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Hi all
From my personal experience: if you are selling any kind of reasonable volume in your eBay store, keep it open at least temporarily until you start to see results from your own website - if you do see results, that is.
It can take months to get your site ranked with the better search engines and even when you are getting lots of hits that does not automatically translate into sales; shoppers are much more wary of buying from an unknown little website than from the big venues like eBay, Amazon etc. Part of the value your eBay fees bring you is a degree of respectability (don't laugh, new buyers do believe the eBay protection guarantees.)
I have had my own bookstore website for well over a year, and it is only now starting to show real results (and that after I posted an address and a telephone number. I have had a number of calls from interested shoppers who wanted to increase their comfort level)
My best advice is to keep your options open.
Ann
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