11-21-2006, 09:28 AM
Quote:If your eBay ads read "Ship to U.S. Only," you're missing out on a lot of sales...
eBay now accrues 50 percent of its revenue overseas. While eBay's domestic listings grew a healthy 19 percent in the second quarter of 2006, it was a performance dwarfed by eBay's international markets. A case in point is Germany. According to A.C. Neilsen International Research, Germany has about 20 million registered eBay users, that's close to 25 percent of the population a greater share than any other country in which eBay operates, including the U.S. Germans bought $6 billion in merchandise on eBay in 2004, the last year for which such data is available.
This growth extends throughout most of Europe and across the globe. The year-to-year growth for the second quarter of 2006 for eBay's European markets is 49 percent or more, while non-European worldwide markets fare even better, such as eBay Hong Kong (266 percent) China, (140 percent) Korea, (326 percent) Singapore, (142 percent,) India (77 percent) and Australia (46 percent).
Further, in August eBay and its rival Google signed a deal in which Google will sell eBay advertising overseas, allowing for potential overseas buyers to contact eBay sellers or Google advertisers with one-click calls...
full article: http://www.ecommerce-guide.com/essential...hp/3644911