Making a living on Ebay

I wouldn't spend money on any of those infomercial products teaching you how to make money online. Instead, I'd subscribe for $15 to this forum so you can have access to the business and investments section. Lots of good stuff there and you can ask specific questions about business.. and you don't break any posting rules

 

This would be a good topic for the subscribed section...you should join.

I make a couple grand per month on EBay without much effort. Im sure I could bump it to $5k month if I had the time.

I have a friend whose wife buys clothing and accessories in the Los Angeles wholesale fashion district and resells on EBay. She claims she does about $60k year

I think you need to be a really self starter/self motivated person to make it work. If you need instructions on how to do it its probably not for you.

Basically find undervalued purchases of whatever you are interested in, as thats what you will be knowledgable about , and resell at a higher price point. I know about collectible toys so thats what I buy and sell.

 

my cousin and her husband would buy the "leftovers" from garage and estate sales (i.e. the crap that didn't sell), put it on ebay, and make a pretty ridiculous profit off it, percentage-wise. no idea how much total $$ they made, or if they even still do it (had a kid since then).

If you're creative and independent I'm sure you can still do well on ebay, but don't expect someone else's method or model to work for you.

and yes, you need to pony up the $15 and subscribe!

 

I did this a couple of years ago & did ok but with the rising ebay fees & shipping costs it's difficult to make a decent profit. It has crossed my mind about starting up again but if look at various sellers sales & the product demand have been down.

 

Hey, don't give up yet. The biggest Ebay scam are the shipping fees. I have a good friend whose wife owned a nationally-known retail shipping business. Except for the holidays, the majority of her business came from Ebayers. She had an arrangement with most of her Ebay clients where she created two receipts, one with actual shipping, which the buyer never saw, and a second one which had the shipping fees inflated by 50%. This strategy works great with small high frequency purchases where the numbers can be really rung up (excuse the pun). Reminds of the "second slap chop and graty are free - just pay shipping and handling.

 

I used to do quite a bit of ebay sales; made some pocket change.
The two things that became a problem for me were the constant increases with the shipping companies and ebay themselves.
Most of my problem is with ebay.... they have become quite greedy and these days are really pushing toward the 'ebay store' model. This is crowding out the private seller.

I haven't sold anything on ebay in a few years; don't see that changing either.