darkseraphim wrote:Paradoxically, the more money you spend, the more you'll make. There are two major ways to make money at selling. Both involve having a fairly large and interesting inventory, because buyers want to consolidate shipping costs to save money, they want the convenience of using/trusting a single seller when possible, and the more people you have bidding on your items, the more chance you have of getting higher end prices as they compete. You can improve your odds by starting your auctions extremely low ($0.01, no reserve), which attracts even more bidders; but that's a gamble if your inventory is small.Anyway ... I don't know what you're selling, but if they're all commons and your eBay reputation is small, you're not going to get much. If you buy a couple cheap lots and piece them out with your current inventory, you'll have better results.The two processes I've had luck with are:[1] Hunting. This involves digging up poorly-worded auctions, auctions without pictures, items from questionable/unknown sellers, and items in the wrong category. Snipes at the last minute keep these finds "secret." Profit tends to run around 50%-100%, depending on what you find, but your overall volume is low and you need to spend a lot of time performing deep searches. I do this when I'm broke.[2] Power buying. This involves creating a list of search words and saving the searches, and performing them every week or so. Your focus is on lots and collections. Place a fair but cheap bid on every decent lot you find, via snipe. I usually bid on about 100-150 auctions at a time and win 10-30, but those wins give me hundreds of modules and books at a low price each. Then, twice a month or so, sort everything you've acquired, and sell one item (A1, A2, etc.) of each type that you have. Don't sell duplicates simultaneously or you'll compete with yourself and minimize your profit potential. Profit tends to run around 10%-100%, and is very hard to predict, but volume is high and your time-profit ratio is fairly efficient. I do this when I have deep pockets.If you don't want to resell, you can dump a dozen items or so, but you'll lose out on most of the factors that cause high bids (steady inventory and good services causing repeat customers, acquisition of rares, wide variety of items increasing bids, ability to offer low starting bids due to high volume increasing end auction prices).Probably more information than you wanted, but there it is.Good luck!