1) you find a shop near you that sells cheap items or something you know you can sell online or perhaps even to another country that's more expensive
2) take your phone to that shop find the item you want to sell take a picture of all sides of the item/s note the price the shop is selling it at
3) once you've got your photos (for free) go home log into eBay create an advert using picture you just took, put a mark up of whatever you want work out the postage and put the advert up
4) when you get a buyer go back to the shop you took the picture from, buy the item, walk to the post office then post the item to the buyer who has already paid before you buy the stock so there is no risks except obviously if the buyer returns the item or says it wasnt delivered.
Anyway I found I had no returns and rarely did I get a difficult buyer maybe this is worth a think about? Let me know how you get on!
Hope you found this useful?
Philip
What happens if the item is sold out when you go back to the store?
I imagine you would cancel the order and notify the buyer. That'd be the moral thing to do, anyway.
You would never be in that situation as you would make sure you where not or had plan to buy somewhere else. I made £80k doing it at first to be honest and took a few weeks months to get ebay to give me free adverts, you have to open up a none business account with eBay to get free adverts lol
You need to use some common sense if they only have a few don't do it. I always choose items that multiple shops had loads of sock of like different brand of tampons and sold to a county that had expensive tampons in conparison.
It's a great way to try new stock out before buying, if you must, I try to keep it simple, low risk, like selling stuff around $5 for $10 but in volume.
If you put something into a 3 day auction get the store to hold it back for you go back buy it post it.
You really do though need to use common sense and look at your personal situation. Try 1 or 2 out see how it works for you.
Philip
I do not know how to speak nor write in foreign languages so I will just use English.
The economy has tanked; 75% of Americans are underwater financially and 99.9% of Americans are so totally over clutter.
So finding a cheap supply of anything worthwhile that others will buy is highly unlikely. If bargain hunting and flea markets and garage sales are your buzz then give this a go; but expecting to make any sort of money.
Consider; fuel, transportation, listing and money transaction fees and shipping...
The best you can hope for is a tiny tax write off with the IRS, I think this situation applied to almost the entire surface of planet Earth; but herein i can only speak for America.
Ebay is deceased, that is why Paypal had its Siamese twin removed so one lifeform might live while another slowly dies...