How to Sell on Ebay

Did you ever want to make money on ebay?

Before I tell you how to make money on ebay the easy way, I have to tell you about how to sell on ebay the hard way.

Ok, here we go, this is a true story that happened to me.

Well I set up a ebay account and started searching for everything I could find in the house that I didn't need anymore that I could sell on ebay.

Now that I have some stock I am going to get rich selling all my junk using ebay auctions.

I figured out how to list my items on ebay and soon learned it is very time consuming. I didn't realize how much information I needed to come up with to list a product. I needed the name, model, description, size and weight to calculate the shipping just to name a few.

Then I needed to figure out how I was going to collect the money, so I opened a paypal account and that turned into a whole nother experience.

Ok, now I am all set up, so I can begin setting up my ebay auctions. After several hours of listing my products one by one I thought to myself there has got to be a better way. I did a little more research and found out about Turbo Lister, I thought now I found the holy grail. Turbo Lister was going to save my life, I could enter all my items info and then upload all my online auctions all at once. This was easier, but still very time consuming. However I was off and selling on ebay.

My stuff was being watched and people were bidding, I am thinking oh yeh I am going to be rich, and all the time I spent listing my products wasn't that bad, but wait now I am getting flooded with questions. I am jumping through hoops trying to find the answers to everything as fast as I can before the auctions end, so my customers will have all the info they need to make a bid. I soon found out this wasn't much fun either, but I could live with it if I was going to be makeing all this money with my new ebay business.

The week is up, most of my things sold and now people are just going to deposit money into my paypal account, right? wrong, I now have to become a collection agency and send everyone a demand and if they dont pay with in a certain time period I have to send another demand and finally if they don't pay then I can relist the items in a new ebay auction. Thankfully most people paid eventually.

Now it is time to ship, I have to measure all my items and then go get boxes that the items will fit in. I also needed to buy tape and packing material. Now that I have everything I need I began carefully packaging the items and marking the boxes so I know what item is in them, that way I can be sure to mail them to the right person. Now I log into my paypal account and find the sales and print shipping labels for each person, this is another pain in the butt. but I am still dealing with it for the big money I am going to get once I get this process down.

It wasn't long before I ran out of things in the house to sell on ebay and I had to go out to the garage looking for more things for my ebay business. I have a 3 car garage and only one car can fit in it, so needless to say I found lots of stuff to sell.

After I sold all my junk from the house and most of my junk from the garage I figured out that I didn't like my new ebay business, it was alot of work and not alot of money, I am not sure if I made any money, if you count the amount I paid for my junk when I first bought it plus all the materials I needed.

Not only was I tired of everything that is involved in selling on ebay, I was thinking where am I going to get more quality products cheap enough to sell on ebay and still make money.

But I know people are making money on ebay and they all can't be working as hard as I am for peanuts, can they? I thought this ebay business is supposed to be easy.

Now that you finished reading about the hard way to make money on ebay, let me tell you about the easy way.

If you don't want to have to do everything I explained in "make money on ebay the hard Way," because your a lot like me and don't want to do everything yourself for peanuts, then your are not going to want to miss the rest of this article.

Let me start by giving you the pros and cons of this method of selling on ebay.

The Pros,

No Product Ordering, I love the fact that I don't have to find products to buy and keep placing orders so I don't run out of supply.

No Product Costs, Another great part of this plan is not having to spend up front money on purchasing products.

No Shipping Costs, When you purchase products to sell on ebay or any other online auction sites, you don't only have product costs but you also incur shipping costs.

No Storage Room, When you stock products you need a place to put them. I have stored them in my garage or in my master bedroom closet. Now my wife is happy that I dont have products all over the house.

No Listing Products, If you have ever listed products on ebay before then you know that it is very time consuming and not very fun.

No Questions, I dont mind talking to people, but always having to be available while your online auctions are running to answer questions is almost impossible, and some people ask the craziest things.

No Collecting Money, Believe me, I like receiving money, but I don't like collecting money. Sometimes I wish I could send Al Capone to their house to collect for me.

No Packaging, I am so glad I don't have to do this anymore, because for me this part sucks more than everything else.

No Shipping, Loading all the boxes in my truck and running to Fedex, USPS and UPS was the best part, because I know its over, at least for the week.

No Refunds, This doesn't happen all the time if you sell quality items but when it does it can be a time consuming and costly experience.

The absolute best part of the "Make Money on Ebay the Easy Way" method is that your money gets deposited directly into your account without doing any collections.

Now for the Cons,

I cant think of any. This is the absolute easiest way to make money on ebay that I have found.

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Ok I'm sure your wondering what is this hype about how to make money on Ebay the easy way without purchasing, listing, selling or shipping any products, well its by using Ebays affiliate program. Most people don't even know Ebay has a affiliate program.

Ebays affiliate program is called Ebay Partner Network and Ebay is particular as to who they partner with, so make sure your niche site is going to be up to par.

I would suggest building a good solid niche site before applying to ebay to become a partner. They will look into your website and make sure it will work with their program. If you get denied don't worry, just work on your site some more and re-apply.

After you become a Ebay partner you can list niche products on your website that are already being sold on ebay from other people and make money off of their hard work.

You can build review niche sites or complete store type niche sites, where you are a authority on certain types of products. You can even add a store to a current website that you have and start selling products that will work with your site.

For example, if you love horses and you have a website all about horses and how to take care of them, feed them etc., you can add a store to your site where you can start selling horse products like saddles, reins etc. The best part is you don't have to purchase, stock and sell these products, you just start selling other peoples products on your website.

Now you are asking, How do I make a store website?

I like to use Wordpress to build all my sites, its easy to use and most importantly google likes wordpress sites, which helps your site rank higher. I don't use the free wordpress hosting, I like to own and control my own site, so I use Hostgator for my web hosting. Hostgator has a easy to use back office that helps you set up wordpress onto your server. There are other great web hosts out there, I just prefer Hostgator.

Once you get your domain name, web host, and wordpress setup on your server then you have to setup your store on to your site. There are many different plugins you can find to do this,but I like to use phpBay Pro for this, it is very professional looking, easy to setup, user friendly, but most importantly it is search engine optimized.

Now go out there and make money on Ebay the easy way, by selling other peoples products. Let them do all the hard work and you sit back and collect the checks.