People on Ebay are stoopid!!

[TestMangler]

Actually it's not even the impulse. That has gone by the wayside. Most people Ebayers use a sniping tool these days. I use Goofbay (which is quite good). In fact you can use that to type in a Users Profile and it will do an analysis of what they've sold, the listing costs etc. Very good way to analyse a business and see when someone is telling porkies about how much they make.

Have you tried doing a Goofbay search on your own account to see how accurate it is ?

I tried it on mine a couple of years ago and the results were total bollocks. Might have improved since then i suppose.

[Gentile]

I used to make about £6k on sales of £30k per year when I had the shops. What a pain in the arse that was.

How did he declare his income? At that rate it was taxable as well you know.

Whats the Ebay account Waltermena?

I do believe he didn't declare it, although that's of course none of my business and I couldn't say for sure. I'm loving the irony of CUK's biggest Walt, with a self-professed talent for making £6k profit from a whole £30k turnover from "shops" (note: more than one shop), questioning somebody else's business model or veracity, though.

[MarillionFan]

I do believe he didn't declare it, although that's of course none of my business and I couldn't say for sure. I'm loving the irony of CUK's biggest Walt, with a self-professed talent for making £6k profit from a whole £30k turnover from "shops" (note: more than one shop), questioning somebody else's business model or veracity, though.

Lol

Oh dear.

This one's a keeper.

[TestMangler]

Lol

Oh dear.

This one's a keeper.

Yeah, but she's a Scottish keeper, so she won't be very good

Remember Alan Rough or Stuart Kennedy ?

[MarillionFan]

Yeah, but she's a Scottish keeper, so she won't be very good

Remember Alan Rough or Stuart Kennedy ?

Didn't Alan Rough have a sex change?

[d000hg]

I do like the look of those special mops from JML though But the ones I like sell for something like £150 (even with the free 100-piece accessories kit including BBQ kit worth £19.95).

[TestMangler]

Didn't Alan Rough have a sex change?

My God !! You might be on to something.......

[MarillionFan]

Depends what you count as "a mint". If you can make a profit of £1 per item (after P&P) then you could be on £200/day which IS a mint for a regular person who's alternative is some boring job at the council for £20k.
If you can do higher-price items then you could do more - I thought about this a few years back, with the idea of writing some software to find when a shop suddenly slashed the price on a Lost boxset; buy and sell before eBay noticed and then move onto the next thing. I did it manually once but was too busy to every try it out. Easy money though if you don't mind it too mind-numbingly boring!

BTW. Did you think this through? 73000 items per year.

[seyre1972]

Alternative - car-boot sale when you come to get rid of stuff

Thing about ebay is it is very hard to tell. We sold car seats that cost £40 each for the twins - and got £26 for one and £27 for the other.

I sold a child bike seat that cost £35 and got £2.10. The person that bought it left a £10 note at our house - then asked us to post it so it cost us a stamp.

Perhaps more upsettingly we sold bundles of kids clothes for charity. I think we sold 4 bundles of clothes that would each cost £200 new. We got £5 each! For charity! ggrrrrrr. Too many people prepared to pay anything for kids stuff.

Bit off topic - but in reply to BrilloPad re childrens clothes

If people do have kids clothes - you can't beat a car boot sale for having a good clear out. Does mean an early start on the Sunday, and also a bit of prep work getting the stuff together.

We've had a good clear out at least once a year. Always come back to with > £300 (Ok not the best hourly rate if you are there for 4-5 hrs - but better in my pocket than in some charity bin)

But then again some of the stuff you think would literaly be snapped up - has ended up coming back with us, and then gone to the tip (charity shop didn't want them) Books are a waste of time at car boot sales .......





seyre1972

[fullyautomatix]

That's about the only time eBay makes sense to me - when you have something that you can use, and then quickly stick back up for sale again once you've had your fill.*

* Can't see this working for condoms, though.

Try it mate, you never know. There are crazy bints out there who want to have your babies.