After reading a few other blogs where the authors sold multiple items on Ebay and made a nice profit I decided to try my hand at the eBay game.
Over the last 10 years I ahve built up a pretty impressive library of books for a 25 year old. I love to read and I love to read on MANY different topics. My enjoyment in this activity left me with well over 100 different books, covering all different topics: textbooks, fiction, sports, history, finance advice, etc. I also have many golf clubs laying around that others would certainly be willing to snatch up.
I decided to list essentially book I own on eBay , as well as 3 or 4 golf clubs, and other items.
Being a newbie in the eBay game, I was a little unsure how much to charge for shipping, etc. Therefore I underestimated the cost on a few items and ended up taking a loss on the shipping portion.
But other than that it's fun and I have turned a nice profit in less than a week. Now, obviously this isn't a true profit in the sense that I sold a book for more than I originally bought, but it still feels good to have the cash in my pocket. I ahve decided that I will take 50% of the total proceeds and put it towards my credit card debt, with the other 50% going into the $25 challenge pot.
Selling Stuff on eBay
June 12th, 2007 at 09:48 pm
June 13th, 2007 at 02:03 am 1181696588
Good luck recouping your money! [And very insightful of you to realize that you are not actually "making" money ... I have sold around 80 items on Half.com so far and only ONE of those was sold for more than what I paid for it. This reminds me ... I am going to post to my blog about the one book that sold for a profit, in case anyone else has the same book lying around.]
June 13th, 2007 at 04:42 pm 1181749347
I am having the same problem as you with Paypal. I have an item I need to pay for and I still haven't gotten my stupid letter in the mail yet. I wonder if this is a more global problem or really an individual one that happened to hit us both. Keep me posted if something else happens and I'll do the same. I'm curious to see if it gets worse.
June 14th, 2007 at 12:23 am 1181777039
Traffic is probably good. Just in the event you tire of the ebay fees.
June 21st, 2007 at 02:45 am 1182390357