Can I make £1,024 in 11 weeks from nothing?

freebird65

jobbingmusician wrote:

Here's an idea. Some of you have given out your ebay IDs and some haven't, but if you all put a line of text into your listings as a code, you could search Ebay for listings carrying the code, and know it was another one of Emily's 'gang' who had listed the item.

It needs to be a line of text that no ordinary seller would insert - how about 'SOLDBYAGENUINEMEMBEROFTHE£1024FROMNOTHINGCLUB' with no spaces?

If you've got the skill you can even write it in white writing, so casual browsers can't see it but it will still show up in searches which search all the text!

I love it - am just having a go on one of my listings.....but how do I make the type white??

Mrs_Sparkle

freebird65 wrote:

The juicy tubes were a bit of luck - I went to a Mulberry shop catalogue preview evening in New Bond Street just so I could drool over the Roxy bags and pretend I could afford one - they gave out gift bags which contained make-up, juicy tubes, Mulberry keyring (sold that for £12!!) etc. Mum gave me hers too!

That is a stroke of luck!

Thanks for the tips Freebird65- I currently have a shop which has come in useful for having stuff on there which may be popular one week then get nothing another week- wedding stuff for example. I'm going to keep my shop as a friend of mine has promised to take me to her wholesalers so I can get some stocks.

Mrs_Sparkle

jobbingmusician wrote:

Here's an idea. Some of you have given out your ebay IDs and some haven't, but if you all put a line of text into your listings as a code, you could search Ebay for listings carrying the code, and know it was another one of Emily's 'gang' who had listed the item.

It needs to be a line of text that no ordinary seller would insert - how about 'SOLDBYAGENUINEMEMBEROFTHE£1024FROMNOTHINGCLUB' with no spaces?

If you've got the skill you can even write it in white writing, so casual browsers can't see it but it will still show up in searches which search all the text!

Good luck to you all - I'm watching!

Nice idea! Going to do that now...

hannah2082_2

Thank-you everyone for all your advice about ebay - I've to admit that I just put on as much stufff as possible without thinking it through so I will be a lot more careful next time - seraching for whether silmilar things have sold before and watching my ebay fees! Thank-you

Iwantahouse_2

I can't work out why http://www.ebid.co.uk/ isn't more popular.

benedictadams

Iwantahouse wrote:

I can't work out why http://www.ebid.co.uk/ isn't more popular.

money and advertising

everyone has heard of ebay whereas very few have heard about qxl and ebid

until people start selling for the same prices as on ebay it will be hard fr them to get sellers and if there aren't the range then the biddees won't come

Jenny_S

I have a bid for 50p on a Cd i got for free at a record signing and 7 watchers! So I should have something to add to my total tommorow.

I wont £10 on bingo, but it wont let me withdraw unless I have £25. Do you recon if I upload another £15, then I can withdraw the lot?

I will be in about £5 profit which is more than i needed this week to be on target :j

emmarbos

Just made £1.41 from selling an old mobile phone on envirofone, plus £1.49 through doing it on quidco, on which i have already got £1.54. So got £3.44 so far.

System

Which Bingo site Jenny? Some are hard to w/d from whilst others are ok.

mennie

soolin wrote:

A standard paperback costs £1.39 to post so charging £2 post and packing does look high when compared to other sellers who mostly seem to be around the £1.70 mark. Like you I do add on some costs when calculating my post and packing fees, but the one thing you must remember is that you must be in line with other sellers if you are going to compete. If your post and packing looks high against the other listings no one will even look at your auctions.

As for not wasting listing fees, take one book at random, The Tinkers Girl, in the last 30 days 12 copies are showing in the completed listings. Only 1 sold and that went for 35p with £1.35 post and packing and as that was a hardback the seller made a substantial loss after fees and postage (item number 110038354187). Importantly though, not one other copy sold...even though many of them cost less than yours *and* had cheaper post and packing. You would have saved yourself 15p by looking at those completed listings and not bothering.

I've looked at a few of the other books as well and they are similar, pages of unsolds in the past month, again many cheaper than yours.

Your negs are unfortunate, I agree that there are some difficult users out there, but 7 is beginning to look like a problem.

Also, why the shop, do you realise you are paying ebay £6 for the privelege? We give ebay enough money as it is, why give them more than we need to?

I can only work out your details over the past 30 days with th einformation that ebay provide, but my back of an envelope calculation suggests that even if you are selling things that cost you nothing, you are still making an overall loss. Ebay is great, I love it, but selling at a loss is not going to help your debt position. Close the shop, do some research on what sells and maybe list less items, but choose them well and see if you can turn it around.

Soo

Thanks

I amgoing to close the shop today. Isnt worth it any more.

I will research each item fully from no on dont know why I hadnt done that before

I am not running a loss, I have a spreadsheet with the price paid, postage, ebay fees, paypal fees and any packaging - dont buy much thins is normally sellotape I make about £45ish a month clear profit not much I know but better than nowt