Say you're currently selling hand-made jewelry and you've sold five hundred items on eBay in the last few months.
The products look good, they're snapped up hours after being listed, they easily fetch one hundred pounds or more from Buy It Now listings and sometimes a tad less from Best Offers.
But still you'd like more customers and you're tired of paying two or three pounds to eBay to list your items with ten or more illustrations each time, and you're fed up handing back a huge chunk of your profits in eBay final selling fees and PayPal commissions.
You wonder if there isn't an easier way to sell more of your jewelry to eBay's massive buyer base without the hefty fees involved.
Oh yes, and you don't want anyone competing to sell your jewelry on eBay, what you want are buyers you might not otherwise reach except by joint venturing.
Thankfully there is a way to do just that, through eBay, and without burdening another eBay seller with over-the-top eBay and PayPal fees.
You do it by sourcing other eBayers selling quality items of jewelry, hand-made and otherwise, designer label or antique.
You contact those people and invite them to sell your goods to their past customers for a nice commission on every sale.
You make it clear they will not be selling your products to new customers through eBay - you're adequately set up to do that yourself - you want them to offer your jewelry to their own past eBay and non-eBay buyers where deals take place outside of eBay so listing and final selling fees are non-existent.
When one venture ends you compare profits to what you'd otherwise make selling more of your own jewelry on eBay, and you decide whether to form a permanent relationship with your present jv partner, or look for other jv partners, or return to selling your own products exclusively on eBay.
If all goes well you continue looking for prospective partners on eBay, some selling similar products, other selling complementary goods.
What about people selling wedding dresses, for example, and designer ball gowns, might their customers buy your jewelry? But wait, you're not done yet, because you also have a growing list of your own past buyers..
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what can you do to make more money from them, other than overloading them with jewelry offers? How about looking for products others are selling on eBay which complement your jewelry and earn a good commission for you on every sale? Consider jewelry boxes, for example, jewelry making classes and jewelry cleaning accessories.
Easy isn't it? And so wonderfully profitable too!