Garage Sale Treasure Hunter

This post is a little bit out of the ordinary for me. Most of the time, I am writing about how to make money with eBay. Today, I am going in a bit of a different direction. I’m about to tell you about what I’ve learned regarding other ways, besides eBay selling, to make money [...]

In the world of internet marketing, there is a thing called niche marketing.  Volumes have been written (and sold) regarding this topic.  Basically, you try to focus on a small area of interest that holds a market that’s ready to buy.  An example might be “hunting.”  This example is actually a rather large niche, so [...]

The Giant Online Garage Sale I sometimes think of eBay as one big online garage sale.  There is a very important difference with this garage sale though.  At this HUGE online garage sale, you can buy something cheap in one section and then turn around and sell it for a lot more in a different [...]

I decided to start little experiment.  I want to take all of the money I earned selling garage sale finds over a specific period of time, I’m thinking two months, and invest it in purchasing more inventory to sell.  As I sell the merchandise, I intend to keep on reinvesting in estate sale purchases which [...]

Well, I can’t say for sure whether or not this applies to everyone in the world, but eBay is working for me now.  After a day eBay won’t soon forget, things appear to be getting back to normal.  My search for Elvis that previously brought back zero results now brings back over 4,000 again.  Life [...]

Are you wondering what’s wrong with eBay today?  So was I.  I knew something was up when I tried to look up some old Elvis memorabilia and eBay returned a big fat goose egg.  Next I tried “vintage” and got zero results.  It seems that eBay is experiencing some technical difficulties today (November 21).  This [...]

Wow.   It’s a good thing this story didn’t hit right at the holiday season.  It would have been turned into a made for TV movie.   If you think you’ve seen it all, just take a look at the garage sale circuit.  An 80 year old woman in Auburn, California was busted by police [...]

Part of the fun in buying and selling items on eBay is learning what the popular items are in various categories.  As a seller, I see that as part of the treasure hunt, and I enjoy learning about all of the different items I find as I go along.  I’ve decided to try to bring [...]

Was Auctiva Hacked? There is a buzz going around today about Auctiva being hacked and possibly spreading malicious software.  People trying to access Auctiva with the Firefox browser are receiving warnings of malware and virus threats.  Google is also warning that Auctiva is a dangerous site in their search results.   A friend of mine [...]

I’ve been playing around with some really neat new photo software I came across. I think the possibilities for using it to make eBay videos are great, but for now I’ve been making some family videos and testing it with some older photos I’ve had sitting around. Adding video to eBay really isn’t nearly as [...]

Living in a colder part of the United States, this is definitely the off season for garage sales, yard sales, estate sales, flea markets…all of the good sources for products to sell.  Personally, I’ve still got so much stuff piled up from previous estate purchases that I can’t begin to get it all listed.  If [...]

This has been a very interesting day for me.  During the work week I follow pretty much the same routine.  I get up a little before 5:00 a.m. so I can have time to check things out on the computer and maybe get some eBay packing done before the kids get up and we have [...]

One of my favorite things to find at estate sales are old books.  Most times, when people hear that, they assume I mean rare first editions of well known classics.  While I certainly wouldn’t walk away from one of those, they are exceedingly difficult to find.  It is much more practical to keep your eyes [...]

ADD SOME VIDEO! Adding video to eBay auctions is incredibly easy. I haven’t done a lot with it, but I’m going to make a serious effort to do more of it. I just listed a toy wind up duck that I picked up a while ago. Obviously the potential bidders want to see whether or [...]

WHERE TO LOOK In my opinion, the best stuff at garage sales and estate sales usually isn’t sitting out on the folding card table at the front of the house.  Most times, I find the things that eventually sell for decent money hidden away because the person having the sale thought it was worthless.  You [...]