One very important point when starting to sell on eBay is to not invest your own money right away. Instead roll every penny you make back into the business at first… If you have already sold everything you can find around your house and you have begged and pleaded with your friends and family to sell their extra stuff then you should have a nice little stack of cash ready to invest. However, if you use that money to pay bills or just have to have that new outfit, it will take you much longer to build enough money to get your eBay business rolling.

Not too long ago, I was teaching a friend how to sell on eBay. She sold things around her house and gathered enough seed money to start her eBay business. She actually had a nice niche on eBay carved out for herself selling vintage hats. However, she started spending more than she was making and before long didn’t have enough funds to continue the business.

Even if you do have the money laying around to invest, I suggest that you only use reinvested profits at first. You want to slowly ease your way onto eBay. By reinvesting just your profits you will pace yourself and learn everything you need to know to run a successful eBay business.

Even though you feel like you are going slow, that seed money will grow quicker than you think. Before long you will have enough money to really start growing your eBay empire plus have the knowledge under your belt to do it the right way.

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The year was 1998 and I saw an editorial on the new emerging eBay trend on a news website that I frequented. I was on my lunch break at my job when I read about it. I remember being so excited the whole day about all the possibilities of this new online venue. I could hardly wait to get home and find out more.

When I got home, I spent the whole night doing research on eBay and I liked what I saw. There seemed to be a lot of people on eBay and there seemed to be a lot of items listed… The thing that finally sold me on the idea is that people were actually bidding on the stuff that was being listed and I couldn’t believe how much money the items were bringing.

I HAD TO GET SOMETHING LISTED RIGHT AWAY!!!

What could I sell? I went immediately to my storage closet and pulled out an old Atari 2600 that had about 50 games with it. It had been collecting dust since the late 1980’s… I figured it would be a great item to get started with. But, would anyone buy such an obsolete piece of 80’s pop culture? BUY IT THEY DID!!!

When the auction was over, I had made over $200 on something that I would have given away for free if someone would have asked me for it. I couldn’t believe it… I was hooked. EBay is what I wanted to do. For the next few weeks, I couldn’t get enough… I sold so much stuff around the house that the cat was hiding thinking she was going to be sold next!

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