More EBay Rules Changes and Summary as May 06 2008

In 2007 eBay start to introduce changes to the rules we lived with for the last 10 years, but in 2008 the entire changes pattern increase tremendously culminating with the ban of Digital Products with the Instant Delivery. I was surprised but I just wait to see what will happen in the near future and keep myself in the positive side of events. You hear this before: the bottle is half empty or it is half full. I never ever saw good life coming out from a negative attitude. For me the bottle is half full.

That one was a drastic change and I don't think eBay is doing it for no reason.

I also believe that our eyes must stay on solutions not on finger pointing and blaming games.

The first ideas coming out:

- we can create eBay listings for physical products, with other words if we put en e-Book on CD it is according with eBay rules
- we can create Classified ads, the rules wasn't really well known because not of lot of people are using them
- just give up and don't sell Digital Products - this is not my stile to give up so quickly, but I know a lot of people thinking like this

Then the second wave of changes came out of eBay, this time was a clarification of eBay's Classified Ads Rules:
- we cannot put Pay Now PayPal button on Classified Ads
- we cannot use URLs to external Websites which represent our business
- we cannot use opt-in form in Classified Ads, which means we cannot treat a Classified Ad as a squeeze page

The legitimate question is what we can put in Classified Ads to remain in eBay rules.

We can put in Classified Ads to generate a sale, well, just a phone number or an email address. Now nobody wants to be a phone operator, and what about the customers having a different sleep ours then me or you.

In summary you can put in Classified ads just your email, and the clever solution is to use auto-responders to continue the process with follow-up messages which finally will generate sales for you.

Sound complicated but it is not if you use the power of aWeber as your auto-responder. In addition with this method we preserve the automated process of delivering Digital products, you can sell affiliate products as well and the life goes on.

I try it and it is working just fine.

The needed steps for selling Digital Products are:
- A squeeze page in which you create an opt-in form
- OTO (One Time Offer) page
- A Download page for OTO with a PayPal button
- A Download page to offer a FREE Report

As soon as you create the above 4 web pages, the process of enforcing them can be done via well sequenced emails using the auto-responder, and you sell Digital Products.

Why people wants to sell Digital Products via eBay! This is a good question with a simple answer. EBay has a huge customer base and you basically don't need to pay for driving traffic to your pages. How much will cost you the Classified Ads - just $9.95 per 30 days ad, it is around $0.35 per day. It is really cheap. If you think that the process is complicated, as soon as you did it for one item the rest of it is routine.

I like to hear from my readers, if you have questions, let me know.

Regards