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Posted By: Jim Wilson In Response To: Imc's Ebay course is terrible. Get a refund! (Michael)
Wednesday, 13 September 2006, at 3:37 p.m.
Let's evaluate the value of Mike's post here:
Mike - "It's completely useless, because Ebay's harder to profit on now with so many people using it."
Yes, Mike, it is a terrible thing when more potential consumers flock to one place online. More people ARE using it - to shop. They are learning to trust the idea of shopping online and eBay is a favorite venue.
Mike - "Not to mention Ebay is always increasing their commissions on every sale, this makes it a lot less profitable."
Even when eBay raises their rates a little the potential is still so great that it is still a bargain. I challenge you, Mike, or anyone else for that matter. Find ANY venue online or off and spend less than $2.00 to get your ad potentially viewed by millions of potential buyers. It cannot be done. Once again Mike, great thought process but wayyyyyy off base.
Mike - "The course would have been more useful in 1997. Spending hundreds of dollars now on a course about Ebay should be considered a crime. Online auctions are yesterdays news. Stick with online merchandising and be highly cautious of short cuts being sold as informational products. If the information was so great, why would anyone sell it when they could use it? Think about it."
The crime lay in the realm that unfortunately any zipperhead with an opinion can post and might be able to convince others that their stance is accurate. I myself sold my ebooks because it was shared info with me and I was passing it forward. My ebook in which I was interviewed, "Jim Wilson's eBay Secrets", is an online best seller. The whole reason the Internet exist is to share info. Some people just figured out that sharing valuable info might earn an income.
Mike - "Just my 02 cents."
And that is just about what Mike's opinion about the IMC course is worth.
Folks...
Online packages can be extremely valuable. They can and do often lead to incredible online success. But you MUST put the info to work. Poor Mike here missed the whole point. He is likely one of those people who believed that he could simply buy an info product and start going out to his mailbox to take the checks out.
Online work means just that and LOTS of it. eBay is not any different.
Is it hard to find an eBay niche'? Yes, it is.
Is it impossible? No, not at all. One of my co-workers at the FD just started selling auto racing items and is doing quite well.
About the only thing that showed any intelligence in Mike's post is that he is going to get a refund. This is indeed for the best because frankly I don't think he has what it takes to succeed on eBay. You MUST be willing to learn from the package, put the learned info to work, and then start that whole process all over again.
Jim Wilson
AuctionHints.com
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