Been at this about a year and 3 months.
I have mulitplied my old income by 10-fold. I work 7 days a week. I often forget or don't know what day it is. I wake up anywhere between 7am and 2pm and work until 1 or 3am every day.
Some suggestions:
Maintain a schedule, even if you don't need to. I try to run every morning.
Make sure you shower daily, even if you don't really want to.
Keep up with your real life, no matter how addicting making unlimited money is.
Try to get outside daily. And by "outside" I mean more than "the post office."
Take days off. Many of the crazy restrictions eB has are stress-inducing for the seller. I need to respond to customer complaints and I have to make sure everything is marked as shipped within 24 hours across 40 accounts.... that's ridiculous! I make sure I take 1-2 days a week to get out of my house and say "F-it, if the complaints happen they happen."
I often lie about what I do for a living, or I am vague about it. When people ask me about it, I say I'm in "Internet Sales" and keep it as vague as possible. If they ask for details, I get a little snotty. Quote:
"Internet sales? What do you really do?"
"Well, I buy low and sell higher on the internet. I am a postal guru and I know anything there is to know about credit card merchants and PP policies. It took me about 6 months of working 14 hours a day to learn how to do it right. If you know how to do it it's easier then you think."
| I live an opulant lifestyle in New York City, where most of my friends make upwards of $300,000 a year and throw fully-catered open-bar rooftop parties on the Upper West Side. I learned very quickly that the reaction to saying "I sell things on eB for a living" at a dinner party is the equivalent of saying, "I have a mild case of leperacy so my doctor says I can't treat my syphalis for another few weeks."
Keep it vague. Don't tell many people what you do for a living. They won't understand.
Last edited by Omgoozle; 03-24-2012 at 08:16 PM.
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