One major difference between eBay and other marketplaces is that you have two options while pricing your products. You can either list a fixed price for a product or choose an auction type price. You can select a minimum bid amount and also an end date for the auction. The highest bidder at the end of the auction gets to purchase the product. Here is a brief of the different charges that a seller incurs on eBay.
Insertion Fee: To list a product on your store, you are charged a listing fee. The first products are free of the listing fees for every seller. After that, the rates charged are as follows. The rates are shown for the different listing types. The first category is for the 1, 3, 5, 7 or 10 days of listing. The second is a 30 day listing option. You can check out the detailed pricing structure for selling on eBay here.
Unlike Amazon, eBay does not have any physical fulfillment center where a seller can stock the products.
The package is then delivered to the customer. You can check read more about PowerShip here. Once you sign up for it, you are provided eBay branded packaging material to pack your orders. So, there is no definite payout period, but instead depends on the shipping time and customer confirmation.
The entire process usually takes days from the date of order. There are more than 2. A comparatively newer entry into the Indian eCommerce scenario, ShopClues has seen immense growth since its launch in The marketplace offers great deals for buyers and is popular among young shoppers online. The pricing structure is performance based, which means that a seller only pays for a successful sale on ShopClues.
Here is a breakdown of the charges a seller has to incur. You can check out the detailed pricing structure for ShopClues here. A merchant is not allowed to use his own logistics arrangement to ship products through ShopClues. The shipping charges and services offered vary depending on which plan you are part of. The shipping charges are as follows:. In the SCVB plan, a seller has to pack the product and the courier representative picks the packed product.
In case of SCVP, the seller just has to hand over the loose product and the entire packaging and shipping procedure is taken care of by ShopClues. Packaging charges: For every item packed by ShopClues, a charge of Rs 3 to Rs 9 is levied on the seller. For most items, this charge is Rs 9. More than 2,00, productsare listed for sale on ShopClues to over 42 million visitors every year. It has grown to be a big marketplace known for offering good discounts for customers and is growing steadily.
You only pay when a product gets sold through them. Here is a brief of the prices a seller has to bear on Tradus. You can check out the detailed pricing structure for Tradus here. The shipping costs vary depending on the package size and weight. The detailed shipping rates are revealed only once a seller completes the registration process on the marketplace.
To get Tradus branded packaging material, you can purchase the same from them here. Various types of packaging material are available. A pack of pieces of low density polyethylene bags cost Rs You can also use your own packaging material for shipping your products.
Though the exact number is something that they do not disclose, there are thousands of transactions every day on the marketplace. The website attracts close to , page views every day. Snapdeal is a daily deals site turned online marketplace that started 4 years ago.
Its huge rise in the last few years has seen it raise a tremendous amount of investment to fund its growth further. Here is a review of the services it provides to sellers for selling their products on their platform. Here is what all you are charged for when selling at Snapdeal. The seller has to keep the order packed and the courier partners pick them up from the seller and deliver it to the customer.
Snapdeal also provides its sellers an innovative order fulfillment tool named SafeShip, which they can use to track and manage their orders with ease. Recently, they opened the SafeShip service for rival eCommerce companies to use as well. You can read more about SafeShip here. The packaging material is charged at Rs 3 per order. There are upwards of 4 million products up for sale from more than 20, sellers. Flipkart is the success story of the Indian eCommerce industry.
The 7 year old company is the largest eCommerce startup in India and has become a household name in the country. It caters to a large number of sellers and buyers and offers wonderful services, which has seen its reputation skyrocket in the last few years.
Here is how the marketplace ranks up in the different parameters. Here is a breakdown of the charges that you have to bear on Flipkart as a seller. It is mandatory for the sellers to use their services when shipping orders to customers. But in certain rare cases, if a large quantity of orders is guaranteed by a seller, Flipkart does provide the material.
All new sellers start off as Tier-2 sellers. Once the seller completes one month on Flipkart with minimum 30 transactions, he is considered a Tier-1 seller.
On an average, more than 20 products are sold on Flipkart every minute. So that is what every major marketplace has to offer sellers in India. Do you also sell on any marketplace? Or do you plan to start selling there soon? Do leave us your experiences, queries and reviews in the comments below! Both of us are part of team Zepo. If any of you have any further questions, please drop in a comment below or you can reach Varun at varun[at]zepo. August 29, 29 Comments Sourav April 18, , pm.
Saqib Khan I am not sure if an individual can sell products on Amazon? It has option for company only. Does anyone have any idea about this? Kunal Bihani April 19, , am. No link attached to the word. ET Secure IT. Auto Auto News. Auto Components.
Products Durables. Energy Power. Services Advertising. Certainly not eBay. Sagar Malviya. Rate Story. Font Size Abc Small.
Abc Medium. Abc Large. Agencies eBay had hinted it will start India operations with Indian sellers selling on other marketplace platforms around the world followed by reintroduction of India-focussed portal. He was responding to a query on whether there is a new window for eBay in India after the new foreign direct investment policy.
We will see how that goes. I think the Indian market is still in its early phases. Under the lens NFRA member under lens for audit gaps in fraud-hit firm; cloud over selection process for regulatory posts. There are many like this in the ebay list of items.
Message 1 of 6. All forum topics Previous Topic Next Topic. Message 2 of 6. Ultimately it is the seller who will lose business to other shopping sites because of higher selling charges on ebay. Customer is out there wanting to buy at the cheapest rates possible and if we cannot provide that to him, he will move on and buy from where he get at the best rates. Ebay should very quickly think about this situation and decease its seller fees and paispay charges so that we can offer goods to the buyer at competitive rates otherwise we will lose out in the long run.
Also consider that more and more online selling portals are opening everyday and the buyer is getting better rates so what is ebay waiting for, now is the right time to decrease the selling fees and everybody makes more money. Message 3 of 6.
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