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Clothes sales on eBay

Anonymous ID:4wmtNr1I Thu 22 Oct 2015 09:33:37 No.933595 View Reply Report Delete

Quoted By: >>935004 >>935275 >>938492

Whats your opinion on selling clothes on eBay for profit if you have a few hundred dollars to begin with? why, why not?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:MKay1PgV Thu 22 Oct 2015 21:16:32 No.934165 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>934452 >>934459 >>936173 >>937557

I make about $4k a month in profit with clothes.

Here is how:
Go on Amazon. Become an FBA Seller.

Go to a store with $500 and buy shit like LEGO that sell quick. Buy a bunch of stuff that will sell quick.

You won't make money, but keep doing it. Learn FBA.

Keep reinvesting until your $500 savings is nothing because of overhead and fee's. Think of this as a one time $500, your experience in shipping things to fulfillment centers is what you are really paying for. You are also paying for a good transaction history on Amazon. If you are lucky, you have a couple positive seller feedbacks by now.

Apply to be ungated to sell clothing on Amazon. Right now, they are letting low level sellers in, this will change and they will make it very strict again.

Go to store, and buy clothing off of clearance racks. Take amazing fucking pictures.

STAY THE FUCK AWAY FROM WOMENS CLOTHING. Don't be enticed by the sales and profit margins. Womens clothing attracts women clothing customers which are literally the worst pieces of consumer shit on the planet.

Places that sell what I call "second market" clothing, at places like Burlington Coat Factory, TJ Maxx, Marhsalls, etc are good. If you can be apart of some rewards system, like Hot Topic does a "Buy 1 thing, get rewards points, 2nd item is half off" - this is just $25% off, which is good if you can find some shit that sells quickly.

Go on eBay, find shit on there too. Auctions are legit, since eBay has shit traffic and nobody really bids shit up anymore. You can figure out what you want to pay for things, set your proxy bid, and move on. If you win, good for you. If you don't, who cares, move on. I do mostly the eBay thing because its easier. I do $4k a month because I only work maybe 8 hours a week sending boxes of clothing to Amazon. I browse eBay maybe 2-3 hours a night once a week setting bids

Amazon rank on clothing means nothing, but you have to use some common sense to figure out if something has any actual value.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:4wmtNr1I Fri 23 Oct 2015 03:07:20 No.934452 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>934461

>>934165
so you buy items from eBay and then sell them to amazon?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:4wmtNr1I Fri 23 Oct 2015 03:29:09 No.934459 Report Delete

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>>934165
when do you pack the items? i bet it does take some time according to your volume

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:MKay1PgV Fri 23 Oct 2015 03:32:39 No.934461 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>934477 >>934480

>>934452
sell them On Amazon. FBA is a fulfillment service that ships things to your customers for you. It's a good way to sell in higher volume.

>>934459
Takes me about 8 hours a week. I just fold them up and use an impulse sealer. Put a label on them, put them in a box, send them where Amazon tells me to, wait for the shit to sell.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:4wmtNr1I Fri 23 Oct 2015 03:59:51 No.934477 Report Delete

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>>934461
yeah so basicly all i need to do is to buy shit from ebay etc, then send them to amazon and wait until amazon sells my shit

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:4wmtNr1I Fri 23 Oct 2015 04:01:06 No.934480 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>934490

>>934461
how do you deal with the items that doesn't sell, but you've sent them already to amazon?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:MKay1PgV Fri 23 Oct 2015 05:00:28 No.934490 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>934492

>>934480
I drop prices until it eventually sells. If it simply isn't selling on the Amazon marketplace, then I will do a "Lot" listing on eBay, list all of the clothes for sale as a lot, set up an auction, and sell it for a loss.

Long term storage fee's are crazy cheap, so this isn't much of a problem. I have had clothes on there I completely forgot about that sells 2 years later for a high price that still covers the 2 years of storage fees. (IE: Buy jacket for $19, sell for $80 2 years later)

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:4wmtNr1I Fri 23 Oct 2015 05:16:06 No.934492 Report Delete

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>>934490
Thank you, this helped me a lot.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:MKay1PgV Fri 23 Oct 2015 05:23:23 No.934496 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>934504

Here is an item: B015VSZ8OS
eBay: 191717034215

Quick $10, will sell within less than a week. Almost no competition on Amazon.

This is a low profit example, I shot them an offer for $20 - if they accept, I'll make $17 in profit after fees. With say $1000, you could be making $200 a week in profit pretty quickly depending on how good you are at evaluating how fast the shit will sell. eBay Advanced helps you figure out sell-thru.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:4wmtNr1I Fri 23 Oct 2015 05:37:05 No.934504 Report Delete

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>>934496
Whats your opinion on low price items such as jewellery?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:MKay1PgV Fri 23 Oct 2015 08:26:59 No.934578 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>934595 >>934596 >>934599 >>934973 >>934992 >>936600

I have had good experiences in buying in bulk from China, but I buy "keyword" jewelry. Shit like an Owl Ring. Octopus necklace. Even a necklace that says "Bad Bitch" sells better than a necklace that can only be associated or described by broad keywords.

If you want to do that, go on eBay, type in something like "Owl Earrings" and filter your results to only show sellers from countries like China, Hong Kong, Thailand, Vietnam, etc.

For example:
ebay: 141678621114

msg the seller with a list of all of the shit you want to buy from them specifically by going through their listings. Shoot them a price like 60% of the total, they are going to save money on shipping. Importantly, tell them you can pay them directly. This saves them money on eBay fees. They can't really send you their e-mail address because eBay filters msgs between buyers and sellers, so buy the cheapest item from them, which gives you their e-mail address attached to their paypal. msg them the reference number, and leave a note with all of the items you are buying.

If you want to be a dick, you could dispute the payment after you get the goods (FREE INVENTORY) - but don't be a dick, these people make almost no money.

Macroshots are important, and I recommend setting items next to something like a ruler for measurement and taking a picture, Amazon suspends sellers for having photos without the white background. I also use the pictures from eBay.

Jewelry sells slower, profit margins aren't bad though. Costs to get started is low, and your shipments to Amazon Fulfillment centers will be super cheap because the items are small.

When you first add the items to your inventory, put high prices. Those owl earrings? Send them in at $50 a pair or something. Amazon FBA loses TONS OF SHIT and they reimburse you for it. Sometimes they will pay you the cost based on the lowest price seller, you can argue that, and sometimes they just pay you what you are asking for the item. You can adjust prices later on.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:4wmtNr1I Fri 23 Oct 2015 08:55:51 No.934595 Report Delete

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>>934578
Thank you very much, this was so useful information for me.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:08qgpkwT Fri 23 Oct 2015 09:03:55 No.934596 Report Delete

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>>934578
i think I'm going to set up an account and start making some sales. This is perfect job because I'm at the uni atm

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:08qgpkwT Fri 23 Oct 2015 09:06:27 No.934599 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>935109

>>934578
they sell those owl earrings for few dollars at amazon so its not going to sell for 50$

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:gWCr82Hd Fri 23 Oct 2015 09:42:20 No.934620 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>934800

I sell vintage clothing male only. Other guy is right don't even think about wemons. Unless it's something like true religon or st johns.

Its all about knowing where to get a steady supply. Up to you to figure how to get it and where.

Here's a tip. Buy military clothing it always sells well.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:08qgpkwT Fri 23 Oct 2015 13:38:30 No.934800 Report Delete

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>>934620
thank you, I'm going to try.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:zkkbDi+a Fri 23 Oct 2015 16:35:43 No.934973 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>935109

>>934578
What do you mean by pay directly? Like paypal?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:zkkbDi+a Fri 23 Oct 2015 16:47:37 No.934992 Report Delete

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>>934578
also for jewelry, do you add papers to attach the earings etc? All the sellers sell w/o that. Do you have your own branding? If so where do you get that card stock made?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:AmZSO8B7 Fri 23 Oct 2015 16:58:10 No.935004 Report Delete

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>>933595
Thanks

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:MKay1PgV Fri 23 Oct 2015 18:08:40 No.935109 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>935772 >>935779

>>934599
You're right, they won't sell for $50. That is not what I mean. Chances are with FBA they would sell for $12.99 or so.

The reason why you list them at $50 is because Amazon loses items within their fulfillment centers, and jewelry is a really small item for them to manage. If Amazon loses it while sorting it or storing it, they will reimburse you $50 because you had it listed for $50. Technically, they would reimburse you for like $43 because of fee's.

Sometimes Amazon gets a stick up their ass and will only reimburse you for $12 or something, but you have to msg them like "Hells no, I was going to sell this for $50. You lost it, you have to pay me the full value!" and they will, 99% of the time.

Amazon likes to lose shit. I was reimbursed $1200 recently because Amazon lost a box to PHX6 which is their Phoenix Arizona location. Amazon reimbursed me for everything that was in the box.

>>934973
Yes, PayPal. I thought about using stock business cards and punching small holes. Havent done it yet, I mostly stick to clothes and toys and games.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:wjFvQYGw Fri 23 Oct 2015 18:51:40 No.935154 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>935246

I would want to sell something too but the post office is a bit far from my home and I don't have a car. Bicycle is an option but the road there is a fucking shit so narrow and busy and there's no bicycle path of course. What to do?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:zkkbDi+a Fri 23 Oct 2015 20:28:11 No.935246 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>935260

>>935154
box it up yourself, and have UPS pick it up.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:wjFvQYGw Fri 23 Oct 2015 20:57:36 No.935260 Report Delete

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>>935246
Probably will have to do it. Just don't wont this maggots take all my money.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:7lqYx75w Fri 23 Oct 2015 21:14:32 No.935275 Report Delete

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>>933595
I used to make good money reselling high end clothing I bought from thrift stores on eBay.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:zkkbDi+a Sat 24 Oct 2015 10:56:33 No.935772 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>936132 >>936141

>>935109
Toys and games? Do you try to speculate which will be popular? LIke obviously star wars stuff, and shit like that? Or is there a way to source it cheaper from china like the costume jewelry?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:zkkbDi+a Sat 24 Oct 2015 11:10:31 No.935779 Report Delete

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>>935109

Also I live near a mall that is losing business, but is always busy around christmas due to the big box stores like Macys being there.

I was thinking of renting a cart and selling christmas shit I buy cheap on ebay. Anyone ever do this? I would also maybe buy some themed Jewely and light up shit or gay glasses for new years on it.

Any insight on this idea would be appreciated, as it is really my first venture into the entrepreneurial world.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:MKay1PgV Sat 24 Oct 2015 18:45:59 No.936132 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>936137 >>936986

>>935772
I built an "analytics tool" that scrapes a lot of data from Amazon, updates rank and price, number of sellers, their available inventory, etc. I (my virtual assistant) then search for items within a specific range and profit potential. High rank items mean it hasnt sold in a while and usually can be found on eBay cheaper sometimes there are other varibles I can look into to figure out why it hasnt sold in months, this kind of stuff has a higher profit margin but sells slower. On the other hand, low rank, like a toy ranked at 60 sells quickly and the demand is high enough that prices are the same on eBay and other sites - this means no profit. I find a middle area in rank with a range of prices like $19 - $22 which could sell well on Amazon for $35 which is a prefered price for Prime members. Or $30 - $100, rank 2000 - 176,000. Goal is to avoid buying shit that doesnt sell within less than 45 days.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:zkkbDi+a Sat 24 Oct 2015 18:54:14 No.936137 Report Delete

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>>936132
I gotcha, what I nice little tool. Looking at what is out there, unless you could find a nice source, Jewelry seems to be a decent way of making profit. I'm sure you are excited for the holidays.

I recall last year my grandfather buying my sister a 5 set piece of cast iron pans etc for 150, yet you can buy the same thing at target for 60. Have you tried your luck with targeting certain items like that or is it not really worth the time.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:MKay1PgV Sat 24 Oct 2015 18:59:57 No.936141 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>936210

>>935772
You can speculate, I do with young childrens toys. Check out the prices for older Monsters Inc, Umi Zoomi, Blues Clues, Toy Soldiers, etc. But the holds are so long term.

Short term speculation is risky but you can make some serious cash, everyone went out and bought Star Wars and then Amazon restricted sellers from selling it so that was kind of funny. I made a lot of money from Frozen Barbies, I took my kid to see the movie, seen there were only like 3 Frozen toys, seen price of the Barbies around $40 on Amazon. Sold literally minutes of being at the fulfillment centers. By the time prices hit $72 and even $90, I had cleared out every Frozen Barbie from every retail store in a 250 mile radius. It was during xmas time. Each one cost me $13. I probably ruined a couple of little girls Chritmas that year, but I made well over $100,000 in profit from that one single toy.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:/80T/kIT Sat 24 Oct 2015 19:25:43 No.936157 Report Delete

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>use feminine eBay username like "katyrox294"
>find well-used women's shoes and tights
>put them for sale with item names like "well worn womens shoes" or "used womens tights"
>watch the fetishists bid like fuck in the hope to satisfy their twisted desire
>???
>profit

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:QDKl68I2 Sat 24 Oct 2015 19:49:41 No.936173 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>936199

>>934165
Why are you going on about your method? Usually people try and protect themselves from competition. Is your method no longer viable? Did you get banned?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:AimjPZgD Sat 24 Oct 2015 20:25:47 No.936199 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>936212 >>939342

>>936173
I still do it. If there are 1000 people reading this, i doubt mote than one or two people are ever going to actually try it. If someone is asking questions, the more I am inclined to believe that they are going to try it in which case, a couple competitors wont affect me, at all, and I have no problem sharing what I know.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:zkkbDi+a Sat 24 Oct 2015 20:44:59 No.936210 Report Delete

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>>936141
Shit, thats what I'm looking to do, but those don't come around every year, and this year it seems that there is no short of supply for star wars stuff.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:zkkbDi+a Sat 24 Oct 2015 20:46:50 No.936212 Report Delete

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>>936199
I've actually already ordered a few things from chinese sources. I have a like 50 sales on amazon for games I found on sale, but I hope to boost my seller rating to where I can become FBA.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:UUHTbjb6 Sun 25 Oct 2015 09:14:38 No.936600 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>936655

>>934578
I was going to post before but chan did not like my IP.

Been dabbling a lot in Ebay but due to other reasons I never took it to the next level. Your experiences are similar to mine, but you've really narrowed it down and express the details in a very concise way. 9/10, would buy on Kindle. Appreciate it.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:6Sbs/KYk Sun 25 Oct 2015 11:07:22 No.936655 Report Delete

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>>936600
Is dhgate a viable vendor?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:bbx3BruW Sun 25 Oct 2015 14:56:45 No.936892 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>936897 >>937057

I make a decent amount from selling high fashion shit on Grailed

I buy shit from Yahoo Japan, take better pictures, and sell them to rich fuccboi kids who will buy anything that's designer. I made £500 last week because a guy sold me 5 vintage Helmut Lang denim jackets for £30 each, and I sold them for £120 each because people think that Helmut Lang denim jackets are actually expensive

obnoxious shit with loud brand names works best

This only works well if you browse /fa/ enough to know what the consumerist kids are buying into at the moment, which is pretty soul sucking in itself

P.S, not really, relevant, but why is Royal Mail international shipping so much cheaper? This is from the UK to the USA, and I don't ship to the USA often because it usually costs a ton

Anonymous

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Anonymous ID:bbx3BruW Sun 25 Oct 2015 14:58:01 No.936897 Report Delete

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>>936892
>>936892
*made £450 even

also forgot pic

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:TH66snO3 Sun 25 Oct 2015 16:24:39 No.936986 Report Delete

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>>936132

What tech did you use to make the scraper/analytics tool? I run a similar business on a different auction site and have been thinking about this, could I get a similar software tool created by a contractor from an outsourcing website such as elance?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:UUHTbjb6 Sun 25 Oct 2015 17:30:07 No.937057 Report Delete

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>>936892
>Royal Mail
The reason why some countries' shipping is cheaper seems to be related to size of the market. I have lived all over Europe, and in UK, DE and PT I can do decent business. Whenever I go back to the Scandifag country that I hail from, I have to stop my ebay sales more or less. Sad state of affairs. I am considering just sending all to Amazon FBA next time I am in a country with Amazon warehouses, and deal with it that way.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:wCFOgERK Mon 26 Oct 2015 10:41:01 No.937557 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>939409

>>934165
I have a few questions for you, and i would appreciate if you would like to help me to begin my adventure to the entrepreunial world.

I did some research on the FBA thing, and there are few things that im not sure of.

1. taxation things. i assume i have to pay some kind of sales tax, i currently live in EU?

2. credit card. there was a some kind of mention that i need a credit card, because of the shipping payments, reimbursements etc.

3. Pro account or an individual one?

4. How about insurance?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:Kky8yf8G Tue 27 Oct 2015 07:14:26 No.938492 Report Delete

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>>933595
shameless bump

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:sTkWTv0V Tue 27 Oct 2015 20:54:49 No.939165 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>939396

Can anyone elaborate on why selling women's clothing is a bad idea?

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:jN4GsTiy Tue 27 Oct 2015 23:16:56 No.939342 Report Delete

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>>936199
You are based, anon.
I probably will not try this, but I cruise biz to see what's going on in the market and to share my own advice. I think you're right, low cost for you and high karma value.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:MKay1PgV Tue 27 Oct 2015 23:56:57 No.939396 Report Delete

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>>939165
Because statistically, they refund the most clothing, and leave the worst reviews and feedback. When you sell on another platform, such as Amazon, these things are seller evaluation components that can count against you. The money is not worth the headache.

A company like Zappos could NOT have existed if they started their business solely on Amazon or eBay. For example, BHFO struggling to get the fuck off of eBay.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:MKay1PgV Wed 28 Oct 2015 00:04:16 No.939409 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>939813

>>937557
1) I'm in the U.S., I'm not qualified to really give you any legit advice on taxes for your country.
2) You need a credit card to verify your account, but its mostly if your sales account becomes negative and you owe Amazon money from fee's.
3) Pro Account.
4) I personally have a 5mil insurance policy that covers a lot of things, you won't need one to provide for Amazon until you have something like $120,000 in sales or something like that. Or if you introduce a lot of items to the market place through your own brand.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:enOUljBX Wed 28 Oct 2015 10:26:15 No.939813 Report Delete

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>>939409
Thank you so much. To be honest you're my favorite buddy here lmao.

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