Chapter 1: Welcome to eBay and Tons of Income Opportunities!

If you've ever read an article about eBay, you will have seen the kinds of
incomes people make - it isn't unusual to hear of people making thousands of
dollars per month on eBay.
Next time you're on eBay, take a look at how many PowerSellers there are:
you'll find quite a few.
Now consider that every single one of one of them must be making at least
$1,000 per month, as that's eBay's requirement for becoming a PowerSeller.
· Silver PowerSellers make at least $3,000 each month,
· Gold PowerSellers make more than $10,000,
· Platinum PowerSellers make more than $25,000, and
· Titanium PowerSellers make at least a whopping $150,000 in sales every
month!

They Keep It Going!

The fact that these people exist gives you come idea of the income possibilities
here. Most of them never set out to even set up a business on eBay - they
simply started selling a few things, and then kept going.
There are plenty of people whose full-time job is selling things on eBay, and
some of them have been doing it for years now.
Can you imagine that? Once they've bought the stock, everything else is pretty
much pure profit for these people - they don't need to pay for any business
premises, staff, or anything else.
There are multi-million pound businesses making less in actual profit than eBay
PowerSellers do.

You don’t have to quit your job just yet!

Even if you don't want to quit your job and really go for it, you can still use eBay
to make a significant second income. You can pack up orders during the week
and take them down to the post office for delivery each Saturday.
There are few other things you could be doing with your spare time that have
anywhere near that kind of earning potential.
What's more, eBay doesn't care who you are, where you live, or what you look
like: some PowerSellers are very old, or very young. Some live out in the middle
of nowhere where selling on eBay is one of the few alternatives to farming or
being very poor.
eBay tears down the barriers to earning that the real world constantly puts up.
There's no job interview and no commuting involved - if you can post things, you
can do it.

Think of it this way

If you know where to get something reasonably cheaply that you could sell, then
you can sell it on eBay - and since you can always get discounts for bulk at
wholesale, that's not exactly difficult. (Tips: Look for Wholesales & Dropshippers
under Resources at the end of the book)
Buy a job lot of something in-demand in as low costs as you can, sell it on eBay,
and you're making money already, with no set-up costs.
If you want to dip your toe in the water before you commit to actually buying
anything, then you can just sell things that you've got lying around in the house.
Search through that cupboard of stuff you never use, and you'll probably find
you've got a few hundred dollars' worth of stuff lying around in there!
I know you have probably heard this a thousand times, but it’s true. In fact most
of eBay Powersellers started this way.
So you want to get started on eBay? Well, that's great! There are only a few little
things you need to learn to get started. Read on!