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Great Ways To Source Low Cost Products For eBay

Are you having trouble finding  Low Cost Product Sources cheaply enough to sell it for a good profit?  Well, if you are you have come to the best place. The aim for this blog My Auction Empires is to help people either new or old to sell and make a profit on eBay.

So without going on here are some Low Cost Product Sources for eBay.

1 ) Garage sales. The chances are you’ve gone most of your life seeing ads for these and ignoring them. Start going to as many as you can. You won’t find good things at every one, but when you find one person with good stuff, make them an offer for the lot – they’ll be so happy about it that you can get a real bargain.

2) Markets. If your area has a market, then go there and look around for anything good. You could buy it there if it’s cheap enough, or try to make friends with the market traders and find out who their suppliers are.

3) Pawn shops. Pawn shops don’t usually know what to do with the junk they accumulate (unless it’s jewellery, of course). Generally, they put their stock out on the shelves haphazardly, hoping that someday someone with a little money will just happen to come in, search around and buy wildly obscure things. Get them to offer you a discount for bulk.

4) Real auctions. Go to a real auction, as the chances are that you can resell things for more than they will sell them. After all, they only have a few hundred people in that room – you have a few million to sell to!

5) Local newspapers. Place an ad in the local paper that reads “I pay cash for [your item type]”, with your phone number. If you can afford it, make it a big display ad, so it’ll be noticed.

6) Ad boards. Get one of those little ads in the grocery store. And just ask for stock !!!! Simply I know but it works.

7) Friends. Ask your friends if they have anything they’d like to sell you, and ask them to spread the word to their friends.
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Become known. Give out business cards, mention to people what you do. The chances are that you’ll come across someone who’ll say “Oh, really? I’ve got a load of [item] I don’t want”.

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9) Shops. This might be a little surprising, but some real shops even sell things more cheaply than they sell on eBay. Take a look around your local deep discounter, and pay special attention to any shop that takes trade-ins from customers. The chances are they take a loss on trade-ins as a promotion, and are dying to get rid of that stock.

10 ) And finally: eBay! When you’re looking at the completed items view, you’ll notice the massive range of prices that items can sell for on eBay. Try taking the highest-priced item and searching for it on its own, then sort by lowest price first: I can almost guarantee that you’ll see an auction for the same item where it sold for almost nothing. The trick is to find these flawed auctions before they close, win them using a bid sniping service, and then turn around and resell the item.

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Hi

Just to let you know, I have put comments back on, so if you would like to leave a comment then please go ahead.

Sorry

Just a quick post to say sorry for not getting Sundays Trade Show details up.

But have  had are still having major computer hardware problems.

Will be back as soon as possible

Happy eBaying

Andrew Miburn

UpDate on Last Post

Hi,

Well this is an update on my last post. I have been testing the Flock Browser. And it is so cool, you just click an icon and a list of all your blogs come up and you click the one you want to add to and a window pops up and you just write.

It is that simple.

Will le you know how I get on, also it is great for twitter, YouTube, FaceBook.

Take a look www.flock.com

Andrew

A Test

Hi,

Sorry about this sill blog, but am testing a new feature to see that is works if it does will tell you about it.

Thanks
Andrew

What If

I guess many of you have played the “What If” game. If not it is where you say what if we had moved to this place, or what if I had married that person, what if I had done that course etc etc. You get the picture?

Well now try and apply the What If to your eBay business. What am I talking about? Well lets say you make jewellery, and while your at a carboot sale or offline auction you see a load of nice pretty stamps with birds on. Now to a collector they are worth nothing. But to the What If person they are worth a lot. Because the What If person will say……….. I wonder what if I put those stamps onto a pendant, what would happen.

Now maybe what would happen is the stamps that were once not worth a lot put with a pendent that normally sold for £10.00, and you put the two together and sold them on ebay as a cool bird stamp pendent, and it could sell for £20.00.

(please note the prices are not real, they are there to show you an example of what could be done)

Happy eBaying

Andrew

How To Get Started With Amazon

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How To Get Started With Amazon

Today I want to start a mini series Entitled Getting Started With Amazon. Now living here in the UK, I am writing this from a UK point of view, but I believe the same process will work anywhere in the world where Amazon allow you to sell your own items.

Getting Started

Today I want you to get some boxes or some strong carrier bags and go through each room in your house, loft etc and look for any books, CD’s, DVD’s that you no longer use, want, have room for and place them in the boxes or bags.

Do not prejuudge the items as you do not know what they are worth until we start to list them on Amazon.

This should take you a few hours. Take your time and have fun.

Tomorrow will take you through the next stage.

Andrew Milburn

Places To Source

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Here in the UK we are not as lucky as our friends over in the USA. We do not have garage sales as such….. we have car boot sales, this can be a good place to source products to sell.

Another place to source is Charity Shops, Bring and Buy sales, looking at adverts in the local papers, Craig List,  eBay, Amazon and the list goes on and on.

Today I am going to talk about Charity Shops. Most towns have a few and the largers ones have over a dozen. Pick a day when you are going to visit the town or area. As well as picking the area decide before you leave home the budget you are going to spend in the day. Take this in cash with you because a lot of the shops do not have Credit Card facilities.

Also say to yourself right my budget is £100.00 and do not go over this……. a good way to keep to this is to leave your cards and cheque book at home.

You need to take with you a laptop if you have one (you can use these in Coffee shops most free of charge), if not a laptop then a mobile phone that can access the internet.
Failing those two, a phone so you can phone home or a freind so you can research the items you find.
If you know what you are doing you can buy blind, but I do not recomend this.

When you get to the shops, go round each one first and if you see a goods buy and it works out ok on the computer buy it But do make a round first and get a feel see whats in them, make notes.

Then it is time for a rest…….have a coffee and open your computer up and see if what you have seen can make you a profit. Make a note of all the winners, finish the coffee and go and buy.

When you have bought up the town, head for home and take your pictures and do the listings.

A question I am always asked is, what mark-up (profit) should I allow. And my answer is what do you want or better still what does the market want.
Your best action is put it on eBay as a starting price for what you bought it for then if you only get that price you do not lose money.

Hope This Helps

Andrew Milburn

Welcome

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