So, you’re going to make lots of money on eBay, clear out the clutter in your home, and give strangers thousands of miles away a chance to take a crack at your stuff…which may just be the exact perfect thing they’re looking for! What’s not to like?
Now, what do you sell? And just what sells on eBay?
The answer is, just about anything under the sun…old clothes, new clothes, baby clothes! Appliances, books, cd’s!
Things you no longer need.
Things you never needed and were given as a gift (one of my personal favorite categories to sell!).
Things your husband never needed and was given as a gift. (Hey, if it’s starting to creep into your side of the closet, it’s fair game!).
Yes, Jerry Seinfeld was right…re-gifting is alive and well and going strong in America. But this is better than re-gifting because there’s no subterfuge involved…people don’t care you were given the thing as a gift, as long as they get a deal.
But it doesn’t just have to be about junk lying around your house. It can also be…
- Things you create…
These include crafts, jewelry, booklets, greeting cards, wrapping paper, etc. Artisans and craft people need no longer waste entire Saturdays in a cramped fair booth racking up scant $10 sales per hour. Now they have access to the “world’s largest yard sale” -- eBay, the company with a revenue estimate of $3 billion in 2005.
Other things that you are in a good position to sell but may not even know it: things you can acquire from your area that others couldn’t. For example, I live near Washington, D.C., so I have access to things such as political trinkets and t-shirts, museum souvenirs, etc. I wouldn’t necessarily buy something like that just to resell it on eBay, but if I spotted a good enough deal, or came across an opportunity such as a going-out-of-business sale, I might.
(In fact, there used to be a tourist-oriented store in Old Town Alexandria, near where I live, that did have exactly such political items – T-shirts with political figures, snow globes with the Capitol, coasters, posters, napkins – you name it – which did have a going-out-of-business sale recently. If I had snapped up a load of those items I would have been easily able to sell most of them on eBay, especially with the mood of the country as patriotic as it is today!)
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