I’ve read 2 Ebay ebooks so far
I was actually wrong. I only got ebooks from 2 of the 4 sellers via email. I also purchased 2 other ebooks outside of Ebay: Pimp My Flip and Lazy Kid. But I haven’t read those ebooks yet.
Anyway, I finally got around to reading the 2 ebooks that were sent to me via email. I have yet to receive any of the CDs via snail mail. The first one I read was from seller scuby7v7q. The ebook was in RTF format which should be able to be opened by any computer. I would have much rather preferred getting a PDF ebook. But that’s besides the point. The ebook itself is really short. Only 11 pages long containing 3,300 words. It may have been 8-9 pages long had the seller not added so much blank space. There are no chapters or sub headings because the ebook is too short in length for that.
The first page, in my opinion, wasn’t necessary. Fluff I guess. Some people may think it’s important. But I don’t. Anyway, the seller included a screenshot of how much he made (gross) for a week on Ebay (not verified because there is no date indicated). But I always did enjoy seeing screenshots of how much people have supposedly made, even if the image is Photoshopped. Why? Because it gives me hope that I can make that kind of money online too.
The seller also listed 2 of the sites he owns. I visited both. The first one was blank, absolutely nothing on it. The 2nd one was a pretty generic looking site that has nothing to do with the ebay business so I’m not sure why he included it in the ebook.
Then the seller continues by talking about how he got into the ebay business. It seems a lot of people started on ebay by accident… meaning they post some items up that they don’t want and surprised themselves when they made money off of said items. I too fall in that category. He even mentions that he wasn’t able to replicate his first ebay success right away. It was trial and error.
What I got out of the ebook was information I already knew and have applied already. Sell what’s hot on ebay and/or buy items that you know a lot about cheap from classifieds (like Craig’s List or your local newspaper) and sell them on Ebay for more. Simple common sense.
Would I recommend the seller’s ebook? Well, it’s very cheap, quick delivery, and easy to read. So I would recommend this ebook to anybody who is pretty much an ebay virgin. The ebook is for the absolute newbie with no experience. I gave the seller a 5 star feedback rating because I got what I paid for.
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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.