If you've ever read an article about eBay, you will have seen the kinds of incomes people make - it isn't unusual to hear of people making thousands of dollars per month on eBay.
Next time you're on eBay, take a look at how many PowerSellers there are: you'll find quite a few. Now consider that every single one of one of them must be making at least $1,000 per month, as that's eBay's requirement for becoming a PowerSeller. Silver PowerSellers make at least $3,000 each month, while Gold PowerSellers make more than $10,000, and the Platinum level is $25,000. The top ranking is Titanium PowerSeller, and to qualify you must make at least $150,000 in sales every month!
The fact that these people exist gives you come idea of the income possibilities here. Most of them never set out to even set up a business on eBay - they simply started selling a few things, and then kept going. There are plenty of people whose full-time job is selling things on eBay, and some of them have been doing it for years now. Can you imagine that? Once they've bought the stock, everything else is pretty much pure profit for these people - they don't need to pay for any business premises, staff, or anything else. There are multi-million pound businesses making less in actual profit than eBay PowerSellers do.
Even if you don't want to quit your job and really go for it, you can still use eBay to make a significant second income. You can pack up orders during the week and take them down to the post office for delivery each Saturday. There are few other things you could be doing with your spare time that have anywhere near that kind of earning potential.
What's more, eBay doesn't care who you are, where you live, or what you look like: some PowerSellers are very old, or very young. Some live out in the middle of nowhere where selling on eBay is one of the few alternatives to farming or being very poor. eBay tears down the barriers to earning that the real world constantly puts up. There's no job interview and no commuting involved - if you can post things, you can do it.
Put it this way: if you know where to get something reasonably cheaply that you could sell, then you can sell it on eBay - and since you can always get discounts for bulk at wholesale, that's not exactly difficult. Buy a job lot of something in-demand cheaply, sell it on eBay, and you're making money already, with no set-up costs.
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Monday, January 16, 2012
Sunday, January 8, 2012
Tips on Making Money Selling Sports Cards on eBay
Are you interested in becoming an eBay seller or are you a relatively new eBay seller? If so, you may still be learning the ins and outs of eBay. Selling on eBay is a great way to make money on the side or even enough to support yourself, but you have to be successful at what you do. Unfortunately, it can take time to fully learn the ins and outs of eBay, particularly how to become a profitable eBay seller, until now. Below some helpful tips are outlined; tips that you won’t necessarily find explained on eBay.
eBay sellers are all required to pay fees to list their items for sale on eBay. You are charged two separate fees, a listing fee or insertion fee and a final value fee. For the final value fee, you are charged a percentage of the price that your item sold for. The insertion fee or listing fee is figured out a little bit differently. Instead of being charged a percentage, you are charged a set amount. For instance, at the current moment, it costs .20 to list an item up to .99 cents and .40 to list an item for sale between $1.00 and $9.99, and the fee scale continues up in a similar fashion. Please remember that this is just a sample. eBay regularly changes their fees; therefore, you are urged not to rely on the aforementioned fee samples.
Although eBay sellers must pay the eBay fees mentioned above, many do not take the time to thoroughly understand those fees. You are advised against doing that, as it may end up costing you money. For instance, many of the price ranges for eBay’s insertion fee scale ends at .99 cents. For you, this is a great opportunity to save money, but you must know how to do so. As stated above, if you list one of your items at $9.99, the sample insertion fee would be only .40 cents. Did you know that if you listed your item for $10.00, your insertion fee could jump up to around .60 cents! An extra .20 cents just for a penny is pretty expensive, especially if you list a number of eBay auctions that way. Before listing items for sale on eBay again, examine eBay insertion fee sale and see how you can easily save money, sometimes by just shaving a few cents off your asking price.
It has often been said that to be a successful eBay seller, you need to have good product descriptions and clear digital pictures of the item or items that you are selling. Of course, having a number of pictures in your eBay listings is a great way to increase your chances of making a sale, but it can be expensive doing so. eBay allows sellers to post one picture for free. Additional pictures can be purchased for a small fee, but that small fee can add up overtime. For that reason, many eBay sellers limit the number of pictures they put in their auctions; however, you do not want to do this. Instead, you will want to examine photo sharing sites. Photo sharing websites, like PhotoBucket are a nice, fee way to add more pictures to your eBay auctions. Register with a photo sharing site, like PhotoBucket, follow the instructions and you should be saving money in no time at all.
The above mentioned ways are just a few of the many ways that you can save money on eBay, not lose it. In all honesty, you should do a little bit of research first. Using the internet is a great way to research selling on eBay, as many other eBay users will share their money making secrets with you, free of charge.
eBay sellers are all required to pay fees to list their items for sale on eBay. You are charged two separate fees, a listing fee or insertion fee and a final value fee. For the final value fee, you are charged a percentage of the price that your item sold for. The insertion fee or listing fee is figured out a little bit differently. Instead of being charged a percentage, you are charged a set amount. For instance, at the current moment, it costs .20 to list an item up to .99 cents and .40 to list an item for sale between $1.00 and $9.99, and the fee scale continues up in a similar fashion. Please remember that this is just a sample. eBay regularly changes their fees; therefore, you are urged not to rely on the aforementioned fee samples.
Although eBay sellers must pay the eBay fees mentioned above, many do not take the time to thoroughly understand those fees. You are advised against doing that, as it may end up costing you money. For instance, many of the price ranges for eBay’s insertion fee scale ends at .99 cents. For you, this is a great opportunity to save money, but you must know how to do so. As stated above, if you list one of your items at $9.99, the sample insertion fee would be only .40 cents. Did you know that if you listed your item for $10.00, your insertion fee could jump up to around .60 cents! An extra .20 cents just for a penny is pretty expensive, especially if you list a number of eBay auctions that way. Before listing items for sale on eBay again, examine eBay insertion fee sale and see how you can easily save money, sometimes by just shaving a few cents off your asking price.
It has often been said that to be a successful eBay seller, you need to have good product descriptions and clear digital pictures of the item or items that you are selling. Of course, having a number of pictures in your eBay listings is a great way to increase your chances of making a sale, but it can be expensive doing so. eBay allows sellers to post one picture for free. Additional pictures can be purchased for a small fee, but that small fee can add up overtime. For that reason, many eBay sellers limit the number of pictures they put in their auctions; however, you do not want to do this. Instead, you will want to examine photo sharing sites. Photo sharing websites, like PhotoBucket are a nice, fee way to add more pictures to your eBay auctions. Register with a photo sharing site, like PhotoBucket, follow the instructions and you should be saving money in no time at all.
The above mentioned ways are just a few of the many ways that you can save money on eBay, not lose it. In all honesty, you should do a little bit of research first. Using the internet is a great way to research selling on eBay, as many other eBay users will share their money making secrets with you, free of charge.
Sunday, January 1, 2012
Friday, December 30, 2011
How to Sell Baseball Cards for Profit
It truly saddens me when someone comes to me with a box of baseball cards from the 80's and thinks they have a goldmine on their hands. I hate being the one to tell them that they will be lucky if they can given them away, much less walk away rich. While baseball cards were mass produced in the 1980's, card companies such as Topps learned their lesson about how this affected card values, and changed the world of cards from the 90's on.
If you want to sell your box of cards from the 80's, I will not be able to help you. However, if you have vintage cards from the 70's or older, or newer cards from the 90's on up, you just might be in luck. Before you do anything, you will want to determine how much each of your cards are worth. The most popular price guide is Beckett. However, their online and magazine prices guides cost money. Tuff Stuff offers a free online price guide, but most hardcore baseball card sellers do not think the pricing on Tuff Stuff is as accurate as that of Beckett.
eBay used to be the land of opportunity for baseball card sellers. Today, it is rough going because everyone and their brother is trying to sell cards on eBay. There is still profit to be made here, but you have to know how to properly list.
If you have a card that is worth a lot of money, search eBay first to see if there are already listings for it. If there are, you will want to hold off on listing your card, hopefully until a time when yours is the only one. You should also search completed listings in order to determine what prices a card like yours actually sold for.
If you have a lot of cards that are not worth much individually, consider grouping them into lots. This will save you a ton of money on listing fees, and will increase the perceived, as well as actual value of what you are offering. Baseball card lots do well on eBay, as many people do not want to fool with buying their cards one at a time. You can separate these lots into brand, card type, player, or any other combination that you think will garner attention.
A final piece of advice is to list your baseball cards at a price that shows they are valuable, but be careful not to overprice. Card rarely sell for their full value unless they are rare, or are highly sought after issues. Searching the completed listings will help you determine if what you have falls into these categories.
Other places to sell your cards include auction sites other than eBay, and baseball card message boards, and independent sales websites. There will not be as high a turnover rate using these other methods, but you just might make more money per sale. It is worth checking out all of these option in order to determine how to sell your baseball cards for profit.
If you want to sell your box of cards from the 80's, I will not be able to help you. However, if you have vintage cards from the 70's or older, or newer cards from the 90's on up, you just might be in luck. Before you do anything, you will want to determine how much each of your cards are worth. The most popular price guide is Beckett. However, their online and magazine prices guides cost money. Tuff Stuff offers a free online price guide, but most hardcore baseball card sellers do not think the pricing on Tuff Stuff is as accurate as that of Beckett.
eBay used to be the land of opportunity for baseball card sellers. Today, it is rough going because everyone and their brother is trying to sell cards on eBay. There is still profit to be made here, but you have to know how to properly list.
If you have a card that is worth a lot of money, search eBay first to see if there are already listings for it. If there are, you will want to hold off on listing your card, hopefully until a time when yours is the only one. You should also search completed listings in order to determine what prices a card like yours actually sold for.
If you have a lot of cards that are not worth much individually, consider grouping them into lots. This will save you a ton of money on listing fees, and will increase the perceived, as well as actual value of what you are offering. Baseball card lots do well on eBay, as many people do not want to fool with buying their cards one at a time. You can separate these lots into brand, card type, player, or any other combination that you think will garner attention.
A final piece of advice is to list your baseball cards at a price that shows they are valuable, but be careful not to overprice. Card rarely sell for their full value unless they are rare, or are highly sought after issues. Searching the completed listings will help you determine if what you have falls into these categories.
Other places to sell your cards include auction sites other than eBay, and baseball card message boards, and independent sales websites. There will not be as high a turnover rate using these other methods, but you just might make more money per sale. It is worth checking out all of these option in order to determine how to sell your baseball cards for profit.
How To Market Your Sports Cards and Memorabilia
Are you an eBay seller? If you are, your goal is likely to make as much money as you can by selling products that you no longer need or want on eBay. Unfortunately, there are now thousands, if not millions, of individuals who are interested in doing the same thing. For you, this often means a steady increase in competition. However, even with competition, you should still be able to make a profit when using eBay, but you may need a little bit of help. That help could from marketing.
When many of us think of internet marketing, we often automatically think of online retail stores or online websites. Although you are not running your own online retail store, you are trying to make a profit online; therefore, you are, in a way, like a retailer. Just having your for sale items listed on eBay is enough to get your eBay items exposure, but you may want to think about taking it a step farther. There are a number of different ways that you can go about marketing your for sale eBay items, without having to spend a dime.
Perhaps, one of the best ways to go about marketing your eBay items is by joining the eBay community, otherwise known as the online message boards. When you talk with other eBay community members your screen name used is also your eBay name. In the eBay community forum, every time that you start a new message or respond to an existing one your name is left, with a link to your main eBay webpage. That is the age that outlines all of the items that you currently have available for sale. Many eBay community members click other member’s pages just out of curiosity, but it not uncommon for someone to find something that catches their eye. Simply starting a few conversations with other eBay community members, even just occasionally, may help to up your eBay exposure.
Another relatively easy way that you can market your eBay auction listings to the general public is by posting on a number of message boards, besides eBay. There are a number of message boards that allow internet users, just like you, to post information on items that they have available for sale, both on and off of eBay. Providing a link, as well as short description of some of the items that you are looking to sell is a great way to increase your eBay exposure and up your chances of making a sale. When taking this internet marketing approach, it is important that you only advertise your eBay listings in areas designated for doing so. Spamming is not permitted on many online message boards and it may actually get you a bad reputation.
Speaking of using online message boards, there are a number of online message boards or forums that allow members to have signatures. Signatures are where many people leave their name or a favorite quote of theirs, but some message boards allow members to use it as space to promote their products or businesses. Before posting a link to your eBay auctions, you are advised to examine the online message board’s policy concerning signature advertising. Should it be allowed, you are advised to take advantage of this free internet marketing. You will want to post a link to your eBay sales page, but be sure to mention that eBay is where all clickers will be going.
Another easy that you can promote your eBay items, particularly if you have multiple items for sale, is by putting a “please checkout my other eBay auctions,” message at the end of each of your eBay listings. As with all of the other above mentioned internet marketing tactics, this is easy and free to do.
When many of us think of internet marketing, we often automatically think of online retail stores or online websites. Although you are not running your own online retail store, you are trying to make a profit online; therefore, you are, in a way, like a retailer. Just having your for sale items listed on eBay is enough to get your eBay items exposure, but you may want to think about taking it a step farther. There are a number of different ways that you can go about marketing your for sale eBay items, without having to spend a dime.
Perhaps, one of the best ways to go about marketing your eBay items is by joining the eBay community, otherwise known as the online message boards. When you talk with other eBay community members your screen name used is also your eBay name. In the eBay community forum, every time that you start a new message or respond to an existing one your name is left, with a link to your main eBay webpage. That is the age that outlines all of the items that you currently have available for sale. Many eBay community members click other member’s pages just out of curiosity, but it not uncommon for someone to find something that catches their eye. Simply starting a few conversations with other eBay community members, even just occasionally, may help to up your eBay exposure.
Another relatively easy way that you can market your eBay auction listings to the general public is by posting on a number of message boards, besides eBay. There are a number of message boards that allow internet users, just like you, to post information on items that they have available for sale, both on and off of eBay. Providing a link, as well as short description of some of the items that you are looking to sell is a great way to increase your eBay exposure and up your chances of making a sale. When taking this internet marketing approach, it is important that you only advertise your eBay listings in areas designated for doing so. Spamming is not permitted on many online message boards and it may actually get you a bad reputation.
Speaking of using online message boards, there are a number of online message boards or forums that allow members to have signatures. Signatures are where many people leave their name or a favorite quote of theirs, but some message boards allow members to use it as space to promote their products or businesses. Before posting a link to your eBay auctions, you are advised to examine the online message board’s policy concerning signature advertising. Should it be allowed, you are advised to take advantage of this free internet marketing. You will want to post a link to your eBay sales page, but be sure to mention that eBay is where all clickers will be going.
Another easy that you can promote your eBay items, particularly if you have multiple items for sale, is by putting a “please checkout my other eBay auctions,” message at the end of each of your eBay listings. As with all of the other above mentioned internet marketing tactics, this is easy and free to do.
Thursday, December 29, 2011
Sunday, December 18, 2011
Now Hiring! Sell Sports Cards and Memorabilia
The market for sports cards and memorabilia is stronger than ever. We are currently assembling a team of sales reps and brand managers that can profit from the sale of these items. This is not a direct sales opportunity in which you would be going door to door asking people to make a purchase. Instead, you would be using your online marketing skills to direct traffic to our main website from which purchases can be made. To find out more, view our eBay listing: Hiring Brand Managers
Monday, December 5, 2011
The World of the Collector / Seller
Sports cards and sports memorabilia collectors are often sellers as well. This is actually an optimal situation for the serious collector, as any profits from sales can be redirected back into the hobby. Learning how to sell in order to achieve the highest profit margin is key. Learning how to make this happen is not difficult. Invest a few minutes reading the following article, as it will immediately have you headed in the right direction: Guide To Selling Sports Cards
Once you have learned what to sell, you will need to know where to sell in order to see the highest profits. This topic will be covered in depth on this blog. Please consider taking a few minutes to bookmark or subscribe today. As a avid collector and seller, I have learned much through trial and error, and will be sharing this information with my fellow collectors and sellers in order to make what is already a wonderful hobby even better!
Once you have learned what to sell, you will need to know where to sell in order to see the highest profits. This topic will be covered in depth on this blog. Please consider taking a few minutes to bookmark or subscribe today. As a avid collector and seller, I have learned much through trial and error, and will be sharing this information with my fellow collectors and sellers in order to make what is already a wonderful hobby even better!
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