Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
My wife and I do yard sales and estate sales on Saturday mornings as a hobby. We buy items to resell on eBay and Amazon. Overall it takes about 4 hours out of a Saturday, plus time listing on eBay, communicating with buyers, and shipping; maybe 15 hours or so a week for each of us. We both hold full-time jobs too. Last week we made $1700 on eBay, not including the shipping & handling fees. Maybe another $350 on Amazon. Last week was a better eBay week than normal because of a few big items on eBay. Normally we average between $3K-$4K+ a month. Decent money for a weekend hobby.
Originally posted by: Lurknomore
Originally posted by: edro
You need an infomercial spot on TV at 3AM.Originally posted by: SSSnail
I beg to differ... You can always make money in the stock market regardless of conditions, you DO have to know what you're buying and selling, and when.Originally posted by: ivan2
stocks. not necessarily making money at this moment...
I buy houses for pennies on the dollar- FREE and CLEAR!
Oh, look another gov. auction- a $150,000 house for $287- holy sh*!
My sis just bought the house next door- a $120,000 for $155- FREE and CLEAR!!!
For $.00 on the $$$!!!
Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
My wife and I do yard sales and estate sales on Saturday mornings as a hobby. We buy items to resell on eBay and Amazon. Overall it takes about 4 hours out of a Saturday, plus time listing on eBay, communicating with buyers, and shipping; maybe 15 hours or so a week for each of us. We both hold full-time jobs too. Last week we made $1700 on eBay, not including the shipping & handling fees. Maybe another $350 on Amazon. Last week was a better eBay week than normal because of a few big items on eBay. Normally we average between $3K-$4K+ a month. Decent money for a weekend hobby.
That's the thing. We don't resell "junk." While most yard sales and estate sales are primarily composed of junk, if you have an eye and a bit of experience you can pick up some great stuff. I'll give you an example.Originally posted by: SlickSnake
Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
My wife and I do yard sales and estate sales on Saturday mornings as a hobby. We buy items to resell on eBay and Amazon. Overall it takes about 4 hours out of a Saturday, plus time listing on eBay, communicating with buyers, and shipping; maybe 15 hours or so a week for each of us. We both hold full-time jobs too. Last week we made $1700 on eBay, not including the shipping & handling fees. Maybe another $350 on Amazon. Last week was a better eBay week than normal because of a few big items on eBay. Normally we average between $3K-$4K+ a month. Decent money for a weekend hobby.
Shens to 3k-4k a month doing junk sale resales on Ebay. And how much do you blow buying the "speculative" stuff you resell? And how much that you buy don't sell the first 2 times it's listed? And how much do you buy that NEVER sells or you lose money finally selling? And where the heck do you pile up all this crap while you wait to resell it? Boxes are not cheap, either, if you ship large stuff, nor is packing materials. And NO, I don't want your book or CD on how to make money on Ebay using estate sales, yard sales and garage sales. Ebay has flushed itself down the crappier lately, with high fees and seller and buyer disinterest. And with the economy also in the dumps, this makes your claim even more unbelievable.
You would have had more luck convincing me you made that much doing junk resales on Craig's list though.
How do you do it?Originally posted by: racolvin
I've been making candles for several years. It's a hobby and I make a little bit in sales, mostly because I don't really push it - only a few people know about it and I'll sell some by word of mouth. I do have a couple of wholesale accounts but they are very low volume, so it's not like I make piles of cash from doing it But I enjoy doing it and I'd be making them anyway, so I figured I might as well sell some when I can.
Originally posted by: Auryg
You could try starting a website - I just launched TheSidehatch.com about a month ago and yesterday I made $2.25 (my best day yet!). Or you could just play games there and win prizes, kinda like that gamevance somebody else mentioned.
Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
That's the thing. We don't resell "junk." While most yard sales and estate sales are primarily composed of junk, if you have an eye and a bit of experience you can pick up some great stuff. I'll give you an example.Originally posted by: SlickSnake
Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
My wife and I do yard sales and estate sales on Saturday mornings as a hobby. We buy items to resell on eBay and Amazon. Overall it takes about 4 hours out of a Saturday, plus time listing on eBay, communicating with buyers, and shipping; maybe 15 hours or so a week for each of us. We both hold full-time jobs too. Last week we made $1700 on eBay, not including the shipping & handling fees. Maybe another $350 on Amazon. Last week was a better eBay week than normal because of a few big items on eBay. Normally we average between $3K-$4K+ a month. Decent money for a weekend hobby.
Shens to 3k-4k a month doing junk sale resales on Ebay. And how much do you blow buying the "speculative" stuff you resell? And how much that you buy don't sell the first 2 times it's listed? And how much do you buy that NEVER sells or you lose money finally selling? And where the heck do you pile up all this crap while you wait to resell it? Boxes are not cheap, either, if you ship large stuff, nor is packing materials. And NO, I don't want your book or CD on how to make money on Ebay using estate sales, yard sales and garage sales. Ebay has flushed itself down the crappier lately, with high fees and seller and buyer disinterest. And with the economy also in the dumps, this makes your claim even more unbelievable.
You would have had more luck convincing me you made that much doing junk resales on Craig's list though.
Not long ago I went to a yard sale where the lady was primarily selling shoes. Looking through the shoes I found two pairs of Dolce and Gabbanas, a pair of Pradas, and two pairs of Manolo Blahniks. Yeah, I'm not too proud to admit that I've watched an episode or two of Sex in the City. I knew they weren't fakes because most of them still had their original Neiman-Marcus stickers on them and a couple had their original boxes. I asked the lady how much and she wanted. She told me 3 dollars a pair. 15 bucks total for about $3500 retail of shoes. I asked her if she'd take 12 bucks for the 5 and she looks at me and says "Well, they ARE designer shoes, so my price is firm." I kind of chuckled about it gave her what she was asking for.
One pair of the Blahniks sold on eBay for $270. The other went for $330. The Pradas only went for $35 and the D & G together brought in @ $150. All for a $15 dollar investment, plus gas, and my time. We find stuff like that all the time. I've bought $500 worth of jewlery for $5. Klipsch speakers for $20 that sold for $280. Mac software for $75 that made about $700. 2000 CDs for $1700 that brought in about $14,000. I could give you many more examples. Not everything makes 100X its purchase price, but just about everything earns four or five times the original investment.
We are silver power sellers on eBay. Over the last 30 days we've brought in $3,331.78. We've averaged @ that figure for quite some time. If you're that interested, PM me and I'll be happy to provide proof of my claim.
As far as storage, the items don't take up all that much space. It's just my wife and I living in a 4/3 with about 2500sf, not including about 700sf in two upstairs areas that are unfinished, which we use for long-term storage. One of the spare bedrooms is used as the staging area for eBay items we are selling. We also have a separate packing and shipping area.
Generally we only buy items that sell, but we've been doing it for almost 9 years and have enough experience to know what will and what won't sell. Things that don't sell are placed in long-term storage, then we have a garage sale once a year to get rid of it. Anything that doesn't sell at the garage sale gets donated to Goodwill.
Hope that answers your shens call. btw, I'm not selling any book or CD and don't feel like giving my secrets out on the subject anyway. There's already enough competition out there.
Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante
Originally posted by: Auryg
You could try starting a website - I just launched TheSidehatch.com about a month ago and yesterday I made $2.25 (my best day yet!). Or you could just play games there and win prizes, kinda like that gamevance somebody else mentioned.
No offense, but isn't this advertising?
Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
That's the thing. We don't resell "junk." While most yard sales and estate sales are primarily composed of junk, if you have an eye and a bit of experience you can pick up some great stuff. I'll give you an example.Originally posted by: SlickSnake
Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
My wife and I do yard sales and estate sales on Saturday mornings as a hobby. We buy items to resell on eBay and Amazon. Overall it takes about 4 hours out of a Saturday, plus time listing on eBay, communicating with buyers, and shipping; maybe 15 hours or so a week for each of us. We both hold full-time jobs too. Last week we made $1700 on eBay, not including the shipping & handling fees. Maybe another $350 on Amazon. Last week was a better eBay week than normal because of a few big items on eBay. Normally we average between $3K-$4K+ a month. Decent money for a weekend hobby.
Shens to 3k-4k a month doing junk sale resales on Ebay. And how much do you blow buying the "speculative" stuff you resell? And how much that you buy don't sell the first 2 times it's listed? And how much do you buy that NEVER sells or you lose money finally selling? And where the heck do you pile up all this crap while you wait to resell it? Boxes are not cheap, either, if you ship large stuff, nor is packing materials. And NO, I don't want your book or CD on how to make money on Ebay using estate sales, yard sales and garage sales. Ebay has flushed itself down the crappier lately, with high fees and seller and buyer disinterest. And with the economy also in the dumps, this makes your claim even more unbelievable.
You would have had more luck convincing me you made that much doing junk resales on Craig's list though.
Not long ago I went to a yard sale where the lady was primarily selling shoes. Looking through the shoes I found two pairs of Dolce and Gabbanas, a pair of Pradas, and two pairs of Manolo Blahniks. Yeah, I'm not too proud to admit that I've watched an episode or two of Sex in the City. I knew they weren't fakes because most of them still had their original Neiman-Marcus stickers on them and a couple had their original boxes. I asked the lady how much and she wanted. She told me 3 dollars a pair. 15 bucks total for about $3500 retail of shoes. I asked her if she'd take 12 bucks for the 5 and she looks at me and says "Well, they ARE designer shoes, so my price is firm." I kind of chuckled about it gave her what she was asking for.
One pair of the Blahniks sold on eBay for $270. The other went for $330. The Pradas only went for $35 and the D & G together brought in @ $150. All for a $15 dollar investment, plus gas, and my time. We find stuff like that all the time. I've bought $500 worth of jewlery for $5. Klipsch speakers for $20 that sold for $280. Mac software for $75 that made about $700. 2000 CDs for $1700 that brought in about $14,000. I could give you many more examples. Not everything makes 100X its purchase price, but just about everything earns four or five times the original investment.
We are silver power sellers on eBay. Over the last 30 days we've brought in $3,331.78. We've averaged @ that figure for quite some time. If you're that interested, PM me and I'll be happy to provide proof of my claim.
As far as storage, the items don't take up all that much space. It's just my wife and I living in a 4/3 with about 2500sf, not including about 700sf in two upstairs areas that are unfinished, which we use for long-term storage. One of the spare bedrooms is used as the staging area for eBay items we are selling. We also have a separate packing and shipping area.
Generally we only buy items that sell, but we've been doing it for almost 9 years and have enough experience to know what will and what won't sell. Things that don't sell are placed in long-term storage, then we have a garage sale once a year to get rid of it. Anything that doesn't sell at the garage sale gets donated to Goodwill.
Hope that answers your shens call. btw, I'm not selling any book or CD and don't feel like giving my secrets out on the subject anyway. There's already enough competition out there.
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