| Today I'm going to show you how to make | | | | product as and when required. You do not want |
| THIRTY CENTS a day! Isn't that wonderful? Will | | | | to have tens of thousands of products cluttering |
| that help you pay the bills? | | | | up your home. |
| Actually it should pay much more than your | | | | * Those products with a profit margin of 30c |
| day-to day bills, it should also pay the mortgage, | | | | each or more per sale, might actually cost several |
| buy a new car, pay the kids' school fees, and | | | | dollars each to buy, another reason you must find |
| more! | | | | a reliable wholesaler, able to provide stock within |
| Actually, I'm back on my 'numbers game' hobby | | | | 24 hours; another reason you don't want to buy |
| horse again, I spend lots of time riding this little | | | | items up front. |
| beauty, and THIRTY CENTS a day is my | | | | * I know what you are thinking and, no, you are |
| favourite numbers game of all because ..... | | | | definitely wrong! It won't take years or even |
| ..... if you do something that makes just thirty | | | | months to stock your eBay business with 100 x |
| cents pure profit each day, the phrase being 'each | | | | 30 cents minimum pure profit products. But you |
| day', over one month it adds up to $9 or | | | | have to put safeguards in place right from day |
| thereabouts (30 x 30c), over the year it makes | | | | one. My first experience of the 30c game, a few |
| about $108 (12 x $9). You see how such a tiny | | | | years ago, found me listing just three or four |
| amount of money adds up to a tidy annual | | | | new dog jewellery charms a day, every day, for |
| income? | | | | a month. They sold like hot cakes, for a month or |
| As examples you might consider fish hooks that | | | | so, then the supplier let me down and I had to |
| cost 30c wholesale and sell at 60c each on eBay, | | | | start all over again. So ... |
| charms that cost you $2 to make and sell at | | | | * ..... you must check suppliers very carefully |
| $2.30 plus on eBay, and so on. | | | | before adding their stock to your product range. |
| It's not at all difficult, I've done it many times and | | | | It only takes a few minutes, as happened to me, |
| you'll find almost every top eBay PowerSeller | | | | to ruin all the hard work you've just done. |
| owes their entire livelihood to playing the THIRTY | | | | * With so many items selling each day, you are |
| CENTS game. | | | | going to have to work a little harder at answering |
| Look at eBayers selling thousands of products | | | | questions, fulfilling orders, managing feedback. Buy |
| each month, usually tiny inexpensive bits and | | | | hey, who cares about that, business is business, |
| pieces, such as jewellery charms, CDs, bobbins of | | | | and it sure beats working to someone else's rules! |
| cotton, eBooks, picture mounting frames, fish | | | | For 'someone else's rules' read JOB (Just Over |
| hooks, and any of literally millions of things I could | | | | Broke). |
| write about from now to forever. But I'll forego | | | | * You can even run this business using items you |
| that dubious pleasure, I'll leave it to you to work it | | | | create yourself, such as eBooks, prints and |
| all out for yourself, it's much easier than it sounds. | | | | photographs from the public domain, and so on. |
| And you can do it all by checking out the top | | | | But there's another sneaky way to make this |
| eBay sellers on various product category pages | | | | business work even better still. The secret is to |
| at any eBay Pulse site. | | | | sell low value collectibles, in one item lots, such as |
| The secret to making really big money from the | | | | cigarette cards and playing cards, and other small |
| THIRTY CENTS principle is to continuously list and | | | | bits and pieces which are part of bigger, complete |
| test new items, hour after hour, day after day, | | | | sets. To illustrate, you'll see people selling individual |
| week after week. | | | | collector plates, individual cigarette cards, individual |
| List one hundred items that fetch 30 cents pure | | | | stamps. The secret is to list an item just once |
| profit every day and that's $10,000 a year you'll | | | | and to use it to sell similar products for the |
| be making. List one hundred items that fetch $3 | | | | foreseeable future. That means you must |
| profit each day and your income sky rockets to | | | | continuously buy such items in bulk at boot sales |
| an amazing $100,000 plus. | | | | and flea markets where they'll sell very |
| Tips | | | | inexpensively and you must also buy good quality |
| * Products musts be available in bulk at a low | | | | specimens only to ensure every product sold |
| purchase price and you must be able to buy | | | | matches that originally listed for the product. |