o you're having trouble shelves haphazardly, hoping that
finding stock cheaply someday someone with a little
enough to sell it for a money will just happen to come
good profit? Well, you've come to in, search around and buy wildly
the right place. obscure things. Get them to offer
you a discount for bulk.
Garage sales. The chances are
you've gone most of your life Real auctions. Go to a real
seeing ads for these and ignoring auction, as the chances are that
them. Start going to as many as you can resell things for more
you can. You won't find good than they will sell them. After
things at every one, but when you all, they only have a few hundred
find one person with good stuff, people in that room - you have a
make them an offer for the lot - few million to sell to!
they'll be so happy about it that
you can get a real bargain. Local newspapers. Place an ad in
the local paper that reads "I pay
Markets. If your area has a cash for [your item type]", with
market, then go there and look your phone number. If you can
around for anything good. You afford it, make it a big display
could buy it there if it's cheap ad, so it'll be noticed.
enough, or try to make friends
with the market traders and find Ad boards. Get one of those
out who their suppliers are. little ads in the grocery store.
Pawn shops. Pawn shops don't Friends. Ask your friends if they
usually know what to do with the have anything they'd like to sell
junk they accumulate (unless it's you, and ask them to spread the
jewellery, of course). Generally, word to their friends.
they put their stock out on the
Become known. Give out business range of prices that items can
cards, mention to people what you sell for on eBay. Try taking the
do. The chances are that you'll highest-priced item and searching
come across someone who'll say for it on its own, then sort by
"Oh, really? I've got a load of lowest price first: I can almost
[item] I don't want". guarantee that you'll see an
auction for the same item where
Shops. This might be a little it sold for almost nothing. The
surprising, but some real shops trick is to find these flawed
even sell things more cheaply auctions before they close, win
than they sell on eBay. Take a them using a bid sniping service,
look around your local deep and then turn around and resell
discounter, and pay special the item.
attention to any shop that takes
trade-ins from customers. The After all that trouble, though,
chances are they take a loss on when do sell the item you might
trade-ins as a promotion, and are find that a buyer leaves you a
dying to get rid of that stock. feedback rating you just don't
think is fair. The next email
And finally: eBay! When you're will show you what to do about
looking at the completed items it.
view, you'll notice the massive
About the Author:
Kirsten Hawkins is an Ebay and internet auction enthusiast from Nashville, TN. Visit http://www.auctionseller411.com/ for more great tips on how to make the most from Ebay and other online auctions.
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