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Permalink Reply by Eric Hammond on December 29, 2009 at 5:19pm

I've never used ebay, and have no idea how easy or hard it is to get green beans in Canada. Are you planning on using ebay to buy or sale. I just need some clarification. Thanks.

Permalink Reply by Alun Evans on December 29, 2009 at 5:45pm

I would love to also hear comments on this. Ebay is 100% not viable for us in Asia, however the NZ equivalent (a site called Trademe) has a number of roasted and green sellers on it. So I am thinking along similar lines for our NZ opperation. I would have thought that using Ebay potentially could weaken the perception of a roaster or trader being quality focused...however in hindsight this might just me my old fashioned views on using a site like this for retail. Any comments on real experiences would be really interesting to read...

Permalink Reply by Dennis on December 29, 2009 at 6:33pm

I would be using it to sell fresh roasted coffee (in any quantity) and green coffee (in small quantities).

Eric Hammond said:

I've never used ebay, and have no idea how easy or hard it is to get green beans in Canada. Are you planning on using ebay to buy or sale. I just need some clarification. Thanks.

Permalink Reply by Eric Hammond on December 29, 2009 at 6:47pm

I've never made any money off ebay. I've sold a few things personally. And made a few bucks here and there. But never anything related to coffee. I used to keep a grinder, a espresso, and brewer on there, but never got any real traffic. And they were up at prices that were 15% over my cost and I was getting undersold.

As far as coffee, have fun. I really hope it works out for you.

Dennis said:

I would be using it to sell fresh roasted coffee (in any quantity) and green coffee (in small quantities).

Eric Hammond said:

I've never used ebay, and have no idea how easy or hard it is to get green beans in Canada. Are you planning on using ebay to buy or sale. I just need some clarification. Thanks.

Permalink Reply by David Cook on January 8, 2010 at 4:30am

Its great for exposure I have sold on there for about three years. Don't plan on making any money as there too many selling costs involved and shipping one pound of coffee is very prohibitive. I just pulled my fair trade store last month over 40 varieties listed.

Permalink Reply by Eyal Rosen on March 24, 2010 at 6:09am

I am definitely biased, but I think you would be better off selling on ROASTe. We proactively market to thousands of coffee lovers and you would not have to spend time/money on promotions. Do check us out, and just let me know if I can help.

Eyal / ROASTe