When I first started on Ebay, you could sell almost anything for big bucks. It was new and people used to go wild, racking up huge debts buying ridiculous things they didn't need. Now it is much harder to do well there. If you can buy something cheap enough at a yard sale and interesting enough for someone to pay big bucks for it and if it is not too heavy or fragile....go for it. One of our early sales was a RedWing vase. Pretty rare and we got $200 for it, but the packing was poor and it broke on the way. Guess who was out $200 (hint: it wasn't the buyer!)
A bit about SMC and dropshippers.
There are websites all over everywhere that want to sell you lists of dropshippers who will let you sell their products on Ebay and they will ship to the buyer for you. It seems most of those sites are a scam. (Who'd of guessed?) Charles Malta seems to have a system that gives you access to honest dropshippers which would allow you to sell any of millions of great Ebay type items. Of course, it will cost money to join him. I have decided to wait until my current enterprises earn enough to pay his fees, but I did bookmark his page.
SMC has over 3000 things for you to sell. They are very efficient and have been around for a while. Happy Days Dad hawks it on the TV. You do have to pay a fee to join, and you have to pay for catalogs if you want them. The merchandise is ok and sometimes pretty neat. (I seem to be my own best customer!) You can see their stuff, or some of it, in my store. The thing is, on Ebay, everyone and his sister is trying to sell the same exact thing. Try searching for Corn Husk Nesting Baskets and see what comes up. The market is flooded.
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