Please note: This post has not been written by or approved by the owner of ConsignmentPal. It is only the independent view of a guest Blogger. I am Scott Pooler – Owner of Allbusinessauctions.com and the Trading Assistant Journal. Please do not think ConsignmentPal has directed this post, I have not been paid for my opinion or influenced in any way.
A great deal of turmoil has been raised recently in the eBay Trading Assistant community. eBay has decided to change the existing system in regards to Trading Assistants and Trading Posts and in doing so completely revised the way they qualify participants for the program(s). This change has been presented as a way to clean up the “old” directory and provide more relevant results for people looking for help in selling merchandise on eBay. Some think the real reason for the change is to allow eBay to extend the legal distance between itself and anyone listed as a eBay Trading Assistant because of certain active cases against Trading Assistants and Drop off Store owners in States like Pennsylvania.
The terms and conditions eBay requires to be placed in the eBay “official” Trading Assistant directory are extensive. To be included in the directory as what is now termed REDOL (Registered eBay Drop Off Location) or Drop Store, the extensive and onerous terms of the TA agreement become even more so.
There were many promises made to the existing members of eBay’s TA & Drop Store or Trading Post (Now REDOL) community when this massive change was announced. Essentially eBay promised a massive advertising campaign to 50,000 businesses in the USA promoting TA’s and REDOLS, they also promised a new, easy to find, and less spam filled directory. eBay said that with the “reduction in competition” after the directory was switched over to the new version and every TA & Drop store re-registered, each registered member would receive more business from the directory.
The results so far have been less than promised. Read the rest of this entry »
