Is eBay Saturated...?

by Jim Cockrum eBay PowerSeller

The eBay opportunity has been around for quite awhile now.

Is eBay saturated? Is the window of opportunity closing? From my perspective the opportunity has NEVER been better.

I speak to people nearly every day who are finding new ways and simple ways to make a great side income, or even start a fantastic new career on eBay.

Example: I have a local friend who I turned on to eBay just a few weeks ago who has now started selling a VERY common every day EASY to find product on eBay. He is buying them up from local stores and catalogs and selling them for $30-$100 profit as fast as he can get his hands on them.

I can't tell you the product (he wouldn't like that), but I can tell you that if I DID tell you what he is selling, you'd be shocked at the simplicity and how common the item is. This is a lot how I started my own Internet career.

There are real stories like this coming in all the time.

My theory is that eBay is going to dominate online commerce for many, many years to come. Even if they don't though, the opportunity to grow a massive customer base
quickly is here NOW and will be here for a long time on eBay.

The web traffic generated by eBay is more amazing than ever and the niche markets waiting to be cashed in on are limitless.

EBay is still the most amazing marketing machine you can have for nearly ANY business.

Critics are saying that eBay faces competition from sites like Google.com, MySpace.com, CraigsList.com etc.

The fact is that in the first quarter of 2006, PayPal (eBay's own payment engine) transferred nearly $9 billion in payments, a 41 percent increase over the previous
years same quarter. Does that sound like they are struggling or thriving?

There are two reasons why eBay is in a totally different league than any of the "competing" sites when it comes to ecommerce.

1: eBay has a HUGE anti-fraud department and DESPITE what you keep hearing in the news about Internet fraud NO ONE is combating it with as much furry as eBay.

Your odds of being ripped off on any of the "competition" sites is FAR greater than on eBay. An educated consumer is 99.999% safe on eBay.

2: eBay is where the ready-to-spend-money customers are. Plain and simple. No other website on the planet comes close.

Even better news for us? The Internet opportunities are LIMITLESS right now and even if eBay does waiver I plan to keep cashing in wherever the action is. Online
spending is going up up up and the money will have to be spent somewhere right?

About Jim Cockrum:

Author of The Silent Sales Machine Hiding on eBay
Editor of "Creative eBay Selling Newsletter". The most popular free eBay success ezine on the web!