From Ebay to Car Boots - Advice please

Daddyo

Hi all,

Have been mauled by the ebay bug recently !!!!

We have been selling odds and sods with a bit of success.

Came across wholesale lots, mixed lots and car boot lots on ebay searches.

Lightbulb appeared above our heads, thinking whether its feasible to buy lots off ebay, then tootle off to a car boot to sell our new 'stock'

Are we dreaming or is this feasible ??

Advice / experiences would be much appreciated, cheers.

Johntea

You can win items cheap on eBay, trouble is costs outweigh profit if you don't sell half of the items!

Daddyo

I dont like boozers, i dont like schmoozers........... i dont like lack of profit !!!!

Was thinking that if you keep a close look on the costs and what you are selling it for, then you could make profit.

Buddhabellybutton

Postage can kill the profits from ebay just think about the weight!!, I would buy from boot sales and then sell to ebay if I was you.

Peace and Love.

Buddhabellybutton

Sugar_Coated_Owl

Most wholesale lots on eBay are just stuff that the seller has been left with and/or couldn't sell.

Best of luck though

MrB_2

Car boot lots whether on Ebay or in the free papers (A good source!) are usually not worth the time or effort as your looking at goods the seller couldn't shift in the first place. That why so many state no sorters.

tylerdurden_167

My missus bought a job lot of costume jewellery from eBay, 300 items for £30. Some of the stuff was really good, stuff you'd pay over a fiver for in a shop, some was not so good.

We sold it at car boots every weekend (alongside our own stuff) for prices between 50p and £4, we must have got back well over £350 from this one job lot. It took quite a few weeks to sell but there is some good stuff out there, but as mentioned above, there's also loads of tat.

Whits

razorbladekisses wrote:

Most wholesale lots on eBay are just stuff that the seller has been left with and/or couldn't sell

That's exactly what I thought but I managed to come across a job lot that was reasonably priced and close by so I bought it.

I've made a tidy profit simply by creating a spreadsheet so I know exactly what I need to sell for in order to break even.

It's bloody hard work sitting in front of the PC for hours on end, thinking up titles and descriptions but occasionally you hit a real winner.

I recently sold 5 items that were on ebay but not selling, they were listed from 99p to £1.99. I put my stuff on as a job lot and I've made about £20 profit:T

Don't get me wrong, I know some things won't sell but I've followed the golden rule and only laid out what I can afford to lose.

Hope that helps

Contains_Mild_Peril

I'm about to try bundling together my unsold eBay items into "job lots" and trying to sell them that way.
I think there's normally more profit to be made buying at boot sales and selling on eBay than vice versa, but the downside is that selling on eBay is a lot more work if you're selling different items which all have to be photographed and listed separately, possibly measured to include dimensions in the listing, and weighed to calculate postage, etc.
I must look out for lots like tylerdurden_167's jewellery! I was recently watching a job lot of 12 wedding dresses, needing cleaned but including some really nice posh ones, which I think went for about £90 inc p&p. I figured if I had the money, I could buy them, wash them in my bath (most "dry clean only" garments tolerate gentle washing) and sell them at a profit, but unfortunately I couldn't afford to buy them because the tax credit people are still messing me about.