Paypal – Friend or Foe?

Should you get a Paypal account? Find out more about what you can do with a Paypal account and how much it will cost.

Tips for selling on Half.com or Amazon

If you want to try selling on Half.com or Amazon or trading on a swapping site, I’ve got tips to help you be more successful.

Sell it online-the easy way

The easiest way to get started selling or swapping your items online is to list it on a site that already has all the product info.

Try It, You Might Like It

So you want to try selling stuff online. If you have CDs, movies, books or video games to unload then I’d suggest starting with Half.com, a subsidiary of eBay, where sellers offer items at fixed prices. You set the price you want to sell your item for.

A Tricky Topic

One of the trickiest parts of selling things is determining the price. You want to price things so you’re not giving things away but you don’t want to ask so much that no one buys. The approach to pricing is different depending upon how you plan on selling.

Weigh it carefully

If you’re going to be selling online, I highly recommend investing in a postal scale. With a scale, you can estimate shipping costs and print postage from home, saving you many trips to the Post Office (PO). Before I had a scale, I would wait until I had a group of items to sell and [...]

Picture It

When I have bunches of similar items that I want to sell I have a very effective way to do it.  I got this idea from a woman who was trying to sell some leftovers from her garage sale and she posted a link to an online photo album showing the individual items along with [...]

Thanks for not buying

I had to share this moment with you for a second and take a break from the garage sale blogs… There’s a feeling you get when you actually sell an item at your somewhat outrageous asking price.  A thrill passes through your system and you get a bit giddy.   You want to call up your [...]