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

nads

This thread is too fast for me!

cherryJ

I'm loving this thread! I've been looking into ways to earn extra cash for about a year and have a few things on the go & have plenty more ideas waiting to get going
I'm going to try and turn my £100 into £10,000 but am also aiming to earn extra cash by selling stuff I already have on ebay/amazon etc, and doing extra work (such as AQA) (so am not counting these as part of my challenge as I'm not investing my £100)

I've just started matched betting and invested half of my £100, it's going well so far! I have invested about £30 into stocks which I will then try and sell for a profit.

I love checking this thread each day and it really inspires me to keep going, rather than the usual meaning to do something but never actually getting round to it! ;p

molit

kosma1 wrote: »

sounds like a good find, may i ask where you come accross the pick up only lots? are they through local listings? might have to do some research for my area.

Hi, I've found this in a mixture of ebay, and local papers. Currently loooking at everything asking how can it make me money. There was a comment in part one about profiting from peoples lazyness...I took that to heart

[Deleted User]

I made another sale today. I sold a top for 99p plus p&p. Also bought a dress to resell. The seller has miss spelled dress (they put it with one "s"), the listing had very little info, the pic was poor quality and the dress was badly creased. So when it arrives I will put it on a quick cycle in the washing machine and once dry will iron it and take some good quality photos to re-list with aid of a spell check.
Got some items finishing today, 3 necklaces have finished with no bids. Ebay doesn't seem to good for selling costume jewellery wonder if Amazon will fair much better? A skirt I am selling which ends today has 3 watchers and a pair of tracksuit bottoms has 1 watcher so my hopes for sales are pinned on those two items.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

nads wrote: »

This thread is to fast for me!

me too nads:rotfl:

well i eventually picked up the 24 work shirts that i bought for only 99p:D this morning....so these will be sold at the end of the month in a market/bootsale.

I have started reading the book 'the secret' and the one thing that has stuck in my mind so far is the phrase

THOUGHTS BECOME THINGS

and as Chicco :rotfl: allways says.. 'positive mental attitude....'

and this would be a good motto for the challenge...

I find that buddying up is good too, obviously some people dont want to mention or say on the thread how or where they are going to make their extra money ( including me) this isnt a mean thing... its just looking after your own interests....but by buddying up you have got the support of another person for your ideas and thoughts etc...

again i will say it... if you plan on buying to sell on beay, get some product knowledge, some time browsing catagories you wouldnt normally browse etc and when you are out in the charity shops and bootsales looking for htings to sell on, you will have some sort of idea about how much things go for on ebay etc...


PRODUCT KNOWLEDGE is King when it comes to good selling

Eyesparky

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

PRODUCT KNOWLEDGE is King when it comes to good selling

So true ... all day every day .

kosma1

drinkupretty wrote: »

Got some items finishing today, 3 necklaces have finished with no bids. Ebay doesn't seem to good for selling costume jewellery wonder if Amazon will fair much better? A skirt I am selling which ends today has 3 watchers and a pair of tracksuit bottoms has 1 watcher so my hopes for sales are pinned on those two items.

i agree with the jewellery on ebay, pretty slow, but is it also prehaps not a good month, most people may have had jewellery for xmas, and others may not be going out in january because of overspending at xmas? That is how i am thinking of it anyway, makes me a bit more positive that the jewellery i bought for ebay may actually sell soon, lol, I have £20 left to invest from my initial £100 stake until i start making some money from what i have bought so far or can find to sell around mine or others people houses, hope i can stumble across the right item for me someday soon.

I am still keeping all my used glass jars in case anyone from wrexham area needs them for jam/chutney making and selling, i am not very domesticated so know it is not worth me trying to poison anyone with my offerings :rotfl:

skintbint_2

hi folks just dropping in again, there are a lot of people concentrating on ebay but remember there is scope for earning all around you, and probably a quicker buck.
babysitting, dog walking, baking, cleaning, growing seedlings for boot sales, hanging baskets in the summer, remember elections need people at the voting stations, outside catering companies may need waiters, bowling clubs/cricketclubs will need bar staff for the summer, stewards at the football,
look out for big events in your area - open golf, racecourses, etc they need extra staff too.

hope this gives you some more ideas for a quick burst of the odd £100 to your £10k

paulabear

kosma1 wrote: »

sounds like a good find, may i ask where you come accross the pick up only lots? are they through local listings? might have to do some research for my area.

www.localbargainfinder.co.uk

-hopefully the link works! I got a load of quality toys for £40 off mine because nobody else bid :j
my area's not great because it's quite small but I bet there's loads of decent pickings in a city!
I've sold two comics and something else on Ebay today, woo lol. Also some reviews on DooYoo. I like getting paid for telling others what I think

Can anyone please give me some clue as to the best price for sending a smallish parcel to the USA? A buyer has asked me for an exact postage cost and I'm not impressed with the Royal Mail one. Hoping someone on here has some experience of this

credit_crunch

sorry to be a pest but can anyone reccomend a basic bank account for keeping any extra money i make? doesn't matter if it is savings/current - just the one that can be done online/telephone, and preferably with the most cashback!

or any ideas on where/how to search for one?