But there is a bright spot. Used and Vintage Goods.  When tough times hit, people pull back their spending overall, but they still need some things. I have been watching the markets and talking to other sellers, and the sellers of used goods are doing pretty well.  I spoke with one woman who specializes in used children’s toys. Her business has doubled from this time last year. Another lady specializes in used blue jeans –same thing.

The simple truth is that people need and want to save money and they are willing to check their egos and buy used. And its not just online. When I went to the post office the other day, I drove by our local Rotary Club Thrift shop and it was crowded.  Same thing when I drove to our local Costco.  The Costco wasn’t that busy, but the parking lot at the nearby Value Village ( a used clothing store) was packed.

The advantage of selling used goods are many. Products are easy to find. You buy them at flea markets, thrift shops and garage and lawn sales.  The markups are high. The lady who sells used baby toys routinely makes 75% margins on her sales. The lady who sell blue jeans gets most of them at local thrift shops for about a buck a pair and sells them for between $10 and $20 a pair.

The downside to this business is time. I can order a case of new kitchen knives to sell with a simple phone call and they are delivered in about a week. But when I want to find used merchandise, I have to go out and look for it, haul it home, clean and photograph everything and then ship it.  And yes, time is money. But in this case I am making a lot more money.  I found a 1975 vintage stereo system at a church rummage sale a few weeks ago. I bought it for $20 and sold it on eBay for $375.  Now thats the kind of markups I like.

I have even started to work on a new product. It is a book called The Electronic Trader – how to buy, sell and trade on eBay, Amazon and Craigslist.  I have about 3 more chapters to write and hope to have it ready for the next newsletter. In the meantime, you may want to take a look at Ten Little Known, Highly Profitable Niche Markets on eBay.  All of them are about selling used products that are easy to find and even easier to sell. I have just finished updating the book for 2010.

If you are interested in personal coaching and would like a free evaluation, Call 1-800-578-3449 or fill out this contact form to see if you qualify. We only take a small number of students at any one time. All of our eBay coaches are active eBay PowerSellers and our Internet coaches all currently run successful online businesses.

For every successful eBay seller, there are others who can’t figure out how to sell effectively or profitably on eBay. Also, believe it or not, there are still people who do not believe eBay really works, are afraid to try it, and/or are computer illiterate. There are also plenty of people who just don’t have the time to learn the skills needed to sell successfully on eBay. That’s where you come in.

eBay Trading Assistants

If you think there isn’t a market for selling other people’s goods on eBay, take a look at the eBay Trading Assistant program.  A Trading Assistant is an eBay seller who volunteers to sell products for eBay members who either don’t know how to –or don’t want to sell their goods themselves. If you go to the eBay site map and look under the Selling Resources heading, you will see a link to Trading Assistants.  

The Trading Assistants Program

When you join the eBay Trading Assistants program, you tell the world that you are willing to sell for others. Trading Assistants charge fees or commissions for their services. Selling as a Trading Assistant allows you to leverage your selling expertise without having to find products yourself—clients provide the items and you are compensated for your efforts on terms that you decide. Many sellers already do this as a way of making money on eBay; profit margins can be significant for higher-priced items.

 You can find this and more information about eBay Consignment Selling in my latest update
of How To Start and Run an eBay Consignment Business

To join the Trading Assistants Directory, you must have sold at least ten items in the last three months, have a feedback rating of 100 or higher, and at least 97 percent of your feedback must be positive. You also must be in good standing with eBay. Joining the directory is free, and you may have more than one profile in the directory.

Basically, eBay has already given any eBay seller who qualifies an opportunity to start a consignment business. When an eBay member is looking for a trading assistant, she goes to the directory, where she can type in her location and search for an assistant in her area. Once the seller performs a search, she receives a list of Trading Assistants and their contact information. If your name comes up in the list, the seller (in this case the consignor, or the person who supplies your products) can either e-mail or call you to work out a deal directly.

In you listing, you can state if you specialize in certain products. For example, if you specify that you specialize in antiques and collectibles, someone looking to sell a used printing press most likely would not call you. However, someone with a collection of old HO trains probably would.

There are thousands of eBay sellers running consignment businesses. These range from regular sellers who sell on consignment as a side business to full-time, large commercial businesses operating out of retail storefronts. A drop-off store is a retail storefront set up for the purpose of providing people with things to sell a convenient place to drop off merchandise you want to sell.

Marketing Your eBay Consignment Business

Once you have honed your eBay selling skills, it is a fairly simple matter to market your services. If you want to be successful finding consignors, you will have to go looking for them. The eBay Trading Assistants Directory may bring you some business, but probably not enough to live on.

Finding consignors can be simple and inexpensive. Here are the ways I market my eBay consignment services:

• Classified Ads: I run  small classified ads that read something like, “I will sell your treasures on eBay, Call Skip 360-555-1111” or “Raise cash by selling your unwanted merchandise on eBay. Professional eBay seller does all the work for you. Call Skip at 212-555-2222.”
• Networking: I like to use what I call the “three-foot rule.” Everyone who comes within three feet of me learns what I do for a living. I always carry business cards or even a small flyer that explains what I do. Whenever I meet people, I tell them that I am a professional eBay seller and that if they have something they would like to sell, I would be glad to help them.
• Free Bulletin Boards: This works the same as the classified ads. Just create short ads on 3×5 cards and place them on community bulletin boards in supermarkets and Laundromats.
• Direct Mail to Attorneys: You can create a short letter that explains the services you offer and mail it to all of the estate and bankruptcy attorneys in your county. When an attorney has to settle an estate or sell off the proceeds of a bankrupt individual or company, he often works with a local auctioneer. If you explain to an attorney that you can raise far more money by exposing the merchandise in question to over fifty million eBay buyers—rather than relying on the couple of hundred people who show up to a local auction—he will most likely listen.

There are many other ways to market your eBay consignment service, but these four techniques should net you enough business to keep you busy—and profitable—for quite a while.

 You can find this and more information about eBay Consignment Selling in my latest update
of How To Start and Run an eBay Consignment Business

What to charge for your services

Commission rates for ebay consignment sellers vary from as low as 20% to as high as 50% charged by some drop off stores. Personally I charge 35% for items that will sell for under $500. From $500 to $5000 I charge 25%. Over $5000 I charge 20%.  I also charge a $3 listing fee for each item and 1% of the reserve price if the consignor wants me to put a reserve or a high starting price on the item.

I get a lot of questions from both new and experienced sellers.  Here are the common questions I get from new sellers with the answers regarding how to sell on eBay beneath them.

 As you will see below, these answers are short answers aimed at beginning sellers. As a new seller gains experience on eBay, you will learn that all of these issues are more complex and nuanced and any of these questions can have many answers depending on the given situation.

Most of the topics I cover here are covered in much more detail in The Complete eBay Marketing System. If you want to learn how to sell on eBay, that is one of your best sources of learning and information.

How To Sell on eBay

Q: Where should I set my starting price?

A.    It is a fact that lower starting prices attract more bids.  It is also a fact that auctions with lots of bids end up with higher prices.  So you always want to use a low starting price.  The exception to this is if you are selling a very expensive item that you could not afford to lose money on, or if you are selling an item that is so specialized that there will not be many bidders.  In these cases you may want to use a higher starting price or a reserve (see below for info on reserves).

Q: When is the best time to start my auction?

A.    The better question to ask is when should my auctions end.  Deciding which day to start depends on the auction duration you select. Statistically auctions ending Sunday and Monday evening between 5PM-7PM Pacific Time (all eBay times are Pacific) get the most visibility and the highest number of bids.  But this is not true of all products so it pays to test.  For example, if you are selling something to retired people, they are online more during the day than in the evening.  Students tend to be online between 3PM – 5PM.  If you are selling something to a business, then the morning and early afternoons might be best.

Q. What should I sell on eBay?

A.    Start with items around your house. Essentially you want to have an eBay garage sale.  Just take a box and go through your house and place things in it that you haven’t used in the past year or so or don’t really need or want anymore. This will give you some experience, clear out some space in your house and give you a little cash flow to invest in merchandise to sell.  In general, you will find that items sell on eBay for far more than you would realize at a garage sale.

Forget trying to sell popular or hot consumer products.  Look for a specialized niche of some kind where there isn’t so much competition.  As a beginner and a small seller you just don’t have the resources to compete against the huge sellers on eBay who can spend thousands of dollars at a time buying inventory in bulk.

Once you are ready to find merchandise to sell, I recommend Worldwide Brands.  They are the only source of wholesale and dropship information that I recommend other than my own. (See The Wholesale Buying System). 

Do not join any of the many drop ship supply companies that require membership.  Many of them are pure scams and the rest are pretty much a waste of money.  These sites are basically middlemen who take a percentage.  This results in not having enough margin to sell profitably on eBay. Worldwide Brands actually connects you directly to manufacturers, importers, liquidators and master distributors so you can buy at the lowest price.  Best of all they charge a one-time fee instead of an ongoing membership cost.

Q: Should I use optional listing features like bold, highlight, gallery, etc.?

A.    This depends on a lot of factors but mostly it is a question of return on investment.  For example the Bold option costs $1.00.  So it would not make sense to use this on a low cost item.  eBay claims adding Bold will raise your final value by 11%.  If you were selling an item that you though would go for around $10 this would result in a break-even result.  But, if you are selling something that you think would go for more than that, this option makes sense.  In general I use the Bold Option on items that I think will bring in over $20.

So look at each option, calculate the cost and figure out if it makes sense.  The one option I always buy is Gallery ($0.35).  If you don’t put a gallery photo next to your listing you won’t get many views to your auction.

 Q. How long should I run my auctions

A.    If an item is popular you can use a short duration like 3 or 5 days.  On most items I use 5 or 7 days.  I rarely use a 1-day auction unless I am selling something like an event ticket for something that happens in a few days.  I save 10-day auctions for very expensive items when I want to get the most exposure to insure getting the highest price.

Q. What should be included in my listing?

A.     Write a clear and concise description that fully describes what you are selling.  Include any specifications or physical description.  If you are selling anything used be sure and describe its condition and reveal any flaws. Include clear photos of the item being sold and a close up of any damage (tears, scratches, dents, etc.)  Include details about shipping, payment types accepted and your return policy.

Writing listings is a real art they you will learn with experience.  If you want to learn more, the topic of writing listings and auction titles is one of the longest chapters in The Complete eBay Marketing System.

Q: Should I use “Buy It Now”?

A.    eBay’s Buy-It-Now (BIN) feature is one of the most talked about of eBay’s optional features. Some love it and others hate it –but the trick to using BIN is knowing how to use it.

Buy-It-Now (BIN) is a feature that lists a fixed price next to your current bid price that allows a buyer to end an auction at any time by paying the BIN price. However, the BIN price disappears from the listing and search results once the first bid has been placed on an ordinary auction, or once the reserve price has been reached on a Reserve Price Auction (RPA).

 One problem with BIN items that start with a low bid is that someone interested in the item will place an early bid at the minimum just for the purpose of getting the BIN to disappear. Remember there is no cost to bid. Low bidders have nothing to lose by placing unreasonably low bids. If they win, they get a bargain. If they lose they just move on to the next item. 
 I charge the actual cost to ship an item plus a $1.00 handling charge to cover the cost of boxes and packing materials.

 eBay gives you the choice of using calculated shipping or putting in a fixed shipping amount.  I prefer to estimate the fixed amount as this allows bidders to see the shipping next to the search results.  I find I get more hits to my auction when I do this.

 Q: When should I offer free shipping?

A.    Free shipping can attract additional buyers, but obviously you would not want to offer free shipping on very heavy items as the cost versus distance can be a very high variable.  But on low weight items it can make sense.  I like to use free shipping with Buy-It-Now.  I set a BIN price high enough to cover the shipping and my profit and offer buyers free shipping if they buy it now.

Q: Should I sell  internationally?

A.    I used to ship internationally.  Typically you get higher bid results from people overseas, however, the increase in postal rates has made this less attractive. There is also a higher risk to your feedback when shipping internationally as shipments can be delayed and more things can go wrong.  So if you are a new seller, I would leave international selling to later when your feedback is higher and you have more experience.

 Q: Should I include a photo of my item?

A.    Always!  Bidders rarely bid on listings without a photo. You should also always use the gallery photo  so your photos show up in the search results. Good photos are very important to successful listings, so take the time to take a clear sharp photograph. I like to use at least 3 photos in every listing.

Q: Should I offer a return policy?

A.   Yes.  I have offered a very generous return policy since I started selling on eBay in 1999.  Over that time I have sold thousands of items and probably had fewer than a couple dozen returns. eBay now requires that you state what your return policy is and if you offer returns and refunds.

Q: Do I need a PayPal account?

A.    Yes. PayPal now accounts for over 90% of the transactions on eBay.  If you don’t accept PayPal you will not get very many bids on your auctions.  PayPal now offers both buyer and seller protection.

Note:  You have to confirm your bank account if you want your buyers to have buyer protection and when you ship items you only have seller protection when you ship to a confirmed address.

Q: When should I email buyers

A.     eBay sends buyers an automated email when they win an item.  If you use PayPal they also get an automated payment notice.  I always send an email acknowledging receipt of payment and telling the buyer when I will ship the item.  Then I send another email a few days later asking if they received the item, was everything OK (and if not they should contact me) and telling them I left feedback for them.  I end the email by asking them to leave feedback for me.

Q: Should I buy shipping insurance?

A.    eBay no longer allows sellers to charge buyers for insurance, although you can build the cost into your shipping and handling fee. I recommend two tactics for insurance:

1. Only buy insurance on expensive items > $100. In reality items are rarely lost and most people can stand the occasional $100 loss.
2. When you do purchase insurance, buy it from a company called ShipInsurance. ShipInsurance rates are 50% below what UPS and the post office charge and they pay their claims a lot faster.

Q. Should I open an eBay Store?

A.     Not as a brand new seller.  I suggest you get some experience first.  An eBay store is helpful when you are selling items that you have plenty of –it is not the best place to sell a unique item.  Some sellers use eBay stores as a place to park slow moving inventory.  Although this is good for a while, if you keep inventory too long you are just losing money and it is better to get rid of it at any price and get your cash working for you with products that will sell.

 If you want to learn how to sell on eBay  I hope you have found these tips helpful.

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 Skip McGrath is an eBay PowerSeller who has been selling on eBay since 1999 and making his full time living on eBay since 2002.  His website, www.skipmcgrath.com is a resource site for eBay sellers of all levels.

We have a guest article today by Sean Eyring from HammerTap Research.  HammerTap is our recommended eBay research solution.  At the end of the article is some information about HammerTap and how it can help eBay sellers make more money on eBay.  Karen and I have been using HammerTap for the past six years with good results.

 Make More Money on eBay by Getting Your eBay Listings the Attention they Deserve

By Sean Eyring, eBay Consultant, and eBay Education Specialist

 We’ve all been there. You visit a Web site looking for information.. You’re bowled over with bright “circus” colors, animations going everywhere, and text that’s hard to read.

The site almost begs you to click your browser’s “back” button. Many eBay listings look the same way. If you want to make more money on eBay follow these tips.

eBay’s “Create Your Listing” page makes it easy to use backgrounds, change text colors, add graphics, and so on. But the question is, does the look of the listing increase your chance to sell your product? Read on to learn when using eBay designs makes sense… and “cents.”

Consistency Pays if you want to make money on eBay

What’s the value of consistency? On eBay, people may fear buying from those they don’t know. That’s why eBay has their feedback system. It gives you some confidence in the person you’re buying from.

If a person recognizes the “look” of your eBay listings, you increase your chances to sell to them. If an eBay buyer purchases from you and has a good experience, the next time they recognize one of your listings, you further increase your odds of selling to them. The more sales you make the more money you make on eBay.

 Designing Your Unique “eBay Look”

So now that you know the value of a consistent design, how do you create your own look? I’m an online marketing consultant. When I work with a client, the first question I ask is “Who is your audience?”

If you’re mostly selling electronics, you probably don’t want to go with a border with flowers and dolls. On the other hand, if you specialize in selling teddy bears and plush toys, this may fit your audience perfectly.

Think of your audience. Are they predominantly male or female? Is your product high-tech or high-touch in nature? Take a moment to write down what you know about potential buyers of your products. Keep this in mind when designing the look to use with your listings. But there are a few absolute do’s and don’ts.

“Branding” Yourself On eBay

Is there a time when consistency of appearance counts? Here’s a quick mental exercise. Think of the Coca-Cola logo. What colors are used? If you thought red and white, their multi-million dollar branding campaigns did their job.

Why not blue and white? It doesn’t matter, really. What matters is that they use red and white over and over to “brand” themselves into your mind. Put a Coke, a Pepsi and a Dr. Pepper at the bottom of a cooler filled with ice water. Even without being able to read the labels, if I want a Dr. Pepper, I reach for the dark red can.

Sure, ask an eBay seller you don’t have the advertising budget of Coke or Pepsi. But you have one advantage. If you sell products on eBay, especially in any kind of specialty “niche” market, it’s likely that many of the same people will see several of your listings. Here’s where branding comes in.

Create a consistent and unique look for your eBay listings. Use the same background image if you choose to use one. Use the same text color and font. Create a unique “theme” and use it for all your listings.

 Absolute Design No-No’s

Make your eBay listings easy to read. First of all, let’s choose the text color and background. Use black on white or on another VERY light color. Never use light text on a dark background. Especially on older monitors, it can be too difficult to read.

Use a font size that’s large enough to read easily. Stay away from small print that many readers will have to strain their eyes to read.

Use a “sans-serif” font like Arial or Verdanna. “Serif” fonts like Times New Roman are easy to read in print, which is why they’re used in newspapers and novels. Studies have shown however, they are much harder to read on a monitor.

 Composing Your eBay Listings for Maximum Effect

Studies have shown that any Web page (such as your eBay listing) has between 3 and 10 seconds to grab the interest of your reader. If you haven’t made at least one “benefit” statement they connect to, chances are they’re gone with a quick click of their browser’s “back” button. And they’re gone for good.

So how do you catch the attention of your audience in seconds? Simple. Put your best benefits at the top, and make them easy to read. Bullet points are great for that. Give short, to-the-point descriptions of why the reader should by your product.

 Stress Benefits vs. Features help you make the real money on eBay

I’ve read dozens of books on marketing. I’ll save you a lot of reading. Here’s the thing I’ve learned that’s more important than any other. It’s the value of clearly stating your product’s benefits.

Let me illustrate the difference between two ads for computers, one based on features, the next based on benefits:

Features-based

• 3.0 Gigahertz Processor
• 256 Megabyte Video Card
• 350 Gigabyte Hard Drive

Benefits-based

• Fast processor lets you get more done quicker
• Powerful graphics card lets you play all the latest games
• Roomy hard drive, so you can install all your programs and still have room for music and video

A feature describes an attribute of a product. A benefit tells why you should care. For example, stating a computer has 256 Megabytes of video RAM says nothing to the average computer user. It’s a feature. But they may be purchasing the computer for someone who’s really into the latest computer games. Many of these require a lot of video RAM.

Now we’ve turned the feature into a benefit by telling how that feature makes the product more valuable. Make sense? But one of the strangest things I see as a marketer is how even professionally produced advertisements costing thousands of dollars to create and sent out break this one simple rule. So if you consistently want to make more money on eBay, always stress the fetures as well as listing the benefits.

Well there you have it. A quick Marketing 101 course as it applies to creating a winning “brand” for your auctions. We also described how to selmake more money on eBay by focusing on benefits, rather than features.

Make more money on eBay with research!

If you want to make more money on eBay, determining what works and what doesn’t when it comes to your listings requires research. Anything less puts you at risk of not making the sale or not making as much as you could be on each sale. A research tool like HammerTap helps eBay sellers bypass the costly trial and error process by quickly giving them the key information they need for profitable online auctions.

Start making more money on eBay now:  Take HammerTap for a FREE test drive? We’ll give you 10 days to put HammerTap to work for you. Use its power to determine:

• Successful Keywords

• Best Auction Type For Your Products

• Best Listing Duration

• Which Listing Features Improve Your Chance to Sell and Which Increase the Closing Price

• Optimal Start Price to Use

• Best Day of the Week to Start and End Your Auctions

• Seasonal Trends

• And much more!

 As a bonus, you’ll receive a 10-lesson Power to Profit course to help you immediately see the effects research can have on your auctions. We’ll also throw in selling tips from Industry Experts in our members-only Auctionography newsletter.

Here is a special offer for Skip McGrath readers: Save $2 month or $24 year on a HammerTap subscription.   www.hammertap.com/skip

You owe it to yourself to take the guesswork and risk out of your auctions. Try HammerTap free for 10 days. If you are not absolutely sure you’ll increase your eBay profits by the $17.95 subscription price, you’re free to cancel. It costs you nothing to prove to yourself there’s a more profitable way to eBay.

Use this link to get the special offer for Skip McGrath readers:    www.hammertap.com/skip

As another free bonus, once you sign up, we will invite you to a series of webinars designed to help you make more money on eBay with research.

Potential buyers can view the photos of your items with a video commentary. This eBay tool comes with a pointer you can control to point out parts of the photos you are talking about.

ConnectNote is a new company looking to expand into the eBay seller market. The service costs about $25 per month, but you can get a free 7-day trial. My initial reaction when looking at this new eBay tool was: “Why would I pay for video that I can get on You Tube for free.”  But once you see what ConnectNote does, you will see the advantages.

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The Complete eBay Marketing System is a basics-to-advanced course for new eBay sellers. The system is delivered in a 5 pound binder and it comes with lifetime membership in our wholesale resources membership site that helps you source products to sell on eBay.

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>>> eBay Holiday Promotions – eBay just uploaded the Holiday Selling Guide for tips to sell more this season. eBay is also launching a number of holiday sales promotions such as eBay coupons and eBay bucks sent to buyers.

>>> eBay to fix search slowness. eBay said yesterday that they are removing some graphics from the search results page so the pages will load faster. Great! This has been a long standing complaint and it looks like someone at eBay finally listened.

>>>  Last week eBay announced a new TV advertising program.  eBay’s return to TV advertising is long overdue but from the admittedly little I have seen, this campaign seems pretty lame. Amazon is also rumored to launch a TV campaign for the holidays. So far they are out with wome 15 second spots for the Kindle reader, but I expect them to launch some more general ads in the next few weeks.

>>> The Internet Marketing Center, the oldest and largest internet training company launched the 2009 Updated version of “The Insider Secrets to Marketing Your Business on the Internet” system with a $30 price cut.

>>> Amazon announced a rebate program for sellers who use FBA - Amazon is offering its sellers a chance to earn up to $1,000 in fee rebates when they sign up for Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA). FBA is Amazon’s drop ship program where merchants store inventory in Amazon’w warehouses and Amazon does the order fulfillment for the merchant seller.

>>> The USPS announced a 3% price increase on Priority Mail starting in January. There will be additional price increases on Global Priority and Express mail as well.

>>> eBay has created a mobile boutique that will roam the country to promote buying on eBay.  From November 10 through December 20, the eBay Mobile Boutique brings the eBay shopping experience to life in a town near you. See the schedule.

>>> eBay Sellers News Now Online.  the November issue of the eBay Sellers News is now online at http://www.skipmcgrath.com/newsletters/current.shtml

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HIAWATHA, Iowa (CNN)– As Dr. Jennifer Lickteig examines patients at the Linn Community Care Health Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, she’s also earning money from a second career that has nothing to do with medicine.

Dr. Jennifer Lickteig started her online clothing business while taking time off from medicine to raise her family. 1 of 2  Lickteig runs a clothing store on eBay, where she’s a “Gold PowerSeller,” ranking among the top 1½ percent of merchants on the online marketplace.

The 35-year-old family practitioner says she earned $120,000 last year on eBay, more than she did practicing medicine.  Read the full story at CNN.

Yes, eBay is not as easy as it was a few years ago –and yes, fees are higher and their policies are more strict. But hundreds of thousands of small and large sellers are still making money on eBay today. 

When it comes to learning how to make money online, eBay has several advantages for the small or new seller. First of all is a built-in audience. eBay gets the eyeballs to your listings.  Although eBay has lost its first place in shopping traffic to Amazon, there are still millions of people who visit eBay every day and type what they are looking for into the search engine. If you know how to optimize your listings for eBay search, then you will get your products in front of buyers.

Making money selling on eBay.

The tricks are pretty simple:

• Use good searchable keywords in your auction titles.
• Use good photographs that show off your item
• Write complete thorough descriptions that give the buyer all the information they need
• Deliver good customer service to earn a great feedback rating and high Detailed Seller Rating stars

The other thing about eBay is the skills you will learn are translatable to selling in other venues including Amazon, other auction sites, fixed price stores and even your own website. In fact eBay is a great place to secure customers so you can market to them in other ways.

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If you want to learn how to make money on eBay, our flagship product, The Complete eBay Marketing System will give you the tools and skills you need to be successful.  I have been selling on eBay for ten years and eBay is the source of a large part of my online income. Let me show you how to make money selling on eBay with The Complete eBay Marketing System. It comes with a No-Questions-Asked money back guarantee and ships the same business day you order.

• US Veterans & Service Member: Thomas Costello is a member of the United States Marine Corps and sells computer equipment and parts on eBay. He plans to use his $25,000 award to open an eBay store and buy materials to provide better visuals for his products.
• First-Time Seller: Tori Nichel is a women’s contemporary clothing designer in New York who is hoping to go global. She plans to open an eBay retail boutique with her $25,000 award.
• Part-Time Seller: Ryan Pugh sells a variety of products she truly believes in and that she thinks help people “live clean,” such as nutrition supplements, healthy chocolates and resistance bands. With her $25,000, Ryan plans to further diversify and grow her company on eBay by adding new products.
• Full-Time Seller: Janell Anderson-Ehrke runs a nonprofit organization called GROW Nebraska, which helps 300+ rural businesses reach customers through an eBay store. With her $25,000 award, she plans to provide better training and education for these businesses to help improve their presence on eBay.

Here is the link where you can download free Global Sources Product Sourcing E-magazines for new products to sell on eBay.

http://www.globalsources.com/SITE/C2/EMAG-REQUEST.HTM?pi_proj=10AWJS&SSAID=194497

Here is a list of the FREE Product sourcing E-magazines
that are available to you :

• Auto Parts & Accessories
• Baby & Children’s Products
• Computer Products
• Electronic Components
• Electronics
• Fashion Accessories
• Garments & Textiles
• Gifts & Premiums
• Hardware & DIY Products
• Home Products
• Security products
• Sports & Leisure Products
• Telecom Products

This is a great way for sellers to find new products to sell on eBay.  If you haven”t imported before, this might be a good time to start.  Just start small. Don’t take any big financial risks until you get some experience.

If you would like to learn more about wholesale sourcing for eBay sellers, take a look at The Wholesale Buying System