FabSwingers.com forum: How I Make Money On eBay...

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

So since posting this in the making money thread I have had a few pm's from people so I thought I'd make a stand alone thread.

That way anyone interested can read through the questions and my answers to get a better idea of how it works.

I'm not normally one to give my secrets away however probably everyone on this site could do this and all still make a handsome amount of cash.

The only downside is if you are a new eBay member you will be restricted to 10 items a month until you have some positive seller feedback.

Here's one you can do easily, I do it and it makes me about £700 - £1000 per month on top of my wage.

Find something that sells well on eBay, for instance there are some cosmetics items that sell by the bucket load.

Make up sets being one example.

You will then find a related video course you can resell, there are loads if you know where to look.

Following on with the make up, you would find a course showing you how to apply make up like a professional artist.

You would then list your video course with the same title as the make up item that sells by the bucket load with a few extra words at the end, so...

If the make up title was:

65 Piece Colour Make Up Set

Your title would be:

65 Piece Colour Make Up Set Professional Application Video Course

Now everyone who see's the high selling item will also see your video listing and a fair percentage will view and buy it.

You will order a batch of 50 these dvd's from a print supplier which come back individually placed inside plastic cd wallets, printed with your design, with the video tutorials already burned onto them for £16.50.

You then order a pack of 50 cd cardboard envelopes for £6 ish.

These are great and can be sent anywhere in the uk with a first class stamp.

So all in all it costs roughly £1.15 to create and send one disc.

You will be selling them on eBay from £7 - £20 depending on what info is on your disc.

And if you select the right one you can easily make £150 per week from one item.

I was doing it full time at one point and easily making as much as my job but I just got sooo bored doing nothing all day that I dropped it down to part time.

I need to sell an average of 70 discs a month to bring in over £500 however that is only roughly 2 items per day.

Sometimes I will sell 10 a day and generally my earnings stay between the £700 - £1000 per month mark.

Hope this helps, any questions just ask I'm happy to help in any way that I can!

Thanks!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Do you pay tax?

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Do you pay tax?

Yes unfortunately once you hit a certain volume of sales you have to haha

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By *ugby 123Couple
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over a year ago

O o O oo

So you nick someones video, change the title and sell them on DVD? Or am I reading this wrong

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Great post, very interesting! I wouldn't mind having a crack at that! I'm off to sign up for eBay lol

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By *ouple in LancashireCouple
over a year ago

in Lancashire

Cheers OP great business plan, now i know your prices etc i may undermine you..

or is that undercut..

or something..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Are these videos professional, copyrighted etc? Or are you obtaining them free of charge?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

So the take away information here is you buy something that has a supporting instruction DVD, search Google the DVD is free and openly available

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Wow...

If you spent that much time and effort on Swinging, you might have had a meet by now

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By *reelove1969Couple
over a year ago

bristol

"So you nick someones video, change the title and sell them on DVD? Or am I reading this wrong"

Yep ...its remarketing

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Fair Play op.

We used to sell on Ebay and with the right attitude and patience. There is money to be made. Had we not both got full time Jobs we would still have been doing it. When your making money people will always pick faults, dog eat dog world out there. Best of luck.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"So you nick someones video, change the title and sell them on DVD? Or am I reading this wrong"

Haha no, you purchase the rights to resell the dvd's.

You can also create them yourself if you have the right equipment.

One of my best sellers is me showing you how to get the same results as something which costs £80 - £120 with equipment you already own.

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By *ugby 123Couple
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over a year ago

O o O oo

"So you nick someones video, change the title and sell them on DVD? Or am I reading this wrong

Haha no, you purchase the rights to resell the dvd's.

You can also create them yourself if you have the right equipment.

One of my best sellers is me showing you how to get the same results as something which costs £80 - £120 with equipment you already own."

Ah.... then it sounds a bloody good idea to make some money if it is all legal

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'm not sure why people would buy an instructional DVD when you could probably get the same thing on YouTube for free?

Fair play though.

Between HMRC getting new powers for all eBay transactions to try stamp out online tax evasion and rising labour costs in China, the game is changing quite a lot. Nice to see someone putting some effort into an additional revenue stream.

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By *ugby 123Couple
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over a year ago

O o O oo

"I'm not sure why people would buy an instructional DVD when you could probably get the same thing on YouTube for free?

I did think that too, but he says he gets lots buying.

I then thought maybe the people with no internet buy the DVD's then thought you stupid bitch how would they get onto Ebay. I need another cuppa me thinks

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

No what he is saying is he cons people by making his advertisement to look like they are buying a 65 piece make up set, but just adds the dvd bit on the end, and people receive a dvd instead of the make up they were expecting

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You told us about making money with DVDs but what about the item/ goods your selling. In thiscase make up kit. Is that not generating much income?

Harvie

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"You told us about making money with DVDs but what about the item/ goods your selling. In thiscase make up kit. Is that not generating much income?

Harvie"

There isn't a make up set

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hmmm, surely he'd just have a shit load of negative feedback and no one would buy? eBay protects buyers, not sellers.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

They can't leave negative feedback because technically its their fault for not reading the whole advert properly, they are getting what they ordered just not what they expected

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By *ouple in LancashireCouple
over a year ago

in Lancashire

"You told us about making money with DVDs but what about the item/ goods your selling. In thiscase make up kit. Is that not generating much income?

Harvie

There isn't a make up set"

that's quite an allegation..?

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over a year ago

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over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"No what he is saying is he cons people by making his advertisement to look like they are buying a 65 piece make up set, but just adds the dvd bit on the end, and people receive a dvd instead of the make up they were expecting"

No your wrong, other people are selling the make up set,

If someone buys the make up set they are likely to buy the DVD as well, the DVD from him the set from someone else

He is listing his DVD with a name similar to the existing make set listing name

So the person buying will receive as expected be it DVD from or make up set from someone else,

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By *errygTV/TS
over a year ago

denton

if i had a good money making scheme on ebay, i would not be telling others how to do it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

He's not miss labeling the body of the advert though.

Just manipulating the search.

For instance when I'm looking at bikes on ebay if I search "cbr600"

Honda cbrs will come up but then so will r6, gsxr600, ninja 600s etc because at the end of every advert they put say "gsxr600 *NOT r6, cbr600, ninja 600*"

It's don't heir add comes up no matter what you look for specific.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

No your wrong, other people are selling the make up set,

If someone buys the make up set they are likely to buy the DVD as well, the DVD from him the set from someone else

He is listing his DVD with a name similar to the existing make set listing name

So the person buying will receive as expected be it DVD from or make up set from someone else,

No I agree with the others implying it's a scam because the advert is worded so the buyer thinks they are getting something totally different to what they actually get.

Why would anyone buy a tutorial video when youtube is full of them?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

No your wrong, other people are selling the make up set,

If someone buys the make up set they are likely to buy the DVD as well, the DVD from him the set from someone else

He is listing his DVD with a name similar to the existing make set listing name

So the person buying will receive as expected be it DVD from or make up set from someone else,

If this is correct it's actually pretty clever to sell a accessory for someone elses product in that way.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

No your wrong, other people are selling the make up set,

If someone buys the make up set they are likely to buy the DVD as well, the DVD from him the set from someone else

He is listing his DVD with a name similar to the existing make set listing name

So the person buying will receive as expected be it DVD from or make up set from someone else,

No I agree with the others implying it's a scam because the advert is worded so the buyer thinks they are getting something totally different to what they actually get.

Why would anyone buy a tutorial video when youtube is full of them?"

That's not the situation, some won't and use YouTube

Some won't and he is there to sell them one if they are prepared to buy

Nobody is buying outside of what they expect

If it says make up set and has a description of a make up set they get a make up set

If it says make up set Dvd and has a description of a dvd they get a dvd,

No con just playing on people's decisions to buy rather than search for a better option,

There is an implication that the bought option will be better than YouTube as provided by manufacturer although regrading by this chap

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

No your wrong, other people are selling the make up set,

If someone buys the make up set they are likely to buy the DVD as well, the DVD from him the set from someone else

He is listing his DVD with a name similar to the existing make set listing name

So the person buying will receive as expected be it DVD from or make up set from someone else,

No I agree with the others implying it's a scam because the advert is worded so the buyer thinks they are getting something totally different to what they actually get.

Why would anyone buy a tutorial video when youtube is full of them?"

Because they want to?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"if i had a good money making scheme on ebay, i would not be telling others how to do it"

To be fair there's a similar scam on Facebook but it costs to join. I didn't bother aside from the joining fee, I didn't particularly understand how it worked other than it seemed to be ripping two off; the seller and buyer

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Okay so has anyone ever brought or even considered buying a tutorial dvd off ebay?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Its not a con....its just a clever marketing tool using other popular items to make sales.

Its similar to deception.....people are not looking for his DVD's, they are having them thrown in their faces if you like

Its crafty, sneaky and fools do fall for it, but it isn't illegal

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Okay so has anyone ever brought or even considered buying a tutorial dvd off ebay?"

Your looking for a con that isn't there,

If I had just bought an expensive makeup set for my daughter, wife, mother as a gift

And there was a BRANDED DVD for a small cost compared to the expensive item then yes I possibly would to put with the gift,

The point is People Do, he is making money from it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Wow...

If you spent that much time and effort on Swinging, you might have had a meet by now

"
ha!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'd just say fair play...then kick him in the nuts. And that IS illegal...if you're caught

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Wow...

If you spent that much time and effort on Swinging, you might have had a meet by now

ha!"

Haha, two track mind, from a male, in fab, we'll have none of that here, this is a local...

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By *icky999Man
over a year ago

warrington

so I need to make a video of me wanking and sell it to rampant rabbit customers?

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Not at all I make it very clear that my item is there to enhance the item that are looking at and not included.

You get roughly 1 in 25 who will buy without reading the description but I simply refund them and ask them to keep the disc anyway which always pleases people.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Okay so has anyone ever brought or even considered buying a tutorial dvd off ebay?

Your looking for a con that isn't there,

If I had just bought an expensive makeup set for my daughter, wife, mother as a gift

And there was a BRANDED DVD for a small cost compared to the expensive item then yes I possibly would to put with the gift,

The point is People Do, he is making money from it"

Exactly right, the items I list are so closely matched that my customers but on impulse.

I also sell a set of 1000's of printable knitting patterns which sit right next to a set of knitting needles in the search results.

Now with one printed pattern costing upto £5 on eBay it get a lot of very happy customers who get thousands for less than the price of 2 printed patterns.

It's not fraud or trickery it is just clever keyword targeting and a great item that compliments whatever my potential customers are looking for.

Puppy crate, how about a cheap video that shows you how to get your puppy used to it in the correct way?

Opportunities are everywhere and people will buy on impulse.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Its not a con....its just a clever marketing tool using other popular items to make sales.

Its similar to deception.....people are not looking for his DVD's, they are having them thrown in their faces if you like

Its crafty, sneaky and fools do fall for it, but it isn't illegal"

And fools are easily parted with their money.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Maybe it's a generation thing, but if I want info on anything e.g a puppy crate training method I'll look on YouTube or wikihow.

The principal of "oh it'll be easier to get the video while I'm looking at it" attitude is probably very common. Probably used by people with less knowledge on how to get the exact same information for free.

I'm going to buy a coffee table on Monday - very ornate, never seen one like it and even a good bit of digging on google couldn't bring up any results.

Most people might if stopped and thought it's probably junk. But throw in image searches and after another load of digging I've just found my table that's up for £40 is worth £500

Good bit of word targeting OP. classic marketing tactics, wording and product placement. You pay tax on your profit, so I can't see people's problems - probably the same people who buy the mars bars at the checkout that they didn't really want

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By *ouple in LancashireCouple
over a year ago

in Lancashire

'just legal' is one step away from not legal..

what's next preying on the elderly..?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Maybe it's a generation thing, but if I want info on anything e.g a puppy crate training method I'll look on YouTube or wikihow.

I'm going to buy a coffee table on Monday - very ornate, never seen one like it and even a good bit of digging on google couldn't bring up any results.

Most people might if stopped and thought it's probably junk. But throw in image searches and after another load of digging I've just found my table that's up for £40 is worth £500

I know a lot of people who if you showed them a video on how to do something on YouTube they'd dismiss it take the exact same video put in on a did and stick a price tag on it and they'd pay attention and listen.

It's weird

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By *ee VianteWoman
over a year ago

Somewhere in North Norfolk

I'm not understanding why so many people are thinking this is illegal or dodgy.

The OP is obtaining, (buying, if my maths is right because £16.50 plus £6 does not equal £1.15 each for 50 discs), something he is allowed to resell.

He's packaging it, (i.e. having it put on to his design of dvd).

He's then advertising it as an add-on product to something that is already popular.

He's not pretending it's something it isn't. He's simply marketing it so that when people look for the popular product, they see his product as well. Many buy it to go with the product they were looking for.

It's not dodgy. It's not theft. It's not conning anyone. It's using keywords to ensure your product is seen by the people most likely to buy it.

Personally I've no idea where to find material that can be purchased to be repackaged to resell or I'd seriously consider it.

It's not conning anyone. It's not theft. It's totally legal, not even a teensy bit possibly illegal. It's not even a technical, grey area.

The OP is getting a lot of undeserved flak here, for trying to share tips that may help people.

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By *ee VianteWoman
over a year ago

Somewhere in North Norfolk

"Maybe it's a generation thing, but if I want info on anything e.g a puppy crate training method I'll look on YouTube or wikihow.

I'm going to buy a coffee table on Monday - very ornate, never seen one like it and even a good bit of digging on google couldn't bring up any results.

Most people might if stopped and thought it's probably junk. But throw in image searches and after another load of digging I've just found my table that's up for £40 is worth £500

It's weird "

Yup. Some people are very suspicious of freely available information or products. Something you pay for must be better. And something you pay more for will be even better than that.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"I'm not understanding why so many people are thinking this is illegal or dodgy.

The OP is obtaining, (buying, if my maths is right because £16.50 plus £6 does not equal £1.15 each for 50 discs), something he is allowed to resell.

He's packaging it, (i.e. having it put on to his design of dvd).

He's then advertising it as an add-on product to something that is already popular.

It's not dodgy. It's not theft. It's not conning anyone. It's using keywords to ensure your product is seen by the people most likely to buy it.

Personally I've no idea where to find material that can be purchased to be repackaged to resell or I'd seriously consider it.

It's not conning anyone. It's not theft. It's totally legal, not even a teensy bit possibly illegal. It's not even a technical, grey area.

The OP is getting a lot of undeserved flak here, for trying to share tips that may help people."

You are spot on, the £1.15 is taking into account the cost of the stamp too which is why my calculations look a bit off haha.