Making your first ebay million

[Sysman]

A few years back, my sister in law paid for her wedding by buying suitable oversize lady clothing and sell it to transvestites. I believe an MF of Hampshire was a regular customer.

I used to know a lady with a pricey wimmin's clothes shop. She made a good percentage of her profits selling to transvestites and even hosted parties for them.

Her hubby wasn't impressed, but couldn't complain at the amount of cash coming in.

[Clippy]

True - though got to be a hassle as when I sent it direct from Amazon, people realised where it was from and realised they had paid £10 too much - not my problem but did give my feedback score a hammering!!

But I don't know how you make loads of ££££££ from eBay - you see some guys with massive feedback scores but always seems like too much hassle to me what with the dumb ass questions, the fees etc.

I think a lot of these are sellers selling cheap items (sub £10) like mobile phones cases, chargers, usb leads etc where if the item is of a poor quality the buyer won't really bother requesting a refund as it is more expense (and hassle) than the item is actually worth.

Margins are tight but the seller needs to sell in volume which eBay is ideal for.

[backagain]

Not just eBay, I am amazed at the things people sell. Looking at ads in a local free paper today, set of used wood screws, £4. Must be hardly worth the hastle of placing the ads. Some people are either very hard up or very mean.

PS Mind you, I was bit annoyed when I gave an old dresser to Christian Aid last month and they sold if for £230.

And £220 quid would be administration for Christian Aid, with the remaining £10 actually be aid?

[DimPrawn]

PS Mind you, I was bit annoyed when I gave an old dresser to Christian Aid last month and they sold if for £230.

A mate of mine misread an advert in the local paper for a Welsh cross-dresser, looking for a new home.

He had the shock of his life when Barry turned up.

[Dearnla]

Flogging stuff on eBay? I can think of easier things to do, like Contracting

[psychocandy]

Just refund them with an apology that it was a stock issue.

Funnily enough made a few quid selling TV tuner things for the old GBA. They were about £30 normally but I found somewhere selling them for £9, so I sold them for £20 on ebay.

Did try getting them send direct as a gift but the people at suppliers left the original invoice in once. Had some fella email me and telling me he was going to report me to the police for fraud cos he'd paid £20 and I'd obviously paid £9.

Told him he better report Tesco as well then because I'm sure they paid less for their cornflakes than they were selling them to him !!!!

He kept on and send me a few more threatening emails but eventually gave up and I never heard from him again.