The reasons you’ve listed for the stores not working are the same reasons I haven’t pursued a business selling on eBay.

I actually went to a number of garage sales with my wife one summer. I bought things I thought would sell well on eBay. Indeed, they did sell well. And I made some money.

But as I went through the process, I realized I could never make much money selling unique items. There’s way too much time cost in setting up the auctions.

Then I thought about selling just one product so I could streamline the process. But then I discovered that listing multiple auctions selling the same item drives down the price. So this approach is also flawed.

The only way I can see to make it work is to sell an expensive item with a high profit margin over and over again. Of course, it would also need to be a small product so you could manage to stock it and sell it from home. As you can imagine, products like this (small, expensive, high profit margin) are rare.

In sum, you can make some money selling your own personal things on eBay, but it’s difficult to make a business of it.

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