Clipping Collectible Magazine Ads and Selling Them on eBay

One of the toughest things about eBay is finding good items to sell.

Let's face it: Selling a hot item is easy. You basically fill out a form, upload a picture, and that's it. When it sells, you ship it.

Over the years I have had various items that sell well. Books on War do well. Certain old magazines sell well. I sold many old Jazz magazines some years ago. It took no effort at all, because there was high demand. But here is the problem. Sooner or later you run out of that item. Where do you find more? Old jazz magazines sell well because they are tough to find. When people see them on eBay, they bid the price up. While you, the seller, have them, you feel quite good, like a great capitalist. Then the stack of your product gets lower and lower and then it is gone. Where do you find a supply of things to sell?

There are many scams out there. For example, you will see "wholesalers" trying to sell you products to resell. Good luck! Before you buy, take the time to do a search on eBay to see what those items sell for. Most often, the "wholesale" price of $10.00 that they are offering you sounds nice, but when you look on eBay, the same item sells for $3.95. You are going to lose if you buy it for ten.

Then there are drop shippers. This is usually, not always, a scam. You upload the information to eBay, make the sale, and then the drop shipper sends it from their warehouse to the buyer. It sounds so easy. You don't have to invest in storage space or go to the post office. Here's the catch. Most of the time you sign up for the service, and once again, you pay too much for the stock and can't break even. Then there's this little detail. Let us imagine that you do make a sale. You contact the drop shipper. They are late sending it out or don't have the item any more. Now you have an angry eBay customer and your feedback rating is likely to suffer.