Want to see how the Best items to sell on ebay work.
Folk have been asking me for definite examples of what I am selling and how much profit I’m making. This is the better part of all of this!! Without giving away too much ( remember, buy the book! ), here’s a few examples of how much money I’ve made just in the last week. If this doesn’t sound good to you, then I am not sure what would!
I got this amazing sweater, a brand I have never seen in a thrift store in all my years of shopping, but a name that I’ve known because I’ve seen it at a top-end mall that I have been to. It was only $6 so I picked it up.
Cost of item = $6
Shipping = $5.15
Ebay fee’s = $2.98 (listing + final value fee’s minus my “top-rated seller discount of 20%)
TOTAL TIME SPENT ON THAT ITEM FROM TIME I PICKED IT UP UNTIL TIME IT WAS SHIPPED = APPROX 10 minutes
So I did 10 mins of work, and I made $48 profit. So does that mean I am worth about $250-$300 an hour?? Food for thought
I bought a coat of a certain fur, from a certain era ( curious? Buy the book ). Time is money though right? Perhaps. BUTI’m a stay-at-home mom. There are occasions when my daughter is playing on the floor in front of me, and I can not leave her to go on the computer and do work, but I am simply just sitting on the sofa as she plays. Instead of watching TV, I turn that time that I might otherwise be spending making 0 bucks, into time that I’m making an investment in fixing an item that I’m able to sell later on! I am not taking time away from earning another way because i can’t leave my child alone, but what I am able to do is bring my needle and thread and the coat and sit on the couch as she plays with her toys and work on this coat. And that is exactly what i did.
Auction end price + shipping received =$188
Cost of item = $2.25
Shipping = $10.15
Ebay fee’s = $6.27 (listing + final value fee’s minus my “top-rated seller discount of 20%)
Paypal fee’s = $5.75
TOTAL PROFIT = $163!!
Still better than any job I could get out of the house!
Don’t think that these examples are just two rare examples. I like to bring more traffic to my auctions, so I have’filler’ auctions – auctions on items that I make about $5-$10 profit per item. These are items that I am really acquainted with, require no research on my part, I already have photographs for, or don’t need much effort on my part. Sound good?? I suspect so!
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