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When eBay raise the prices of listing on their auction and eBay Stores sites, it seems to have repercussions right around th

According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product

e internet that are second only to income taxes being raised.

It often seems to be the case that when eBay sneezes, we all

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

get a cold. The latest round of price rises were met with a universal groan from almost all eBay Store owners, but there is

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

light at the end of the tunnel and there are ways to compensate for the rises.

Competition
Rising fees will eliminat

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

e some of your competition if you run a store on eBay. Some of these businesses are extremely marginal and any rise at all c

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

an be enough to render them unprofitable. Only the strong will survive!

Source Cheaper Items
If you are paying more t

ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc

o list your items, one of the best ways to compensate for this is buy finding places to buy your inventory cheaper. It somet

easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi

imes takes something like a rise in the fees to shake you out of your comfort zone and make you look for a better deal. You

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

might even find that you can renegotiate with existing suppliers if you’ve been a customer for any length of time.

Buyers C

and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ

o-operative
Another good option is to get together with your competition and form a buyers co-operative. This only wor

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

ks in some circumstances but if you think outside of eBay towards people selling similar items to you offline, there might b

ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

e opportunities in your local area to do this.

Get rid of under performing inventory
As I mentioned in Part 1 of this

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

article, getting rid of your inventory that isn’t moving and replacing it with items that sell is one great way to improve

cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

your eBay Store’s performance. Paying listing fees and not getting a sale is very bad for business.

Make your listings more

tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen

compelling
One way to make more money is to convert more of your visitors into sales. Are your eBay Store listings as

t?

As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel

good as they could be? Do they list all the benefits of the item for your customer? Get thinking and test different listing

ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

pages to see if you can improve on what you already have.

Generate more traffic to your store
If you get more people

y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products

to come to your store, the chances are you will make more sales. More traffic = more profits! Think about everywhere you co

.

As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de

uld use to publicize your eBay Store – both online and offline.

If you are successful with even some of these, you will not

elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

only cancel out the effect of the rise in fees – you will actually be better off than you were before the fees were raised.

tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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