Amazon Vs. eBay: Which Marketplace is Better to Make Money?

Mika

VIP Contributor
Amazon and eBay are two popular marketplaces where you can make money through numerous ways, such as...

Selling products

Affiliate marketing

Dropshipping

Amazon and eBay are basically online marketplaces that allow you to sell your products or someone else products, refer buyers to the store and earn commissions for sending buyers, and sell products without spending money to develop the products o procure products (dropshipping). When you are doing affiliate marketing, depending on the products you are selling, you will earn a 3-20 percent commission on successful sales. Apart from these marketplaces, you can sell products, do affiliate marketing, or dropshipping on many platforms, but these two are the two most trusted marketplaces.

Between eBay and Amazon, which marketplace is better to make money?

eBay has 187 users, whereas Amazon has 200 million Prime subscribers.

Amazon gets 2.1 billion visits every month in the US, whereas eBay has 689 million monthly visits in the US.

If you check the statistics of Amazon and eBay, you will see Amazon has a better advantage. Does that mean, Amazon is better?

Whether you want to do dropshipping or sell directly, it is easy to get started on eBay, however, on Amazon, you will have to fulfill a lot of requirements, including manually getting approved. Furthermore, Amazon selling program is not available globally.
 
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