eBay doesnt have very many competitors, and the ones that there are remain small by comparison - thats part of what makes eBay so powerful for niche items. If youre selling more common things, though, you might like to list auctions on other sites besides eBay, to increase your potential customer base and avoid some of the occupational hazards of relying on eBay for all your business. But which ones are assessment of value bothering with?

Yahoo! Auctions.

Yahoo Auctions wins in one big way: selling there is free. There are no listing fees or final worth fees. Whats more, Yahoo is still one of the biggest sites around, and gets plenty of traffic to its auction page . The page benefits from Yahoos experience in making available sizeably efficient, categorised searching, and the site is brain friendly to use all round.

The rub, though, is that dodgy buyers and sellers are even more rampant on Yahoo than they are on eBay, and thats quote something. Sellers on Yahoo Auctions can expect to run into far more non-paying buyers than they would on eBay. Also, the site is plastered with writing ads, which get in the road, and the design in general leaves a lot to be desired - but then, so does eBays.

uBid.

uBids model is to offer more security for less flexibility. They pre-screen everything: sellers must be registered businesses and buyers must pre-register a credit card. It takes some of the Wild West feeling out of selling - but it also takes away most of the fun.

On eBay, you have complete control over what youre doing, while selling on uBid feels like youre just a faceless supplier for a big business . Searching for anything vaguely non-mainstream will come back with no results, to the point that it will quickly get frustrating for your buyers. If youre just selling common consumer goods for the money, though, then by all means do it at uBid.

Amazon Auctions.

Amazon Auctions is an underused auction site. The design is quite bad, and searches do not turn up many results. The payment system is the identical one people make use of to buy things from Amazon itself, though, which seems more secure that PayPal.

You might be more interested in becoming an Amazon Marketplace seller, which means that you might list your items on their main pages for all the people to see when they click the Used & New from