[MR] Ebay for extra cash

[Becky McEllistrem]

I've been through a lot of different activities and part time projects to try and find something that will help my little store raise extra cash and what's working?

I go around to garage sales, find designer shirts and/or nice picture frames and put them on Ebay.  Every time I net $7.00 per item. 

Mind you it's taken me about a year to figure out the best way to sell these items, and it's taken me a long time to figure out my niche.  I gave away a lot before I started netting.

But for those of you that are always thinking about extra SCA cash, working for a year to find what your Ebay niche is might be the way to do it.  It takes time and patience but if you have it, something will eventually give!

I mention it because your garage sales are never going to have what my garage sales have except occasionally.

You need a thick skin and realize that your competition is going to buy something from you and try to get you in trouble by giving you a bad rating.  These are people you can block from future sales. When it only happens once every 50 sales, you know you're doing the right thing.

I find it humorous that the biggest compliment my return customers can give me is that everything arrived OK and it was exactly as I described it.  "Wow you told the truth!" is a very exciting thing on Ebay.  How funny!

If you want to discuss this privately let me know I'll do what I can to help out.  I'm going to do some more telling the truth on Ebay. <grin>

Rebecca

http://www.nc-vendors.com