Is it still possible to make money on this shit or am I 10 years late?

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Anonymous Wed Dec 14 03:23:57 2016 No.1669142 [Reply] [Original]

Is it still possible to make money on this shit or am I 10 years late?

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 14 04:14:23 2016 No.1669175 File: 97 KB, 699x725, pooBay.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1669142

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>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 14 04:31:22 2016 No.1669194 Fuck off, samefag. Lurk more

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>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 14 04:36:40 2016 No.1669199 >>1669194 how new are you?

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 14 04:54:10 2016 No.1669210 >>1669190 kek, I was in here when that was posted originally. How's business memebro?

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 14 05:55:16 2016 No.1669251 >>1669175 >>1669178 >>1669181 >>1669184 >>1669185 >>1669186 >>1669188 >>1669190 >>1669192 So is that a yes or...?

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 14 06:30:32 2016 No.1669268 >>1669251 kek, yes it's still possible a few of us still do okay.. I mean are you trying to replace your income completely or what?

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 14 08:49:41 2016 No.1669355 >>1669268 I've got a fuckload of anime posters. Like an absolute fuckload. Do you think I can sell them on ebay or will I end up making negligible profit cause of shipping and ebay's cut and paypal's cut etc.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 14 08:52:12 2016 No.1669357 >>1669142 Fuck ebay. They screw sellers and protect buyers at all costs, meaning the seller gets fucked by bogus claims from buyers.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 14 08:55:48 2016 No.1669362 >>1669355 Posters are usually sold in those odd shaped cylinders which may be expensive to ship. Have you looked on ebay to see what similar posters are selling for?

Anonymous Wed Dec 14 09:33:40 2016 No.1669391

>>1669142
shipping is going to eat your margin if you want to be "competitive" otherwise your sells are going to be really slow.
if you sell something small and easy to ship, guess what? there are millions of chinks and pajeets doing the same for way less money.
there is still people who prefer u.s. sellers but nowadays they are rare, specially in ebay.
expect a lot of cease and desist letters and harassing from other sellers that dont know shit about laws and they are lying to ebay/amazon to kick you out.

I believe there is still some ways to make money in rare niches. ecommerce is a great distribution/sale channel the sad thing is that you depend of bitch amazon or ebay to sale. one day they shut you down because the stupid algorithm or retarded buyers and you are going to end with 100k of inventory in your backyard.
oh dont trust chinks. NEVER, EVER!!

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 15 01:19:38 2016 No.1670957 Been trying to find something reasonable to sell on ebay, but having pretty shitty luck. Anyone have any pro tips for me?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 15 01:27:09 2016 No.1670965 >>1669142 Ebay is just a medium to sell shit, so yeah, you can still make money if you have shit to sell that people want to buy. Hope you're creative.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 15 02:28:11 2016 No.1671036 File: 18 KB, 225x316, Capture.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1669142 I guess so? I've heard of companies running off of ebay sales. I just do this because finding a 9-5 job has been hell.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 15 03:45:30 2016 No.1671102 You're 16 years too late. How hard would you be right now if you bought into eBay and Amazon back in 2000?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 15 04:02:10 2016 No.1671115 >>1671036 What type of stuff do you sell? And how to get started?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 15 04:26:50 2016 No.1671121 I sell used clothes that I buy for pennies. $500-$1000 weekly on sales Life is good

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 15 04:56:14 2016 No.1671136 >>1671121 where do you buy them pham

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 15 10:23:01 2016 No.1671452 >>1671115 >What type of stuff do you sell? Toys and Electronics usually >And how to get started? I just buy shit for cheap at thrift stores and then resell it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 15 10:24:14 2016 No.1671455 >>1669142 >cini

Anonymous Thu Dec 15 11:22:50 2016 No.1671551

>>1671121
1. Do you wash any of the clothes or list it as unwashed?
2. Are any of the clothes damaged or do they have to be at the very least intact?
3. What do you see more success with, Mens or Womens clothes?
4. Any popular/profitable brands to look out for?

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 16 05:43:20 2016 No.1673114 Bump for more talk on this. We need more ebay vets on here..

Anonymous Fri Dec 16 06:00:02 2016 No.1673120

I've made some money through eBay. Mostly through bulk buying damaged/faulty or out of fashion clothes from high street retailers and reselling. Also for some reason gold plated coins and bars have made me a bit.

Decent mark up on stuff, but after fees and dealing with fucktard buyers it loses a lot of appeal. Unless you're sending every item fully tracked with a signature needed on delivery, eBay will side with the buyer almost 100% of the time on any dispute. I've had buyers tell me the address they gave me was wrong after it was sent out and still had them win and have PayPal money frozen.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 16 09:32:40 2016 No.1673273 >>1669355 You will probably make the most if you sell them in groups by series. It makes more sense to buy 3 posters for $15+ $8 shipping than 1 for $5 +$8 shipping.

Anonymous Fri Dec 16 09:58:47 2016 No.1673329

>>1673273
If its a poster then they may be light enough to be shipped First Class, so about $3 per poster.

Then he has to account for the %10 that ebay will take off on their final value fee and the money that paypal will take off when they transfer over his money from ebay to paypal. After all that there will be his profit

Anonymous Fri Dec 16 10:07:57 2016 No.1673346

>>1673329
Oh yea, can't forget about those packing costs either. I'd say that each shipping tube will cost him about $1

And after all that he'll still have to compete with chinese sellers who pay like 5 cents for shipping and can undercut him by several dollars.

Anyway good luck anime poster anon.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 16 20:33:13 2016 No.1674299 >>1670957 If you're good with computers, buy broken laptops and sell the parts. I just made $350 from two ChromeBooks that I parted out. I only paid $100 for the two. The parts are worth more than the whole.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 17 02:58:10 2016 No.1674658 >>1674299 Are screens important or would you buy them with broken screens? Whats the most important thing that you want working in a laptop for parts, the motherboard?

Anonymous Sat Dec 17 19:20:50 2016 No.1675555
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>>1669188
I suspect it's fake but holy shit that's the most retarded thing a feminist could write, gender pay gap....on ebay....where you're anonymous. Buyers don't know they're buying from a woman seller, holy fuck they just implied women are less capable of selling on ebay than men in a single headline. I swear to god libs are fucking brain damaged

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 17 22:01:33 2016 No.1675774 >>1674658 I made the most on screens but anything that is working will sell. Surprisingly I sold heatsinks and fans.

Anonymous Sun Dec 18 04:00:17 2016 No.1676163

>>1675555
There is no logic or reason in feminism.
What we have now is teenage girls who dropped 40 grand and 4 years of their life on a gender studies major only to find that it has no real world application. Least of all in the West. So they whine about non existing issues on click bait articles.

Anonymous Sun Dec 18 04:09:04 2016 No.1676169

>>1676163
>it has no real world application
it has as much application as any pure, soft science.

research positions exist, as do tenured professorships. So about as much use as a physics degree, or climatology, or sociology, or biology, or zoology, or mathematics....

Anonymous Sun Dec 18 04:18:17 2016 No.1676182

>>1675555
>We attribute the price differences to the ability of buyers to discern the gender of the seller. We present results from an experiment that shows that people accurately identify the gender of sellers on the basis of typical information provided in postings.

http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/2/e1500599

Anonymous Sun Dec 18 04:49:50 2016 No.1676205

>>1673120
>>1671036

Been thinking about selling on ebay lately. I've sold some old electronics on the side, but nothing serious.

How did you get past the 10 item limit and 1000 dollar limit. I learned that you have to get a good rating on ebay, but how long will that take me if i max out every month?

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 18 08:42:49 2016 No.1676334 File: 94 KB, 948x567, lol (3).png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1669210 same ol, sales picked up again during season so much competition these days

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>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 18 08:46:29 2016 No.1676337 File: 153 KB, 674x440, mmm-mmm-MMM.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1669251 try it and see how it goes Etsy is always an option

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>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 18 08:50:16 2016 No.1676343 File: 1.59 MB, 4128x2322, packages.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Goid I miss these days...

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>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 18 10:23:23 2016 No.1676450 >>1676348 Wow. Were do you get all the packages from

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 18 13:45:29 2016 No.1676699 >>1669357 I started selling again after a few months hiatus and I see they added a "rate buyer" option. No idea what impact it's had.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 18 13:52:27 2016 No.1676702 my dad used to sell garmin maps on ebay back when you had to buy them on an sd card he worked out how to clone them and made £5k in two weeks that was 10 years ago fuck

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Anonymous Sun Dec 18 14:08:46 2016 No.1676722
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Some stupid fucking chink with no feedback tried to say the box was empty so told him if he escalated the case ill check with post office to verify the weight then file a police report and no word from him for two weeks but paypal is still fucking holding my $200 ransom

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 18 14:48:06 2016 No.1676782 >tfw I confronted some polski who scammed me out of 10BTC cos I got in touch with the guy whose paypal he'd hijacked and we worked together.. best most nervewracking day of my life desu.

Anonymous Sun Dec 18 14:58:36 2016 No.1676803

find chinese sellers on ebay, buy off of eBay and get a discount for buying in bulk, get items shipped to you. Ship items to Amazon fulfillment center. Sell items for a small mark up on Amazon FBA to Prime buyers. Its not hard, but getting started with less than $5k is a waste of time imo.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 18 22:45:36 2016 No.1677519 >>1676718 Honest question. Like how do you get them pre-printed with your name on it (without printing them yourself). And when it does come time to ship do you walk down the the post office like and autist with 100 packages

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 00:15:22 2016 No.1677666 >>1676205 There was no limit when I started. Recently made a second account though and it got extended to a 20 item limit after a phone call to ebay.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 00:16:56 2016 No.1677667 >>1676348 What were you selling that made you have such consistent sales? Trading cards?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 00:18:36 2016 No.1677671 >>1676803 how do you compete with chinese sellers when their shipping costs are so cheap?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 00:30:52 2016 No.1677694 >>1677671 PRIME buyers dont buy from chinese sellers, they buy from FBA sellers. You cant charge whatever you want, but people will pay more to get their item to their door in 2 days instead of 7-20 days.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 00:41:32 2016 No.1677705 >>1669142 OP unfortunately you are too late try likefaucet.com

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 00:44:51 2016 No.1677713 No. Most people raped on shipping before 2008 with no return policy. eBay is changed. By next year it will require all products to have a UPC.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 00:46:33 2016 No.1677715 >>1677713 Amazon likewise has a mob of Chinese crowd who will list under your special brand, undercut you, and then eat all your sales. The Chinese are utterly ruthless, although in their mind, it's nothing personal, just business.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 01:23:58 2016 No.1677757 >>1677715 When are we just gonna nuke all the damn chinks? Or just fuck em all to death. >Trump 2016

Anonymous Mon Dec 19 16:03:56 2016 No.1678540

>>1677715
The amount of Chinese sellers on Amazon is nothing compared to eBay. Amazons requirements often push Chinese sellers out and they are blocked from selling in specific categories in Q4. Prices arent the determining factor for purchases, Amazon will often give the buy box to FBA sellers or people with high metrics.

Anonymous Mon Dec 19 21:09:52 2016 No.1678947

>>1673114
I sold on eBay casually from 1998 to 2002 and as a business from 2012 to 2016. May as well be two different markets. Crappier buyers (fraud is easy-peasy with PreyPal) and search manipulation are the biggest problems. That plus 6X higher fees make it really difficult to make a buck unless you're drop shipping dirt cheap chinkshit straight from Alibaba.

Honestly, I don't even buy on eBay anymore. Too much counterfeit junk for starters and customers service is not really there. Sure, fraud is easy, but say something comes missing a part, a chargeback is about all you can do.

>>	Pie in the Sky !GJewmDGjHc Tue Dec 20 01:40:20 2016 No.1679209 >>1669190 hahahaha, what the fuck, who bought this?

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