Can You Make a Living on Ebay?

Can you make a living selling items on ebay? That depends. There is no "yes" or "no" answer to that question. I tried it for three months and nearly went broke. I know now that I make a better part time seller than a full time seller.

Full time selling on ebay IS a full time job. You will be working harder at it than you ever did at a real job. Finding merchandise to sell, cleaning and taking photos of it, then listing it takes a lot of time. In order to streamline this process, you could sell a lot of the same item, using a template listing specific to that item and use the same photo for every listing. Shipping everything USPS Priority or UPS in the same packaging also would save a ton of time. But this is provided that you have the capital to buy that item in bulk and can make a significant profit on it. This is how most ebayers with Powerseller status do it. Not all of them, but most of them. Lynn Dralle, the Queen of Auctions, is a Powerseller who still shops at yard sales and thrift stores and manages to turn a profit. She has also written several books about ebay. She now teaches seminars, makes television appearances and has a DVD out. She got her start in colectibles and antiques at a very young age. Her grandmother, Cheryl Leaf, owned an antique store for many years. Lynn helped her grandmother run the store and in the process, learned a lot about collectibles and antiques. She has an uncanny knack for finding one-of-a-kind treasures at yard sales and thrift stores and reselling them for a pretty decent profit! I am sure that her other ventures have helped her out as well. But you can tell that she loves what she does. She has a good attitude and I think that makes all the difference in the world.