The Wholesale Forums

[brickhoused]

Hello fellow members, I have been reading through this forum for a while now and am really impressed by members knowledge, experience and input and have now registered to take it all in and hopefully use it all to my advantage.

Anyway, I am currently in the process of starting a little erner on the side from my day job to supplement my income, and I am buying wholesale products and reselling on ebay, I am new to the whole ebay world but am actually getting the hang of it and started to make a little bit of profit which i will keep investing into more stock, but I am curious to hear some members views as to wether or not they believe that ebay is over saturated and profit margins are getting smaller and smaller due to competition, obviously I respect that it depends on product type and other factors but was just wanting a broad idea. cheers.

[greedyboy]

ebay is a strange one lately. We made one sale last sunday. I can not rememberevery making just one sale in years! Then most days this week it has gone mental.

[Saajan]

eBay is saturated but you can still sell on eBay by offering something different. Whether it's a free gift, discount for your next order or even quality customer service, you'll still sell.

[brickhoused]

Thanks for the input guys, very much appreciated.

[geosamm]

its what you make it... but it may not be what you expect... good times and bad times.... but thats business in general

[Man_]

I'v been told and belive this too, thats is all dependant on WHAT you sell, finding the right product is the hard bit :P

[hardwareheroes]

Originally Posted by Man_

I'v been told and belive this too, thats is all dependant on WHAT you sell, finding the right product is the hard bit :P

or you could source the popular products and buy / sell them at the right price

[Andy777]

or you could SELL it differently to stand out from the crowd!

[mrsweet]

Or you could just get your head down and make some money :-)

This is how hard it is...

3 months ago we set-up a new account on ebay selling a different range of items, nothing to do with mobiles and or games etc etc etc

That account is now turning over 200k


Bear in mind we work very hard on the listing design and copy and have a team of pro's doing this work.

It can be done, it's hard work like any other business

No easy ways to make cash

Saturated? No, only limited by your imagination.

Andy

[xcat]

Ebay is a very good way to get a business up an running in no time at all. You have to choose your products carefully though.

Small easy to post high value items are good to sell on ebay.

Larger stuff is more of a problem, as lots of couriers do not want to deliver 2 man items.