Thursday, February 15, 2007

Easy eBay Pickings From A Little-Known Method! - By Ian Mcintosh

As eBay becomes more and more popular, there are two distinctly different types of entrepreneur looking to make money from the site.

The first is the “standard” eBay seller; he or she will buy up other people’s unwanted goods at garage sales, house clearances, car boot sales and offline real-world auctions. They will then spend a lot of time and effort itemizing and categorising these products, photographing them and writing eBay listings for them on an individual basis.

This is a passion for some and they love doing it, every part of the process is a challenge – getting the best price for the goods, finding quicker ways of compiling listings, dealing with improving the service and handling of the items once they have been won – all of these fire up the true eBay enthusiast.

The other category of eBay money-maker is a different animal altogether. Their only concern is making as much money from eBay as quickly as possible and with the minimum amount of effort on their part.

These people are looking for ideas that are outside of the normal eBay buying and selling marketplace. They like to think outside the box and be creative. The good news is that there are some excellent off-beat strategies available to the sharp eBay marketer which can often make more money than just selling stuff by auction, and do it a lot quicker too.

One such method uses the vastly underrated power of eBay Stores. These are virtual shop areas within eBay dealing in any type of goods imaginable, from cheap trinkets and DVDs to large scale industrial machinery and real estate, it’s all there somewhere in an eBay store.

The great thing about eBay Stores is their affordability, their price means that they are open to almost anyone with a few spare dollars. The bonus too is that items are dirt-cheap to list so you can list loads of them and leave them running for months at a time if you want.

And this one little “secret” is the basis of how some people are making absolute fortunes with their eBay Stores. List a particular type of item, leave it running and you can profit endlessly in a number of ways from your Store.

Ebay Stores are probably the hottest opportunity on eBay at the moment and if you are the type of person who is interested in making a lot of money quickly from eBay, opening your own eBay Store might well be the opportunity you’ve been looking for.

On the other hand if you’re a confirmed bargain seeker who loves the smell of old books, I might just have a tip for a great bubble wrap vendor….!

Discover what the world’s Number One eBay guru Jim Cockrum has called “the most creative use of eBay stores that I've EVER read” at http://www.AuctionStoreProfits.com