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Ebay Money Making

So I'm sure we have many budding entrepreneurs so what things do you buy and sell on ebay to make money? Discuss :smile:
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locrian37
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You mean you want other people to tell you what sells so you can do it yourself?
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1219269
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Its more a "what type of things" question, I have loads of things that I need rid of and am not sure if ebay is the right thing for them :smile: As a pose to straight up binning or car boot :smile:
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eBay's ludicrous fees as well as PayPal and economical climate makes it a lot lot harder to sell anything for a profit from a normal consumer's access. I used to be able to buy stuff from £land and sell it online for £2-3 profit each... Now no longer possible.

As for selling Misc item, it depends what you have, unless your item has value, you'll probably just lose time and money listing it.
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cdude
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I've recently been asked to sell some items for a family friend who's moving out of their traditional country house.

I'm selling mostly antiques, such as lamps, steering wheels, WW2 memorabilia.

Really interesting experience and i'm making a nice sum aswell :smile:
Mostly stuff picked up from car boot sales (if you have any vague idea how to value things, it can be useful). Also went through a brief Poundland phase, mostly books (they often sell hardbacks of reasonable novels) and novelty items. The best margin was on hand-shaped flyswatters (5 for £1) which sold for £2 each. Sold about 80 in a week but it really wasn't worth the effort, and other people started selling the full packs for £2 so I stopped bothering. Still have 20 flyswatters at my house though, so at least I have no flies.

It's not the most attractive place to sell stuff really. For anything of value I'd use other options.
(edited 10 years ago)
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locrian37
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what kinda WW2 stuff is he selling?

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