Every time there is a holiday weekend coming up my sales drop off the face of the map. All in all, however, the last 6 months have been much better than the year prior to that.
eBay/Amazon are the most competitive markets in the world, because anyone from anywhere can list there. It is the nature of the beast.
I know a woman who put her kids through college selling bottled water. Every year during the summer when there was a parade, she would have 3 or 4 cars parked at strategic locations on closeby side streets to the parade route. The trunks and back seats were filled with bottled water packed in ice.
She had a piicnic cooler on wheels which she would fill from those cars. Then, she would walk the parade route selling the bottled water while her kids toted the cooler behind her. People snapped them up, even at $3 per bottle. When it is 90 degrees outside and you are dying of thirst, suddenly that does not seem like too much to pay for water.
So, you CAN find ways to beat the competition, but you have to find a place where the people are, and your competitiors are not. Of course, that is much easier said than done.
Personally, I think what she taught her kids with this is much more valuable than ANYTHING they could learn in college.
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