Hi Ed WeBBers,

If you’ve been ‘floating around’ eBay recently, you might have seen a slightly disturbing email come through…

It relates to what could be a future EU law/directive/whatever-they-call-them…

And the gist is this: unless you have a bricks-and-mortar store, you may (in the future) NOT be allowed to sell ‘branded’ goods online.

Ed….is there really money selling bricks and mortar, never seen them on eBay myself?

Doris…you can i bought some, and when i find the time i`m walling you in!

NOW, back to the point of my story?

In other words, unless you’ve got an actual physical shop, you won’t be allowed to sell BRANDED products on eBay.

Now…don’t worry just yet.

Because at the moment there’s no indication that this will become ‘law’ (or when – could be ages away).

And – would it even matter?

If you’re a long-time reader you’ll know that I *don’t* recommend the sale of branded goods too heavily.

There’s a market for them, to be sure, but I much prefer unique/non-branded items.

The reasons are simple…

Firstly, you can ‘change’ unique and non-branded types of goods (e.g. put your own name on them).

This way, you’re not selling exactly the same thing as someone else; you’ve got more pricing power as a result.

(Hey peeps, does this business model sound familiar to you “skincareprofitsgoldmine” )?

Anyway..Secondly, these kinds of goods are easier to source/get a supply of.

Take the alternative of *branded* goods again, where most manufacturers/wholesalers often already discriminate against you if you don’t have a shop.

Well, non-branded good wholesalers and manufacturers don’t care if you’ve gota shop or not…

Thirdly, you can get much better margins with your *own* non-branded merchandise.

Fourthly…well, I could go on but won’t.

The bottom-line is that for years plenty of eBayers haven’t touched *branded* stock (although some still do) – and have built strong businesses on the back of non-brands.

If you’re still trying to source branded stock and failing, then now may be the time to think of unique/non-branded alternatives.

And if you haven’t started yet, then I think I just told you what the best kind of products to start with are.

Best of all….unique/non-branded items can be easily sourced with your PC.

There are numerous international trade sites (Alibaba, Globalsources.com etc.) where you can find them. And there are a ton of ‘other places’ too which are full of potential products/suppliers of these ‘non-branded’ products.

So there!

What are you waiting for?

I just told you what to sell, and where to go get them – well, almost.

It’s a start though, right?

We all have to start somewhere, and the same goes for reading a book..

WELL I NEVER POODLES WALKING, BUT NOT FOR EXERCISE..(MATRON)?

$12.99

WEY HEY, ill be dogged for reading that book, don’t miss the next instalment of not dogging but blogging, when i will be introducing you to the world of C panel and how to set an email account for business communication with your own WeBBers, so if you have been waiting for the stage 3, then hang on to your bloomers missus its just around the corner?

But for now you blog hungry followers you, its TTFN….Ed.

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