Sick of eBay.I'll run business on my website. What is the best way for the payment??

mazdaspring

Hi All, I am now sick of stupid eBay rules, not protect sellers, not protect buyers, unfair feedback system, higher fees with worse protection. So I am thinking to run my business on my own website (just will have a try and see how it is going). I will find the way to promote my website as well.

However, I have a question to ask about the payment. What kind of payment should I offer the buyers to protect myself from scammers. Is google check out good? I am also thinking to sign up new Paypal with new address. Will they limit the money received and withdrawal (transfer to bank) in the future? I dont want to give them a prove of address, Photos ID, and else. or they will limit only when you are with eBay? Any suggestion please give it out. Thanks a lot.

ArmitageShanks

Might be of interest. http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1218381

soolin

All paypal accounts whether on ebay or not willr equire you to go through the normal verification malarky when you have taken a certain amount of money. You will of course also still be subject to all the chargeback problems, but then any service you take that accepts cards on your behalf will have the chargeback issue.

You are not supposed to have more than one premier/business paypal account at any one time, so that might be a problem as well.

Blue Monkey has posted on another thread with some very useful info on merchant accounts, these will cost you a large set up fee plus a monthly charge plus a charge per transaction, but if you were going big time this might be another way forward.

Brooker_Dave

mazdaspring wrote: »

Hi All, I am now sick of stupid eBay rules, not protect sellers, not protect buyers, unfair feedback system, higher fees with worse protection. So I am thinking to run my business on my own website (just will have a try and see how it is going). I will find the way to promote my website as well.

However, I have a question to ask about the payment. What kind of payment should I offer the buyers to protect myself from scammers. Is google check out good? I am also thinking to sign up new Paypal with new address. Will they limit the money received and withdrawal (transfer to bank) in the future? I dont want to give them a prove of address, Photos ID, and else. or they will limit only when you are with eBay? Any suggestion please give it out. Thanks a lot.

Google Checkout is very good, and good value, plus people trust a big name like google.

Consider a cart/shop from http://www.uk2.net/e-commerce/

wheresmydoshat

i have not yet looked into google checkout until today.

at first glance it looks very interesting. although i have trialed having an adwords google ad and i find its way overpriced, despite the fact i like the options it gives you.

i'm assuming tho i can't offer google checkout as payment on ebay ? or can it as long as paypal is an option ?

soolin

Unfortunately google checkout is specifically banned on ebay.

wheresmydoshat

haha, i guessed as much. i assume because from what i can tell it is about 1/3 the cost of using paypal !

ArmitageShanks

.......using GC would detriment the buying experience.:rolleyes:

bing0

I would imagine that having google checkout would be a massive advantage.Surely google would give your website a higher search rank by having their payment option...?

Would it be possible to tell me/us what type of goods/services you are currently selling,reason being that people on here may be able to help you in marketing decisions,depending on what you sell.

Thankyou and good luck.

Brooker_Dave

bing0 wrote: »

I would imagine that having google checkout would be a massive advantage.Surely google would give your website a higher search rank by having their payment option...?

Would it be possible to tell me/us what type of goods/services you are currently selling,reason being that people on here may be able to help you in marketing decisions,depending on what you sell.

Thankyou and good luck.

The stuff on my shop is often very high, if not top in google rankings and I've done nothing much in the way of promotion.

GC is very good.

blue_monkey_2

Hiya,

I thought I would add to this thread having been pondering on things for a few days since I started my thread about Google Checkout.

I have signed up to Google Checkout - I am just waiting for my deposit so I can add it to my e-commerce shop so I can 'go live' and move to my new e-commerce host. I've looked around a good many e-commerce shop and I have just switched to www.bluepark.co.uk you can get the first level shop for £19.99 and this is generally the basic start price, but the features it offers you are far superior of any site I have seen. It gives me just what you need. If you are selling something specific then call the people who run the e-commerce sites and ask, do you have someone who is selling xx as I'd like to see how they lay out their shop and if it offers what I need.

For me the main issue was I had no search facility that worked so I asked what competitors had and looked at their sites and saw that the search was fabtastic - and I could tailor it to my needs. It was exactly what I had been looking for with my current host - but despite me offering to pay they could not give me this. So it was time to go. I can even enter the stock I have so no listing and relisting, changing from shop to main site on a cheap listing day, if the item is in stock it has a little green tick, I can use it for Special Order goods so it says how long before the item is in stock, if it sells out a red cross appears next to the items so the customer cannot buy it by mistake. I love this facility.

I am going to give GoogleCheckout a try and see how it feels. I am gathering that by having the logo it gets you a little higher ranked but Google also reward loyalty so you have to keep the site running and running if you want to get the best out of it. I too have decided not to use AdWords, I get £6 profit on one item I sell and if I use Google Adwords they will charge me £3.40 to have this CPC. And there is no guarentee of a sale. So forget that, competitors can just click away and cost you money. Which I think is shocking! 10 clicks, no sale and I'd have to pay £3.40 on Adwords. The only 'bonus' seems to be that you get free processing, so if you spent £10 on adwords you would get £100 free processing but I do not think this is worth it to be honest, the rate is aonly around 2-3% so £100 processing would usually cost £3 tops. Not really worth the bother unless you have high profit items to sell I guess.

I can honestly say that leaving eBay was the best thing I have ever done. I would rather have no sales than pay fees and spend all that time sorting the items day in day out, relisting, etc... for the fees I was paying.

However, I'd like to offer a few tips if I may. Please ensure you have your full contact details on your website site, I would never buy from someone who only supplied an email address for contact. If you are going to run a business run it how you would expect any outfit you buy from to operate. I've made a lot of changes in the last few months since reopening. It will not happen overnight because it takes time to get used to using something else and it might be wise to keep both running for a few weeks or migrate goods slowly from eBay to your site.

If you want to take a look at my site then please ask and I'll send the details over to show you the results I have managed to acheive. I am not someone who has a lot of technical knowledge but these templates make things so easy to use once you have got the hang of it, plus if you get stuck on something an email or phone call to support means it will be sorted. They were even giving me tech support by email at 11pm!! And sooner or later you will wonder why on earth you ever bothered with pee-bay! I've saved around 2k in listing/selling/Paypal fees in 2 months!! Even if I had not sold anything I'd have had to pay listings fees so it is certainly worth the outlay of the e-commerce shop. I pay £40 a months as I have a bigger shop but you can get one to facilitate 500 items for £19.99 a month. I'd recommend Bluepark, contact them and ask for an evaluations site so you can play around with things before you decide to commit. It is free and you do not have to give card details or something like some do, it is totally no obligation!

Good luck, I promise it will be the best thing you ever did.