EBay Income Possibilities
By James Williams
If you've ever read an article about
eBay, you will have seen the kinds
of incomes people make - it isn't
unusual to hear of people making
thousands of dollars per month on
eBay.
Next time you're on
eBay, take a look at how many
PowerSellers there are: you'll find
quite a few. Now consider that every
single one of one of them must be
making at least $1,000 per month, as
that's eBay's requirement for
becoming a PowerSeller.
Silver
PowerSellers make at least $3,000
each month, while Gold PowerSellers
make more than $10,000, and the
Platinum level is $25,000. The top
ranking is Titanium PowerSeller, and
to qualify you must make at least
$150,000 in sales every month!
The fact that these people exist
gives you come idea of the income
possibilities here. Most of them
never set out to even set up a
business on eBay - they simply
started selling a few things, and
then kept going.
There are plenty
of people whose full-time job is
selling things on eBay, and some of
them have been doing it for years
now. Can you imagine that? Once
they've bought the stock, everything
else is pretty much pure profit for
these people - they don't need to
pay for any business premises,
staff, or anything else. There are
multi-million pound businesses
making less in actual profit than
eBay PowerSellers do.
Even if
you don't want to quit your job and
really go for it, you can still use
eBay to make a significant second
income. You can pack up orders
during the week and take them down
to the post office for delivery each
Saturday. There are few other things
you could be doing with your spare
time that have anywhere near that
kind of earning potential.
What's more, eBay doesn't care
who you are, where you live, or what
you look like: some PowerSellers are
very old, or very young. Some live
out in the middle of nowhere where
selling on eBay is one of the few
alternatives to farming or being
very poor. eBay tears down the
barriers to earning that the real
world constantly puts up. There's no
job interview and no commuting
involved - if you can post things,
you can do it.
Put it this
way: if you know where to get
something reasonably cheaply that
you could sell, then you can sell it
on eBay - and since you can always
get discounts for bulk at wholesale,
that's not exactly difficult. Buy a
job lot of something in-demand
cheaply, sell it on eBay, and you're
making money already, with no set-up
costs.
If you want to dip your toe in
the water before you commit to
actually buying anything, then you
can just sell things that you've got
lying around in the house. Search
through that cupboard of stuff you
never use, and you'll probably find
you've got a few hundred dollars'
worth of stuff lying around in
there!
This is the power
of eBay: there is always someone who
wants what you're selling, whatever
it might be, and since they've come
looking for you, you don't even need
to do anything to get them to buy
it.
So you want to get
started on eBay? Well, that's great!
There are only a few little things
you need to learn to get started.
Our next email will give you the
lowdown.
