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

moneymabel

Right-mission for today-look into tax and see what exactly I should be writing down to set against it, I'm sure there are things i'm missing. I write down mileage,obvious outgoings-postage, paypal fees,things bought for the business, and a part of my broadband,but need to check if theres anything else I'm missing.

cherryJ

Mornin' all ! Well - today's plan is to do some 'proper' work. I was lucky to get work this week from an agency - I'm a qualified accountant and have secured some freelance work. Obviously it's great, as it's 'guaranteed' money but I'm feeling at the moment like it's distracting me from my challenge! Ha ha.

I've got a few things on the go & looking into a few more but have decided not to get distracted today and concentrate on doing some work :<

Guess it's one of the (very few) drawbacks of working from home, too easy to be distracted!

Good luck to everyone today with whatever you have planned

munchki

Amber_Sunshine wrote: »

Am I the only person who is not doing Ebay selling as part of the challenge?

I'd like to buddy up with someone concentrating on alternative money-making schemes, like me ... maybe they could join my little MSN group ...

LOL, I was beginning to think I was the only one that was not using Ebay! I dont feel so alone now!

LittleMissHappy_2

Hi everyone

Sold a book on Amazon overnight for £22 I did write a long post last night but we are switching broadband and OH switched it off as I pressed send. Typical.

Anyway, I wanted at ask how you get your listing looking pretty on eBay eg how do you change fonts, centre wording etc? I'm a bit mortified actually as I used to do this with no problems, but now have no idea as I haven't eBayed for a couple of years I can't think what I'm doing wrong, but can't find any way to do it! The only solution I can come up with is that perhaps it doesn't work for Mac, like turbo lister doesn't. Hopefully this is not the case, but any help is greatly welcomed

dillidalli

Made up my to do list for today - already got quite a bit crossed off. Although, with all the stuff whirring through my little brain I feel quite drained. I finished some portfolio items last night have a few more bits that I am going to tie up tonight.

I just keep pushing!

SADIE

Originally posted by deq123
Can someone explain more about the tesco points and buy to resell on ebay, not sure I understand how this works exactly?

Tesco often give extra points on certain items before Xmas it was 500 extra points on Cd's, then 2000 extra on Sony Erricson mobiles and broadband dongles, at the moment there's 1000 extra points on Tesco mobiles.

A lot of people buy for the points, for example Nokia 1208 costs £14.97 but you get back 1028 points, worth x 4(a lot of deals are really worth nearer x 2-3). You always see a lot of items on Ebay that have the extra points.

This means for example pay £14.97 for phone to get £41.12 converted deals some people then sell phone at a loss to cut down the outlay, then some sell the deals at approx half value on Ebay, so profit.

Not getting into the rights or wrongs of this but worth noting Tesco can ban you for abusing the system(buying to resell)and T&C's state deals vouchers can't be resold.

ZoeGirl_3

Seems funny to hear that you guys are starting to get up when it is about time for me to go to bed! Not sure why but I am ZZZZZZZZZZ tonight. Must be all the mental energy I am putting into this challenge lol.

Was reading a book by Richard Branson in the library, had no idea who he was but remembered someone saying maybe bingo was him in disguise so I thought it warrented a skim through.

So interesting. But now I have the quote in my head. All journeys begin with a single step (or pound as the case may be for you lot!!) ... so hey, most people have taken the first few steps. :beer:

Have almost hit the 5% mark. But some of that was selling things I didn't want which isn't going to be sustainable long term!

[Takes off for bed with the ideas notebook and a pen or three!! :whistle:]

PS: Will anyone be mad with me if I say, man is it HOT here ... :rotfl:

deq123

Not mad just jealous, I hate the cold!

ZoeGirl wrote: »

PS: Will anyone be mad with me if I say, man is it HOT here ... :rotfl:

purple-pixie

I'm off to a slow start but anything is better than nothing! I'm starting with Ebay because I really need to declutter. I'll really get going in the next week or so taking into account that most people don't get paid until next week.
I found something in a local discount shop for £1 each and have sold a couple for £3, okay, it's only £2 profit on each but I've trebled my money. Other sellers have the same item listed on Ebay in other colours (colour doesn't affect value on this item) for up to £7, I'm trying one at £4 plus p&p.

I'm looking at a few other ideas for when I run out of stuff to Ebay but nothing concrete yet.

Well done on all the successes so far!

bing0

Hi there
can someone give me the link to the outfit who buy books, I know it's been mentioned but I couldn't see the link, thankyou