Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Make Money Online -- Selling on eBay

Our family has finished the first of several Post-Christmas eBay Clean-out Sales, and made about $200, mainly from selling off our Nintendo 64 games. I won't count it in my monthly earnings figures, though, because we promised the kids they could use it to buy some new Playstation2 games. Easy come, easy go.

But if you can avoid having all your online auction earnings sucked up by your kids, it's a great way to make a bit of extra cash. And get rid of stuff you either don't want or don't need. And it's really not that hard. The trick is to do a bit of research so you at least half-way know what you're doing, then give it a try.

I know there are like, 3,784,296 'Secrets of eBay' ebooks, etc. that tell you how to become an eBay gazillionaire (usually involving dropshipping and whatnot), and while that ain't likely to happen, some of the advice they give is worth reading. Your local library or bookstore probably has eBay for Dummies or something similar that would be worth a read.

Get yourself organized, and do whatever you can to make it up to your customers when you screw up (and you will screw up), and have a bit of fun with it!