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Advice on becoming a Ebay Trading Assitant

Hi i'm trying to come up with some ideas about earning extra money, I would like to make about £200 a month so not a huge amount.
ideas so far have been ironing from home, buying & then selling things but not sure what or by hubby has said about advertising taking the things people would like to sell on Ebay say & i sell it for them & take a cut.Ebay have Trading assitants who do this but I'm not sure .

what do you think, any advice would be great

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  • Luvplacebo
    Luvplacebo Posts: 143 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    edited 10 September 2009 at 9:21PM
    I'm not great on the advice but a shop near me does this and as far as I know people pay them for the description and also for the larger items they pay them of storage for the listed item. I'm not sure how well it works though, I go in there about once a month and often there are several items almost permanently in there.
    If your ebay listings usually sell well then its feasible to have a go and say charge 10% of the final selling price. If your posting the items as well you could also have a separate charge for that.
  • Don't forget that there are Ebay listing fee, 10% (?) final price fee and Paypal fees then your 10%....
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