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jcokos
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Posted: 06/25/2004 11:50 am
eBay is more than just a "Home Business" for some people.
eBay is a great idea -- a great way to sell some of your old stuff, find needles in the haystack, complete your collections, and for some people, it's become a full-time job. I have friends who spend their weekends "garage sale-ing" and their weekdays selling off their weekend booty over the Internet. We just had an opening here locally of our area's first eBay "Consignment" shop. eBay is cool, but it's a real drag to go through the whole process of signing up, uploading your images, coming up with a good description, biting your nails through the auction time, and delivering the product. Enter the consignment shop... Got something to sell? Drop it off at an actual store, sign some papers, and go home. They'll put it on eBay for you, do all the descriptions, pictures, and so forth. When it sells, they ship it for you, and then you just show up and pick up a check for what your items sold for (minus the shop's commission, of course). For the buyer, buying an item that's for auction from a consignment shop is much less stressful, as you don't have to be concerned with questions about whether the product will be shipped or about giving your personal information to a complete stranger. These are a complete "win-win." Maybe I'll clean out my garage this weekend after all...
For more information, do a google search for "ebay drop off" or "ebay consignment" to find an eBay consignment shop in your hometown. If you can't find one, and you love to eBay, well here's your chance to make your hobby pay the rent (and then some)
Don't believe that it's a real business model? Check this January Forbes article out:
http://www.forbes.com/business/newswire/2004/01/14/rtr1211031.html
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cleung
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Posted: 02/21/2005 01:42 pm
If a product doesn't sell, who pays for the eBay listing fees then?
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chman0024
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Posted: 02/21/2005 06:15 pm
Do you know how much ebay will charge someone to open one of their stores?
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