A Never-Ending eBay Product Supply
Let’s say you’re just getting started on eBay. You’ve opened up your account and now you’re looking for something to sell. If you’ve already followed our advice to sell the stuff around your house you may be wondering what to sell next. Sure, your attic and closets may be clean, and you’ve gotten rid of the clutter, but now what?
The lifeblood of your eBay business is products. If you have no products to sell, you’re not in business. So, how would you like an unlimited supply of products when you’re getting started?
If so, the answer is simple – become an eBay Trading Assistant. What is this, you ask? Well in a nutshell, a Trading Assistant is someone who helps other people get their items sold on eBay. So if you have an Aunt Gertrude who wants her old porcelain figurines sold on eBay, she can go to you to get them sold. You take the pictures, you write the titles and descriptions, You do everything to “assist” your Aunt Gertrude to sell.
Now since your Aunt Gertrude is so dear to you, you might do this for free. For other people in your community, you’d likely charge them a commission for your time and energy. Or, you could buy their products and resell them yourself.
You can literally have an unlimited supply of products to sell because chances are everyone has stuff lying around that they want to make a quick buck from. According to eBay, there is over $1000 worth of items around your home that you could sell. And if you help other people sell their stuff, you can have lots of products for many months to come.
Now if you choose to be a Trading Assistant, there are two ways to do it. First, you can do it the “official way” by registering on eBay. This allows you to be listed in the eBay Trading Assistant directory, but in order to do this, you need to meet a few requirements. You need to have a feedback score of 100 with 98% positive feedback, have sold 10 items in the previous 3 months, and have your eBay account in good standing. For more information, you can go to www.tradingassistant.com.
Let’s say you don’t meet all of these requirements. Maybe your feedback score is only 10, but don’t let that stop you. You can still be a trading assistant “unofficially.” eBay isn’t going to stop you from telling your friends and family that you can sell their stuff for them on eBay. The only difference in being “official” and “unofficial” is that you get to use the eBay Trading Assistant logo and you get listed in the Trading Assistant directory. Other than that, it’s up to you to find the people.
A Trading Assistant needs to promote their services in order to find products to sell. You can do this by getting word of mouth buzz happening about you. Make sure that everybody knows what you do. Talk to your friends and neighbors and ask them if they need anything sold on eBay. The more people know about you, the more successful you’ll become. Post flyers. Put an ad in the paper. Whatever you can do to get people aware of you, the better.
The bottom line is that there is no end of products to sell on eBay. With a little creativity, you can be the “go-to” person for everything eBay related.
Joel Holmes is the creator of the free eBay 101 Start Up Kit. In this step by step video kit he will show you exactly how to sell on eBay quickly and easily! Get your free copy while supplies last.
