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Originally Posted by stacy131
Again, pinkfluffy, eBay is not all that it's made out to be. There is so much junk in it, plus the commission you have to pay on low cost items is around 30%. Expect only about 1 in 10 listings to be sold. Gallery picture itself is $0.35 per each auction, not to mention listing fees. Again, I've been selling on eBay for years and can tell you from experience that it's not all that easy. You're more likely to lose than to make a profit.
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I agree you're not going to make a living off ebay. The trick to ebay is to enjoy it and not have to make a living at it.
Just for giggles my wife and I went to garage sales and limited ourselves to $20.00 on Fridays and Saturdays buying stuff we thought might sell. As it turned out we did 600 - 800 a month. My favorite was a leather covered wine bottle we bought for .25 cents and sold on Ebay for $22.00.
So can you make a living at it? depends on what you sell and what you consider a living.
We got bored with it (I like to sleep in on Saturdays.....lol).
I also have a friend who is a clothing manufacturer and makes 1600.00 a week on ebay, and gets rid of her overstock....
I jsut recently threw out the Elvis collector plates we bought for $2.00 - I think I still have a stack of black tuesday Newspapers (dale earnhart killed daytona papers....)