An entrepreneur who turned his ecommerce side hustle into a full-time job ranks Amazon, Etsy, and eBay from most to least favorite
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Neil Lassen has made a living for the last 10 years in ecommerce, selling various items online.
In his experience, Etsy is the best site for most sellers, with Merch by Amazon coming in second.
He doesn’t recommend using eBay, due to its algorithm and lack of payment processor.
When Neil Lassen, 30, was in college, he was tired of making $8 an hour working at Target. He started looking into ways to make money online and quickly found a knack for selling merchandise — especially more hands-off, print-on-demand items.
Today, Lassen spends his days running a fully online business to help other ecommerce merchants get traction with customers by sharing tips, tricks, and skills he’s learned over the last decade.
One thing he’s learned is where it’s easiest and hardest to sell. Below, he ranks three of the biggest sites he’s worked with — Etsy, Amazon, and eBay — from most to least favorite. 1. Etsy
Etsy has a bad reputation with some creators, due to the cut the site takes of creators’ profit, without offering to handle any of the customer service or other logistics. That said, Lassen said that he still thinks it’s better for many creators than either Amazon, or eBay.”Yes, you have to deal with customer service,” Lassen told Insider. “But I think Etsy’s a lot better just because it gives you way more control over your business. You actually get to interact with these customers, which will lead to a way better review rate than the 1% you might get on Amazon.”That said, he conceded that Etsy does take a large cut of the profit and just raised its fees, and understands why that hurts the […]
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