AUGUST make £10 a day challenge!

Useless_With_Money_3

Hello,

im starting a bit late but need something like this to keep me going,

defo going for the £10 as i need to get my !!! in gear, plus been done over by a certain credit card 2day.

roxy7699

Ive done £5 in sign ups and clicks today, but still no hard cash as yet.

Why does it seem to be harder now.

superhans

Quidco appeared in my account today,
£74.29 - £20 I lost through PaydayUK, still £54.29 to add to sig.
Also have 1 bid on Ebay at £10.99 and 4 watchers, ends Sunday.

Just realised I have already reached my target £156.55,:T:T
Decided today to use £150 to overpay my mortgage, so saved another £150 in interest,
still to add Topcasback,
Ebay items x 3 ending Sunday,
Halifax current account interest,
Abbey current account interest,
I am moving from Halifax to Abbey, but have decided to keep Halifax open and get extra interest, by crediting it with £1000 every month.

NoDebtDiva

Feel I'm doing quite well and off to a good start with this challenge - between Quidco, vouchers and Ebay sales have made £96.95 so far!!!

painted_lady

I am going to join this month please. I have unsuccessfully joined this challenge in the past, but I really need to get some extra cash this month. I am off work for summer hols so no excuse. I have plenty of stuff to ebay etc, so I will aim for £10 a day for everyday in august.

cookiedough38

I notice a few of you sell books on amazon or play.com, how well do these sell on here? What happens to paying postage costs? thanks in advance

cookinmummy

Morning all - just a quickie to update sig as have been paid £20 this morning into paypal for ms.:D

apocryphal

cookiedough38 wrote: »

I notice a few of you sell books on amazon or play.com, how well do these sell on here? What happens to paying postage costs? thanks in advance

Some book sell much better than others, and it's difficult to work out which are going to make you money because anything that is a particular strong seller has lots of competition so you end up earning 5p after postage has been taken into consideration. It's basically a 'long tail' thing.

I don't know about play.com but on Amazon you get a flat fee for postage within the UK, regardless of how heavy the book is. So if you have something that is particularly heavy or large then you need to account for the extra postage when you are setting a price. Also remember that while Amazon don't charge a listing fee, they do take a cut of the selling price and charge vat on top of that, so again, you need to take that into consideration when listing books for sale.

I have found that 90% of the books I've sold so far have been non-fiction. And you really need books that are out of print so the buyer doesn't have the choice of buying a new book direct from Amazon.

As I mentioned yesterday, I remembered that one of the local second hand book shops buys as well as sells, so on books where there are hundreds listed on Amazon for 1p I am probably better off taking them down there and selling them for 20p. I have the advantage that I live in a large city, but any reasonably big town should have somewhere like that. I'll let you know what sort of deal he offers me when I get down there later today.

cookiedough38

thanks for that apocryphal, may be better off selling them at a car boot

Bubbahut

Can i join again this month please. Started off really well in July but then got lazy 2 weeks in and did nothing!
Determined to do better this month and am already on target 7 days in. Just photographing everything possible to list on Ebay.