Ebay alternative selling sites

If your sick of expensive ebay fees, or ridiculous feedback rules, or your looking to expand your online business, then checkout some of the alternative options to make sales online.

Although Ebay remains the most popular site for selling and making money, if you list at all these other sites, then you can make more easily, and not have to rely on just one site for your income. Its also a great way to reach out to customer who are also sick of the run around they have had on ebay, with their expensive fees, and direction..

This is the most comprehensive list on the internet of alternatives to ebay.
Updated regularly, by a real seller who uses them.

1. ioffer.com - American Based Site, Huge Customer base, worldwide and Europe.
2. webidz.com - Basic auction site, but has an ok customer base, and has been online for quite a few years.
3. ebid.net - Recently had a revamp - and is looking good with the new purple suit on.
4. CQOUT.com - Long running site, that is in bad need of a revamp, has a low customer base.
5. Bonanza.com - Proving to be the fastest and BEST growing auction site. For many strange reasons. (was bonanzle) Great site for social selling on facebook and twitter.
6. Wensy.com - Long running auction website, but very basic, and low number of users.
7. AtomicMall.com - A futuristic looking site, with good payment features, but limited by number of users. Mostly USA customer base.
8. USIFF.com - This isn't really an auction site as such, but you can list your items on it. Its more a price comparison directory, and costs are expensive to list your items.
9. Amazon.com - The Giant Of Online Selling
10. Etsy.com - Becoming quite a popular site, with easy to use features, and continuous community development. This site is geared towards home made crafts and smaller sellers.
11. taobao.com - Force to be reckoned with, this is a super ebay in China, but you will need to read and speak Chinese.

1. wigix.com - This is a great potential site that just suddenly stopped dead in the water. Avoid.
2. Get it or Sell it.com - This is down, never to return, which is a shame, this really was an ebay killer.
3. Shopit.com - Another great concept selling site, they have less than 10 dvd's for sale in total. That sort of just describes the whole site.
4. BlueJay.com - This auction site has closed down.
5. OnlineAuctions.com - This auction site has closed down, it was looking good.

Ioffer.com is a fixed price site, and a great alternative to ebay.

Here you can make an offer in the hope that the seller will accept, along with just purchasing items at the fixed price option. It has a slightly less organised feel to it than ebay, but it works well on this site, as there is lots of things to be found. For more info Click this ioffer guide.

Communication

This is great if your a seller, as the site really promotes interaction, and communication between buyers & sellers is shown as a pop up on your screen instantly, so communication is fast & easy.

Fees

The listing fees are 0.
The final selling fees are very cheap.

How to Sell

Great features here include, bulk uploading via .csv spreadsheet. You can also upload listings via an SMS text message, with a picture.

User Base

Very Large amount of American, and also European.

Design

Very Clean layout, and if your looking for an ebay alternative that still has a nice clean layout then this is it. The site is easy to navigate, and your seller options are all easily accessed from the menu that has big icons. Much better than the alternative ebay text links.

Cool Features

There is a constant activity stream showing on the homepage, where each item, & bid show up for a moment, before disappearing to make room for the next few updates.

You can tweet or add to most social networks direct from the page of any auctions.
Unlike ebay that has no such features.

You are notified that your data feed is available to download & then import to Froogle.

Difficulties

The Currency of the site is dollars only. You can still buy & sell in other currency's, but you obviously have to be aware of the exchange rates.

Payments

Google payment is accepted & also paypal. Along with the new amazon payments, if your American.

www.amazon.com

This is one of the giants of online commerce.

Amazon is a catalogue of existing products & details, that you can easily take advantage off to quickly list products, choosing your quantity, and specific description, and selling in their marketplace. This is integrated to look professionally part of amazon, and is very popular amongst buyers.They enjoy the professional & secure setup that Amazon maintains.
For more detailed information about amazon click here

You can also upload new products into the amazon catalogue, which is very good,

Although rather than an auction site, Amazon is all fixed price.

The fees are quite expensive, but you can list as much as you want without paying, and you only pay fees once an item sells.

The fees are taken straight from the item selling price, so you never have any big bills at the end of the month. You can reduce your fees if you subscribe to a power seller programme for a monthly fee. If your a large seller this is very much worth it.

Communication

Easy communication through the main admin panel of your amazon account.
Email address are encrypted.

Fees

The listing fees are 0.
The final selling fees are quite expensive.
Power seller programme has £30 monthly payment.

How to Sell

One of the best features is amazon CSV upload. You can upload really any size of csv file for your stock. Amazon can load in large csv files while is better than some ebay alternative sites, you have to split your csv file into smaller pieces.

User Base

Very Large, worldwide.

Design

Very organised layout, shaped around users buying habits.

Cool Features

Amazon has one of the highest rankings in online search, along with the user preferred buying choices. This is great, on every page of a purchase there is a list of a few % statistics including what % of people who viewed this item bought it, and what % bought something else.

Difficulties

Strict following to amazon policy.

Payments

Are handled directly by amazon. You only ever receive your money after your item fees have been deducted. You receive a payment into your bank account ever 24 hours for market place sellers. Power sellers must wait 14 days for amazon payments.

Bonanzle Currently has 225,647 users. (30/3/10)

236156 Users (19/4/10)

Bonanzle is currently growing at a rate of over 11 Thousand New members a month.

It doesn't cost anything to open a store at bonanzle, but you are limited to 10 thusand items in your store. No worries your aloud to open multiple stores, and encouraged to differentiate them.

There is also a great feature that the site is unique for, you select a time you want to have you store in a bonanzle, and as long as you are online at the time, your items are promoted heavily to front page. This Idea with Bonanzle is Great.

Overall Bonanzle is a superior selling platform to almost anything else, but does its slightly non serious approach mean it cant really be a professional platform?

The Votes at the top of this page point to head on Bonanzle and Amazon

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www.ebid.net

Free to list under a one of lifetime selling fee. If you don't want to pay this then you just pay a very small listing fee. There is a small final value selling fee on any items you sell.Final Fees for a sale are less than ebay listing fees!

Your buyers can remove negative feedback. You also have the option to bulk upload alot of items. You can open multiple stores, and if you have subscribed to the lifetime seller programme, then you can open as many stores as you want.

This is a popular auction site, and has a good community spirit. They have undergone a recent upgrade and last count have 2 million auctions in the USA site, and 1 million in the uk site.

You can read more about ebid click here.

Communication

There is an easy to see and use contact box for the seller on the left of every auction page. 
You can easily send buyers and sellers messages easily, and its done through a logged part of the admin section. 

Fees

The listing fees are 0.
The final selling fees are very cheap.
You can pay a one of fee of about £49.49

How to Sell

Ebid accepts bulk uploading via .csv spreadsheet, and directly on the website.

User Base

Largest Alternative to Ebay in the UK.

Used also by american, and more. Full list click here.

Design

Very large layout, easily to find what your looking for and tightly organised with a huge range of categories. There is the option for sellers to include html, so for lots of pages, there is good old style ebay graphics, where cool html banner scripts show up.

Cool Features

The Price is 

Difficulties

Not enough people. Thats it, this is really one of the best websites out there as an alternative to ebay.

Payments

paypal is accepted and easily integrated into ebid. Along with Google checkout also.
There is another ebid affiliate payment option also, its called pppay.com.

www.Cqout.com

This is a very basic auction site, which is free to list on, and has a very clean interface.You do pay a final fee for selling but it is very small. There is the option to bulk upload items, however it is a very poor service. The admin staff actually complain if you bulk upload more than once, so you only really have one shot at your upload.

Also the payment withdrawal is an automatic once a month process if you use their in house securepay system. You can accept payments via other options however.

There is no web 2.0 features such as social networking integrated into this site.

If you find a good ebay alternative selling site, then post the link here, and i will take a look and review it. Please note, that if your site, has less than 100 dvd's or 100 books for sale, then expect it to be promoted to the ebay alternative sites to avoid category.