I still have some spending money this year...anyway, if you have any ebay tips and ideas please let me know, I'm not asking to steal your item ideas or anything, just general tips and stuff. My stupid friend actually stole my source on an item, so he's never getting jack sh!t from me ever again lol...
Well, I think timing is everything. I could not do what I did then now. In six months I made a ton of money, from places like Mercata and ValueAmerica. I had great credit and 7 credit cards with a $250,000 aggregate limit that was maxed out during the VA days. But try that today, there are very few great deals. The bubble has burst and the market is tighter. Look at the people that jumped on this deal, then go to the search function on ebay fro past aucitons and figure out exactly what they made. DO this for the dell deals and you'll see that very few people made that much money.
I was considering doing hte dell deals, but jesus, ebay fees and paypal fees wreck the profit margin. I tracked 50 people who were selling Dell flatscreens and only 10 of them even broke even after taxes, paypal fees, ebay fees etc., you did have the oddball that wanted $60 shipping for a flatscreen, but even so, the margins were quite slim. The search/completed auctions function on ebay really pulls the clothes off the braggart. It also lets you know roughly what you can expect.