Is stealth eBay your full time job?

[HAHlala]

Just curious do many of your make your full time living with stealth accounts? Or do you also have other jobs?

I make my living selling online on a few different platforms and have done for 4+ years now but I'm interested in hearing from others and hearing what platforms you sell on.

[phaz0rz]

It's full time for me, with one full-time helper and one part-time helper.

[JamesNorth101]

Selling online and trading online is full time for me. Not all just eBay, but eBay takes up a good chunk of the day

[rsot]

There are quite a few posts on this - it keeps coming up...there was one recently....trying to find it...

I use online sales to keep my skills up and move some items when I can. I work fulltime, run a product-fulfillment business and consult with an old company every few weekends.

[dan_ebay]

was making about £1500 a month before stealth 2 years ago. Main account got a 30 day ban, found this forum and started making/buying loads of accounts.
30 day ebay ban was the best thing that ever happened to me.

More focused on my websites now, have my cousin working for me doing most of the ebay /amazon stuff and others to pack.
Plus the email list of 50k+ ex customers its got me all in my niche is priceless. Every time a new product comes out I email them all a giveaway and my facebook lights up like a pic of kim k's ass has been posted

[Play]

Originally Posted by phaz0rz

It's full time for me, with one full-time helper and one part-time helper.

Of the hundreds of items you probably sell, if your like me, you would have a handful with suppliers that are readily available and easily found. How do you deal with that? - considering your 'helpers' could easily start sourcing and selling those same products?

That's my only fear getting helpers!

[zenohki]

I still have my first ebay account which covers about 40% of my business, 50% comes through stealth accounts, the remaining 10% is from my website/other sales sites/direct orders. Full time online sales is the best job I have ever had :D

[zenohki]

Originally Posted by Play

Of the hundreds of items you probably sell, if your like me, you would have a handful with suppliers that are readily available and easily found. How do you deal with that? - considering your 'helpers' could easily start sourcing and selling those same products?

That's my only fear getting helpers!

Haha I was once that sort of helper, or at least I ran my business as a hobby while I worked for what could be seen as a sort of competitor. Sadly his business sense was very very poor and I got more sales and profit doing it as a hobby

[yankee]

Originally Posted by Play

How do you deal with that? - considering your 'helpers' could easily start sourcing and selling those same products?

That's my only fear getting helpers!

Very few people are motivated to work for themselves. Also very few people have funds to invest.

I would say 1 in several thousand people have the desire, mentality and ability to do it.

Heck, I have worked with several members on this site that don't have what it takes.

[HAHlala]

Originally Posted by yankee

Very few people are motivated to work for themselves. Also very few people have funds to invest.

I would say 1 in several thousand people have the desire, mentality and ability to do it.

Heck, I have worked with several members on this site that don't have what it takes.

100% agree with this. I used to worry that people would becomes competitors as many people I know in real life know what I sell and how much I sell of it but I know for a fact they wouldn't know where to start when it comes to selling online, nor would they know where to buy and how it all works.

I think a lot of people on the outside think selling online and finding products to sell is a piece of cake. It definitely gets easier after doing it for so many years but its not something everyone and anyone is capable of. You will find that the majority of people in life are content in dead end jobs working for someone else and have no desire for ever working for themselves and making a lot of money (something I've never understood). I now have a couple of 'employees' but I know they have no interest in doing it for themselves so I don't worry about it.

[Klemantina]

Full time with part time employees.
A lot of people really want to work for themselves but they don't have the self discipline that it requires. I tried to help hundreds of people but only few of them managed to make money and only 2 of them are still doing this part time. Some people just can't understand how things work, some of them think it's too risky and doesn't worth it and the worst cases are the people that lack the confidence, they just don't believe they can do it.

[foolishheart]

Originally Posted by JamesNorth101

Selling online and trading online is full time for me. Not all just eBay, but eBay takes up a good chunk of the day

I'm not full full time, but it sure seems like it

[JamesNorth101]

Originally Posted by yankee

Very few people are motivated to work for themselves. Also very few people have funds to invest.

I would say 1 in several thousand people have the desire, mentality and ability to do it.

Heck, I have worked with several members on this site that don't have what it takes.

I have to agree with that

I find it a bit weird to be honest when someone has the opportunity to make a good solid living working for themselves instead chooses to work a 9 to 5 job because working for themselves seems like 'too much hard work'

[yaBeh8ater]

ebay is full time for me. i also have a website but still has 0 sales.

[phaz0rz]

Originally Posted by Play

Of the hundreds of items you probably sell, if your like me, you would have a handful with suppliers that are readily available and easily found. How do you deal with that? - considering your 'helpers' could easily start sourcing and selling those same products?

That's my only fear getting helpers!

I'm married to my full-time helper, and my part-time helper has absolutely no desire/motivation/knowledge to start a business. So I'm not too worried about them stealing business secrets, lol.

Where I'm from it's VERY easy to find an unemployed person who will fill orders all day for $150/week.

Edit: I read yankee's post after I responded, but I 100% agree with him. 99% of people are perfectly content with working 40hrs per week for a fixed income, and would never even consider starting a business.

[dealagreeproceed]

[QUOTE=phaz0rz;768221]
Where I'm from it's VERY easy to find an unemployed person who will fill orders all day for $150/week.
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daaam cheap labor

[phaz0rz]

Originally Posted by dealagreeproceed

daaam cheap labor

It's a really simple job, lol

[glacier922]

Full time for me. Love it. I was actually lucky that I got hit with a violation the first month I did some business. Now, thanks to this forum, I'm pretty good at the stealth ways, and let's just say at the moment I make about 3 times more than someone who has what's considered a "decent" job. But I wouldn't want to stop here, Sky is the limit.

[Play]

Originally Posted by phaz0rz

I'm married to my full-time helper, and my part-time helper has absolutely no desire/motivation/knowledge to start a business. So I'm not too worried about them stealing business secrets, lol.

See that helps, to have your other half fully engrossed in the 'day to day handling of packages'. It lays the pressure of you and you can trust she wont start something up out of the blue

On the whole - nice to hear everyone's opinion. I guess it was just paranoia on my part

[glacier922]

Originally Posted by yankee

Very few people are motivated to work for themselves. Also very few people have funds to invest.

I would say 1 in several thousand people have the desire, mentality and ability to do it.

Heck, I have worked with several members on this site that don't have what it takes.

This is a good thing, it means that there would be several thousand people working under people like us. I have lost many "friends" simply by saying the most basic logic, such as, buy low sell high, you make money. It's really crazy actually.

[rsot]

Originally Posted by glacier922

This is a good thing, it means that there would be several thousand people working under people like us. I have lost many "friends" simply by saying the most basic logic, such as, buy low sell high, you make money. It's really crazy actually.

Lost friends?

[zenohki]

Originally Posted by rsot

Lost friends?

I can understand this, I have two friends who went into business together, one started undercutting the other. Money ruins people.

Never work with family and or friends, some people are very lucky like phaz0rz, but I have found that generally they are the worst people to work with. My brother let me down hugely on my website and then fell out with me big time when I made my own, full on blocked on facebook and everything. Ha!

My other half is wonderful in that he wants to help, but I can't let him. He hasn't got the eye for detail that I have, I wouldn't want to spend my time getting frustrated with him and making him feel like he'd done something wrong.

I decided a long time ago it's not worth me expanding to the point of hiring staff or helpers, I'd actually lose money and become a manager rather than a creator which I never want to happen, being management sucks.