I've been selling on eBay for about a year on a really part time basis. Basically I just sold things that I owned, but didn't want to move to our new house (clothes, books, crappy Christmas presents).

My best transaction was for a Tinkerbell Clock that was a gift to me from one of my husband's friends. It was really girly and probably for a 7 year old. I know for a fact that he bought it at Walmart. I compared prices and listed with a starting bid of about $12 under what everyone else had it listed for with a "bin" equal to the other listings. The person that bought it "accidently" hit bin instead of bid (can you really do that with a bin?). I told him his bid was a contract and he either needed to follow thru or pay me the lost listing fees and fvf's. He paid. I was Tinkerbell Clock free.

yup, I am a seller.
In fact I sorta of just sell on ebay and dont work.
I can admit I am not making a killing.
But I am paying my half of the rent for sure =)
My girl works full time and she pays her half so things are pretty smooth.

I just started with eBay in August(?) last year working for a powerseller on eBay.
I sold items for him and was paid no hourly, just 25% commission.
I made my own hours as I was a "contractor" who was paid weekly.
I actually made a lot doing this. More then his hourly shipping people.
I did not have to ship shit, just create listings for the crazy inventory.
That is a whole nother story

I started learning basic html and getting used to eBay.
After working for him for a few months I was damn good at making my items more desirable then any other current auctions or past completed auctions.
He started getting shady with commission and I was already selling my own items and sources on the side from home.
So I just bailed on him and became a seller from home in October.
And to my surprise just made powerseller last week! very exciting!

no real bad or weird experiences on eBay. Just one when I was buying.
But paypal got me a full refund and I still have the third world country generic item that was sent to me. Not as described at all.
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I learned a tip then, create a BUYING account and a SELLING account.
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I had 100% positive feedback, left him a negative for telling me to @*#) off and not refunding me.

He left me one for no reason. Did research and see he had tons of withdrawn feedback. Same situation. Anyways, after I got my full refund via paypal he made a request to withdraw.
So I am back at 100% positive and will never buy from my seller account again.
People suck. Dont let them ruin your selling reputation.

p.s.
Yeah I am buzzed as fuck. Just got home, sorry I typed so much.
Had to run a spell check on that shit.

I am an ebay seller (i buy more than I sell though) I have been selling my old KIKGIRL/ and KIKWEAR pants.. The "raver" style was pretty popular when I was about 20-23.. They are in great condition, and i've sold appx 8 pairs so far..

I'm an ebay seller, check out my CD store

www.stores.ebay.com/scalligraphics

I have been a seller since Dec 04. I got into it big time right from the start and made power seller in March 05. Ebay just took away my power seller icon last week because my sales dropped below $1000.00 per month. I have 20 items listed now and need to make another 50 or so listings but I just haven’t had the time to do them all. I mostly sell items from my hobby shop but I think the most profit comes from items you have around your house that you don’t need or want.

stores.ebay.com/R-C-Off-Ro...meZl2QQtZkm

I sell things occasionally. I started when my place of work got a basket of Star Trek memorabilia for a silent auction fundraiser and no on at the event wound up bidding on it. I broke the basket up and sold all the items on Ebay individually.

Once I found a whole bunch of books beside a dumpster...enough to fill the trunk of my car. As I went through them I discovered that one was worth quite a bit of money as it was a first edition of a rare book. I ended up selling it on Ebay for $130! Not bad for finding it in the garbage.

I sell alot of books on half.com. And for the ones that I'm not able to list there, I hope to have time to put up on Ebay soon.

I sell E-bay, too - mostly second-hand clothes - some vintage, some designer, some custom reconstruced .. plus, whatever i have around the house and in my closet that i don't need anymore (which is why I call my store Miggy's Closet :)

i've been doing it full time for a year this September - and i also must admit to being POOR! i work long hours and barely make my rent .. BUT .. i AM making rent, and am setting my own schedule - and i really do love shopping at thrift stores and re-doing and embellishing clothing - so for me, it's totally worth it :)

several months ago, i even opened my own e-bay store (because $.70-$1 fee per listing was KILLING ME) -

stores.ebay.com/Miggys-Closet

- Miggipyn

I had an ebay store for awhile, then dropped it when ebay raised the fees because I just wasn't turning enough of a profit. There are alot of sellers lately selling goods thru BIN at maybe a $5.00 mark up over wholesale. Absolutely ridiculous and it kills the market for everyone. So everyone makes less and has to list tons of auctions.

What I found with the ebay store, since your store items aren't listed in the regular auctions you get way less hits. I think to be really successful you need to do a lot of advertsing off of ebay.

I may start up again if I get laid off from my current job and have the time to list tons and tons of auctions.

i absolutely love ebay! I sold an eleven dollar shirt i got on discount a year ago, which was no use to me. Picture a sheer red polka dot shirt. I auctioned it off...& people bid up to 40 bucks on it. That's one of the items i am most proud of! I hate to buy though...even though i find it irresistable. I just sometimes get something of no use to me....but sometimes you find just what you're looking for for less money!

I am a full-time seller :-):

stores.ebay.com/Laura-Iverson-Gallery

I buy too, under a different ID.

I am an artist and it is still a thrill to me to see a new bidder (I've been selling on eBay over three years). So, that is the neatest thing.

I guess the worse thing is when I start bidding low, thinking something will bid up and it doesn't. So, if you do start selling your handmade jewelry, make sure you keep the starting price high enough that you won't cry if it sells for that.

eBay is a very unpredictable market. I've had paintings bid up 10 times the opening bid, and I've had them go for next to nothing. There are unexplainable lulls where nothing moves, then highs where everything does.

Laura

Hi, I am an ebay seller... I'm an artist who sells on ebay and I have been selling my art on ebay since 1998.


My auction link is

www.maznayim.com/ebay

stores.ebay.com/Dark-Ventures

I tried to sell on ebay time and again, with no results. None. The market is just too saturated with people trying to make it into a career instead of what it was intended to be originally.

I will keep trying for a little while longer, but I may just have to stick to Craigslist.

I sell on eBay. I have been selling on there going on 2 years. I am a Powerseller with a store, and I enjoy it.

I have sold some ebay privately for myself such as cds, books, things a long those lines. For the past year I have been selling for the people I work for. It has been interesting. I started with jewelry for them-both costume and gemstones. Then we branched out to books, thimbles, dvds, and just about anything you can come up with. Recently I did auctions for an Antique Lily Thread display. I sold an antique coal iron and also an antique kerosene iron. The hardest thing I have had to work with those has been toy electric train items. Definitely not my cup of tea!!

hi i sell high end beauty product and a few other items. i was reading about your logo how does it stop the shipping trips. hope 2 check u out have friends that love homemade items.

I just started selling on eBay (and I also am the newest member of this tribe). I'm liquidating a lot of my toy collection -- much of which I picked up a few years ago on eBay as a buyer. So far it's a bit of a mixed bag, but my current round of items seems to be on track. Only 21 of 59 items have bids at this point but nearly 30 of the unsold items have watchers, most of those multiple watchers. And some of the items with bids have a lot of watchers too, so hopefully the snipers will throw in their offers as the time runs down...

Weird to see what gets attention though. I thought Simpsons would do pretty well. It does, but only about a third of the views that Dukes of Hazzard generates... And Dukes gets lots of watchers too. Maybe they ought to remake the show, not that I'd watch it.