Presence in many categories of auctions,

presence in many categories of auctions, particularly auctions for consumer
items.
Selling Via Foreign Auctions
It’s one thing to sell to people abroad via an eBay US auction. It’s
another to actually offer merchandise for sale on eBay auctions in foreign
countries. If you do so, you will have many of the same problems
as buyers, so read the earlier section Buying Far Away. You will have to
consider language, communication, currency, shipping, and taxes in
addition to discovering merchandise that will sell well. Keep in mind
that foreign countries have cultural differences far greater than the differences
between the states in the US. Generally, what sells well in
Nebraska can be expected to sell well in North Carolina. What sells
well in France may not sell at all in Germany.
Specific Opportunities
For occasional selling on eBay’s foreign auctions, the effort is more
trouble than it’s worth. The real opportunity is becoming a specialist
in one country and making it a business.
With a little determination, you can learn to speak, read, and write a
foreign language. That’s perhaps the toughest part. Learning the commercial
byways and the taxation aspects is almost certainly easier.
Finding products that make sense to export is a matter of endless
experimentation.
Certain US merchandise is popular abroad. If you can sell it on a foreign
eBay auction profitably but at a lower cost than it is available
locally, you have a cost-effective business opportunity not imagined
before the Web. Go for it!
Get a Partner
Want to short-circuit the learning curve? Instead of learning the foreign
language and byways, find a US resident (immigrant from the