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What a your profit margins
 

I read a post about a guy that sell 750k of items and his margins is 1-10%, got me thinking, 3 questions, What are your guys profit margins, and What is a lowest margin and highest profits margins of the item you sell,

Thanks :)

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Be prepared to get a lot of sarcastic answers :)

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@ markflood...it all depends on what marchandise you are selling...

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okay what is your best profit % margin of the a item you sold and lowest of a item you sell regularly that sells and what is the monthly profit margin %... you don't have to tell what kind of item it was, (since a lot people don't want tell there sources)

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I'm selling a lot of Japanese-related anime, game and other Japanese geek/otaku culture items so I've got a pretty big profit margin as they're fairly difficult to get in the west. Actually % are all over the place - sometimes I hit a product that sells for double, triple retail value for months - sometimes I end up overstocking something and losing money by the end.

It's not my main job, I'm otherwise employed here, but it's a very nice bit on the side that's easy enough to do online and just forward stuff on to foreign countries.

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200% to 1000% marin but thats before ebay and paypal takes there pound of flesh. sometimes its 2000% and sometimes i get the stuff for free and than its happy days! but i don't make 750k a year maybe 40000 a year

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On my new commodity merchandise, I average 25%. On my used (rare) books, it is much higher but it varies widely. I have made sales at 50 times my purchase price, although that is fairly rare. I would say 100% on the used books overall.

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Since you are another user insisting on playing the game of what do you sell, what is your profit etc etc.

TELL US your own margins.

Grossly unfair to expect others to spill their guts and you say nowt.

:juggle:

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the person that said 2000% how is that possible unless you are the manuafacturer, or it is vero? even if you have an exclusive deal - that % is a tall order.

I have found that I have the same supplier as other people, and this constant reduction game makes us all poorer but in the end everyone wants to be the one that makes the sales...I will not go lower than 25%. I have missed out on a huge amount of selling due to not wanting to go lower and not listing those items....can someone help me break this psychology or am I right???

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My profit margins are @ 18- 20 % and im happy with it....But haven't been able to sell since Dec 2013...Ebay dumped me ...lol...Trying to set up my stealth game on and start selling againwish me luck guys.....Person who mentioned 200 - 2000 margin must be selling from China or something...Good luck my friend.

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Very interesting and hard question to answer. I rarely use my own money to invest in inventory or anything really, so I guess my margin is PURE profit because other than skill and a little time(I don't do much busy work myself at all these days such as shipping, listing, etc..) I have no skin in the game. That being said I could easily sell millions of dollars and only get to keep personally 10% of it....

Now for actual cash on cash return, a true ROI on items I do use my personal money on I have a very strict guideline. It is in the several hundreds of percent and fast return on 30 days or less with cost being paid back within 14 days.

This question is irrelevant in my honest opinion. There is so many ways of having infinite ROI

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i don't sell from china i haft to go out and drive and buy the stuff myself so its not as easy and a supplier online. its also used. but id love to be the guy getting 10% for doing nothing that is my plan for the future after i get out of collage. and if i can get ebay not to keep on bleeping me.

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I would put down a bet that he does a huge amount of work for that 10%

It takes a very long time to find a good product that sells well for decent margins.

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My margins typically range from 50% to 200%. Just depends on how hot that items is at the moment. I don't sell illegal vero items, I am just willing to put the work in myself and sometimes hire help to fix the items that I sell.

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i average 25% but my smaller goods is between 100-400% my best item though i buy for $2.5 and resell for $30

return rate is extremely low. like .2% across the board last year

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What you buy for 2.5 and sell for 30? does it sell pretty good like everyday or just once a week.

My margins are low of 15% to high of 100%, and sometimes 4x. but depends what you sell.
If not broke don't fix it, If you getting 1-10% that your passion so be it.

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Margins depend on my product being sold - I dont always have big margins but the enjoyment of sending out and making some $ is fun for me :)

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i don't sell anything that doesn't sell at least a few times a day.

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Someone's selling foofoos :p

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Not always the case on high ROI % products.

I sell some times that are 1500% ROI, but they are custom made and the buyers is paying a large premium to get them ASAP

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nope just had the good luck to having a father who could teach me. ebay was the best job i have ever had before they suspended me for 4 bad feedback......

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@aglovelace, happens - time to create 5 stealth accounts to go back at it