If you were going to set up an ebay shop / online shop??

CanvasPrintingUK

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Hi all,

A friend of mine want to start selling on ebay, and online! he already works full time but would like to make a bit of extra cash.

His idea is to start selling something on ebay! The problem is he does not know what??? He pretty much want to act as a middle man buying goos from the supplier and selling on with a markup!

Have any of you got any advice on what he could start selling as simply and easily as possible.

Cheers Guys

Adrian www.canvasprinting-uk.co.uk
 
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Buying bulk info products (e-books) and repackaging them for resale, with imaginative sales blurb could give your "friend" a good insight into how things work on ebay, and "he/she"can make a few quid if you do it diligently. :)
 
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Paul Norman

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If your friend wants to make a bit of extra cash, I would actually be quite careful of trying to set up a business at all. A more certain way would be to take on additional work, if he can get it.

Setting up a business selling stuff is not without risk. And without focus, that risk increases.

It can be done, however, but I have a simple view. If he can't be sufficiently motivated to come up with his own idea, he will struggle to make a go of it.

I have always this advice to give. He comes up with the idea himself. Then we will help him with advice in its execution.
 
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I hope this isn't taking the OP query at too much of a tangent, but do any of the GPL shopping cart systems have good visual discounting promos.

e.g. At the moment ASDA are promoting booze on TV, It shows the bottle at £11 with an X through it, then £10 with an X through it, and a £9 which is their current discounted price. However the visuals demonstrate that it was recently on sale at a higher price, and hence subliminally that the price will go back up to £10 soon very soon, if not at least £11. ie incentising people to buy NOW.
 
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