The eBay drop off stores hit the ground running with great fanfare and made great promise. These stores expanded like crabgrass across the land. All the newspapers and magazines had articles every other day about how great these stores would be. The promise of the initial drop off stores was limitless. The times were very exciting.

These franchises made promises like “you can go into business for your self and not have to have any inventory simply by having an answer to America’s clutter”. People received this story wit great enthusiasm and they believed it. And why not? I mean if you have read about eBay’s fantastic growth and the amount of products that was sold on there every month you would figure that this had to be a sure thing.

Well here was the deal and it was simple.Anyone could own a franchise if they agreed to the terms and agreed to pay a $25000 fee and a added expense for fixtures and the like of anywhere from $5000 to $25000 more and a fee of 4% on all sales. That is not all but it is all I am going to report on.

Anyway once you were accepted into the franchise then the new owner would be “helped” to find a suitable location for his store. This would be an ordeal in itself.

The new owner would then be given an extensive training course that is overwhelming especially if he or she had sold anything on eBay before.

Then the new owner is given specs on how his new eBay drop off store should look right down to the wall colors. I mean you paid for the franchise and it had better live up to the specifications.

To make a long story a short one they made a little too difficult for the new owner to succeed. Will the eBay drop off stores survive? Only time will tell.

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