eBay
I never liked typing it out that way. But whatever. Me and my husband Marty will have been members of eBay for 6 years come March 28th of this year… the day our lease is up at the complex we live in. We sold several different things in the first few years… from old stuff we owned, things from garage sales… to things we won at liquidation auctions… to a 1967 Ford Mustang Fastback that Marty had been working on restoring. That last auction was an extreme success that netted us enough money to completely pay off all our debt and give us money to move to Las Vegas as well as extra money to live off of for several months afterward. At that point, we were powersellers.
But after headaches and frustration, we stopped selling. Last year I heard about all the changes that Ebay was making that heavily effected sellers in a bad way. That made me not want to go back to selling. The year was also riddled with a lot of stress, anger, problems and debt.
This year, I have several methods of making money online that I want to try out. One of them involves becoming an active seller on Ebay again. Yes I know there are a lots of rules to abide by. But I want to see if it can bring us some extra money on the side.
Earlier today, I went to Ebay and searched for sellers who were selling information on making money from Ebay auctions. I found several and weeded out the ones that I considered junk. I especially took care to remove the ones from sellers who boasted about making a ton of money and called themselves powersellers when in reality, they aren’t. I came down to 4 that I ended up paying for via Paypal. Since Ebay instilled a “new” rule where sellers can no longer sell digital goods without mailing the products on CDs, I figured I wouldn’t see any of these said CDs that I bought till sometime next week.
Amazingly enough, I got emails from 3 out of the 4 sellers. Those sellers thanked me for the purchase and stated that they mailed out the CD version. But they also provided me with instant access to the ebooks via urls in the emails. Is this the loophole that sellers have found? Is this allowed by Ebay? I suppose it must be since all the sellers I bought from are powersellers. I’m still going to be getting 4 CDs in the mail in the next week, but it’s nice to know that I can start reading 3 of the ebooks tomorrow. I would read now but it’s 12:11 am in the morning. I need sleep since I just cleaned my house earlier today <—- OCD.