Posted on 11/10/2004 5:40:46 AM PST by rudy45
I have written a book and have turned it into a PDF. I now want to sell it on eBay, but want to do so by making it downloadable (thus saving myself effort and the buyer shipping fees and time). I don't see any mechanism for making a file available for download by the buyer. Also, eBay help doesn't seem to address this possibility. Can I do what I want to do? Thanks.
Put the file download apparatus on an external site, then use ebay as advertising to drive hits there.
Aha... however, I was hoping to leverage eBay payment mechanisms. If I do as you suggest, I think I would have to enable e-commerce/payment on the EXTERNAL site? Thanks.
Could you just email it to the winnning bidder?
Place your work on a server (your ISP?) and when payment is received for your item via eBay, send and email to the winning bider/buyer that has the link to the file in it.
Of course you'd need to move the file after each eBay auction ends...or just email the .pdf to the winner
Along the lines of similar suggestions... provide the auction winner a login/password to a protected site where the PDF is stored, and enable that account for a limited time after the auction. Repeat with a different account for each other buyer.
You could zip and password protect it, and send the winning bidder a link to the d/l and the password.
Ping to an idea......
Yes, you can do this. I've done this with my software dialer.
What you do is set up a webpage, like this: http://www.gegaccess.net/search.html
you set up an action at ebay advertising this page. As they check out through paypal, the paypal cgis them to the page for the software, ebook, anything to download.
These instructions are at paypal ;)
You ebook would download the same as my dialer :)
Good luck to you :D
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