I was just wondering if anyone on these forums has any e-bay success stories or selling tips for other users? Or maybe some of you supplement your income or make a living off of it?
My Story
The most I've ever made is one time when I worked in a video game store we had a bunch of old Official X-Box remote control DVD playback kits that I had to re-price to £5 to clear the way for the Xbox 360 stuff. So I asked the store manager if he'd mind if instead I bought them all on my 20% staff discount (£4 for the mathematically challenged) and he said that was cool cause he needed rid of them. So I got these 10 playback kits back home and listed them on e-bay one at a time throughout the week. Anyway they all sold between £10-£12 as the RRP at the time was about £19.99 in the shops so I ended up with around £110 for a nights work which was pretty cool considering I was on minimum wage at work.
Anyway I'm sure there's plenty of you on here who've made a killing on e-bay so post away!
Selling Tips
If people want to add to this list just post them and I'll put them in here.
My Story
The most I've ever made is one time when I worked in a video game store we had a bunch of old Official X-Box remote control DVD playback kits that I had to re-price to £5 to clear the way for the Xbox 360 stuff. So I asked the store manager if he'd mind if instead I bought them all on my 20% staff discount (£4 for the mathematically challenged) and he said that was cool cause he needed rid of them. So I got these 10 playback kits back home and listed them on e-bay one at a time throughout the week. Anyway they all sold between £10-£12 as the RRP at the time was about £19.99 in the shops so I ended up with around £110 for a nights work which was pretty cool considering I was on minimum wage at work.
Anyway I'm sure there's plenty of you on here who've made a killing on e-bay so post away!
Selling Tips
- Try and start your biddings on £0.99/$0.99 whenever possible.
- Auctions with no reserve price are more likeley to be bid on.
- Most people are on e-bay on sunday evening so try to get your auctions to end around then.
- Make your listings at least 7 days long so everyone gets a chance to see it.
- Most bids take place in the closing hours of the auction so don't get too worried when nobody is bidding.
- Pictures, pictures and more pictures. (Parker)
- You really need good fucking pictures, from many different angles, close enough to have a lot of detail, but not blurry. (Stryker)
- Add as much information as possible as you can to a tee.(Poseidon)
If people want to add to this list just post them and I'll put them in here.
Last edited by Milk.org (2007-05-15 20:18:21)