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Amazon Seller Global Marketplaces:
- Amazon Seller (UK) Guidelines
- Amazon Seller (Ireland/Eire) Guidelines
- Amazon Seller Central (USA) Guidelines
- Amazon Seller (Canada) Guidelines
- Amazon Seller Central (Europe) Guidelines
- Amazon Seller (France) Guidelines
- Amazon Seller (Germany) Guidelines
- Amazon Seller (Italy) Guidelines
- Amazon Seller (Spain) Guidelines
- Amazon Seller (Australia) Guidelines
- Amazon Seller (Japan) Guidelines
eBay Global Marketplaces:
- eBay Global Seller Guidelines
- eBay is one of the original destinations for people who want to sell merchandise online, having been around since 1995—and it’s still thriving. The marketplace has over two billion listings and 134 million active buyers worldwide.You can sell anything on eBay, from everyday items like shoes and watches to weird stuff (yes, that’s a product category) like popcorn-scented pillows, bottles of air, and vintage ’70s giant-hand chairs. There’s a continuous flow of motivated customers and easy ways to integrate eBay as an additional sales channel for your online store.
eBay feesIf you plan to sell on eBay, take the online selling site’s fees into consideration. It charges a non-refundable listing fee for each product and another insertion fee if you list the same items in two different categories. It also charges a final value fee (usually between 10% and 15%), calculated as a percentage of the total amount of the sale, including any shipping costs and handling charges.
Reference: https://www.shopify.com/blog/online-selling-sites#6
International Marketplaces
Want to sell to an international audience? Here are the best sites to sell online around the world:
Founded in 2010, AliExpress is Alibaba’s cross-border ecommerce marketplace, with nearly 20 million daily visitors. Users of the platform can sell to individual people or businesses, whether they are manufacturing products or adding an AliExpress dropshipping model to their online store.
AliExpress takes between 5% and 8% of commission fees for each transaction, depending on your product category. Otherwise, there are no overhead or arrangement fees to sell on the platform.
Taobao is an online selling site founded in 2003 that has grown to become the largest online marketplace in the world by gross merchandise value.
Otto is based in Germany and has a focus on fashion and lifestyle products. It grew from a post-war mail-order company selling shoes to a business with 11 million active customers.
Today, over 90% of OTTO’s products are sold online, including branded products and goods from third-party retailers.
Rakuten is a large marketplace based out of Japan that provides ecommerce, banking, communications services, and more. Similar to marketplaces like Amazon, you can sell in endless product categories, including clothing, books, sports, subscription boxes, and more.
Businesses who want to sell on Rakuten need to be registered in the United States or Japan, or use a service partner.
Mercado Libre is the most popular marketplace in Latin America, serving over 18 countries. Sellers on the platform sell many types of products from 20 main categories and more than 120 subcategories.
Flipkart started as an online bookstore in 2007 and has become the largest online selling site in India. Retailers can sell anything on Flipkart, including consumer elections, fashion, home essentials, groceries, and lifestyle products. An Amazon competitor, Walmart-backed Flipkart continues to lead ecommerce market share in India.
MyDeal is an Australian marketplace offering more than one million products across 3,500 categories, welcoming over two million visitors per month. It’s strictly a marketplace, meaning it doesn’t sell products of its own, only those from third-party sellers.
While you can sell products in various categories, the platform tends to focus on furniture, homewares, and other big items. MyDeal doesn’t offer any fulfillment services, so sellers must coordinate their own shipping or use an outside logistics company.
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Bonanza is an online selling site that’s growing in popularity as an eBay alternative. You can sell pretty much anything on the platform, and it receives nearly 1.4 million monthly visits to its website.
Think of Bonanza as the middle ground between popular selling sites like Amazon, Etsy, and eBay. For example, you can sell the latest Nike Air Max model or a handmade copper necklace and find active buyers for each. Buyers can add products to their cart for a set price or negotiate an offer with you through the platform.
Bonanza Fees
Bonanza charges you nothing to list your products on its site. It takes only a small percentage of your final sale price after you sell. And since many Bonanza sellers also have their own online stores, you can integrate Bonanza with platforms like Shopify to manage and sell products more easily.
Chairish is an online consignment shop made for high-quality home decor and furniture. It takes minutes to list an item (for free), and depending on your seller plan, between 70% and 80% of the selling price goes back to you.
If you have design-oriented furniture or home decor to sell online, this is a relevant online selling site. It can quickly land your business in front of ideal customers.
Chairish Fees
Chairish has free and paid plans, with differing commission rates depending on product type and plan tier. When you list your items, Chairish’s curatorial team reviews your listings to ensure they meet the marketplace’s standards. They also handle shipping, so you never have to worry about logistics when selling on Chairish.
Decluttr is another platform that focuses on electronics, but it’s also a selling site for books, game consoles, and other home entertainment items.
Decluttr Fees
Unlike some of the other marketplaces on this list, Decluttr buys your electronics directly. Using their app, scan the barcode of the items you wish to sell for a quote. Decluttr handles all shipping costs and pays for your items as soon as they’re received.
Etsy is a selling site for handcrafted and vintage items. In 2015, it began including maker-developed manufactured goods, but only for select accounts on the marketplace. Currently, there are over 96 million active buyers on Etsy, making it a potentially lucrative way to start selling online.
If you’re new to online selling sites, Etsy provides access to an active buyer network, a pop-up storefront, and tools to help market your business on the platform.
Launched more than a decade ago, Poshmark is one of the most popular social commerce marketplaces for users who want to sell clothing and lifestyle accessories.
With more than 80 million registered users, sellers on the platform benefit from a large community of eager buyers. Poshmark sellers can also share their items on social media.
Poshmark Fees
As stated in its FAQ, sales under $15 accrue a flat commission of $2.95. For sales over $15 Poshmark’s commission is 20%.
Ruby Lane is an online marketplace for vintage goods and antiques. Selling on Ruby Lane gives you access to highly targeted buyers for categories like collectibles, art, dolls, and jewelry.
Whether you run a collectibles store or are looking for a platform to sell some of your possessions, Ruby Lane is a good place to connect with passionate buyers.
Ruby Lane Fees
Fees and payments for Ruby Lane are straightforward. It’s free to set up and list your products. But you need to pay a monthly maintenance fee of $45. In addition, Ruby Lane charges a 9.9% service fee based on total purchase order, which is capped at $2,500.
Got an old iPhone sitting around? Or a Nintendo Switch you don’t use much anymore? Turn your tech into cash on Swappa, a buy-and-sell website for phones, laptops, cameras, and more.
Swappa vets all the products that get sold on its marketplace, so everything you submit must be in good working condition. Payments are protected by PayPal.
Swappa Fees
There are no fees to create a listing, but you can choose to have your items featured for $5. When you make a sale, you pay a 3% fee, along with the buyer.
Founded in 2022, Temu (pronounced tee-moo) is an e-commerce website and app that stocks just about any product you can imagine at rock-bottom prices, and claims that it can help you ‘shop like a billionaire’.
In the UK, its app has around 13 million monthly users, making it the second most popular shopping app (after Amazon) according to analyst SimilarWeb.
Temu sells a vast range of goods, including clothes, technology, homeware, cosmetics and toys. Expect to find everything from the commonplace to the downright bizarre – including a gold and diamanté-encrusted baby dummy and rechargeable chin-toning ‘instrument’.
It’s an online marketplace: it connects shoppers with third-party sellers rather than offering its own products. Temu’s sellers are largely based in China and many items are shipped directly from its warehouses.
Temu is headquartered in Boston and owned by Chinese e-commerce giant PDD Holdings.
Websites for Local Sales
If you plan to sell in your community, here are the top online sites to sell stuff locally for free:
Craigslist is one of the earlier online selling sites. Started in 1995 by Craig Newmark, it began as an email distribution list between friends featuring local events in the San Francisco Bay Area. It quickly became a web-based marketplace and, over the years, expanded into 700 cities across 70 countries. It’s free and designed for person-to-person sales, which means it may not be the best website for selling items at scale.
Because of the platform’s “hands-off” approach to buying and selling, Craigslist is a higher-risk online marketplace. Scams can happen easily, and if they do, you don’t get any help from the company.
Facebook Marketplace from Meta is an online selling site where individual people can discover, buy, and sell items on Facebook.
More than one in three people in the US use Marketplace each month, offering a huge opportunity for sellers to reach an active audience. It’s free to list and Meta takes no fees, but there are guidelines you need to follow to sell on the platform.
Meta has also partnered with platforms like Shopify to let merchants show their inventory, advertise items, and find new customers for their business.
Nextdoor is similar to Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist in that it’s focused on community selling. Nextdoor also enables the “friendly neighbor” feel by letting people post about what’s going on in their neighborhood—whether it’s traffic delays or restaurant recommendations. It acts as the hub for any given area.
Nextdoor also offers a free forum to sell your items online. It’s similar to Facebook Marketplace: there are no listing fees and you’ll have to meet buyers in person. It feels a little safer too, because you need to make an account before you can access the platform.
Offerup allows users to browse electronics, clothing, and even automobiles based on ZIP code. Interested buyers can contact sellers through the app to negotiate price and set up a location to meet.
Like VarageSale, Offerup has procedures to ensure the safety of users. Before you agree to meet up, you can browse user profiles and read a seller’s reviews. Offerup uses TruYou to verify identities of their users helping to further increase safety. They also recommend community meetup spots to make the transaction as reassuring as possible.
VarageSale is a virtual garage sale buy and sell app. It was started in Canada by an ex-elementary school teacher fed up with scams and fake listings on other classified sites. VarageSale user profiles are based on real identities—everyone goes through a manual review process before you’re allowed to buy or sell.
Buyers can browse seller ratings and message sellers to connect before making the sale. They can ask questions and schedule pick-up in the app. People sell everything including furniture, clothing, shoes, and more on VarageSale. It’s also free for members.