It has been a while since I used Ebay. At one time I was convinced that it was ticket to financial freedom and I suppose for many it is or can be. For sellers who already know and understand their interest or niche, for those who have a bricks and mortar business it can be a very simple transition to ebay. I never did find my niche. I started out in what I guess is probably the usual way - by going through my own stuff. I sold a few clothes and nick-knacks. When I ran out of stuff around the house to sell I started looking for places where I could get other stuff to sell. I searched the op shops and occasionally got lucky. I went to a few trade shows and hooked up with some wholesalers whose stuff looked interesting. I sold a bit of stuff and finally figured that it wasn't exactly my thing. During the process though I learned a lot about designing listings. I experimented with html and taught myself about image hosting and discovered that if you can learn a bit and even just learn to recognise some of the code you can make a huge difference to way your listings look without it costing lots of money. I have put a lot of what I learned into this article How To Make Your Auction Listings Look Fantastic
with step by step instructions as well as some useful links and resources.
I have collected a few items over the last few months and now that it is school holidays I may get the kids to help me list them on ebay. I wonder how well they'll go.
Tonight we are having Morroccan spiced lamb chops for dinner. I am looking forward to using some of the Sumac I bought recently.
This image of Couscous Lamb Berber is used under a Creative Commons licence from TheGirlsNY on flickr.
