Last night my third and final eBay auction for my Washington $1 coin errors ended. The last coin was a rotated die error, meaning that the reverse design was struck rotated from where it should have been. I received this question through the eBay interface from an interested collector: Hi, I am new to coin … Read more
A friend at work has a bone to pick with some eBay sellers who charge excessive amounts for shipping. It really ticks him off when he gets charged $14.99 shipping for a $9.99 item, and finds out that the shipping only cost $1.85. It doesn’t matter if the item was a great deal at $24.98 … Read more
The John Adams Presidential $1 coins are out and about. And numismatic entrepreneurs are ready and willing to cash in on them. The Washington $1 coins generated a lot of interest because of their novelty and because there were some pretty high-profile errors that came out of the first design in this brand-new coin series. … Read more
Patrick over at Cash Money Life was kind enough to point me toward this MoneyCentral article: Garage sales thrive in online world This is an excellent article. If you haven’t read it, go ahead. I’ll wait. 😉 Discussed within the article are: fantastic garage sale finds methods of advertising your sale methods of finding other … Read more
Reader’s Digest (eBay) had an article in its May, 2007, issue entitled New Ways to Make a Bundle. I’m a big fan of supplementing one’s income in one’s “spare time” because a good way to save more, and thus get on more financially sound footing, is to earn more. Earning more on a side business … Read more
This weekend I stopped by a yard sale on the way to another activity. I had thought it would be a quick two-minute scan and then I’d be on my way. Boy, was I wrong! A little background: My wife on occasion does scrapbooking, and she has a lot of friends that are into scrapbooking … Read more
This was a little silly, but it made me realize that I could save a little bit on shipping once in a while as I fulfill orders in my eBay store. I had packed up an order for a customer in a Priority Mail® box. I charged the customer for flat-rate shipping and expected to … Read more
EBay has turned a lot of people into resellers and virtual store owners. If you can fill out online forms and use a web-based or downloaded listing program, you can sell stuff on eBay. Now, actually turning a profit isn’t quite that easy. And making a living at it is more difficult still. This article … Read more