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Want to become a professional seller on eBay

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  • 25-07-2008 8:41pm
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    bigpinkelephant
    Closed Accounts Posts: 792 ✭✭✭


    Hi guys,
    I have decided that I would like to work at home and would love to become a professional seller on eBay. There are sellers on it that seem to do it as a full time job, they have sold so much stock.

    I am wondering if anyone can give me any advice. My feedback as a buyer is 100% but I have bought a total of 9 things...

    What is the story regarding being tax etc?

    I also don't know what I would like to sell. When Kate Moss's first fashion line for Topshop came out, people bought the clothes and sold them on eBay for 3 times the price. I should have done this, only I had no money to!!!

    Any advice is welcome.

    BPE


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    #2
    unnameduser
    Registered Users Posts: 1,081 ✭✭✭unnameduser


    the first thing that popped into my head when i read this post is that you probably dont have a huge amount of experience selling on Ebay. You might be better easing yourself into it and trying to build up your online shop.

    Best of luck


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    ImDave
    Registered Users Posts: 1,096 ✭✭✭ImDave


    It is so hard to make decent money on eBay. Things don't really sell for a true market value. Some things sell for way too much, and the majority of stuff for way to little. Then you have got eBay fees and PayPal fees, not mentioning their crazy exchange rates. If you can find a product that is very hard to find offline, that might sell for a good price. For example, in the US, a few people sold the new iPhone 3G's for about $3,000! Thats just madness.


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    noel123ie
    Registered Users Posts: 285 ✭✭noel123ie


    Hi there

    I sell alot on ebay pm if you want to chat

    Hope this helps
    Noel


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    arctictree
    Registered Users Posts: 4,318 ✭✭✭arctictree


    EI-DAV wrote: »
    It is so hard to make decent money on eBay. Things don't really sell for a true market value. Some things sell for way too much, and the majority of stuff for way to little. Then you have got eBay fees and PayPal fees, not mentioning their crazy exchange rates. If you can find a product that is very hard to find offline, that might sell for a good price. For example, in the US, a few people sold the new iPhone 3G's for about $3,000! Thats just madness.

    Agreed. Try and sell a few things first and see how that goes first...


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