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Just curious to the average profit you are getting per item sold?
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I'm selling porn, alright.


That's .25 per DVD, .25 per case, .25 per cover print, and .50 per DVD label. Plus 1.30 to 2 for shipping.

Spending 3.25 yeilds 400 to 500% of profit. Not counting credit card processing fee and ebay listing fee, as well as final value fee.


So it's 300 to 400 % profit.
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About $30-$40 per item. I sell about 25-30 these days. My wife says I need to see the sun more, but otherwise she's not complaining
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I always try to maintain 100& profit, before expenses, i.e. Double your money-then back out ebay/pp fees, other cost of sales expenses, so mine is prob, av. 70-82%
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When we were power selling we didnt look at profit per item per say, we looked at daily profits from buy it nows and ending items. We liked to double our money but looked at the chart for daily profits.
Many times we would sell 75-100 items per day with buy it now and would have a large group of items ending every day of the week.
So for us, it was daily profits and monthly total profits we looked at because we knew if we sold xx amount we would make xx per day and per month.
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220% About $90 profit before fees
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wow, i have diff. standards i dont sell anything that i cant make $200.00 profit off of after all fess or 500% profit, my items i usually make anywhere between 300.00-500.00 profit easily.
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Im around 350% but after fees maybe 315%
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After its all said and done about 250%-300%, I get a few 400% every month...
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best rate is around 400-500%
worst is at 40%
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Those profit Margins are way out of my League..I'm always happy buying something for $20 + selling for $39.95..Guess that's why I gotta work harder? I average 16 hrs/day..6 days wk.
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i usually dont sell anything unless i think i can get at least 40-50% profit of it as a minimum. particular items i get for around $40, usually i can sell them at $250-400 no problems. really depends on what your selling, the amount of work you do etc.
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Omg that is crazy. My average profit margin (legit) non vero items is about $6.00.
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if you have a decent account with about 50 feedback and a paypal account, you know how much money i can make on it in one day?
the sky's the limit, but the thing is you can NOT get greedy, for ex. if your making $2000.00 profit a day and you get greedy which by the way most people do get greedy they double their auctions and 80% of the time something goes wrong and they loose everything.
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With those kind of profits, the people who aren't 'Registered Supporters' should be... come on guys! Lol

EBayhateluv told me you guys made some decent money... but come on... Lol
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Adult = 300% to 500%
Government surplus = 500% to 700%
Everything else = 100% to 300%
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Aspkin, you earn enough sitting on your arse...
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Lol...
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Diesel Gas is now $4.14 /gal.for me... :(
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Talking I have a 1 Million dollar margin...

now if somone would buy just one of the freakin things...
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Whoa... that's one of the reasons I got rid of my Mustang GT and I might get rid of my Nissan Titan...

The summer will be with $4 a gallon gas… It's just a mater of time.


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Diesel Gas is now $4.14 /gal.for me... :(
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In Oz, I only pay US50c. for LPG. That does OK for my needs. The new 4x4 will take
diesel and that will cost US$1.40. I am going to bi**ch about that.

Big time because I quoted the price per liter and not per gallon. Sorry.
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