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It can also be very motivational.
You’ll probably say, “Heck, if Ellis made money doing that,
why can’t I?”
It’s true, if I did it, so can you. Just don’t ever say that I told you it was
easy. (I’ll leave that up to guys like
Frank Kern, or Yanik Silver.) I’ll never
tell you Internet marketing is easy, because that hasn't been my experience.
Using eBay and Craigslist to Make Immediate Money Online
Just when you thought you’ve probably heard every angle in
Internet Marketing, someone comes up with another angle that you’ve never heard
before. This on involves eBay, but you
can replace that site with any other auction site on the Internet if you so
desire.
It is not a complex idea, but one worth trying because it is
DIRT CHEAP! Ha-ha! Here I go again with a wild and weird way to
make money online without buying expensive Internet guru courses or even
building a blog or a Website.
I mean we’re talking CHEAP here!
So, if you don’t have access to an eBay account you might
want to get one to try this out.
Very simply you’re going to:
1. Find HOT items
that are trending or selling on eBay.
2. Locate and buy the
same or similar items that are selling on Craigslist
3. Negotiate and
purchase the items as cheap as you can from the folks selling on Craigslist
4. After buying the
items from the Craigslist sellers, take the item and resell it on eBay for a
higher price.
5. Rinse and repeat!
Possible Problems from
Perky Prospects Prompts Precautions
Without too much wide-eyed optimism, I think it is always
prudent to think things through before executing an idea, no matter how good it
sounds. Funny thing how all of this
sounds so simple when you’re told to try it for yourself. If you've ever been involved in any kind of
business, you know that it’s NEVER
simple.
Precaution 1
For one thing, anything that usually involves Craigslist
(CL) usually means that you’re running the risk of being spammed to death. So if you’re doing any business at all on CL,
take precautions! Use a throw away
email account or some way to ward off spammers.
Also, don’t give out your phone number too quickly,
either. Communicate with a seller for a
while to determine if they are somewhat normal.
Precaution 2
When you decide to look up items to see if they are hot on
eBay, you need to make sure that the items that you are going to try to target
are REALLY viable. You can easily go on
eBay and see certain items that are selling well and get excited.
However, if you don’t know a lot about a particular subject,
then you can easily get fleeced on this deal.
Example: You look at hot
items on eBay and discover fantasy based comic books are selling like hot cakes
for a lot of money. So you go on CL and
buy a crap-load of comics. However,
after you buy all those comics and put them on eBay, nobody buys them. Not one single bid!
Let us step back for a minute and examine what went wrong.
The fantasy based comics
you originally viewed that were selling like hotcakes were mint condition,
Conan the Barbarian comics from circa 1970 by Barry Windsor Smith. No wonder they were selling like hotcakes on
eBay! These were elite, mint condition
comics that are legend in the industry!
So, if you don’t have knowledge about a particular industry,
you run the risk of doing something really stupid. Learn a little about the items you are considering
buying and selling before going into this venture.
Precaution 3
When you go to buy the items you are pursuing on CL, you
should know how to negotiate the price down.
There are loads of books and now great videos on how to negotiate. This is a great skill for every negotiator in
any type of business to know.
So, before you start haggling prices, try to learn a bit
about negotiating before you get started, it will be a HUGE help.
Here is an excellent
video on negotiating:
Precaution 4
Before you just toss your items on eBay, learn how to describe your products. This is where knowing how to write a little advertising copy would really come in handy.
First of all, having a real eyeball grabbing headline in your
description is very important. You want
to generate interest while creating some curiosity at the same time. You also want to mention the main benefit
of your product or service in the headline as well.
Make sure that you describe the item as best you can,
pointing on features (color, size, functions) and really expand on the
benefits. (What the product will do for the prospect thinking about buying the
product.)If you take these precautions at the onset, this idea will probably
work OK.
Precaution 5
Consider the costs of shipping on the front and back end. You’ll need to make sure that whatever you’re
buying on CL that you are considering the costs of shipping. This is crucial in this type of
business! The same thing with eBay. You will need to make sure that you’re
including the shipping prices.
However, having said that, don’t think for a second that
this will be smooth sailing and you’ll be raking in loads of cash, enough to
live off of.
I highly doubt that.
In my humble opinion, you can easily and quickly make your first money
online doing this and you will get some valuable experience doing this.
Don’t forget, you’ll be spending quite a bit of time doing this, so you have to consider the time you’ll be spending doing the following tasks:
Don’t forget, you’ll be spending quite a bit of time doing this, so you have to consider the time you’ll be spending doing the following tasks:
- Looking on CL for items to buy and researching what’s hot on eBay to sell
- Calling people up or emailing them about stuff they’re selling
- Spending time negotiating and haggling prices
- Boxing up, and taking items sold on eBay to the Post Office
- Taking pictures of the items and posting them online
- Writing up the descriptions
There may be other things you’ll have to do, but basically
that’s most of it. So, you can see, that
all that glitters is not gold and there is work to be done.
Hey, at least I didn’t sugar-coat it for ya!
A New Spin I Thought
Up Based on This Scheme
Let’s bump this idea up a notch! Here’s an idea I just thought of that I
haven’t tested yet, but one of you may want to try. Instead of searching all over Craigslist for
items that you can resell, why not take out a cheap ad in Craigslist asking for
a product that you know id red-hot on eBay?
That way, people will be trying to sell YOU the item that
you’ll want to sell on there. And think
about this: If they do call you wanting to sell the item and it is more than
you’d want to pay, try negotiating the price down.
If you can get the price down low enough, chances are you’ll
sell the item and still make a profit!
Just an idea. Like I
say, it is untested, but I’m very tempted to try so…
To Your Success!
Mark “Elmo” Ellis
"When it Comes to High-Response Copy - I've Got Your
Back!"
(859) 797-9560
elmo033057@gmail.com
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