reach is very costly now!
Seller_z6L37XIGqaTKj
The problem isn't so much where else can you sell on but the nature of your business. I'm not sure there are other fulfillment-based marketplace sites out there like Amazon, so keep this in mind if you plan to ship out your own product. And if there are fulfillment-based web sites, keep in mind you may be facing the same run around, where they charge you excessive fees to up their revenue, claim merchandise is lost or damaged, and generally review your own sales data as a means of creating their own SKUs that you'll then have to compete against. That's a lot to consider if you plan to leave Amazon for good and strike out on your own through alternate marketplace sites.
Seller_Eu7SDX0Q0YIE2
We are on our way out in September, after almost 15 years. The forced automated handling time was the last straw for us. Spending this 60 day period expanding our eBay store and moving everything over to Walmart. Have had a Walmart store for years, but never really did much with it as when they started the 3P sellers availability, it was a dumpster fire for some time. Has levelled out and sales are climbing as we add product.
We are the only one selling our products, so they just won't be available on Amazon any longer. If enough people do that maybe they will start caring. Pretty soon all it will be here is Chinese counterfeit products.
Seller_HRcJa1gdGHeov
This is a good point, except for War-Mart (they have WFS) there are not too many options unless you can fulfill your own orders. There are independent fulfillment providers, but they are expensive and have many of the same issues as FBA.
Seller_TBS3wt1Auoij3
Does anyone know how to post anonymously so Amazon doesn't link what I post here to my seller account?
Knowing their almighty AI that can ban "linked" accounts, I dare not to say anything that might offend the gods.
Seller_mGrZtD2mdQoyy
Try eBay. You can also consider starting your own website using Wix, Shopify, or WordPress.
Seller_xeDdQgRH5VZwO
I sell part-time and can't be bothered to deal with nonsense Amazon pulls at random. So whenever a listing is about to be removed for some completely random reasoning that was flagged by a bot... if I can't resolve it quickly, I just move it over to eBay now.
