| Consider used, old, antique and vintage items when | | | | attics, basements and garages are willing to pay you |
| you are wondering what items you can sell on eBay | | | | to take it away! As long as you have a place to |
| or another auction website to supplement your | | | | store it, you can get it cheap. |
| income or even create a core selling career. Try not | | | | 6. Selling for a third party. If someone has an old oak |
| to think of selling new goods using a wholesaler or | | | | wardrobe or an antique brass bed to sell but you |
| drop shipper. The best margins are consistently | | | | don't want to buy it out of hand, you can sell it on |
| achieved through the sale of used, old, antique and | | | | their behalf. In other words, you get "free" stock and |
| vintage items. There are a number of reasons for | | | | take a cut of the proceedings. |
| this. | | | | 7. Money from your camera. |
| 1. Buyer interest. | | | | If you decide to sell antique or vintage items you will |
| Buyers know they can get new goods on specialized | | | | probably not own all of them, to start with anyway. |
| websites. They like to look for unusual, secondhand | | | | By taking pictures of such items in shops or at |
| or even antique and rare articles on auction websites | | | | people's homes you can make money from your |
| such as eBay. After all, prior to the internet auctions | | | | camera by placing ads for their items on eBay and |
| were where all the best bargains were to be found. | | | | taking a commission. |
| Buyers still believe it. | | | | 8. Profitability. |
| 2. Rarity. | | | | A particular out-of-print book, a certain postage |
| By definition a vintage, antique or used item is more | | | | stamp or even the fender of a vintage car has a |
| scarce supply than one which is new. Anything from | | | | value to the buyer that is very different from that |
| an old refrigerator to an antique bible is most likely | | | | of the seller. Mostly the seller just wants to get rid |
| going to be uniquely listed. That is good news for | | | | of it, whereas the buyer is generally prepared to pay |
| searches. Your item won't be buried among hundreds | | | | a high price for it. That is why dealing in used goods |
| identical products. | | | | can be so profitable. |
| 3. Premium price. | | | | 9. Interest. |
| If something is scarce then you can demand a lot of | | | | By specializing in a certain area of vintage, antique |
| money for it, mostly quite out of proportion to its | | | | goods used online a seller can build up specialized |
| intrinsic value. You are selling a perception of value, | | | | knowledge in that particular field. Very often this can |
| and that can be quite profitable. | | | | lead to an eBay seller starting a brick and mortar |
| 4. Ease of sourcing. | | | | store to compliment his or her estore! |
| There is a lot of junk in the world, some of it | | | | 10. Low turnover. |
| high-class and a lot of it that is, well, just junk. | | | | Selling new goods such as apparel, electronic |
| Nonetheless a large proportion of it is salable. As long | | | | equipment, cell phones is a high turnover business, |
| as you are in a town or city it will be easy to source | | | | subject to the vagaries of the market and changing |
| vintage, antique and used items. | | | | fashions. Antique, vintage or used items will always |
| 5. Stock affordability. | | | | be that. They can stay listed until they are sold. |
| Junk comes at low prices. Very often people clearing | | | | |