Help! I need a work at home job to make it!!!

[NikB]

Ebay can work if you have someting that you are very familiar with so you know what your market is, when you find a good deal on something to re-sell, etc. Keep in mind that you may have to pay taxes if you're buying stuff specifically to re-sell it (as opposed to "clearing out the closet" kind of selling).

I've made good money on there selling stuff that I might've otherwise sold at a garage sale.. probably 200 or so auctions as a seller, mostly cleaning out closets and such. The few times I've bought stuff to re-sell I ended up losing money unfortunately. Bought a bunch of barbies at $3 apiece when a local toy store went out of business, figured they were at least worth $10 or so. I checked on eBay and found that others had the same ones up for sale and they weren't even selling for $.99. Oh well... so, those went to a "Toys for Tots" thing when Christmas rolled around (least they went to a good cause!). Same thing, got a great deal on some MP3 players, but apparently others did too... eBay got flooded with them right after I bought them. I ended up selling those to friends at cost. I might've made an extra $1 on eBay but it wasn't worth the hassle.

Not to discourage you from it - not at all! Just do your homework on it so you don't end up LOSING money. Researching current and completed listings for whatever you might want to sell can be very revealing. My H had some old video games he was going to get rid of... I decided to look them up first. Some that we thought would be worth quite a bit weren't even getting $.99 used - but one that we thought would be worthless turns out to be selling regularly for almost $200!

I look up EVERYTHING on there now before donating or tossing it. Good way to bring in some $$ once in awhile even if it's not a regular thing.