Turn £100.00 into £10.000.00+ by the end of 2010 official thread PART 2

paulabear

Tinka21 wrote: »

I have update my signature tonight as i have sold a few more little bits on ebay and amazon. I'm quite pleased as I have nearly made my first hundred

I am getting a little impatient though as i have only sold one of my resell items, only another 47 to shift! lol keep finding myself just keep going on ebay and refreshing the page! My OH thinks I have a strange addiction!

I'm definitely addicted to checking my Ebay watch count! Really should not waste time and just check for messages etc. Have got four people watching the curtains I put on today :j

cally6008

copperjar - just start a Non Paying Bidder process NOW!, do not give him any more chances to get out of paying, you will have to wait 4 days then you can close the NPB and get your FVFees back and then relist with no problems and I would BLOCK your spanish buyer as well

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cally6008 wrote: »

copperjar - just start a Non Paying Bidder process NOW!, do not give him any more chances to get out of paying, you will have to wait 4 days then you can close the NPB and get your FVFees back and then relist with no problems and I would BLOCK your spanish buyer as well

Agreed this bidder is clearly taking the mick, 4 days is a reasonable amount of time to pay not 10. He would have known full well whether or not he had any money when bidding.

copperjar

Will do, thanks guys

niccy

Well i still haven't listed a thing on the 'bay , but i'm learning about HTML , picture centring etc on the description part of the sell form trouble is i get easily distracted :rolleyes:

However i have made one or two decisions ,the major ones being that i won't sell cheap and i wont sell cheap goods.

I do worry when i read some of you are buying £100 worth of tat to sell at 99p each

For instance last night i was checking out the website that lets you buy locally ( remember i live on an island :eek:) and found a goldfish book in Glasgow at 99p ( this will be a prezzy for my bezzy mate;) ) now normally i would just paypal straight away , but i forgot , and today the lady (feedback 600) mailed asking for payment .So i had a look at her sold items, loads at 99p , over a year or so , just seemed like a lot of hard work for little or no reward.

I think what i'm trying to get across is really research what you are going to sell , buying 200 bits of plastic at 50p to sell at 99p might seem like a bargain but you've got to sell and post all of them.It might be more favourable to buy one or two items and sell at a nice big profit :T

Thats enough thoughts of chairman niccy for now anyway:o

I will put at least two items on the 'bay today , one is so rare it might be unique :drool: (i am having trouble pricing this ) the other is a bit of retro.

For my £100 i have rented a room at premier inn for three nights a few miles from a big auction site in Scotland ( we'll say nothing about the 4 ferry fares and diesel for a 500 mile round trip) hoping to buy a car or digger or something , and no it will not go towards my £10k:p

now back to ebay community board help:rotfl:

and my research shows me you cant use google chrome for ebay listings doh doh doh doh doh

ZoeGirl_3

niccy wrote: »

However i have made one or two decisions ,the major ones being that i won't sell cheap and i wont sell cheap goods.

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I think what i'm trying to get across is really research what you are going to sell , buying 200 bits of plastic at 50p to sell at 99p might seem like a bargain but you've got to sell and post all of them.It might be more favourable to buy one or two items and sell at a nice big profit :T

I agree Niccy that it seems like little reward but in a way there is a bit of comfort to starting with small items that you can make a small mark up on, and you do learn sales tactics etc from it too and you learn to do your research and then you build up confidence. Then you can build up to bigger things.

Guess it depends a bit on your personality too. Your tolerance for risk etc. Mine is slowely building up from non-existant hehe.

bing0

niccy wrote: »

Well i still haven't listed a thing on the 'bay , but i'm learning about HTML , picture centring etc on the description part of the sell form trouble is i get easily distracted :rolleyes:

However i have made one or two decisions ,the major ones being that i won't sell cheap and i wont sell cheap goods.

I do worry when i read some of you are buying £100 worth of tat to sell at 99p each

For instance last night i was checking out the website that lets you buy locally ( remember i live on an island :eek:) and found a goldfish book in Glasgow at 99p ( this will be a prezzy for my bezzy mate;) ) now normally i would just paypal straight away , but i forgot , and today the lady (feedback 600) mailed asking for payment .So i had a look at her sold items, loads at 99p , over a year or so , just seemed like a lot of hard work for little or no reward.

I think what i'm trying to get across is really research what you are going to sell , buying 200 bits of plastic at 50p to sell at 99p might seem like a bargain but you've got to sell and post all of them.It might be more favourable to buy one or two items and sell at a nice big profit :T

Thats enough thoughts of chairman niccy for now anyway:o

I will put at least two items on the 'bay today , one is so rare it might be unique :drool: (i am having trouble pricing this ) the other is a bit of retro.

For my £100 i have rented a room at premier inn for three nights a few miles from a big auction site in Scotland ( we'll say nothing about the 4 ferry fares and diesel for a 500 mile round trip) hoping to buy a car or digger or something , and no it will not go towards my £10k:p

now back to ebay community board help:rotfl:

and my research shows me you cant use google chrome for ebay listings doh doh doh doh doh

Hi there,
my opinion of selling cheap goods is that for the last few weeks I have only purchased 1 item which I can split down into individual lots,I paid £20.00 for it and have made over £200.00 so far,still over 90% left of it to sell.The other items as I've mentioned in previous posts are items I had regarded as low value items,and I've made over £400.00 out of them.

I see where you are coming from as regards listing low value items,the time,listing,wrapping and postage-but as soon as that hidden gem appears,or I see items at a carboot sale that may cost slightly more,the cash I'm buying it with is the cash from the cheap items....so for me at this moment in time it's a great and rewarding exercise.I love nothing more than listing something that you postively know you'll make big money on,one item one listing one wrapping and one postage-that's great (and my best one for the least investment was £10.00 outlay and sold for £1100.00).

For most of us though,this is not the real world,that's why I've kept on mentioning the 'stack it high-sell it cheap ' tactic.Read my post on thread 1 about this.
I'm not going to keep harping on at people,I can only advise,but I WILL MAKE at least OVER £1200.00 this month in extras.I would rather have that than waiting for higher priced items that I have not got to sell yet.Remember,how you sell your items and at what price is up to you.

Once a day is over,that's it ! You can't go back to yesterday and list other stuff,you can't go to the carboot sale that's on a Saturday -on a Sunday.Once that day is over-you can't go back.So keep focused on what you want,if you want to do this challenge for fun then non of what I've mentioned matters,if you are serious about getting the target you or I have proposed,then you have to do something about it.

Thinking and doing are two seperate issues,you either do it or you don't-
again it really is your choice.

DO NOT LET TIME SLIP YOU BY-ONE LIFE LIVE IT

scrooge2008

Morning all,

Well I have listed 17 items this morning, to take advantage of the free listing, but i've paid a few pence, per item, to schedule them to finish in the evening, as I'm out to see Avatar with the family (Cineworld/Tesco Points). I'm amazed how quick i've become, what used to take me hours is done in minutes.

I'm selling a couple of high value items and quite a number of 2nd hand DVD's and games from around the house. I have started to use the numbers on the back of products for easy listing and this has saved a lot of time too.

I have also been automatically re-listing anything that doesn't sell, as Bing0 suggested, at 0.99p so no extra fees, most have sold second time around, for a small profit.

cally6008

morning, 20 watchers on star wars lego and 5 watchers on the other lego set, should be good next week

bing0

Another £24.00 in wins on BB this morning-straight in the bank ! :T:T:T