Everyone has a different view on the 1p ebooks for sale on ebay.
You either hate them or you love them.
I hate them and love them!
I hate them because they devalue a lot of good ebooks and I love them because I have got many a great ebook or software package for 1p! Contradicting myself there but its the truth!
I must admit I no longer sell 1p ebooks for the simple reason of the feedback hunters, these are mainly the people who will buy your 1p ebooks, the just want the feedback.
Ok you do get some genuine buyers who really do want a 1p ebook bargain but they are few and far between.
Now Im certainly not saying these 1p buy it now auctions should be banned, but I do think people who use that link "click here for pre-approval" then when you click it you are taken to a page where the item price has suddenly jumped up to say £1.99, these auctions should be removed as they are deceitful.
Ebay can also look at these pre-approved auctions as circumvention of fees so be very careful when listing these types of auctions.
Now everyone always ask the age old question how can anyone be making any money for 1p ebook sales, fact is most people dont make any money from 1p sales, but a lot of people do.
Some 1p ebook sellers are only interested in getting your email or details so that they can forward you to various other pages for extra sales or to promote affiliate links they have etc etc.
Other 1p ebook sellers direct you to a page to download your ebook that contains some adsense ads or an additional offer for your to buy an ebook package etc etc.
They dont care about the 1p sale, they care about what you do after the 1p sale.
But the problem with this is, that most 1p ebook buyers are simply feedback hunters trying to buid up their own feedback and they dont even care about downloading the ebook. Most of them wont even bother to visit the page that the 1p ebook seller is desparate to promote!
So its up to you if you want to sell ebooks for 1p, personally almost all my auctions start off at 1p and then ebayers can bid on them, if they sell for 1p thats fine, but Im not inundated with messages from the feedback hunters, and I dont constantly get messages from ebay saying my feedback has changed because someone I have had a transaction with lately has been suspended, yes those feedback hunters always get caught!
Any thoughts on the above, feel free to post a comment.
Sally :)
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2 comments:
Just spotted your post while browsing the latest fishy updates! Interesting. I havent seen the auctions you mention - I'm oldfashioned and still like the feel of a bound volume in my hand. I would say that anything that encourages reading should be encouraged, but as you point out, many of these bidders probably have reading as the last thing on their mind.
Sally,
I agree with you on eBay 1p sales. I have ended 2 of my 3 1p sales. The last one will be ended soon.
Why? Because 1p sales are all people are wanting, causing no further sales. It hurt us eBay Sellers, we loose only buyers gain a product and a feedback.
Now my store item ebooks that I place in auctions will starting at 0.01p.
Debbie
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