Short answer: Yes
BUT it won’t be easy, now lets explain how and why.
If you are selling an item for $25 or less there will be an 8.75% final value fee (plus 3.50% for items over $25) . If Paypal is payment used there will be an additional .30 cents + 2.9% fee.So for an item around $25, Ebay will jack about 15% depending on your initial listing price. Here is a calculator you can play with: http://www.ebcalc.com
Now lets get to the real meet of the problem. Now I said its possible and you want to know how right?
Now these prices were listed if you wanted to sell your item one by one. For example if you use a dutch auction or have enough volume to create a Ebay store you can pay a monthly fee. Let me share an experience Nathan and I went through in our earlier Ebay careers. We were able to write and publish our own eguide to Final Fantasy XI. This was a great opportunity because the game was new and no others have had the idea yet. We sold the guide for $6.99 each and to our surprise we were able to sell upwards to 100 guides. The problem came when buyers of our guide began to sell our guide as theirs. Possible deterrents of this problem are to watermark your PDFs with your name and report listings to Ebay. In our situation Ebay was not too helpful in canceling fraudulent auctions. To counter this we updated our ebook and noted these updates within our auction.
You must be asking well what if I don’t want to write a ebook/eguide? How will this article be helpful for us? Well the second half of this article is for people like you. This idea will not make you rich beyond your dreams but if dedicated and with research you can make some extra money.
The best possible way to make money on Ebay is to sell something you have alot of and costs close to nothing. This is on the same line as selling ebooks and eguides but with a slight twist. Purchase ebooks and eguides that have full resell rights. If you have read this far then you have probably heard this before, so why is this idea special right?
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