Greatest Method To Become Fabulously Wealthy On Ebay

Find stamps with little or no monetary value; damaged especially okay
List every thing as super or extremely rare
Ask many times catalogue value.
Require huge shipping costs to get back your ebay listing fees
Take 2 to 3 weeks to mail any items
Sit back and rake in the dough!!!

This method is so successful that a lot of the sellers on ebay are using it! And I do mean A LOT!!!

I have always said that the word "RARE" is used too often and loosely.

I have seen it used for a stamp, or set, that was just issued as well.

Chimo

Bujutsu

Certainly there are too many greedy, or overly optimistic, amoral sellers on ebay.

On my free time between job processes, I regularly scan certain stamp categories. The same sellers with the same ridiculously priced, crappy lots appear over and over for weeks, months, and sometimes years. There is no change to the lots, and no change in the pricing. I would not call this a successful business practice.

Here I go again !!! No FREE listings. Charge them a listing fee based on the starting bid and it will stop! We are all sick of wading through their BS.

For those that don't recall, ebay used to charge a listing fee on all items. If the item didn't sell you could relist it, again for a fee but the fee would be refunded if it sold the 2nd time around. The presumption was, since it didn't sell at your first price, you would lower the price to a salable level.

Worked pretty damn good too!

Sorry guys those days are over.......all the bunnies and not -too-bright buyers are getting fewer and far in between . These days are more and more the ebay reseller who looks to buy so they can sell at a higher price and "I don't buy it unless it is a steal" crowd . ebay stamp section has changed even the good dealers could count on average junk being a profit center for them but again harder and harder to find those customers who would fight to get a lot ,now the attitude is why fight for it ,another lot will be coming up .

I concur with Floortrader. Not many morons out there ... you have to be of above average intelligence to work out how to operate ebay searches, open ebay and PayPal accounts etc etc.
The way to stiff people is to appeal to their greed. That's what the shysters are up to, selling dodgy goods at bargain prices.
Making money legitimately is hard work, but that's what most are doing. The fantasists can list, but they don't sell.

ebay sells hope.

Sounds good. 99p start?

The only sure way is to win the lottery!

It's wrong headed to put restrictions on sellers - like demanding an end of free listings. Push for the education of collectors. The rule is Buyer Beware - not make selling more difficult. I sell a lot of items at very low price that have a marginal profit - so I take advantage of free listing opportunities. Why would you deny me the opportunity to help collectors acquire a bargain item?

And the chances of getting struck by lightning, TWICE, is greater than winning a lottery

Chimo

Bujutsu

Sellers can call the stamps they list as "rare" and list them at any price, but they're only going to make money in the unlikely case that a clueless buyer decides to purchase an overpriced/misdescribed item.

Absolutely true Bujutsu. Having been struck twice by lightning, I'm still waiting for my big lottery win! Or even less likely - the stamp equivalent - finding that incredibly rare stamp in a cheap box lot.

But my stamp is over 100 years old, it has to be 'rare'.

HEY GUYS !!!! Here is a great idea to make money on stamps --------My wife knows this guy who started back in the early 1990's .He would go to Rasdale Stamp Auctions, Richard Drews Auctions ,Kelleher and Greg Manning for over ten years of auctions and purchase many end of the auction bulk lots . He bought many thousands of dollars worth ,yes not just thousands but many many thousands of dollars worth .....every thing .

All the big name stamp dealers knew him and even the auction firms employees got to know him well because they had to fill all those cartons into his SUV after each auction . Even his garbage man laughed at all the albums he threw away tons of every kind of album and stock binders ,there would be Blue Internationals ,all the H.E.Harris albums and the sad part was all those padded European binders ,all in the trash .
This went on for years hundreds of stamp auction lots and mostly purchased at opening bid ,all the time all these big name stamp dealers like David Kolls and Dr. BOB would shake their head and always asked "what are you doing with that much stuff " . This went on for years .

THEN GOD OPEN UP THE HEAVENS and let some guy in the San Fransico Bay area open up ebay . Things went nuts ,he could no longer buy those junk lots and bulk dealer lots . Now the game changed those $350.00 full-ups of the back of a SUV at stamp auctions was now costing $3,000 or more ,so the game was now over ,HE GOT DEPRESSED after 10 years of fun and games . .....{cont. later }

[cont.] Then with ebay growing he started to sell but not like other sellers .Since most of his stuff was the low end mixture stuff the other dealers didn't want . He just took those stamps and put them on clear stock sheets and started selling them between 6 cents to 9 cents per stamp on a few sheets on ebay. Remember most all the stamps were purchases for a penny each or less,many hundreds of thousands were purchased at less than 2 for a penny.

It got crazy because he was selling faster than he could make up the stock sheets ,sold the wall of banker boxes in the garage and three closets filled of collections ,bought the wife a new Ford Escape ,one daughter a Mustang and the other a brand new Jeep and bought himself a new Ford 150 pickup truck because he was depressed and sad because all those stamp auction lots are now going for 10X his past purchase price .
SAD STORY .......about making money selling stamps ....it all came crashing down on ebay with prices back to 2 to 4 cents each ......