We have a baby that is disabled my wife has'nt been able to work since her diagnosis. Our baby has a life threatening illness called mitochondria www.mckenziecarey.com my wife stays home with her. Which we are trying to start a business at home to account for my wife staying home to care for our baby. We started putting stuff on ebay but no one is bidding on it could we be doing something wrong. Does anyone have success on ebay that could help out give us some helpful hints on what do do. We are also working on SMC flea markets fairs has anyone have any experience on these areas as well to help some tip to be successful. Also does anyone have any other ways to supplement a income that has been lost in our time of need, we will appreciatte any serious inquires please don't respond if you don't have any helpful hint or success stories. If you are just playing on here and don't have helpful advice and want to leave a stupid comment to get a rise out of someone don't bother
2007-01-09 02:42:23 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Business & Finance ➔ Small Business
My boyfriend is disabled and he has to work from home also. He introduced me to Xango home business. He is doing great and the health benefits are wonderful. He also sells stuff on eBay, he started off selling books and now that his score is good he now sell other thing too. Email me if you want more info on Xango....
2007-01-09 03:19:18 · answer #1 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
EBay is very difficult to judge. I have sold stuff on there that I genuinely believe I didn't stand a hope in hell of selling, yet stuff I was sure would go, was left unsold.
Check your prices against similar items. Check that your postage costs are fair. Put some work into each ad, make sure there's a photo of the item, some different coloured texts, and be very honest about the quality.
It's also going to depend on what kind of things you're trying to sell. Are there loads of the same thing also for sale from other buyers? Over the last year or so, I reckon eBay buyers have become much more picky as the novelty has worn off.
2007-01-09 02:53:46 · answer #2 · answered by emsr2d2 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you have any feedback on your eBay account? Many people are hesitant to shop from someone with no (or low) feedback. You also need to make sure you are providing a really good description of the item(s) you are selling and include good photos.
An other thing to consider when selling something on eBay is the price that you are listing the item at. Is your starting bid (or buy it now) price really high? Research similar items and make sure you put your price in the proper ballpark.
2007-01-09 02:51:45 · answer #3 · answered by 10-96 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've been selling on ebay for a little over 2 years and I still remember how hard it was just starting out. You can get a free ebay success kit that has everything you need to get started right at: http://smart-money-help.com/free-ebay-kit . The information in that kit will answer every question you have...and a lot more. I highly recommend you get it before you get too far into the ebay thing.
2007-01-11 05:00:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
After the Holidays people may be a little low of funds. Also, you have to have fairly nice things to sell. Browse items sold to see what things similar to yours have sold for, NOT, what they listed for, but, what they actually SOLD at and what the starting bid was to get buyers bidding. Listing too high, many not even bid. A .99-1.99 starting bid may get people into the heat of competition and they may bid the item to $10, where as asking 9.99 to start, people may never start to bid. Keep shipping as low as possible, but, be sure you cover your expense in shipping; Tape, Boxes etc.
2007-01-09 02:55:15 · answer #5 · answered by Snaglefritz 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
income is often sales - value of things offered - expenditures - with ebay, you're able to even have addiitonal expenditures of itemizing costs, very final sales costs, Paypal costs, then you definately could have employ while you're renting a storefront, utilities, telephone and information superhighway expenditures. examine some books approximately merchandising on ebay - there are various obtainable - in all danger some by applying people who've set up consignment companies such as you want to do - you greater beneficial get an up front fee for accepting any merchandise from absolutely everyone to sell - for some time to checklist it and the itemizing costs cost, then additionally make the guy merchandising the object pay for the ideal sales cost if it sells, and teh Paypal costs after which you're taking like 30% of what's left - make all those expenditures very sparkling up front, so human beings don;t accuse you later of attempting to tear you off.- all your oput-of pocket expenditures would be lined and if teh merchandise sells, that's the place your income is provided in you will ought to study the thank you to cost issues - human beings bringing products in will constantly think of they are going to sell for plenty greater beneficial than they in all danger will (and in all danger a great form of junk that may not worth bothering with in any respect) - and except you start up with low minimum bids, no person will bid in the event that they say you value too plenty, tell them to do it themselves and that they are going to see what it expenditures and how plenty time it takes don;t overlook to cost delivery, so which you ought to understand how plenty something will value to deliver earlier you checklist it and if it expenditures too plenty in comparison to the fee of the object, it quite is in all danger no longer worth merchandising on ebay - seek for issues you additionally could make a severe income margin one
2016-12-12 07:40:58 · answer #6 · answered by livesay 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try selling your items at" ioffer.com. It is less expensive to list than ebay.
2007-01-09 04:05:26 · answer #7 · answered by marcus 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋