Popular Science! What is eBay?

As the second largest cross-border e-commerce platform after Amazon, what exactly is eBay? What are the advantages of eBay? Let's take a look at it below!

What is eBay?

eBay: The world's leading online marketplace

eBay (NASDAQ: eBay; http://www.eBay.com) was founded in September 1995 and is the world's leading online marketplace for individuals and businesses to sell goods and provide services. Currently, eBay has more than 300 million registered users worldwide, and items worth $2,000 are traded on eBay every second. Measured by total user browsing time, eBay is the most popular shopping website on the Internet worldwide.

eBay's Platform

Millions of items are listed on eBay every day. The products on eBay are all-encompassing, with more than thousands of categories. From collectibles such as souvenir cards, antiques, dolls and household utensils to practical goods such as used cars, clothing, books, audio-visual products and electronic products, all can be traded. Buyers can freely choose to bid or purchase products through a unique fixed-price auction method called "Buy Now".

eBay users are all over the world. Currently, eBay's local sites have covered 38 countries and regions including Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Vietnam, Thailand, Ireland, Italy, Malaysia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom and the United States. After investing in MercadoLibre.com, eBay also provides first-class services to Latin American users.

Through eBay's complete and diverse training tools, features and services, users can quickly, safely and conveniently buy and sell goods on eBay. These services include PayPal online payment services, safe trading tips, and the eBay Developer Alliance Program for community users who are eager to develop their own technical solutions.

Advantages of eBay platform

(1) Low threshold for opening a store:

Compared with Amazon, the threshold for opening a store on eBay is relatively low, and the procedures for opening a store are not too complicated.

(2) Professional customer service support:

eBay customer service still provides good support to Chinese sellers, including telephone support and online chat.

(3) Diversification of pricing methods:

eBay has launched a series of new pricing methods, including bidding without a reserve price, bidding with a reserve price, fixed price selling, and fixed price selling.

As people in the cross-border circle, we need to take into account a variety of skills such as operation, product selection, traffic diversion, logistics, etc. We must understand each one and none of them can be missing. In this process, we have to step on many pitfalls and use a variety of tools to improve efficiency. As long as you have money and find a reliable service provider, you can open a store. For sellers, time is especially precious and there are many things to deal with.

So I will summarize some tools that can improve efficiency. I will take the platform sellers who open Amazon stores as an example:

If you are a factory and need to open many stores, you can use Zi Niao Browser to operate it, and you can also avoid the stores being linked. Zi Niao Browser provides sellers with a safe and stable login environment, fixed IP operation, solves the problem of browser fingerprint recording, and allows login operations on the same computer.

Need to select products? Or operate? You can buy a JungleScout plug-in to solve the problem perfectly. JungleScout's solution covers seller selection, competitor tracking, market trend analysis, keyword search and reverse query, listing optimization, off-site traffic, email marketing, store profit analysis, PPC advertising optimization, supplier search and management, etc. From product selection to operation, everything is arranged for you!

Need to receive money? Use Airwallex to bind Amazon payment, and the fee withdrawal rate can be as low as 0. Currently, Airwallex's cross-border withdrawals can be received on the same day at the fastest, and the maximum subsidy for activated accounts is 1,000 yuan. Using this tool to receive money can make your funds return faster and can solve the problem of too high fees. Airwallex payment account registration entrance: https://hub6.cn/sEhRZy