Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Ebay, the easy way

Well, after my quick and swift battering by Click Bank, my friend said I should try Ebay.

I knew it had to come sometime, so how can a person get started making money on Ebay, well this is what ive gone to find out. So lets start at the beginning shall we?

Signing up was a breeze, of course at every turn you get Ebay trying to coax you into signing up for PayPal. Well I did sign up, but I was careful not to enter in any bank info. The reason is because PayPal has a dark history of freezing bank accounts of innocent people who were victims of fraud. My recommendation? Go to a diffrent bank, set up a chequing account and use it only for PayPal, then when you get money, divert it to your real account.

This way, you avoid having your paycheque being siezed because some asshole in nigeria thought it would be funny to pull another Nigerian Scam on some poor Ebayer.

But enough of that... Onward!

Alright so now I see in order to sell I need to set-up a sellers account... well how the hell do I do that? Eventually I figured out that I need to run an auction to have a sellers account, well fine Ebay can screw me out of 24 cents so I can get it set up.

So the test auctions running, no big deal, gets me used to the Ebay system. Alas, I realize I have a pathetic (0) feedback... woe is me. Obviously there is a level of distrust when it comes to people with a unproven track record.

After signing up I was searching through Ebay and Vowala! I see a Ebook on making money with Google Adsense... and... its a startling 89 cents!

Well I figure for 89 cents, I get useful information on making money with Google Adsense and... I could bring that Feedback rating up a notch. Sounds good to me.

So I pay my 89 cents using the Buy It Now option, then become confused while I try to figure out how digital delivery works on Ebay. I kept on re-checking my "My Ebay", until I finally come across this action list, its basically a drop down box with a bunch of options. Low and behold, there it is my digital delievery option.

After I get my zip file, and upack the contents I find a suprising 124 page book. I was fairly pleased with my first Ebay purchase, now mind you, most of the information is generic... but as you go more deeply into the book it gets alot better.

You wanna know what the best thing was though? Reprint/Resell Rights come with it. Bingo! Now were in business, not only do I get details on how I can sell the book to other would be adsense people but also some nifty pieces of copywriting.

I would say that was worth the 89 cents..

This gives me and idea, I could shell out the $50 and become a Click Bank publisher, then have affiliates sell my ebooks for 19.95, take $8 for myself and vowala, 89 cents could become very profitable. Well thats all for now.

P.S. I left feedback for my seller, I have yet to get feedback from him, but it looks like he takes up to four days to leave feedback from what I gather.

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