Work From Home Making Money On Ebay
Posted by Alan Mater on Mar 19, 2009
If you’ve been online for any amount of time, you’re probably aware of the online auction site eBay. Making money on eBay isn’t all that complicated, unless you want it to be. You can use the auction site for simply selling unwanted stuff around the house, or you can start your own work from home business selling a high volume of products every day on eBay.
If you want to start making money from this online auction giant, then I recommend first starting small and getting rid of unwanted stuff around the house. This will get you familiar with the whole process of how eBay works and what to expect. There’s many features of eBay that you’ll want to be familiar with if you want to take your selling to the next level and work from home full-time making money on eBay.
First, you’ll need an eBay account. You can sign up for free HERE.
Here’s some things you’ll want to get yourself familiar with:
- Buying/Bidding
- Buyer/Seller Feedback
- Payment Options
- Shipping Options
The best thing to do is go to eBay’s Help Center that will provide links with everything you need to know to get started selling and making money on eBay.
Buying and selling on eBay can be very fun. I say this from my own experience. Bidding can be a rush! Of course, selling is a lot of fun as well. You’d be surprised what kind of money you can make selling some old junk around the house.
If you want, check me out on eBay… workfromhomeopportunities.
I used to have a semi-business on eBay, but now I just sell stuff I no longer want. Check out my user page and see what all is available to you. You’ll also get a glance at the feedback system they have.
Now, if you want to get serious about making money on eBay, the best route to take would be to find a dropshipper that will provide you with a list of items to sell at wholesale prices, and then when you make a sale through eBay, the dropshipper will ship the item to the buyer for you.
This eliminates the need of you having to stock any inventory, which is a huge plus. This is the best way to sell a high volume amount of products on eBay. No inventory; no shipping. Just list the items, get paid and notify the dropshipper. That’s it.
The hardest part is finding reliable dropshippers with reasonable wholesale prices. That’s where The SaleHoo Wholesale Directory of eBay Product Suppliers comes in handy. The SaleHoo Directory is the #1 Directory for finding wholesale suppliers and dropshippers specifically for eBay products. They offer a one-time lifetime membership fee plus a free trial to check them out.
This is definitely the way to go if you want to earn extra income or work full-time from home making money on eBay. At this point you’ll be listing a large amount of items per day which can get pretty tedious and time consuming. There are some free tools available to make this process easier for you.
eBay provides a free listing tool called Turbo Lister. Turbo Lister is an application you install onto your computer. You make your listing within the application going through every single option available to you. Once you have your listing setup with the options that you want, you can upload your listings directly to eBay from within Turbo Lister. It’s very comprehensive yet very easy to use. I personally use it for all of my eBay selling that I do.
Another free tool and one I highly recommend is Auctiva. Auctiva is a third party software client that is web-based, which means you don’t have to download and install any software. Auctiva is provided specifically for eBay sellers, but it’s not provided by eBay themselves. Auctiva actually provides many more beneftis and perks that you wouldn’t get otherwise from Turbo Lister or eBay. For instance, no image fees, no scheduling fees and over 1500 templates to choose from for free.
If you’re planning on selling a lot and making money on eBay, I would recommend using one of these two listing tools to simplify the selling process and making your life A LOT easier.
I hope this helps you learn more about eBay and the possibilities that are available to you.
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Great article for anyone thinking of starting making money online with ebay.
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That is really interesting. My view points are kind of similar but not exactly the same. Although I haven’t really tried getting into EBay marketing. I have found some useful information on it so I will see what kind of results I get!
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Alan Mater
@Georgi@Earn Extra Income, Thank you for the kind words, and welcome to my blog! Hope to see you around more often.
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Good post, well done. Dropshipping is not so easy though. It needs some heavy research to ensure you get the right people. There’s plenty of guys out there claiming to be dropshippers who are just buying from wholesalers and shipping when they receive an order.
There’s two points I’d like to add if I may. One is ensure the prices from the dropshipper are genuine wholesale prices, and secondly make sure they actually carry the stock. I used a dropshipper once, when I gave them an order they told me there was a four week wait for the product. This caused me a lot of trouble with the customer and could have effected my feedback if I hadn’t engaged in a lot of heavy diplomacy. The dropshipper I was using obviously wasn’t carrying all the stock they claimed to be carrying.
I dropped the dropshipping model and switched to wholesale buying. I feel safer being in control.
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Alan Mater
@Paul, Hi Paul, thanks for your insight on this. I agree, there’s a lot of research that needs to be performed on various dropshippers. Sorry to hear about your past experience with it. In my early business venture, I was selling radio controlled vehicles and using a dropshipper. The prices were highly inflated which didn’t allow me any room for profit as they were already above other retailers. Well, as you may have guessed, the business didn’t last long, and I quickly moved on to better things.
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