1) Auction selling
One thing many sellers are doing, is sticking with eBay where they can sell everything. Besides, ebid is rival of ebay in term of auction selling.
2) Fixed Price Marketplaces
Amazon can be used to sell a lot of stuff. However, it has disadvantage of limited verified items. Because they want to limit the number of fake stuff so they put on more and more security on their system. Once you are limited, it's the end of your use on amazon.
3) Online Craft Fairs
New York based
Etsy is part of a new breed of online marketplace startups targeted specifically at the needs of independent artists and crafts makers. With more and more people pledging to
buy handmade goods, marketplaces like Etsy are taking center stage and becoming important hubs for small merchants. We've even wondered if
Etsy might be the next eBay. Be sure to check our lists of Etsy alternatives
here and
here, as well.
If you based in the UK, you should use
Misi. It's the same as Etsy but work in the UK only.
4) Classifieds
Craigslist has been accused by some of single handedly sinking the entire newspaper business by doing for classifieds what eBay did for auctions in the 90s -- putting them online and making them dead simple and accessible. Craigslist started as a local events email list for San Francisco in 1995 and has grown to an online classifieds powerhouse serving more than 500 cities in over 50 countries across the world. 40 million people visit Craigslist each month, generating more than 10 billion page views, according to the company. It's no wonder that an ad on Craigslist is an extremely effective way to generate sales, especially in large local markets.
For UK site,
gumtree seem to be the best choice.
5) Online Informercial
Infomercials have inundated the television airwaves
since the 1970s, so they must work. Could they also work on the Internet? One company thinks so.
Talk Market lets anyone host their own video sales channel on the web. Amazon thinks enough of the idea to
have invested in it.
6) Social Networks
Facebook
gave up on Beacon, and MySpace isn't
living up to Google's expectations, but that doesn't mean you can't try to sell to your friends, family, and fans via social networks. Buy.com thinks they have the best way, with their
Garage Sale application for Facebook. The best part of this option, though, may be the irony of their intro video which calls eBay a "thing of the past" -- apparently Buy.com's top brass didn't get the memo... they closed a huge product listing deal with eBay last month.
7) Your Own Storefront
There are a number of free or open source projects, such as
osCommerce, that can be used to power an online shop. There are also all inclusive small business hosting solutions, such as
Yahoo! Merchant Solutions, that can get sellers up and running with their own stores with a lot less headache. We like
Shopify, an all in one hosted ecommerce suite that has become one of the showcase apps for Ruby on Rails (don't worry -- we've never heard of anyone having trouble scaling their store on the service).
8) Whole sale market
You can register as the wholesaler on
alibaba. To sell as an wholesaler, agent or distributors.
9) Hire a specialist to sell your stuff
Such as
sellyourstuff you can use to sell your unwanted stuff. For higher value you need to sell on
trading4u. You can sell your laptop, phone or game console.
10) Find your own way
You can find your way to sell it.
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