What do you sell to warm up your accounts?

[MM78]

Dildos, Vibrators, Butt Plugs.....you will make good money.

[Recherché]

Originally Posted by slokor

I start with comic books.
If youre starting up a few accounts you can go buy a full box of bagged and boarded books for $120 or so (at your local comic bookstore or any convention).
Same applies to baseball cards.
Then sell them for a buck each and offer free shipping.
You lose a few dollars but can easily establish yourself as a seller quite safely.

Yes. Comic books I always start off with. After 8-10 positive feedback received, I always got increase in number to 150 items I can sell in a month. Alas, I had one eBay account go down permanently recently after they increased it to 150. I started selling high risk items and was suspended. Appealed. Declined. No big deal.

[nickopedia]

Originally Posted by slokor

I start with comic books.
If youre starting up a few accounts you can go buy a full box of bagged and boarded books for $120 or so (at your local comic bookstore or any convention).
Same applies to baseball cards.
Then sell them for a buck each and offer free shipping.
You lose a few dollars but can easily establish yourself as a seller quite safely.

I especially like this baseball card idea because they are really easy & cheap to ship; they can go in a regular #10 envelope, 1st class mail. You can sell a ton of them and rack up feedback/history easiliy which is what you really need to get traction going on a new account.

On my 10/500 accounts, I like to sell cheap (less than $5) items, then gradually increase it to $10, $25, $50 after a few weeks. This usually causes eBay to give those limit increases and make the account stronger so I can start selling more.

[nickopedia]

Originally Posted by MM78

Dildos, Vibrators, Butt Plugs.....you will make good money.

As funny as some people would think this is, in all seriousness if done correctly, "Adult Toys" are big business and can sell extremely well, esp. for some niche items the competition does not carry. Margins on some of these items are really nice (think 80%+ net) but if not properly researched, the competition will eat you alive. The adult section needs to be carefull researched, and in fact takes some extra work to do it right.

[phaz0rz]

That's gross!

[USD]

Originally Posted by slokor

I start with comic books.
If youre starting up a few accounts you can go buy a full box of bagged and boarded books for $120 or so (at your local comic bookstore or any convention).
Same applies to baseball cards.
Then sell them for a buck each and offer free shipping.
You lose a few dollars but can easily establish yourself as a seller quite safely.

Thank you for your insight! Though I am not from the US so I can't buy and sell like that. Is it possible that I dropship comic books or baseball cards? And I am guessing if I can dropship I should not dropship from amazon? Cuz the box will say it's from amazon? Any solution to this? Thanks again!

[USD]

Originally Posted by nickopedia

I especially like this baseball card idea because they are really easy & cheap to ship; they can go in a regular #10 envelope, 1st class mail. You can sell a ton of them and rack up feedback/history easiliy which is what you really need to get traction going on a new account.

On my 10/500 accounts, I like to sell cheap (less than $5) items, then gradually increase it to $10, $25, $50 after a few weeks. This usually causes eBay to give those limit increases and make the account stronger so I can start selling more.

I am not from the US so I can't just put it in a regular envelope and ship it. Do you know where I could dropship from instead or any other solution? Thank you

[MM78]

Originally Posted by nickopedia

As funny as some people would think this is, in all seriousness if done correctly, "Adult Toys" are big business and can sell extremely well, esp. for some niche items the competition does not carry. Margins on some of these items are really nice (think 80%+ net) but if not properly researched, the competition will eat you alive. The adult section needs to be carefull researched, and in fact takes some extra work to do it right.

I'm being super serious.....sex toys can sell well.

[phaz0rz]

This thread is making me uncomfortable.


Do you test your new arrivals, MM?

[USD]

Originally Posted by phaz0rz

This thread is making me uncomfortable.


Do you test your new arrivals, MM?

lmao

[MM78]

Originally Posted by phaz0rz

This thread is making me uncomfortable.


Do you test your new arrivals, MM?

Ohhh you wanna be a tester, no worries bro.....

[CoDebits]

use your brain mate

[eman350]

I sold my girlfriends used panties to start off with, Sold 20 pairs my first 3 days. Haha

[rsot]

Originally Posted by eman350

I sold my girlfriends used panties to start off with, Sold 20 pairs my first 3 days. Haha

Local pick-up only?

[USD]

Originally Posted by rsot

Local pick-up only?

hahahah

[gergovia]

Go to the flea market,buy some cheap old items and post it.

[phaz0rz]

Originally Posted by gergovia

Go to the flea market,buy some cheap old items and post it.

What are the flea markets like in your country? Got a pic?

EDIT: Nevermind I looked it up. They're a lot cooler than ours.

[ilgiorgetto]

I'm selling cards yu gi oh,as soon as I do not have the 21 day suspension on paypall, I start selling my playstation products

[applebaum]

I sell books. Popular fiction that I buy used off amazon or ebay and I know that they will sell. I read them and then post them on 7 day auction. They usually sell in one or two cycles.