The turn £100.00 into £10.000.00+ by the end of 2010 official thread

victoriaplum1

do old annuals sell well on amazon? I have 16 1980's ones in real good condition, I have got them advertised in local paper for £20 for the lot but maybe worth separating? And on same theme a story to share.....my uncle gave me 2 sets of kids storyteller books and cassettes while back, they were selling in the 1980's kids weekly collectable mag with a tape...I had them in kitchen for weeks tripping over them and was gonna take them to charity shop but did a check on ebay and saw they were kind of collectable so put them on as pick up only...and lo and behold got £75 for them!! I did end up having to send them further afield(as buyer wasnt local) but buyer arranged a courier to collect them and was problemfree....so don't write stuff off either before you have researched whether they are sellable and try to be flexible if someone is willing to pay a decent price...one mans trash is anothers treasure afterall! Very first thing I sold on ebay was a kids Speak and Spell again an 80's toy which I bought for £1.50 at bootie and I got around £17 for that....addicted ever since. Sorry about all my posts but am quite excited about this challenge...good luck with it everyone. There used to be another website selling car bootie type stuff, does anyone remember what it was called and if its still running?

mambury

davidian84 wrote: »

Im new to all this would you mind giving further details. Thats about £13 a book, are these used and what are they? Also what did you buy for £30 and sell for £67.

most of the books are medical text books for a course I did some time ago and are in pretty good nick. I checked on Amazon what the same titles were going for used and in similar condition. I then put the prices mid range as I am not in a rush to sell them, might drop the prices if they take ages but they have only been gathering dust up til now anyway!

THe item I sold on ebay was a beatles replica guitar for the wii, bought it from HMV before xmas for £30 and bingo sold today for £67. This is only the second time I have managed to get such a high profit on ebay, the last were some used cloth nappies that I paid £10 and sold for £70 but ebay in their infinite wisdom don't allow sales of used nappies anymore!

I guess that I have been lucky but we will see!

hth

bing0

EMminently wrote: »

Whenever i've ever listed anything on Ebay, it never sells. That's anything, books, DVDs, a car... Also whenever i go on to Ebay to see what's selling, nothing ever really seems to have any bids on it. I've only ever sold one book - for about 99p i thnk and i made nothing on it really after searching out packaging, going to the post office... it really wasn't time well spent. I would love to be like you guys and feel some buzz from seeing my things sell on Ebay but don't really know where to start. I've done research to check out that i'm marketing my stuff in similar ways to other stuff that has sold. What are people selling? When i look around my house, there's only really books, DVDs and possibly some clothes but none of those are going to make much money and i'm worried that if i go down the Ebay route, i'll end up making a loss.

Sorry to sound negative - you're all doing so well, keep up the good work and thank you for your inspiring ideas xx

There are so many hurdles in the way when you start buying and selling on ebay.You're lucky,as when I started,you would have been paying lots of money for the information others and myself have told fellow MSE members.Research was probably the key for most people,and yes the occassional bit of luck !
To tell you what to look out for that I sell myself would be foolish for me,as by telling this info on here,would push the price up of what I buy at present.So my other option is to give you and others some starting tips,what to look out for.
An easy one is 'used shoes'-trainers or similar type footware.Nothing funny about this on my part (no seriously).Two or three years back I read on here about someone selling their old footware and making lots of money.Whatever the buyers are doing with these shoes is not for me to worry myself about !
A couple of examples of past sales:

A pair of Y3 ? TRAINERS- I paid £1.00 from a carboot sale and sold them for £48.00

A pair of brogues hand made leather type (cant remember the brand) paid £5.00 from a charity shop and sold them for £120.00

I'll be back either later or tomorrow with more 'secret finds' (don't tell anyone) ;);)

Eyesparky

victoriaplum1 wrote: »

hoe do u get a signature? and how good is amazon for selling books? I have tried ebay but its slow for books and greenmetropolis even worse, sell one every few months....was gonna try amazon but when books on there for 1p how do u stand in getting a good price? following on from a post earlier about car parts...a friend of mine had the car parts out of her neighbours skip (with permission) cos neighbour could'nt be bothered to sell them and she made several hundred pounds. Let your friend and family know what you are doing too I have had lots given to me in past cos people often just want clutter gone and with a bit of time and effort have made a few hundred overall

Click on Quick Links (next to the Log Out Link above right) and click on Edit Signature ... type away. Not sure about books on Amazon yet, I have around £400 worth listed at the moment but I don't expect them to fly out the door ... some things take time. The system is simple to use and there are no listing fees upfront (so easy to try out and see what happens with no risk). The fees are quite high on the back end though so keep this in mind when deciding on a price or whether a particular book is worth listing. The 1p book phenomenon was explained to me on here yesterday (sorry can't remember posters name just now ... so many to learn ) as related to merchant book sellers receiving a sum of money on top for every book they sell. Personally I am avoiding anything selling too cheap.

One good thing is that when you get a sale the process of printing delivery notes and getting paid seems really straight forward. I have had my first few ebay sales after a time away from the site and had forgotten what a faff it can be logging in and out of Paypal etc. ... something I will get used to again, but seeing as ebay own paypal they could definitely make it more seamless.

Good advice about car parts, and for that matter the wider idea that there a number of things out there that may well be worth more in parts than as a whole. Thanks for the input .

victoriaplum1

apparently childrens dressing up stuff sells well on ebay, you can check listings that have ended to see what has been selling and what prices they are commanding and also how many bids etc....I have sold loads on ebay at least 200/300 things mostly stuff I ahd lying about house, books, dvds, kids clothes, perfume sets all that kind of thing...in my experience kids clothes sell better in bundles and Next does well, also I got given a few Philosophy Toiletry sets once and they flew out within minutes in fact cos I had quite a cheap buy it now price on them. I have remembered the bootsale site name too...https://www.bootbay.co.uk, is anyone using or used this recently I did a few years back but can't really recall how good or bad it was.

Eyesparky

bing0 wrote: »

Well I've had the afternoon off as I've not stopped since Christmas.

Is everyone enjoying themselves ? I do find that if you buy/sell items you are actually interested in , it makes it so much better to keep interested in what you are trying to achieve.

Have a great evening everyone.:j

I suppose we can let you have the afternoon off ... better get busy tonight though or the forum whip cracker will be chasing you . It is true of anything in life that we get the most out of doing the things we enjoy ... making a living out of it is just a sweet bonus.

bing0

victoriaplum1 wrote: »

do old annuals sell well on amazon? I have 16 1980's ones in real good condition, I have got them advertised in local paper for £20 for the lot but maybe worth separating? And on same theme a story to share.....my uncle gave me 2 sets of kids storyteller books and cassettes while back, they were selling in the 1980's kids weekly collectable mag with a tape...I had them in kitchen for weeks tripping over them and was gonna take them to charity shop but did a check on ebay and saw they were kind of collectable so put them on as pick up only...and lo and behold got £75 for them!! I did end up having to send them further afield(as buyer wasnt local) but buyer arranged a courier to collect them and was problemfree....so don't write stuff off either before you have researched whether they are sellable and try to be flexible if someone is willing to pay a decent price...one mans trash is anothers treasure afterall! Very first thing I sold on ebay was a kids Speak and Spell again an 80's toy which I bought for £1.50 at bootie and I got around £17 for that....addicted ever since. Sorry about all my posts but am quite excited about this challenge...good luck with it everyone. There used to be another website selling car bootie type stuff, does anyone remember what it was called and if its still running?

I'm no expert but I do know that certain Rupert Bear annuals can make big money.Off the top of my head:
there are ones from the 60's magic paint ones-if you find ones that haven't been used then they can go for £300-£500
There is a VERY rare 1973 edition where I think 10 or 20 copies had Ruperts head painted brown instead of yellow-whatever-there's a colour difference-these have sold for £15-£25000 that's right thousands in the past.

Obviously if you have one of these I will give you my £100.00 starting stake for it ! :beer:

victoriaplum1

Thanks eyesparky you have inspired me....I will have a bash at Amazon though Im not sure how I will sell paperback books for a few quid for example if another seller has same book listed for 1p? ....does Amazon take a % of sale price like ebay or set fee? If percentage thats fine with me as all relative then

BFem

kosma1 wrote: »

ok, a couple of jobs done, have registered with greenmetropolis and listed first 2 books, if they do sell for £2.50 or £3.00 (after i pay postage from it) about the same as ebay just with no fees

registered with gumtree.co.uk and dug out my rucksack i want to try and sell on their, unfortunately as it has been stuck ina cupboard it seems at some point my cat decided it was a comfy bed

so have now cleaned it up off any unwanted cat hairs (otherwise i would have to charge extra for them of course, lol) and now looks pretty respectable so going to try and list it tomorrow

Thanks Kosma1, i've never heard of greenmetropolis before, have just registered too. Looks brilliant! Good luck on the sale of your cat hair free rucksack!

victoriaplum1

bing0 wrote: »

I'm no expert but I do know that certain Rupert Bear annuals can make big money.Off the top of my head:
there are ones from the 60's magic paint ones-if you find ones that haven't been used then they can go for £300-£500
There is a VERY rare 1973 edition where I think 10 or 20 copies had Ruperts head painted brown instead of yellow-whatever-there's a colour difference-these have sold for £15-£25000 that's right thousands in the past.

Obviously if you have one of these I will give you my £100.00 starting stake for it ! :beer:

Alas I did have Rupert Annuals from that time but wrong colour head so no big profit there. Think I sold 3 for £10 in end in local newspaper. I know that childrens ladybird books are quite collectable, the 1970's 'Well Loved Tales' that had the painted pictures go for a good few quid each but is like everything you gotta know where to sell them to get a good price. I sold mine to a bookseller for a quid or 2 each because I had no idea where to sell them for the £5-£10 each they could fetch. Thats what makes me laugh about these buy it sell it progs on tv, they say this and that is worth £2000, yeah it is if you know who to sell it too. And even with bootsales, where they sell stuff for £50 a pop, where I live you'd be lucky, if you price anything over £1 the punters turn their nose up and they will try to knock u down to 50p for anything!