Articles
What we know about running stores, written down.
Plain answers to the questions people ask before, during and after a store. Nothing here promises an outcome. Where a fact belongs to eBay, we say so and point you at their page.
Managed stores
What a managed eBay store actually is, and what it is not
The phrase gets used for everything from a course to a franchise. Here is what it means when the store is built and operated for you, what stays yours, and what you still have to do.
September 14, 2026 · 6 min read
Choosing a provider
Seven questions to ask before paying anyone to run a store for you (including us)
Done-for-you e-commerce is a crowded, loosely regulated market. These are the questions that separate an operator from a sales funnel, and the answers that should end the conversation.
September 14, 2026 · 7 min read
Owning your store
Owning your eBay account when someone else operates it
What must stay in your name, what access an operator actually needs, and how to hand over the keys without handing over the store.
September 14, 2026 · 6 min read
Running an eBay store
The real costs of an eBay store: fees, shipping, returns, and the ones nobody lists
A store's costs are not one number. Here is every line that shows up in practice, which ones eBay publishes, which ones depend on you, and how to read a quote against them.
September 14, 2026 · 7 min read
Running an eBay store
How eBay selling limits work in a store's first ninety days
New seller accounts start with a cap on how much they can list. What the cap is for, how it rises, what makes it rise faster, and how to plan a launch around it instead of against it.
September 14, 2026 · 5 min read
Running an eBay store
Dropshipping versus holding inventory on eBay: what actually changes
Not a verdict, a comparison. Cash, control, speed, returns, policy risk and margin, model by model, so you can pick the one your situation can carry.
September 14, 2026 · 7 min read
Owning your store
What a weekly store report should tell you, and what it should not hide
If someone else runs your store, the weekly report is how you know what happened. The eight numbers it needs, the two it should never leave out, and how to read one in five minutes.
September 14, 2026 · 5 min read