Your questions about how to make money selling on ebay

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The best way to learn what to sell and how to sell is to first learn how to do market research. For example when deciding what to sell start off by figuring out several different items you might be interested in selling on ebay then head over to ebay and start looking up these items..

Find the sellers that seem to be selling this stuff and try to determine who the ones are that are making any serious money. I’ll give you a hint on finding profitable items on ebay..when you do a search on the right hand side you’ll see a box called completed items. When you do a search with this filter on it’ll show you everything that sold for that search within the last 30 days..here’s the trick

If it’s in green it sold if it’s listed in red it didn’t..that tip is a great starting point to learning how to do market research on ebay..

I also found this site very helpful in learning more about how to sell on ebay successfully

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The same way as any retail establishment does…buy low, and sell high. Your problem lies in figuring out where to buy stuff cheap, and what to buy, and what price to start the bidding on. You are also going to have problems because you’re a minor, and can’t legally make binding contracts.

Just because something is cheap, or is a “collector’s edition”, doesn’t mean that you can turn it around and sell it for big bucks. You have to educate yourself about what you want to buy and sell, just like any other merchant. For instance, I know where to find decent used books that are likely to re-sell for a lot more than I paid for them. However, I know how to rate the condition of books, and I know which books are likely to re-sell and which are just going to never sell unless I price them at a dime or a quarter each.

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In my humble opinion….maybe try something else?

I would put your thinking cap on!

Look at all the things first that sell on e-bay…When you have a spare moment.o.k.
Then if you can just do some home work, and think ‘what’ is it that doesn’t sell on e-bay?…that maybe could?

E-bay is unlimited for selling….but Avon and others have been done to death!

You need to have inspiration…..but with thought! you may just pick a huge winner! GOOD LUCK!

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being 13, you are not allowed to have an ebay account.

cut grass, pull weeds, walk dogs, babysit…

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Actually, if you get a good price on padded envelopes, the shipping reimbursement usually leaves you with a little profit.

Every 75 cent book you sell will add to your feedback reputation, which will help you to sell *more* books and which will help you to sell the higher priced books in your inventory.

Also, the most important thing for me, is that selling the books, even at such a small profit, gets them out of my house and into someone else’s house – someone who wanted to read the book, anyway & who was looking for a bargain. I don’t mind helping out with that kind of system. And, I appreciate it, myself, when I’m on the buying end of the transaction.