£100 a week from home?

Stewart_78

Hi all, it looks like I'm going to be a house husband if my wife lands a job (looking hopeful) which will be great for our family. I'll be looking after the house and kids which will be a relief to be honest as I'm exhausted after running businesses through the recession and could do without thinking about how to make money for a while, just take care of stuff.

But, we still reckon we are £400 a month short of our target to get debt free and have actual savings. We can survive without it but if I make time, is it possible to make this amount from home? May seem like a silly question but before I chuck myself into it, can it be done?

Has anyone worked out what they have made in a year from surveys and all that stuff? I've already sold everything we have spare so ebaying junk is out.

Thanks.

Catwoman1975

You can easily make £400 a month from web search evaluation. Do a search on the boards for Leapforce, Lionbridge, Appen or ISoftStone. Could you do something in the evenings, call centre work from home perhaps?

goodfelladave

Maybe ebay? Selling old crap can be oddly profitable. If you buy a lot of anything, by lot I don't mean a large amount I just mean more than one or two, and re-sell it you will make money; not much, but you'll be adequately compensated for your time and effort.

For example, I used to sell PS3 controllers on eBay. I'd buy 300-500 from Shenzhen for £6 each. Then just parcel them up and sell them for £9.99 (free postage). Now my profit, after eBay/PayPal fees and P & P costs, was literally about £0.75 per controller; but I had no trouble selling 20 a day, more around Christmas. I could probably have sold more if I'd found other websites to sell on but I was lazy and it was a sideline not my main job. In time I could have worked down the margins both on purchasing the unit and on P & P (bulk buying envelopes, leasing or buying a Franking machine etc), but for your purposes of getting a bit of extra money what I did might suffice.

So, yeah, £15 a day for perhaps 90 minutes work. It's £100 a week when you add it up Not sure the margins are there on that particular product any more, the PS4 has come, and the Chinese have jacked up prices a bit (looked on alibaba recently, where I used to get them from, and paying an extra $1 per unit can wipe out your profit so it is a big deal), but there will be something like that going I'm sure

softmind82

goodfelladave wrote: »

Maybe ebay? Selling old crap can be oddly profitable. If you buy a lot of anything, by lot I don't mean a large amount I just mean more than one or two, and re-sell it you will make money; not much, but you'll be adequately compensated for your time and effort.

For example, I used to sell PS3 controllers on eBay. I'd buy 300-500 from Shenzhen for £6 each. Then just parcel them up and sell them for £9.99 (free postage). Now my profit, after eBay/PayPal fees and P & P costs, was literally about £0.75 per controller; but I had no trouble selling 20 a day, more around Christmas. I could probably have sold more if I'd found other websites to sell on but I was lazy and it was a sideline not my main job. In time I could have worked down the margins both on purchasing the unit and on P & P (bulk buying envelopes, leasing or buying a Franking machine etc), but for your purposes of getting a bit of extra money what I did might suffice.

So, yeah, £15 a day for perhaps 90 minutes work. It's £100 a week when you add it up Not sure the margins are there on that particular product any more, the PS4 has come, and the Chinese have jacked up prices a bit (looked on alibaba recently, where I used to get them from, and paying an extra $1 per unit can wipe out your profit so it is a big deal), but there will be something like that going I'm sure

Hi Dave can you recommend few products to sell on ebay, i am always been keen to sell but confused what to buy... i have £5000 to invest.

Your recomendation would be really appreciated.

Cheers

applesuck

Just wanted to say ~ I dabbled with Alibaba and made the #1 mistake first time, paying the vendor with Western Union. My pedometers never turned up... But phone covers and game controllers did work well. I found asking for low cost samples to evaluate - tablets for £15 etc, made me some money - but it turned out to be too much work for me, although there was definitely money there to earn.

I personally switched to copywrititing & IT work on Elance. The first few months were tight, but now I'm lucky enough to earn good money from it - and I thank the forum here at MSE for the tip a couple of years ago - because it spurred me into doing something from home.

System

I have made over £10,000 this year. I do a variety of little bits and bobs really, about 4-5 hours a day 3-4 days a week. I don't always spend my time online actually working either, as I get easily distracted.

Pretty much all of the sites I've found through MSE. Good luck to you

KRDmum

applesuck wrote: »

Just wanted to say ~ I dabbled with Alibaba and made the #1 mistake first time, paying the vendor with Western Union. My pedometers never turned up... But phone covers and game controllers did work well. I found asking for low cost samples to evaluate - tablets for £15 etc, made me some money - but it turned out to be too much work for me, although there was definitely money there to earn.

I personally switched to copywrititing & IT work on Elance. The first few months were tight, but now I'm lucky enough to earn good money from it - and I thank the forum here at MSE for the tip a couple of years ago - because it spurred me into doing something from home.

Applesuck, Can you tell me more about Elance please. I am a total newbie to the forum (I have no idea how i've missed this for so many years!) but been using Martin's site for a number of years now for other stuff. Anyway, I am a stay at home mum that came out of full time employment to look after her children, but the pressure is now on, so looking to make about £100-150/week online. I have applied to Lionbridge, but still looking for something else, in case it doesn't work out. Many thanks

McKneff

Itsdoubtful anyone would come back to this thread its an old one from last year....
Try starting a new thread of your own.