Common Sense eCommerce

Trading Assistants are those people who are in the business of selling other people’s stuff for them - for a profit. Sometimes this involves providing pickup services, other times, they have a drop off location. Skip McGrath at the Auction Sellers Resource blog has a blog post (Link Here) in which he chastises eBay for having an out of date Trading Assistant list. Among other things he says:

What usually happens is that I get a follow up phone call or email telling me that over 50 names came up in their area and no one will return their calls or emails. This happened today to a gentleman who called me today. (What’s sad is that he has some really wonderful, expensive and highly saleable merchandise). The problem is that so many people got excited by the TA program and signed up for the program, but in fact, most of them are not even active sellers, let alone eBay real trading assistants. eBay needs to send every trading assistant an email and ask them: 1) are an active? 2) do they have a storefront or will they pick up goods? and 3) do they still want to be in the program?

That shocked me to read that the man contacted so many Trading Assistants and no one returned his call or email. If the current batch of Trading Assistants are doing that lousy of a job, then perhaps there is opportunity there? Opportunity, that is for sellers who don’t mind working hard and are willing to take the responsibility seriously. And you can bet that running this type of business will be hard work and very time consuming.   But it can be potentially rewarding, too.

If that interests you, see the eBay Trading Assistant page (Link Here).

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