Deciding What to Sell
Tips and FAQ for a Home Business

Once you reach a rating of 10, you are now ready to consider selling things. The question of course is what do you want to sell! You may have a home business and be really eager to sell your custom made sweaters, birdboxes, or whatever else you make. However, it's really best to begin simple - to build up a higher rating with items that are easy for people to understand and purchase.

I highly recommend selling old CDs and DVDs. Everybody knows what a CD or DVD is. The eBay system will even auto-fill in EVERYTHING for you - from the photo to track information so reviews and more - just by putting in the UPC code of the item. Unlike audio tapes and VCR tapes, CDs and DVDs are digital and therefore will be "high quality" no matter how old they are. Just make sure they aren't scratched of course.

If you put up 5-10 CDs and DVDs that you don't watch / listen to any more, it will help you learn how the sales screens work and let you sell an item that pretty much is guaranteed to sell. When you put in that UPC code, it will tell you exactly what other copies of that item sold for recently. It fills in everything for you. Set an appropriate shipping price - I use $3 to anywhere in the US. I have sold a ton of CDs myself and it is really very very easy. Again, there's no question with a CD or DVD sale about exactly what the user is getting. It is straightforward, simple, and gives you the best chance to earn some ratings as a "quality seller".

If you don't have CDs or DVDs around, look for something else that is a commercial product. Yes, you can start listing your own products soon enough. The point here is to get you some practice using the system while listing items that are very straightforward. When you get into listing your own handmade items later on, it will require more work.

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