Which are eBay’s biggest selling markets?
May 12th, 2008, 5:00 am · 8 Comments · posted by Jan Norman
Orange County is among the top 10 U.S. areas for sales generated on eBay, the online auction company says.
Orange County, which was 12th in population among metropolitan statistical areas in the last Census, ranks 5th in local residents’ sales on eBay. Here are the numbers for 2007:
- 75,486 Orange County residents sold at least one thing on eBay
- They sold more than 6.9 million items
- Their sales were just under $636.7 million
- Most popular products O.C. folks sold were iPod and iPod Touch (112,708 units sold), watches (54,326 sold) and iPhones (24,560 sold).
Here are the top 10 eBay selling markets and sales (measured as gross merchandise volume) in 2007:
“EBay is great for the economy because it gives sellers a platform for pursuing entrepreneurialism on aglobal scale with nearly 1.2 million individuals selling on eBay in the top 10 markets alone last year,” says Marsha Collier, author of the book eBay for Dummies.
Here’s a look at how well other areas of California did in eBay sales last year:
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May 12th, 2008 at 8:29 am
virtual garage sale, your junk becomes someone else’s treasure, repeat.
May 12th, 2008 at 9:24 am
The article mentions the top 10 selling markets, but 21 are listed. What is the relationship of the last 11 markets listed to the top 10? How were the last 11 selected?
May 12th, 2008 at 9:31 am
To Justin: I went ahead and listed the 21 markets eBay gave me because so many of them are in California. The second 11, like the top 10, are based on sales.
Jan Norman
May 12th, 2008 at 11:01 am
I have sold blood, sweat, and tears on the bay, people will buy anything!
May 12th, 2008 at 11:36 am
Ebay sucks! Plus their customer management is unbelievably bad! You disagree try calling to report some fraudulent activity and they don’t care. There is no one to call. One users account was hacked and some one put a car up for sale she frantically emailed bidders because she couldn’t contact any one at ebay customer support. Finally she begged me to call in under my Power Seller account and report it. It took ebay 48 hours to stop the ad and she was horrified for those 2 days. Ebay always says they are improving security but they never do.
May 12th, 2008 at 11:40 am
Craigslist rules!
Totally free, super fast and local. You can sell an item or clean our your garage while helping people in your local area in one hour on Craigslist! I am not kidding you can post an ad today for an item for sale in two minutes. If the price is low peole will call within one hour. Try it http://www.craigslist.com. This is how the internet should work.
May 12th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
Unfortunately there is a lot of fraud with non-paying bidders and eBay has done nothing about it so far. This has to do with new accounts that have 0 feedback. The scammer bids on multiple items and never pays, and abandons the fake account. eBay makes us wait a whole week before we can claim an unpaid item dispute. eBay should give sellers a way to block 0 feedback buyers from bidding in the first place. Generally I have good results with eBay but this is a major security hole in their system.
July 1st, 2008 at 5:00 pm
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