How To Sell Digital Products On eBay
I haven’t really been giving much thought to the new eBay policy where sellers are to list their digital items under Classified Ads. Many digital sellers who was selling their eBooks or digital downloadable goods have now resort to selling their goods in a CD. As long as it’s a solid physical item that you can pack and post, you can sell it on eBay.
So, today I was trying to post a CD up for auction, something I created as an add-on product in my niche. Of course before that I’d have to check the postage costs for shipping a CD.
It is prohibited to post CD over here in Malaysia using normal AirMail or Registered Mail. The only way you can send a CD out of the country from here is via EMS (Express Mail Service), which means the Poslaju or via a courier service.
A quick check on www.pos.com.my revealed that sending anything below 500gm will cost a freaking RM77.00. If you convert that to USD, that will probably be like USD24 and to British Pounds it is GBP12.
Who in the world would buy a CD with postage as high as that? You’d probably be deemed as someone trying to make a profit by padding your costs in the postage.
Next, I checked the Fedex Courier service. Since they launched the International Economy, I thought perhaps I can get a better deal. But heck, Fedex International Economy charges RM 134.20 (US$41.93) for documents. So the International Economy is good for parcels and large boxes. Normal Fedex courier charges is RM55.34 (US$17.29).
So this means that anyone here from Malaysia who is trying to sell their digital products on eBay with CD is doomed until they can find the right shipper and postage.
What a shame.
(Updates: I just found a perfect solution for my problem —> How To Have 100% Automatic CD / DVD Delivery. Read my review and let me know what you think.)
Jenny:
Just to remind you. Don’t ever ask anyone in China to send you CDs or DVDs. I was told that it’s not allowed and it’s considered as crime.
The person who send you CDs or DVDs will be in troubles.
What you can do is to digitize your CD content. They have to download it from somewhere and active it online with a code. You can search the Google, there are software doing that for you!
Hi Terence, thanks for the info, I didn’t know about getting CDs from China is a crime
Jenny:
I did not know that until I ask for a product image CD/DVD from my suppliers. They told me it’s illegal. So they have people carry that DVD personally and mail to me from Hong Kong.
hi, you can try out this website:
web2ship.com
they work with DHL and the shipping rate is fantastic.
I am not sure about that. The registration form is not even working. It doesn’t even look like valid company to me.
DHL, Master, Visa links are not working. Customer service is not available. Can’t verify the company with DHL. With the AdSense on top of the company web sites? How can I trust a company, which needs to make few cents with AdSense? Hmmmm..
Sorry man. If you want to do business online, please make sure your site look right.
Thanks Terence for that.
Lately I’m getting more of such useless comments. Looks like I’ll have to personally approve comments from new commentators.
Any good plugins for such purposes? The Spam Karma doesn’t work very well for these kind of comments.
Jenny:
I don’t really have plugin to do that besides adding the following plugin.
Math Comment Spam Protection
I often got more than 100 spam comments or useless comment. I either just delete them or check their IPs. The spammer often left more than two comments with different URL or from different IPs in 3 minutes. I will delete those right with no blinking of eyes.
I also add comment policy in my post before the comment form. Basically, anything I don’t like to see will be deleted.
I wasn’t aware of that until now.
From what you are saying that means you can no longer use services such as e-junkie to deliver digital products you sell on eBay?
That can’t be good for people who want to sell digital products.
Terence: Thanks, shall check it out.
Gerri: yeah, no more eBooks or digital downloads product as auction or buy-it-now. You can list them as classified ads.
By the way is it true that selling of digital products in ebay now is banned?
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