Earn Extra Money

Most people who use the Internet know how to sell on Ebay or are capable of figuring it out, but many people are too busy and never get around to actually doing it.  You can sell on Ebay for other people.

Advertise on college campuses to get valuable stuff to sell on Ebay.

Why college campuses?
College students don’t have a lot of stuff, but they’re very easy to target with advertising and they always want to earn extra money.

Ways to advertise to college students:

• Campus flyers.  Be sure to advertise with flyers about a month or two before the end of the school year.  Use a headline like “Don’t throw things away.  Let me sell them for you.”  Try to remind students on the flyer that they’re going to be busy (especially towards the end of the year) and if they don’t sell their stuff, they’re just going to end up throwing it out at the end of the year or lugging it back home.
• Place advertisements in college newspapers.
• Hire a college student to go door to door for you examining/collecting things to sell on Ebay.
• Craigslist.org.  Place a free advertisement on Craigslist for your “sell your stuff on Ebay” service.  You won’t be advertising strictly to college students, but that’s good as you’ll be increasing your exposure beyond the college campus.  If you’re going to set a time and place to collect things to sell on Ebay, you might as well invite people on Craigslist to bring you their things as well.

Picking Up Stuff to Sell on Ebay:
Make this easy on yourself.  Pick a time and place where people can bring things to you that you’ll sell on Ebay.  Pick somewhere on a college campus (if allowed) or near a college campus in order to make it easy for people to bring you their items.  For larger items or items people are not willing to hand over to you, you can take pictures of items and collect information about them and sell them on Ebay with the knowledge that the college student who owns the item will allow you to pick up the item once the Ebay buyer has paid.

How to get paid?
You can either charge a flat fee when something sells on Ebay or you can get paid on commission.  Work this out with your suppliers (students, people from Craigslist and others) ahead of time.

Good luck!  I hope you earn extra money!

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