what can spur somebody who has never bought or sold goods on net to do so?
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1. earning money\n2. it can be seen as easy to do.\n3. current trends - ie. everyone else is doing it!
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Think about a booth in a local flea market, or swap meet.  I have seen guys who have set up a little retail business selling new, custom built computers.  The overhead is cheap. Also, you could keep your inventory in your car and sell to your techno geek friends at coffee houses, etc.  I know a guy who literally had a "satchel full of blues," Cd's that he had left over after his music store failed.  He would sell them to his friends at restaurants and coffee houses.
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sell things that people would want to buy....like food, candy, pens, pencils, book covers ( the strechy kind that have prints)....Good Luck
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Sell things on ebay.\nSign up to be a Mystery Shopper.\nTake surveys online and get paid for them.
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Have your parents help you sell your old toys that you don't play with anymore or clothes you don't wear on eBay.  It's a great way to make money and you don't have to throw things away.  Someone's trash is another's treasure :)
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Hi There you could try toboc it is free to join and it has a lot of trade links from around the world. Or why dont you build your own online store and sell direct to the public there. I have a great piece of software that will show you how to do this from start to finish. Check it out. I hope this helps you. Good luck
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Sell products that people actually want. \n\nSelling on eBay is not as easy as some portray. In fact, go to eBay and check out the number of auctions that end without a single bid. Competition is getting tough, as more sellers go to eBay; even the big boys are joining in the eBay marketplace. Add to that the increasing listing and final value fees.\n\neBay has several ways for you to determine exactly what the hot items to sell on their marketplace: \n\nItems In Demand = the most popular items currently within that particular category. To see the In Demand page, go to http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/sellbycategory.html  \n\nHot Items by Category Report = a monthly report that lists the fastest growing categories on eBay for the previous month. Go to http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/whatshot.html and select "Hot Items by Category" from the menu on the left. \n\neBay Pulse = "a daily snapshot of current trends, hot picks, and cool stuff on eBay". Go to http://pulse.ebay.com/ to see eBay Pulse in action. \n\nMerchandising Calendar = eBay promotes specific categories on its home page each month. Savvy eBayers know that this home page exposure results in more interest in such categories. Go to http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/calendar.html  to view the current Merchandising Calendar.
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Don't give up the day job. Start a second business in your spare time, such as selling things on eBay. Then when you've earnt more money, you'll be in a better position to start a business full-time. You'll also have some business experience, in researching what people want, what price to sell at, advertising, accounts and taxes, etc.\n\nThere are lots of people selling similar goods at similar prices. To maximize your profits, you need to put loads of effort into buying things cheaply for re-sale. For example, store closing-down sales, end-of-line clearance sales, last years model of something, goods imported straight from china, things that vary in price a lot during the year (such as christmas lights in January), etc. Second hand goods aren't much use, as you can't normally buy 100 of the same thing, and people prefer new stuff.\n\nOne business phrase that I remember is that 'You make money when you buy, not when you sell'. Your profit is the difference between the buying and selling price. Its better to buy cheaply than it is to spend loads of effort on selling things to people at high prices.\n\nYou could specialise in hard-to-obtain items, such as imported music, DVDs, books, fashion, artworks, etc.\n\nYou can get things made to order for you with your own design on it (such as t-shirts). This adds value to each item for very little cost.\n\nTalk to your friends and do research on the net to expand on these ideas.
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Open  a saving account and get an adult to sign on with you.  It can be set up so that you need two signatures to get your money.  Also don't get a debit card or checks for that account.  That way you have to go to the bank to get it.  Maybe on the trip to the bank, you will have a chance to rethink your purchase.  Another way is to set a rule not to make any purchase over say $20.00 until you have "slept on it" if you still really want it the next day, wait one more day.  Then decide if you really want it.  Hope this helps.  Have fun in Mexico.
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I would recommend starting with something you enjoy, find a wholesale supplier or make the goods/services yourself, and setup a store with eBay.  This is really quick and easy (AKA: cheap) to start.  If you don't know exactly what you want to do it is a good way to see how it will work without a huge investment.  If you are successful in that marketplace you can take it to the next level and expand into a more traditional business model with less risk!  \n\nTry playing around with writing a business plan and see what your risk and financial tolerance is.  The link below is a good tool for planning a new eBay business, I would recommend you check this out first!
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Sell stuff on Ebay.  You know how to use a computer...and everyone has stuff they no longer need...so start listing.
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*steal newspapers from yards and sell them downtown\n\ndog walking\n\nselling craftwork, beeds, jewelry, decorations, handmade paper, tie-dyed tee shirts\n\nphotography, selling prints, postcards, greeting cards\n\nfixing computers\n\nbuilding computers\n\nselling baked goods like cookies,cakes, pies\n\nget a booth at local farmers market or flea market to sell any of the things mentioned\n\nbuy clearance items from wal-mart and target and sell them on ebay for less than retail +shipping and leave the sticker on them just to make the buyer upset when they see the price\n\nsell artwork, drawings, paintings, sculpture\n\nsetup a website telling people why you want money and ask them to donate $0.01 or $1\n\n*sell bootleg copies of dvds $5 ea\n\nbuy wholesale beauty products from India, re-package the products, place your own label on them and sell them to high end retaiers and/or co-ops\n\nbuild custom bicycles\n\n*rob a girl scout\n\nbabysitting\n\n*learn how to modify xboxs and playstations, you can sell those for hundreds\n\npolish shoes\n\nfarm for platinum on everquest and sell it on auction sites. they say you can make up to 4.50/hr (more than Alabama's minimum wage) if you do it consistantly\n\n\n*go to Mexico and work in sweatshop\n\nhouse cleaning\n\ncarwash\n\ntake your video games to Gamestop or Funco\n\nsell your comics\n\nask your parents for money\n\ndog washing\n\npray for it\n\n\n\n    *May include illegal or unethical activity.\n\nGood Luck!
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You may try ebay .   You do not need to have the goods you want to sell .   But you would not get instant results .   Number of things will have to be handled before you succeed.   But this is a business where minimum capital is required .  You have not informed you age .   Answers would be different for different age group people.
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i've never sold anything on ebay. but what about u?
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That's a very good question. My wife started our ebay business four and a half years ago. She pulled some of our sons' clothes out of the closet and thought she'd try selling them on ebay. The clothes were in perfect condition, by the way.\n\nI didn't think much of it at the time, but when I saw that my wife was working so hard, I decided to hop in there and help her. The number one thing that filled my mind was the question you're basically asking right here: How can I promote my wife on the Internet - as a whole - and get people from everywhere - not just ebay - to come to her store?\n\nSince I'm a web designer, I already knew we needed to get our hands and feet stretched out there as far as we could on the Web. I already owned MrWebAuthor.com and my wife was going by MrsWebAuthor on her ebay, so we merged our online endeavors and created MrMrsWebAuthor.com. We now own a few different domains, we don't have any paid advertising on any of them, however, every page offers a link either directly or indirectly to my wife's ebay auctions or store.\n\nNow that we're both in all the main search engines (Yahoo, MSN, Google, etc), thousands of people show up at our sites looking for more than just ebay; even though, many of them arrive just for the ebay, too.\n\nI've said all that to say this: Promote yourself OUTSIDE of ebay and folks will come to your store from all directions. Consider this scenario, if you will. How many hundreds of thousands of people visit ebay by initially going through the portal of ebay.com? How many sellers do you think there are within the framework of ebay alone? Lots! Lots! and more Lots!\n\nIf a person thinks they can capture a large market by ONLY capturing the people who are already "inside" ebay, they're cheating themselves of the ever-growing market on the World Wide Web as a whole. My suggestion is that you promote yourself out on the Internet, not as an ebay seller, but rather as an authority at whatever you're proficient at doing.\n\nExample: Let's say you sell fishing stuff on ebay because fishing is your passion. Don't just try and promote your fishing ebay store in and throughout the Internet, but rather write articles in newsgroups, on forums, on your blogs, and even build a website that teaches people how to fish and how to catch those proverbial "big ones".\n\nIf you know how to build your own site, purchase a domain that matches your business, such as HowToFish.com, and make that domain name the name of your business. Then, when people visit your sites and blogs to learn more about fishing, they'll see links to your ebay merchandise and click on them -- if not for anything more than sheer curiosity.\n\nAll of this sounds easy, but in reality it's a lot of HARD work and requires countless hours of your time. But, if you're willing to invest in your business, trust me, it will pay off. Here we are, almost five short years later, and we're shipping product worldwide on a daily basis. It worked for us, and if you have what it takes (and I'm believing you do), it can work for you as well.
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Try people pc or net zero