How To Find Treasures At Garage Sales
Tips for selling on Ebay?
I desperately need to make some money to pay bills, but can’t find a job that will accomidate my physical health problems. I have an appointment with disability job referral services, but they warned me it’ll take a while to go through the processes and find a job. I need to find some creative way of pulling in money.
Out of desperation, I’ve decided to try buying garage sale and swap meet items and selling them on Ebay. It probably won’t be enough to live off of, but it’s better than nothing, and worth spending $10-20 at the swap meet to try it out.
I’m good at finding treasures at places like that, so which items are doing especially well on Ebay? Any tips on how to sell with more success would also be appreciated.
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None of the previous answerers have really addressed your question. So I’ll try, though I don’t have a complete answer either.
How about doing a bit of simple research. Before you spend any money buying things, go out to some garage sales one day and make a few notes on what you might buy, with prices. They go back home and go into Ebay and find similar items for sale. You’ll know right away whether you’d have made a profit. It would only take a couple hours to do that bit of research and would give you more confidence in your plan.
My brother is always on the lookout for free books. Sometimes he gets them when libraries discard old books. Also, Craigslist.com has a ‘free stuff’ section where he finds them. There are lots of sources. He tells me that if it’s hardback he’ll pay for it, but not more than $1.
Then he resells these books on Amazon and Half.com (part of Ebay). He has made around $3000 per year for the last several years, in spare time.
Sorry I can’t help more. Good luck to you.
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