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EBay is so full of listings it’s fairly hard for anybody to find anything these days.

So once a customer has landed on one of your eBay listings you want to take full advantage of their presence by showing them a couple of other things that they might like from your listings.

This idea of cross-selling or upselling isn’t a new one online… Amazon and other large online shops have been doing it for years, but it is only recently that eBay resellers have been able to do it themselves.

Recently several web 2.0 start-ups have started offering a cross-selling gallery and other marketing widgets to plug into eBay and eBay alternatives listings to give sellers the maximum amount of fishhooks for their line.

Some, like Cooqy, have arrived, made a fairly large impact, then run off into the corner, limiting themselves to buyer services instead.

But there are still a number still out there making attractive multiple listings for sellers, with most of them being free.

Auctiva

A free online auction listing service launched in 1998 that used to be free but started charging sellers a minimum of US$9.95 a month for its services. Auctiva offers a scrolling gallery to plug into the bottom of your listings. It also has several other functions, including auction templates, an online store and image hosting.

Their overall service gets mixed reviews especially after its fee hike but it has been around a while so they must be doing something right.

• Cost: US$9.95 a month
  
• Function: Auction template, scrolling gallery, online store and image hosting
  
• Location: auctiva.com

AuctionPixie

AuctionPixie is a little like Auctiva in that it has a scrolling slideshow but differs from Auctiva in that it is free and that is pretty much all it offers for buyers.

This young service is still in the beta stage but has a nice clean layout and looks like it could be a nice device to have plugged into your auction.

• Cost: Free
  
• Function: Automatic feedback, RSS feeds, Scrolling gallery, Misspelled item finder, Source code protector
  
• Location: auctionpixie.co.uk

ShopIT

Not so much of a scrolling gallery as a way of letting the world know about your eBay listings.

Shopit is a free listing site that accepts listings from eBay and Yahoo small business in a CSV file, lets you put them into your store and then turn them into widgets so you can advertise them all over your favorite blogs and social network sites.

Who said you couldn’t make money out of Facebook/MySpace?

• Cost: Free
  
• Function: widget constructor, listing location
  
• Location: shopit.com/

These are just a couple of the great web 2.0 ecommerce options out there for sellers. If we’ve missed any let us know and we will tell the world.