I'm not knocking the e-Bay thing, people do a make a decent living out that, but you have to have make it work for you. I have a lot of friends in college that buy stuff cheap on e-Bay, and instead of reselling it on e-Bay with the starting price being the price they paid for it, they listed the item on Craigslist for a bit more. Sure, there's no bidding, but I know I get tired of seeing the same items on e-Bay being sold again by the winning bidders.
What I do wit e-Bay is selling used books. I'll go the library and buy books that are in fabulous condition from the bins for 10c to 25c, or yardsales even, and then list them on eBay starting at like, $5 or so, plus shipping. So you're really making some decent money on used books.
The only thing with eBay is that you have to build a reputation and good feedback first, and you do that with buying first before trying to sell.
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