| Most people start selling on eBay by listing used stuff | | | | repeat products to sell. |
| from around their house. This is an excellent way to | | | | Unless you are an antiques/collectibles dealer, it's |
| get familiar with how eBay works. But you can't | | | | going to be VERY difficult for you to make a decent |
| make a sustainable business doing that - eventually | | | | living selling used goods. When you aren't finding new |
| you'll have nothing left to sell! Many people take this a | | | | products and listing them, you aren't selling anything, |
| step further and actively seek out stuff to sell on | | | | so you aren't making any money. Your earnings will |
| eBay at carboot sales, jumble sales, pound stores, | | | | be dependent on the time you spend working and |
| charity shops, auctions, pawnbrokers, etc. | | | | you will be tied to your eBay business. You can't |
| Many people make a living selling antiques and | | | | automate your business and it's virtually impossible to |
| collectibles on eBay - but you really need to know | | | | scale up your business. Instead of maximizing your |
| what you are doing to do this successfully. If you are | | | | income while minimizing your effort, you will be |
| a specialist dealer or collector, you will already have | | | | maximizing your effort but minimizing your income! |
| the knowledge of where to get items in your niche | | | | Also, one of the best things about eBay, and one of |
| and what they are worth. If you are NOT a specialist | | | | the reasons why you can start an eBay business |
| dealer or collector, I recommend that you forget the | | | | with very low risk, is it's easy to TEST everything at |
| idea of making a living selling used items on eBay. | | | | little or no cost and make adjustments until you are |
| Scouring markets, charity shops, carboot sales, | | | | MAXIMIZING YOUR INCOME whilst MINIMIZING |
| conventional auctions and online auctions for used | | | | YOUR EFFORT. You can't test a one-off single item |
| items to buy at a bargain and sell at a profit on eBay | | | | so you may end up making a mistake that you can't |
| is very time consuming and not very efficient. It | | | | rectify next time because there won't be a "next |
| takes a lot of time to find the products and do your | | | | time". |
| research on eBay to ensure that you can sell it at a | | | | Ideally, you need to be selling the same item over |
| profit before you buy it. | | | | and over again so that you can AUTOMATE the |
| And as each item is a one-off, you will have to take | | | | process and so MAXIMIZE YOUR INCOME whilst |
| unique photos, compile a unique listing, obtain unique | | | | MINIMIZING YOUR EFFORT. One of the easiest |
| packaging and calculate the correct postage, etc for | | | | ways to do this is to secure a regular, dependable |
| each listing. And there is no guaranteed source of | | | | supply of new products. |