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OK, let's hear it! How much do you make on Ebay a week?
 

For me, it varies.

Before I got suspended Gross Profit was $4000, after I got suspended $2-3000.

I usually sell 15 items on each user name, and I usually have 2-3 user names a week to sell a total of 45 items.

What are all of your profits per week solely on Ebay?

How did you manage 3 user names at the same time? DID you accept paypal for all the transactions?

Wao, ihatebay..I really admire you:)
For me I started slowly..total revenue per month around 2k USD- and net profit approx. 1k USD.

Cheers

Well... you can have as many user names as you want. You can have up to 3 using the same identity (credit card, etc). So, basically if you have two identities (at the time I used my dad's account, and mine) you have 6 accounts right?

I used to accept Paypal, but the fees were around $1000 each month and they limited my account once. After that I never used Paypal b/c you know know when they can limit your account.

AndreasF:

I started out only earning maybe $500-$1000 a week until I became a powerseller.

Glad that you share you experience with us- appreciate your input very much.

Cheers

Wow, 75% profit, thats some nice monies I think! I'm happy with my 50% on certain products I sell. Good stuff!

Who makes at least 2K a week from eBay?
 

Who easily makes 2K a week from eBay...I am talking about profit, after all eBay and PayPal fee's...?

For example, I am making about $600 - $1000 a week...but I want to increase my sales...

If you make 2K + a week...drop a message....and let us know, what is your secret?

i use to for a while back in 05-06 when i had more time and ebay wasnt such a load of ****

now i can make anything between $500 - 1000 a week, sometimes alot more depending on my stock levels and the current sales trends.

there is no secret. it's just back breaking hard work, and puting in at least 12 hours every day. you need the right product with good profit margins too.

Last year I was making $1500 - $2000 a week (That was nice....) and then eBay screwed all my accounts...4 of them....

Wow $500-$1000m how u hiding that from the tax man...

$2000 was my max until ebay got dirty

casta, I got a couple of bank accounts in different countries and PayPal accounts in different countries...so I am distributing the cash 50/50....I can't use old PayPal accounts anymore though (don't want to link them) which makes it difficult....

I make about $8000-$10000 a month right now, all with ⊗⊗⊗⊗ eBay and ⊗⊗⊗⊗ PayPal accounts. Tax free, too. Before eBay suspended me, I had 1 account only and made $1000-$2000 a month. eBay actually helped me :D

That is the truth. Now that I have spread my sales over 4 or 5 different ebay accounts I am making almost triple what I was making with my one powerseller account. eBay shuts one account down and 5 more will come in its place. Way to go eBay.

Wow some very impressive numbers you guys. I sold digital items and my best was $2500 a month. Thats in sales, but profit was around $2200. Thats not alot but considering I didn't have to package or ship products, which saved me time and money.

I had no cost of product and I had infinite inventory. It was awesome. I didn't even have to email the item to buyers as I had e-junkie set up for auto-email once paid. I just sat there and get text on my cellphone for each sale. I got 500 text in one month. Simply awesome. Now its all gone. Thanks damn ebay:mad:

I can't make ⊗⊗⊗⊗ accounts because the only thing I would sell is digital items, which is banned now so ⊗⊗⊗⊗ accounts would be pointless.

my profits going to take a bit of a battering come may 21st when ebay force us to use paypal.

jscan - just make a couple of PayPal accounts, you should be fine after the 21st if you prepare yourself...If something goes wrong with PP and you need help with "Graphics", just PM me....

I have paypal accounts, just there fee's thats all, thanks tho :)

12 hrs,??, how about 16-20 hr/day... right now its 11:40pm, est,, i just started Packing orders from the night shift--prob wont get to bed till 3-4am, then back up at 7am for kids to school...

NO MORE---coming down in my jammies--sipping coffee-logging into 1 paypal acct and printing labels... Now- its juggling everything,, like having 12 jobs,instead of 1...

Nowdays because i dont make as much as i use to because i dont have the time, i generally only spend 3-4 hours a day. in the old days i use to spend maybe 7-8 listing,packing,sending,invoicing,ordering the lot

i honestly cant imagine doing 16-20hrs a day, and having kids too ( as im not a kid person ) :)

Last semester, I quit my job. I was making $1500 a week and was living the life! Living on campus had now worries. Then BAM suspneded. After that I went 3 mos with 0 sales still used craigslist a bit. Now I am back at about $500 a week. My goal is $3000 a week across multiple accounts this summer.

ebayhateluv, i said at least 12 hours. sometimes i do put in 16 or more. plus i am doing a tattoo apprenticeship as well. no kids, but a bunch of cats and dogs i have to take care of. i think kids would be way too hard right now.

Before being suspended and then banned in March, we were making $6000-$8000 a month. When we created a new account that only lasted a month before being banned, it only made about $3000.

I find it amazing, as well as get a little bit of hope, hearing that being forced to create new accounts has actually been a benefit to some of you.

What's everyone's secret to making that much money?

staying on the grind yo! lol

jonas, I truly think that some of these replies are stories. But that's me as I have taken
my cynical pills today. ROFL.

$49.99 item, 13 sales/day, x mon-thurs= 52 sales,
fri,sat= x 18 sales, sun= x 22 sales,
Thats what.. 110 sales, x $50= $ 5,500.00 per week off just 1 item... x 4 .3 weeks= $22000/month/ +/-== Its really not hard...

Since we are running two accounts now and had a very busy end of the month and first week we have exceeded our goals by 10 fold and sales are unreal.
We hit 1397.00 profit on sales from Saturday alone on these two accounts.
You get what you put into it, and if you have a good profit I really believe you can make unlimited amounts.
We are working on running 4-5 accounts at a time and can see the sales/profits to hit this almost daily. Christmas season would probably triple that.
A friends of ours sells hand made jewelry on ebay and tells me she can make 1000 profit per week if she gives the effort.

Most likely VEROS

Hi- disagree...Both Ebay-sucks + I have been on the Bay since puberty..;) I don't sell ⊗⊗⊗⊗ + neither does he...We sell collectibles,So my secret really is-a lot of hours+ buying when u find deals-even if u gotta max out your cards-buy it+ store it- It will sell eventually..I'm selling goods now I bought 2-3 yrs ago...

I do not agree either. I have been on ebay since 1995 and was one of the first to ask them to put my biggest seller section in so people wouldnt have to hunt for it. They didnt even have the section I sell in then and didnt for months after begging them to make the changes.

I have never sold a vero that I listed on purpose. the only thing I have had pulled is a Mark McGwire group of autographs when the steriod filled loser whined about people making money on his name.

We work very hard, sometimes almost 20 hours per day looking for something to resell, listing, packing and email answering. I can remember working 24 hours in a row with no sleep once in late 1990's because we sold so much that the two of us couldnt pack it all. Of course that was then and this is now and things change but if we had to we would be right there doing it again or paying help. I built a 24 x 60 building on my property just to do ebay from with a restroom and kitchen and we didnt leave the building for 24 hours in a row and many 16-20 hour days then too.

You get out what you put into it, if people want to be lazy and think you are going to make a ton of money by just doing nothing it is not going to happen.

Too many people are willing to go the extra mile and get ahead of you.

There usually is not one single day I am not buying something to resell. I buy housefulls of goods, go to auctions, bid online, buy on ebay when something is in the wrong category ( happens allot! ), buy from individuals, hit the thrift stores daily where you can find some awesome items cheap for a quick profit.
Just bought a lunchbox today at a goodwill store for 4.95 and it will sell in the 300-400 range easily.

So no, there are tons of ways to make money on ebay without selling veros.

Again, you get out of it what you put into it and I find that many people who are not successful on ebay is because they do not want to do the legwork to be successful.

I do beleive the figures here. I was in college fulltime making $1500+ a week. So if you are doing not making at least $XXX a week you are wasting your time. What have you been doing on eBay al this time?

the secret is think big to make big!!

u think small, u will make small


I used to sell nintendo wii, and ps3 systems on ebay. And made around 2000-3500 a week

Bought my own website now, dont used ebay much anymore.

made $20000 last week on my website. My friend helped me design the video game website and had to sign up with godaddy.com to get a domain name and hosting service. And the site was up within 5 minutes. Signed up with Google adwords.com, and put in the right keywords and Title in and it resulting in more clicks to my site!

sold 80 wiis last week!!


80 x 250= $20,000

Awesome importracer150. But what is your profit? I mean you don't have to tell but I hope its healthy. Only that matters because you can have $1 million in sales but if your costs are $999,950, then it doesn't matter. Also, do you have a link? I'd like to check out your website.

I currently make around $800 a month which compared to these other figures is a drop in the bucket. But I also work a regular full time 9-5 and ebay is just a way to make extra cash to help pay for bills and unexpected emergencies. I would love to be able to work from home and make a living at it but given what I sell its just not plausible for me. I sell clothing, accessories and collectibles. The way I get all of my items is by hitting up higher end consignment shops, flea markets, estate auctions, and waiting for items to go on sale at the local outlet mall where I can sometimes get new stuff at a price that I can make profit from. But I'm really only able to search for items to sell on weekends and sometimes I might go to an auction and find some great collectible pieces and sometimes I will go and spend 2 hours and nothing resale worthy will go on the block so its hit and miss. But I like that extra $$$ coming in so to me its worth the effort but I dont think I could make a living at it with my current method.

^^You seem to be very set that people cant make a killing on eBay without selling counterfeit goods. Stop hatin.

Modee just doesnt like those who do which is his opinion. everyone knows you can make a killing selling counterfeits no doubt, in fact thats what alot of us were selling when we started. After discovering this forum many of us dont.

My only secret is being the manufacturer for my product :) No need to outsource, and my only overhead is materials, operating expenses, and the such.

And no it's not Vero or bootlegged. 100% original & tradeskill. And that's all I can say or else the ones that decide to learn the tradeskill will be my competition :p

But I did learn a lot from this site! After trying to rebuild my feedback over multiple accounts by selling cheaper items I found at stores, I still ended up making about $1000 in sales, $393 was profit! Now that may not sound like much, but I wasn't trying to make a profit, mainly just trying to build feedback over several accounts. These little "feedback" listings/products are open box items, or returns from a local big name store I would rather not mention :p It helps that I have internet on my phone to check prices on ebay and calculate shipping on the spot.

So I would say another money maker is simply spreading out listings over many unlinked accounts. If I can pocket about $390 on items I can find in a regular store chain, anyone can!

I can only imagine how much I'll make when I can start mass listing my regular products! Can't list too many of them just yet as they are high value and would probably get me flagged... :mad:

Is that gross sales or profits?
 

ebayhatluv,

how much profit do you make on a $49.99 sale?