Our top 5 marketplaces for selling online
From selling unwanted items online to starting up a business,
there’s a lot of choice when it comes to online marketplaces, so where should
you start?
Below are our top five most popular UK marketplaces to sell your
goods.
Amazon
A leading e-retailer, Amazon boasts over 184 million unique
monthly visitors to its sites. One of the best things about Amazon is that it
provides great credibility for new brands selling online and, of course, it
offers great exposure with its huge amounts of web traffic. There’s also an Amazon app, which encourages
more people to buy online more often – and makes it easy for them to do so from
any device with just a few clicks.
Do watch out for its high fees, though – you’ll need to look
carefully at the cost-benefit ratio.
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eBay
Offering both new and used products, eBay provides an auction
format for selling and has also recently added the option to include a Buy It
Now service. Current stats show that eBay has 167 million active buyers
worldwide, and – like Amazon – they also have an app.
There are usually some good offers available for new sellers,
including free listings, so check those out before you start. There are also ways to promote your services
so they stand out – you can pay to create a ‘featured’ item, for example. Beware,
thought, that it’s a crowded marketplace, with lots of competition –
particularly if you have a popular product to sell.
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Gumtree
One of the UK’s leading platforms for classified ads, Gumtree
focuses on the sale of used items. Listings are free (although there are some
options for paid-for listings), with buyers contacting you directly about
purchasing.
Gumtree is great for getting rid of unwanted items and it is mostly
focused on one-off sales, rather than an ongoing business. Gumtree has suffered
somewhat in terms of buyer trust, thanks to past issues with fraud, but
confidence seems to be returning.
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Etsy
A reputation for hand-made, unique items and 26.1 million active
buyers makes Etsy a popular forum for small businesses wanting to reach a
worldwide audience.
This platform allows users to open an Etsy shop, which
gives their offering immediate credibility.
Using a fixed price model, which allows easy tracking of overheads, Etsy
was recently voted one of the easiest online marketplaces to use.
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Not on the highstreet
(NOTHS)
Another curated marketplace for small businesses, in 2016 the site
had more than 2.7 million shoppers, with SMEs shipping to more than 150 countries. NOTHS has a ‘best kept secret’ feel that
helps endorse shoppers’ instincts for searching out just the right item amongst
its mix of jewellery, fashion, homewares and food.
Whether you’re a business that’s looking to start selling your
products online, or you’ve just cleared out your garage, there’s plenty of
choice when it comes to online marketplaces. And once you’ve made that
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Pop into one of our stores for a quote, or complete our online form.
Happy selling!