Ebay Adventures

A few days ago I started my ebay-adventures, and guess what? After only one day I sold my first set of items (a series of romance novels) for $ 25.00. Not bad for taking a picture, adding a description to my items and putting them up for sale.

Today, I will send the books as promised.

Here is a picture of my books almost ready to go:

That was $ 25.00 in about 15 minutes of work. A few other items are being "watched" and on two I also already have  bids, meaning I have earned at least an additional $8.00.

It is kind of funny though, how small things like these can make one this happy.
Anyhow, I will write about the final success of my first ever ebay postings on Saturday, when the "auction" is over.

I finally bid the bullet

Over the weekend I realized how many books I have in my shelves right now, that I have read about once, and that were collecting nothing but dust.

After dismissing the option of selling them through book-buy-back-sites (which I have used in the past for some of my college text books), I finally decided to tap the to me still unknown ebay.

My older sister is an avid buyer and seller on ebay and I remember her room always being of full of stuff that she was currently selling.

To me, ebay always just seemed this one big unknown I didn't have the time to try.

Anyway, on Sunday I decided it was time to try it out myself and to finally get started.

So after registering for ebay and paypal.

  I started researching similar listed books, their prices and the best way to market them. I am sure I made a whole bunch of strategic mistakes, I feel like I am off on the shipping costs, and for sure I have no clue if I am going to sell anything. But then again, I will never know if I don't try.

For now, I took advantage of the free posting they are offering right now, and I will see how far I get with the items I listed.

Later on in the week, I will post if I had any success at all.

How did you start out on ebay? Where you successful? You didn't sell a thing? Let me know. 

For now, I will look for a different group of items to sell since my first batch of items includes nothing but books, mostly romance novels.