Most people could be forgiven for thinking that a high seller profile or Power Seller would be a desirable thing on ebay. Even eBay aficionados would have us believe this and yet there are successful traders out there that claim otherwise.
Sydney Johnson looked at the accepted practices and then looked at effective ways of laughing at those who followed the herd and has become a bit of rebel with her unconventional but highly succesful underground methods.
After almost ten years of highly successful trading on eBay she is also the master teacher of a You can find her great course Auction Genius Course if you want Sydney to coach you, is superb for all levels.
The most accepted way of building a prominent profile on eBay is to look to build vast quantities of good quality feedback. Feedback being a vote of satisfaction from your customers on eBay
When you get enough sales on eBay you are rewarded by becoming what they call a "Power Seller", a position that comes with special privileges and a certain supposedly desirable degree of visibility. Most of the time it is a double-edged sword, says Sydney.
"I was a Power Seller for a while, until I started realizing that I don't want to draw attention to myself. So what I do now is have lots and lots of IDs with low feedback - and I purposefully keep it low and keep my head down so that nobody notices me."
If things go wrong a high level profile can be very quickly detrimental to your business. Even Sydney was not immune to such happenings and found to her chegrin that when a suppplier who she had used for years let her down the subsequent fall out and damage to her business to many weeks to recover as her feedback was desimated in hours.
Sydney might be seen as unconventional in her out look but she does not look to do anything which might get her banned from eBay and it's ever growing rule book.
Maybe a little unconventional and likes to be risk taker. She is a highly experienced marketer who sees eBay as a giant market place of hungry buyers which gives her the opportunity to tap in to it's massive traffic to build her own customer base. By using this method she is able to create a stable business model with minimal additional effort of expense.
With most eBay traders their thinking is too lateral to see the size of the opportunities of selling products starting on eBay and then beyond.
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