Apr 20 2008
10 Great Ways to Source Low Cost Products for eBay.
10 Great Ways to Source Low Cost Products for eBay.
10 Great Ways to Source Low Cost Products for eBay.
So you’re having trouble finding stock cheaply enough to sell it for a good profit? Well, you’ve come to the right place.
Garage sales. The chances are you’ve gone most of your life seeing ads for these and ignoring them. Start going to as many as you can. You won’t find good things at every one, but when you find one person with good stuff, make them an offer for the lot ? they’ll be so happy about it that you can get a real bargain.
Markets. If your area has a market, then go there and look around for anything good. You could buy it there if it’s cheap enough, or try to make friends with the market traders and find out who their suppliers are.
Pawn shops. Pawn shops don’t usually know what to do with the junk they accumulate (unless it’s jewellery, of course). Generally, they put their stock out on the shelves haphazardly, hoping that someday someone with a little money will just happen to come in, search around and buy wildly obscure things. Get them to offer you a discount for bulk.
Real auctions. Go to a real auction, as the chances are that you can resell things for more than they will sell them. After all, they only have a few hundred people in that room ? you have a few million to sell to!
Local newspapers. Place an ad in the local paper that reads ?I pay cash for [your item type]?, with your phone number. If you can afford it, make it a big display ad, so it’ll be noticed.
Ad boards. Get one of those little ads in the grocery store.
Friends. Ask your friends if they have anything they’d like to sell you, and ask them to spread the word to their friends.
Become known. Give out business cards, mention to people what you do. The chances are that you’ll come across someone who’ll say ?Oh, really? I’ve got a load of [item] I don’t want?.
Shops. This might be a little surprising, but some real shops even sell things more cheaply than they sell on eBay. Take a look around your local deep discounter, and pay special attention to any shop that takes trade-ins from customers. The chances are they take a loss on trade-ins as a promotion, and are dying to get rid of that stock.
And finally: eBay! When you’re looking at the completed items view, you’ll notice the massive range of prices that items can sell for on eBay. Try taking the highest-priced item and searching for it on its own, then sort by lowest price first: I can almost guarantee that you’ll see an auction for the same item where it sold for almost nothing. The trick is to find these flawed auctions before they close, win them using a bid sniping service, and then turn around and resell the item.
After all that trouble, though, when do sell the item you might find that a buyer leaves you a feedback rating you just don’t think is fair. The next email will show you what to do about it.
Armando Rodriguez
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Armando Rodriguez been buying and selling on Ebay for over 8 years. I've aquired a tremedous amount of experience during that time. I'm also involved in affiliate marketing.
Buying Tips For Maximum Profits On EBay
Buying on eBay can be lots of fun and profiting. If you love bargains, and am yet to see anyone who doesn’t, i stand corrected, if there is anyone one out there who doesn’t, then eBay is the right place for you. 24 hours a day and the whole year through in the comfort of your own home, you can find and profit from lots of bargains. From eBay antiques to eBay motors, real estate to sought after event tickets, consumer electronics to collectibles, there is something for everyone on eBay. And these are just a few of the categories i have mentioned. At any one time, eBay has hundreds of thousands of items for sale on its network of sites. Items are organised into categories on eBay, and these are listed down on the left hand side of the screen. It’s amazing what’s on sale on eBay. Rather than moving through all this categories, it’s a better idea to use eBay’s search facility. Because eBay has such a massive number of items for sale, it’s very likely you will be presented with hundreds if not thousands of items when you search for items to buy on eBay. The first thing to have in mind, when you need to buy on eBay will of course be the price. EBay is supposed to be the bargain warehouse, but over the years, there have been so many items that have exchanged hands for way above their retail value because of the bidding frenzy that comes with certain items offered for sale on the auction site. It’s always a good practice to compare bids if you are involved in an auction, and if this has already exceeded the pre - determined amount you are willing to pay, don’t be tempted into a bidding war, just move on and find similar items with a different seller, you are always bound to find these because remember there are thousands of items available for sale on eBay. Items you buy on eBay will be mailed to you unless stated otherwise, so be very wary of postage and delivery costs when determining the amount you are willing to pay for an item. When you have decided on these, also consider the condition of the item. EBay is an auction site, and as is the case with all auctions, there are always old and new items for sale. So be very careful, usually the seller’s description of the item should give you an idea about its condition. When in doubt you can always email the seller through eBay’s mail system. All good sellers will answer questions regarding their items. Some auctions come with a “Buy It Now” icon, you can end the auction immediately by paying for the advertised price using the “Buy It Now” icon. I suggest you should only do this if the “Buy It Now” price is within the pre - determined amount you are willing to pay. Copyright © David Nettey
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Beginners Can Make Money on eBay ” Easy 3 Step Plan and Wholesale Sources
If you want to make money as a beginner on eBay then follow these 3 easy steps and start making money today. Signup to sell on eBay Signing up on eBay is easy. It only takes a few minutes to become a member and you will be able to sell within a few minutes. Signing up on eBay is free but selling is not. Make sure you read the cost of selling items before you list your first item. You don t want to be surprised by eBay s fees after you sell your item. You must decide what you want to sell on eBay As a beginning seller on eBay you might want to sell something from around your house that you don t want anymore. Make sure it is an item that someone else would want. What you consider to be junk others might consider to be treasure, but they might think it is junk also. Selling for the first time on eBay is not very difficult but you do need to be honest about your item and price it fairly if you want to be successful. After you get your feet wet then you will need more items. Most power sellers on eBay sell items that can be drop shipped to their customers. Drop shipping is a great way to get started as an eBay seller. You don t have to buy anything and keep it at your home. You don t have to worry about shipping and many drop shippers have created eBay ads for each item. This means you can just copy and paste the ad into eBay. This saves you a great deal of time. Find a wholesale source Finding a reliable wholesale source is very difficult. As an eBay beginner you want to be able to focus on your auctions and not worry about if you are getting the best price, shipping and customer service from your wholesaler. I have several wholesale drop ship sources that I use but it took a while to develop a good list. I have several sources because each one specializes in certain product lines. For example, I have a good source for bedding and quilts, I have a source for digital cameras, and one of my sources has many different product lines. Take the time to research your wholesale sources before selling one of their items. If you are an eBay beginner or pro you must follow these steps to be successful. Of course you have to get started selling your first item and learn the ropes. Unfortunately many people over analyze instead of just getting started. Bottom line is you will not make money unless you start selling today. Take action and good luck!
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Surpassing eBay s Success
The duplication of the success of a site like eBay is long yearned for by folks world wide. To duplicate such efforts takes much work beyond the time, skills, and finances of most people. Perhaps one can do better and surpass eBay s success in a different manner. To do so might be to incorporate a bunch of niche market e-Bay type sites, each on a particular subject. One might focus on art while another focuses on computer related items. This would attract people who were more targeted to those areas of interests. In addition, since the material was more unified on a particular subject then the engines like Yahoo and Google would tend to rank them higher. There s certainly time constraints to creating lots of niche market e-commerce sites. Setting the related specs for each niche market site takes time to plan. It would be great to push a button and create a site on any particular subject in little time as from a template. That way you could invest the time but not too much to see which niche market worked and which didn t. You could create a site on real estate, then one on house rentals, and another on cars with little effort. Skill and expense go hand in hand. For what skills you lack and are unable to do the work yourself, you need to invest in someone or something to do that work. Besides graphic design, each site would require database programming. I think that s out of the reach of many web folks to tackle themselves and quite a substantial expense for them. Besides if you don t know what such a database should have in it then it s quite a predicament to build it. To make it easier, you need some type of pre-built design for the database. This design would have typical database specifications for that niche market. For cars, for example, you have make, model, year, and mileage and so on. One site strives to combine e-commerce, graphic design, and database into one package,MemberDatabases.com (www.memberdatabases.com). Their aim is to remove the time, skill, and finance restraints. Once done, you have the freedom of mind to pursue what you want to. Dexter Coelho Tech writer and pro developer Emerald Designs Inc. (305) 931-2060
Be the trainer who gets it right
There are many roles a business leader must play. One very important role is the role of Trainer . At every level in every organization there are goals to be met and processes to complete. You could say every step that is taken to reach every goal requires a certain behavior or set of behaviors. To put this simply, an organization has to do a lot of the right things at the right time to be successful. This means each person has to do enough right things in the right timeframe. This requires a trainer at every level. Someone has to figure out what needs to get done to achieve every step along the way. Someone has to figure out how to teach people to recognize when to do what. And someone has to train people how to do each thing and how to know when it is done right. So the business leader must work as a trainer at a very personal and individual level. At the same time a business leader is the trainer of an entire organization. In order to approach an organization in a manageable manner, you should see your organization as a living, breathing, feeling thing that has tendencies, direction, momentum, drives, fears and motivations. Wherever you are in the chain of command or in the network of talented individuals, you are responsible for being the trainer of the people who you depend on. This includes the people who report to you, the people you report to and the people you collaborate with. It is not always easy to train people, is it? For some reason, I have always been a trainer. There was a time I was called Tron the Trainer . My early interest in life was music. I was so interested in pursuing music that my guitar teacher began giving me his youngest and most inexperienced students to teach. I was a freshman in High School who was a trainer of new musicians. This situation worked out great for everyone. I knew enough about training beginning guitar players, because my teacher had given me a good system to work with. I taught a group of songs that involved certain chord changes, rhythms, strums, figure picking patterns and solo lines that were designed to cover all the basics. By the time the students started getting so good that I was no longer qualified to take them to the next level, my teacher took over their lessons. This was a great arrangement. My teacher got to take over a steady stream of students who were already committed and playing at an intermediate level. This allowed him to have some fun and make some great progress with his students. I got to make a great income as a guitar teacher. Most of my friends were working as stock boys and grocery delivery boys making next to nothing. My students got some great basic training, because I was motivated to be a great trainer of musicians and build my little music business. A year or so later I met my brother s neighbor who was a trainer of protection dogs and police dogs. I had always been fascinated by German Shepherds. I guess Rin Tin Tin had made a mark on me as a child. I had also seen a working German Shepherd dog trial in East Germany on a family vacation when I was 11 or 12. I was mesmerized. I know; who takes their family to communist East Germany for a family vacation? Well the Jordheims would. My mom had grown up in the area that became East Germany and we went back to see old friends and the old family home. This is a whole other story for another time. Anyway I know wanted to become a dog trainer. And that s what I did. I found anyone who could teach me. It was a good time for my pursuit. There were many German Shepherd enthusiasts trying to establish the German working dog sport called Schutzhund in the U.S. Local dog clubs would bring over trainers and trial judges from Germany for seminars and working dog tests. I went to every one I could. I soon realized I needed to speak German to get the real story from the experts, because many of the translators who I encountered did not know dogs or dog training and much was lost in the translation. I knew a little bit of German from my mother and got serious about it. I studied it in evening courses and made it my minor in college. I traveled to Germany to seek out the experts I had met and met many more. It wasn t long before I spoke and understood German well enough to pass for a native. I became a favored apprentice to a few old masters and became the translator of choice for dog clubs in the U.S. who wanted to bring over the old masters and the new innovators of dog training from Germany for seminars. I had a blast. At the same time I became sought after as a trainer in my own right. I trained many people how to train their dogs and helped many dog clubs develop top notch training programs. I helped people with many, many breeds of dogs gain Shutzhund titles and I was on the training team of the 1981 US National Schutzhund Champion. I was selected as the Team Captain to lead the U.S. team at the 1982 European Schutzhund Championship in Salzburg, Austria. We had a very respectable finish. I had a great time. As you know, one thing leads to another and before long I was using my trainer skills in the world of B to B sales. I had taken a job with the Great Bear Spring Water company in New York City after college and quickly learned some great selling systems and methods from my supervisors and co-workers. Since I thought like a trainer, I revamped the system and ultimately taught my system to others in the company. We had great successes with it. Ask the people at Beatrice and KKR. These were two companies that profited greatly from our work. I later found a use for my trainer skills with Culligan Bottled Water. I saw that the local Culligan dealer in my adopted home town of Columbia, MO had a fledgling operation at a time when the demand for five gallon bottled water service was about to take off in smaller markets and outstate regions. I showed how my sales system worked and boosted their business. I acted as trainer for the route drivers, the sales rep I hired and for the entire organization as we created the best bottled water franchise in the whole Culligan system. We had the highest concentration of bottle cooler rentals per capita than any dealer in the 900 plus dealer network. Because of this success, other bottled water companies looked to me to help as their trainer. I shared my system and they saw their businesses boom, too. The success of the bottled water division was one of the big reasons that Culligan was able to sell at such a respectable multiple when The Vivendi Group took over the company. One of the threads you notice in this story of Tron the Trainer is the value that good training brings. This is particularly true when the training involves selling better, creating friendlier customer service models and creating profitable enterprises. None of these things happen without a good eye for training, a good system for training, people who are trainable and people who can be the trainer. So how do you master the training aspect? First of all, it doesn t matter whether your training subject is a single individual, a department or an entire corporation. Allow me to use dog training as an analogy. How do you think you get a dog to jump over a hurdle, pick up an object, bring it back to its handler and sit in front to present the object? First your dog has to have the right temperament. In this sense, Temperament is a combination of brightness, courage, handle-ability, spirit and drive. If your dog has no desire to work or to work with a handler, you can forget the whole enterprise. If your dog is too sensitive to take a correction or to handle frustration, you can also forget it. If your dog cannot get over and forget a bad experience, forget it. If your dog doesn t like to carry things or chase things, again you can forget it. My point here is that you have to have the right dog for the exercise you are teaching, or make sure you are teaching an appropriate exercise for what suits the dog s temperament. OK. Let s assume your dog likes you and you like it. It likes to chase and carry toys. It likes to interact with you and forgets bad experiences. For example, the other day you accidentally stepped on its toe with all your weight and made it yelp. Half an hour later you stepped on its toe by accident again, but this time with very little weight and the dog did not even react. First you have to teach the components of the exercise. This exercise involves: 1. Sit by your side and stay in spite of interesting distractions happening 2. chase an object 3. jump over an obstacle going away from you 4. pick up an object without playing with it or rolling it around in its mouth 5. bring the object back to you quickly 6. jump over an obstacle coming back to you 7. sit in front of you when you call it to you 8. sit in front of you holding an object calmly 9. releasing the object when you tell it 10. returning to a ready position , sitting at your side and staying If you think you can just toss out an object and say fetch it and the whole thing just happens, you need to stop drinking so much alcohol on your lunch break. Each one of these components has to be taught as a separate exercise. It has to be repeated and refined. It has to be taught correctly and consistently. It has to be exactly clear to the dog how and when to do each component. This can take months to get the components working well. Then you have to begin to mix components so the mixture flows well in the dog s brain. The connections have to be clear and you have to help the dog every step of the way. You are giving corrections and making adjustments. You are giving encouragement and trying to keep it fun. You have to celebrate the small successes. You have to know when to stop training and relax. You have to know when to play. Some days you work on tying all the pieces together. Some days you work on individual components trying to perfect them. You have to recognize when your dog is being lazy and either motivate it or force it into action. You have to recognize when you are being a poor dog handler and giving mixed signals, weak cues and confusing body language. You have to know when you just need to take a day off and do something else, or do nothing. You need to spend a lot of time thinking about training and only a short time doing actual training. You need to examine every training session and see what you can learn from it. You also need to set up the conditions under which the training has to take place. Then you have to train under those conditions. The result is something like this: when you walk your dog out onto a grassy area and have it sit 10 or 15 feet back from a hurdle, the dog knows exactly what is coming. It sits by your side until you say Fetch and then it runs through the whole routine. It looks easy to the spectators. All they see is the whole picture. They see it in one fleeting motion and think they can duplicate it. This is why well run businesses are hard to duplicate by competitors. This is also why people who are sloppy and lazy dog trainers get terrible scores when trial day comes. They thought it would be easy, but in the end the dog was only confused and frustrated. So the dog tips the hurdle going over, plays with the object before picking it up, goes around the hurdle coming back to its handler and then drops the object at the handler s feet and starts sniffing the grass. Which kind of organization would you prefer?
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Wholesale Dropshipping For eBay Sellers!
Copyright © 2006 Ron Keegan Ebay is the ‘BEST’ opportunity you can use right now to make money online in the dropshipping business from the comfort of your own home. Thousands of people just like you use eBay auctions on a daily basis to sell and buy products on the Internet; now it’s your time to START your own dropshipping home-based business and succeed in the eBay auctions ‘game’! There are no special skills required for this dropshipping business, all you need is a computer, Internet access and some basic computer / Internet knowledge. Dropshipping is when you sell products on the Web, forward the orders to the dropship supplier and, in return, the dropshipper ships the product to your customer (buyer). You act as the middleman between the dropshipping supplier and your buyer. You can take orders by credit card, fax or any other method you can think of. You can sell via your own Web Site or even through e-mail. Your profit is generated on the difference between your selling price and the price the dropshipping supplier charges you. Thanks to dropshipping you can start making money ‘instantly’ without any investment in inventory, warehousing, shipping, equipment, employees or office space. How do I find something to sell on eBay? Of course, finding something to sell isn’t hard. Finding something at a “Low enough price” to make a profit on eBay is much more difficult. That’s because eBay is a price-driven model and buyers expect a bargain. If they don’t get one, they’re not buying. So, the REAL question is: How do I find something at a ‘low enough price to sell profitably’ on eBay? Answer: THE LIGHT BULK WHOLESALE DIRECTORY 1. WWB has an entire research section in their Florida office that ‘personally interviews’ each and every wholesaler and dropshipper. Without an interview, no one gets into their directory. No one. 2. They have ‘Very Exacting Criteria’ for being listed. If the source doesn’t meet those criteria, they aren’t listed. For example, they must be ‘genuine wholesalers’ and they must be willing to Sell to eBayers in Low minimum quantities. Most wholesalers want to sell to big retailers with huge budgets, so finding dealers willing to work with the little guys that’s us isn’t so easy. And, as you probably know, way too many so-called wholesalers are only ‘middlemen’. That won’t happen with the new Light Bulk Directory. Having products drop shipped by suppliers, allows you to concentrate on truly important aspects like advertising, sales and promotion. Pay attention! There are lots of companies claiming to be ‘Drop Shippers’. However, a legitimate drop shipper is a factory-authorized wholesale distributor, or sometimes the actual manufacturer of the product. A legitimate drop shipper should not charge you an ‘account setup fee’ or ask you to place a ‘minimum quantity order’. Make sure you find some legitimate drop shippers who have the product(s) you want to sell, talk with them on the phone / by e-mail and let them know that you are truly serious about doing business with them. Customer support counts in the dropshipping business, so don’t hesitate to contact some dropshipping suppliers before you want to work with them. This will help you decide if you really want to do business with a particular drop shipper or not. To succeed in the dropshipping business you’ll have to LOOK for hard-to-find products that people desperately need and want to purchase. The key is to sell products with little or no competition. I suggest you RESEARCH for quality products & legitimate dropship suppliers, MONITOR the eBay auction listings to see if there’s any competition and TEST the market (e.g. find out if people really want to spend CASH on the product you want to sell) Remember! Dropshipping makes it EASY for you to start and run your own home-based businesses on a shoestring budget; and eBay is the ‘perfect’ MEDIUM to expose your product to potential buyers all over the globe! By Ron Keegan Megastar Distributors http://www.megdis.com.com
Ron Keegan runs http://www.Megdis.com an eBay Information Web Site with lots of *FREE* Resources, Tips & Reports on DropShipping & eBay.
LOCAL POWDER SPRINGS THRIFT STORE BECOMES EBAY POWER SELLER
Contact: Laurie Wong
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LOCAL POWDER SPRINGS THRIFT STORE BECOMES EBAY POWER SELLER
Located in Powder Springs Georgia, thrift store Reflections of Trinity has soared to the top in an unusual way as far as thrift stores are concerned. This small town store has gone 21st century with it s add methods by not only creating their own website with store merchandise on display and priced but also listing their products on Ebay!
Going online was the smartest decision this thrift store could have made. By opening their doors to the World Wide Web, Reflections of Trinity has increased in sales dramatically since their opening in 2003. Starting out on Ebay, Reflections sold $12,000 in merchandise in 30 days and went on to sell approximately $400,000 in only 10 months! Needless to say this sky rocketed a simple thrift store to an Ebay power seller within months.
At this point you may be wondering what in the world does Reflections of Trinity have to offer that most second hand shops don t. Among the plethora of items, Reflections sells boats, vehicles (classic cars), specialty items, furniture, home d ©cor, and even real estate! Visit http://www.reflectionsoftrinity.org for more info!
Reflections of Trinity began as an annual used clothing sale called the Swap-Shop, at Trinity Chapel in the fall of 2000. Its purpose was to raise funds for our fairly new school, Trinity Chapel Academy. Our first and subsequent sales events were successful, so the decision was made to make it a full time venture and on September 27, 2003 we opened our doors to the public at our current location. Reflections of Trinity sells quality used and new clothing, shoes and accessories as well as house ware items and furniture. We have a beautiful display of jewelry and artwork and an extensive collection of wedding dresses and formal wear. In addition to being a retail establishment, Reflections of Trinity supports and has become a resource center for many charitable organizations. As a retail establishment, our mission is simple, to provide quality merchandise at a bargain price in an atmosphere of Love, Acceptance and Forgiveness, which is the foundation message of Trinity Chapel.
If your church or organization is interested in doing a fund raiser or a missions project with Reflections, please call our office at (770) 222-6311 for more details. Mail us at: 4037 Austell-Powder Springs Rd. Powder Springs, GA 30127
<a href="http://www.reflectionsoftrinity.org">Reflections of Trinity</a>
What You Need to Know BEFORE You Get Started on eBay.
What You Need to Know BEFORE You Get Started on eBay. So you’ve decided that you want to get started as a seller on eBay. There are a few things that you really need to know before you go and throw yourself in at the deep end. What to Sell. First off, you need to know what it is you’re going to sell: what’s your speciality? You’ll do far better on eBay if you become a great source for certain kind of products, as people who are interested in those products will come back to you again and again. You won’t get any loyalty or real reputation if you just sell rubbish at random. When you think about what to sell, there are a few things to consider. The most important of these is to always sell what you know. If you try to sell something that you just don’t know anything about then you’ll never write a good description and sell it for a good price. You might think you’re not especially interested in anything, but if you think about what kind of things you usually buy and which websites you go to most often, I’m sure you’ll discover some kind of interest. If all else fails mention it to your friends and family: they’ll almost certainly say “Oh, well why don’t you sell “, and you’ll slap your forehead. Out of the things you know enough about, you should then consider which things you could actually get for a good enough price to resell, and how suitable they would be for posting. If you can think of something of that you’re knowledgeable about and it’s small and light enough for postage to be relatively cheap, then that’s great! Don’t worry if you think the thing you’re selling is too obscure - it isn’t. There’s a market for almost everything on eBay, even things that wouldn’t sell once in a year if you stocked them in a shop. You’ll probably do even better if you fill a niche than if you sell something common. Tax and Legal Matters. If you earn enough money, you should be aware that you’re going to have to start paying tax - this won’t be done for you. If you decide to sell on eBay on a full-time basis, you should probably register as a business. Prepare Yourself. There are going to be ups and downs when you sell on eBay. Don’t pack it in if something goes a little wrong in your first few sales: the sellers who are successful on eBay are the ones who enjoy it, and stick at it whatever happens. Anyone can sell on eBay, if they believe in themselves - and if you do decide it’s not for you, then the start-up costs are so low that you won’t really have lost anything.
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10 Great Ways to Source Low Cost Products for eBay.
10 Great Ways to Source Low Cost Products for eBay.
So you’re having trouble finding stock cheaply enough to sell it for a good profit? Well, you’ve come to the right place.
Garage sales. The chances are you’ve gone most of your life seeing ads for these and ignoring them. Start going to as many as you can. You won’t find good things at every one, but when you find one person with good stuff, make them an offer for the lot ? they’ll be so happy about it that you can get a real bargain.
Markets. If your area has a market, then go there and look around for anything good. You could buy it there if it’s cheap enough, or try to make friends with the market traders and find out who their suppliers are.
Pawn shops. Pawn shops don’t usually know what to do with the junk they accumulate (unless it’s jewellery, of course). Generally, they put their stock out on the shelves haphazardly, hoping that someday someone with a little money will just happen to come in, search around and buy wildly obscure things. Get them to offer you a discount for bulk.
Real auctions. Go to a real auction, as the chances are that you can resell things for more than they will sell them. After all, they only have a few hundred people in that room ? you have a few million to sell to!
Local newspapers. Place an ad in the local paper that reads ?I pay cash for [your item type]?, with your phone number. If you can afford it, make it a big display ad, so it’ll be noticed.
Ad boards. Get one of those little ads in the grocery store.
Friends. Ask your friends if they have anything they’d like to sell you, and ask them to spread the word to their friends.
Become known. Give out business cards, mention to people what you do. The chances are that you’ll come across someone who’ll say ?Oh, really? I’ve got a load of [item] I don’t want?.
Shops. This might be a little surprising, but some real shops even sell things more cheaply than they sell on eBay. Take a look around your local deep discounter, and pay special attention to any shop that takes trade-ins from customers. The chances are they take a loss on trade-ins as a promotion, and are dying to get rid of that stock.
And finally: eBay! When you’re looking at the completed items view, you’ll notice the massive range of prices that items can sell for on eBay. Try taking the highest-priced item and searching for it on its own, then sort by lowest price first: I can almost guarantee that you’ll see an auction for the same item where it sold for almost nothing. The trick is to find these flawed auctions before they close, win them using a bid sniping service, and then turn around and resell the item.
After all that trouble, though, when do sell the item you might find that a buyer leaves you a feedback rating you just don’t think is fair. The next email will show you what to do about it.
Armando Rodriguez
Author
Armando Rodriguez been buying and selling on Ebay for over 8 years. I've aquired a tremedous amount of experience during that time. I'm also involved in affiliate marketing.
Deciding What to Sell on eBay and How to Find It
The pressing question that almost every eBay seller faces at one point during their selling experience is that dread question: What is it, exactly, that I should sell and where do I get it? You ve sold every last thing in your house that you don t want or need and you re tired of selling other people s stuff and you are wondering where to turn. Finding a solid source for a product is essential in building your eBay business. It may take some work, it may take some time, but once it is established and exclusive, you will have a close to indestructible online business. There are two types of products you need to look for: Introduction Products (Products that are new and in-demand) Liquidation Products (Products that are at the end of the product cycle and being sold at a huge discount) If you re interested in finding introduction products, you are in for a lot of work. You will have to obtain a lot of knowledge about the consumer and almost be able to predict what will sell well. You could possibly find a supplier that supplies a massive amount of one particular new product. However, you may discover they sell horribly on eBay. You are then stuck with all these newly packaged products and probably in debt. When it comes to liquidation products you have a lot more options. There is a lot more room for research to see how popular the product was when it first hit the market. You will also be able to obtain liquidation products at a substantially lower price. After deciding what type of product you would like to sell, it s a matter of finding a supplier. It s not as simple as searching on google or finding a wholesale list on eBay. The internet is saturated with wholesale scams. It may not be impossible to find a good supplier on line, but it could be considered unlikely. A good way to get started in finding a good consistent supplier is to buy products at a discount retailer, like Big Lots or even Wal-mart, and test different products. When you find one you think may be profitable, find out the manufacturer s number (located on the package) and ask to speak to someone about purchasing products for resale. It s a tedious process, but when you find a good supplier you will not regret it. It takes good research and patience. Just remember, the best supplier won t be easily found on the internet or in a book. A good, consistent supplier will be found through the tedious process of finding an exclusive source that you worked hard to discover.
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