Discussing Questions And Answers About Make Money On Ebay

The Old Hippy Dude answers:

There is a forum I found on the internet that is free, and helps with Ebay, PayPal, business and the law. Just post any question, the experts will answer it if it has not already been answered!

The site gets into EXACTLY what is best to buy in bulk and sell on EBAY!

The forum has a lot of expert advice on it. Http://www.modeeworld.com/forums I found advice there about how to avoid EBAY suspensions, get past PayPal limitations, also lots of detailed help on creating your own business, getting past trademark violations, VERO and lots more. Plus general advice on how best to sell on EBAY, what sells the best, how to get the best price for your product, really everything related to EBAY and internet business.

Also advice about how EBAY really works and how PayPal really works. The inside scoop.

Beautiful forum. I was made a moderator of the forum and I love it!

The Old Hippy Dude answers:

Because the buyers don’t do their research so they think it’s a good price

The Old Hippy Dude answers:

Julie,

The real goal behind making money on Ebay is to find/sell those ‘items’ that a large consumer market are always ‘buying’, regardless of the market.

To find the ‘hot items’, for a lack of better words, that are sold month-after-month, check out these two (2) Ebay references:

* http://pulse.ebay.com

Here, you can find a LOT of GOOD information, such as what ‘categories’ on Ebay are hot and/or what the hot selling ‘items’ are as well.

* http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/hotitems.pdf

This second resource is a MONTHLY PDF File, composed and maintained by Ebay, which will tell you what categories/items have been consistent ‘hot items’ from month to month. While the PDF file will change with each passing month, the URL above WILL NOT! So, bookmark it and continue to review it every month.

The next thing to consider is finding ‘drop-shippers’ of some of these products. The benefit to having a ‘drop-shipper’ is that when your auction is over, you send the request to the drop-shipper, they then take over the ‘customer experience’ and will handle everything from shipping the product to the customer, dealing with charge-backs and most everything else you can think of that would be common place in any type of transaction.

Another key to being highly effective/successful with Ebay Auctions is understanding all the different types of ‘auctions’ there are and how each one can help increase your sales.

A great resource that I recently came across which outlines everything there is to know about ebay auctions and making money is found in an ebook I came across not to long ago and you can get a copy if you’re interested in taking your auctions from ‘somewhat profitable’ to ‘hugely profitable’. The link is here:

http://fhurl.com/b663

Remember though, nothing is ‘easy’ when it comes to making money on ebay. If it was, then everyone would be selling on ebay, but since we know that’s not happening, you CAN profit from these techniques!

Hope this helps?

Cheers,

Jack G.

The Old Hippy Dude answers:

I was actually an eBay powerseller for a while, I got up to $10,000 a month selling expensive phones. Me and my partner would send text message offers to people on craigslist for Iphones, HTC’s, Androids etc. We had 3 phones and we made send a text message from each one making the seller think they were all different people. The first 2 would be extremely low offers, the last one was meant to close the deal. For some reason, things sell a lot cheaper on craigslist than on eBay. I bought a new Blackberry Storm2 on craigslist a few months ago for $200 and sold it on eBay in less than 3 hours later. We wouldn’t even mess with anything that sold for less than $200 on eBay. EBay is a super easy and fun way to get into business for yourself.

The Old Hippy Dude answers:

$3 is better than nothing on surplus items or items that were almost free. It adds up. They also may make a profit on shipping. It is called volume.