So You Wanna Sell On Ebay

Arlie and Shari Smith have been selling on eBay since 2006. Shari runs their eBay business from home while Arlie works for Costco (where he has worked for almost 24 years). 6 years ago Arlie was diagnosed with MS and 2.5 years ago he was diagnosed with cancer with a median lifespan of 2.5 years. But something beautiful happened and continues to unfold in their lives through their community. Interesting Notes Arlie believes that God has a purpose for him because he is still walking around with his wheelchair. He posted on Facebook that he was diagnosed with Cancer so that he could let everyone know. After his post, one of the members of Costco, a lady, called him on the phone while he was working. She informed Arlie that she created a private group on Facebook called Arlie's Angels. The group's aim is to raise money to send Arlie and Shari to a vacation. Arlie told the lady that all he wanted is to be the number one fundraiser for the Costco Children's Hospital. The lady promised to help him with that plus a

Jennifer is a struggling mother of 3 kids and 3 fur babies. She loves animals, the beach, being around any type of water, and her kids. She has done nothing but struggle most of her life and had decided that she wasn't going to struggle anymore. She started selling online in January 2015 and has done nothing but grow her business since day one. Interesting Notes Jennifer has a 21-year-old daughter named Jewelianne where her eBay store name came from. She has two boys, a 17-year-old Alex, who is an attention seeker, and a 15-year-old Joel. Her kids help her in listing and the youngest helps her on shipping too. Her fur babies are a dog and two cats. Jennifer has a full-time day job with an Amazon vendor. She is an Accounting Specialist for its Amazon department. She deals with the unpaid invoices that Amazon decided not to pay out. Her love affair with eBay started in 2004 when she worked as a Clerk in the United States Postal Services. She would see a lot of people coming in with tons of package. People t

Lori started selling on eBay for fun in 2007, but after becoming caretaker to her 2 year old granddaughter and 64 year old mom in a two month time span became more serious in 2009. She started selling women's clothing primarily but has since expanded into vintage and collectible items as well as other fun things. Interesting Notes Lori's son had a video game that he no longer wanted. He asked Lori to try to sell the video game on eBay. Lori sat down and started to learn how to sell on eBay. And within 24 hours, she sold the video game. eBay was a challenge to Lori because she learned it completely on her own. She taught herself step by step. Her knowledge and skills in computer helped her make it through. Now, she does eBay full-time and 100% on her own. She sometimes spends 10 hours a day working, 7 days a week. Her only day off is when she is away from home. Lori is single and is supporting her family of four. eBay is the only source of her income. She does not have the budget to attend eBay conferences

Lorianne is a Top Rated Seller on eBay, where she and her husband Craig have had a store since 2013. She and Craig buy storage units and resell on eBay, Craigslist, offer up, as well as various flea markets and antique shows. She does eBay as a full-time job and is very active in the eBay community. Interesting Notes Lorianne and Craig's eBay story started when Craig picked a box of baseball cards. It is a set with a Derek Jeter rookie card on it. It is a 1993 Topps set. Lorianne used to work with a guy listing on eBay using a Turbo lister. With her experience, she made their personal eBay account. Then she listed Craig's baseball cards, and they were sold. From there, the bug started and they got addicted. Lorianne becomes the eBay girl. She sees no point going to auctions and flea markets when she can be home doing eBay and gets the money. So, her husband does all the sourcing. He goes to the flea market and Craigslist. While Lorianne takes pictures, lists their items, and gets everything ready to ship.

Candace is a 34-year-old disabled mom. She has a daughter who is 7 years old. She has a Lupus and a Lung disease and she is on chemo and oxygen. But, she also runs a plus sized clothing store on eBay for men and women's items. Interesting Notes Candace is a registered nurse. On April 2014, she got hospitalized for 33 days. She found out that she had a Lupus and a Lung Disease. The doctors told her that she has a few months if she got lucky to be around. Due to her disability, they moved to a smaller and manageable house - a 2-bedroom trailer. They use every space they have and put up shelves and racks in the corner for her eBay stuff. They even have clothes rack in their living room. Candace started selling on eBay when she was in her early twenties. She only wanted to make a couple of dollars, nothing serious then. When Facebook groups selling stuffs started, Candace sold their kids old toys. She made some money there. But she needs to meet up with people who bought the items. So she switched back to eBa

Dave is a family guy; 5 kids and so far one grandchild. He spent 30 plus years working with cows, people, and equipment in the dairy and farming industry. He contributed to feeding a lot of people. Now five years later, he is selling supplies to animal agriculture industry primarily dairy farmers. He did eBay in the early 2000's for a short while. Then he got back in in 2014. Interesting Notes Dave has a full-time job that requires him to travel a lot. He does eBay at night and on weekends. His wife and kids help him in the packing and shipping when he is out of town. It was in 2004 when Dave and his wife started on eBay. Dave was on the farm and his wife was laid off from her corporate job. They only stopped eBay when they relocated to Colorado. Since eBay has always been in Dave's mind, he got back to eBay in 2014. His whole family enjoys eBay too! Dave has a variety of items he sells on eBay. He sources from thrift stores, estate sales, garage sales, and southwest collectibles. He collects native Ameri

Casey AKA the Rockstarflipper is a full time Ecommerce Ebay & Amazon Reseller. Specializing in clothing & electronics the rockstarflipper sources locally from thrift shops pawn shops, goodwills and Salvation Army stores. Interesting Notes Casey saw his father and older brother worked all their lives. Both do have good lives, but they don't have the freedom. So, he decided he did not want to work for anyone. He did not want to listen to anyone. He wants the freedom to be what he wants - be it a $50,000 per year or $50M per year guy. He does not want to have limits. He wants a limitless life. He used to work for a reseller who had a communication niche. His work gave him a full-time paycheck to build the money he needed to start his own business. While he was working, at night time, he did his research and learned. He started working for his own store. He started to sell a few items to have the feel of having his own business. He had a niche for several times and turned his vision into ex-merchandis

Nathan Hirsch is a serial entrepreneur and expert in remote hiring and eCommerce. He is the founder and CEO of FreeeUp.com and the co-founder and COO of Portlight. Nathan started his eCommerce career on the Amazon Marketplace and successfully built a $7 million business within 4 years. After seeing the potential of using remote workers within his first business, he founded FreeeUp to make the remote hiring experience simpler for all eCommerce business owners. FreeeUp now provides reliable eCommerce workers to hundreds of clients around the world. Nathan is an expert at building efficient systems and processes, sales strategies, and business management. He currently lives in Orlando, Florida. Interesting Notes Nathan's Dad is a Teacher. He had always wanted Nathan to take the conventional route and get a full-time corporate job. His Mom is both a Teacher and an Entrepreneur. He saw her mother's business grow from its small beginnings to reaping the benefits. He saw his mother's drive and the hours she put

Aaron Walker is, without question, a veteran entrepreneur. Starting his first business at 18 and selling to a Fortune 500 company nine short years later demonstrates Aaron's passion for succeeding. Unwilling to rest on past success Aaron started, bought and sold eight successful companies over the past 37 years. Having a strong desire for personal development has kept Aaron in a weekly mastermind group for more than a decade with Dave Ramsey, Dan Miller, Ken Abraham and seven other notable Nashvillians. Aaron has enjoyed a 36-year marriage with his beautiful wife, Robin. Today Aaron spends the majority of his time HELPING MEN GROW IN SUCCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE as President and Founder of VIEW FROM THE TOP, a premier life and business coaching resource. Aaron's new book, View From The Top is guaranteed to motivate and inspire you to live a successful and significant life. Interesting Notes Aaron loves to create things. He loves to grow things. He loves to figure out what is going to make it stick and go. At

Scott and Hunter are the co-creators of MyCostPro. Scott has been a part time eBay reseller for the last 17 years. Hunter is a software engineer with 13 years of application development experience. Together they developed MyCostPro, an eBay Certified app for Excel that connects to your seller account, downloads your sales, automates reporting, and generally makes seller's lives easier. Interesting Notes Scott and Hunter went to college together. They have worked on the same job in an Electronic Boutique in the mall selling video games. Now, they both have separate full-time jobs. Scott is a Business major and works in a corporate world. While Hunter is a programmer for 13 years. Scott sold spreadsheets. He used to give manually his customers a spreadsheet when they purchased from him. At one point, Scott asked Hunter if it could be automated. Hunter is an application developer but never did a website development. It was a challenge to Hunter to learn it on. They set up a server to distribute Scott's old s

Mark Greene is the producer and host of the Cars Yeah podcast, a five-day-a-week show where he interviews Inspiring Automotive Enthusiasts™, leaders in the automotive industry that have wrapped their passion in to their business and lives. Mark has a background in marketing, design, brand building, business development, and worked as a Creative Director for 11 years before joining a start and helping to build Griot's Garage where he was in charge of the branding, marketing merchandising, and he was their President for 20+ years. Mark's a passionate automotive enthusiast who created the Cars Yeah brand and has over 700 interviews in just over two years. You'll find the Cars Yeah podcast on his Cars Yeah website, iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play and all the major social websites. Mark has used eBay extensively to purchase and sell products to automotive enthusiasts. Interesting Notes Mark is a car fanatic. He has a picture of his self under 1-year-old sitting in a yellow Garton Kidillac pedal car. He is always

  Gina Muff is an avid listener of eBay Radio and claims it helped her develop and grow her eBay business - ClassySoles. Gina lives in a rural area with the closest Wal-Mart 2 hrs away. Her location presents challenges to selling online, but hasn't prevented her from becoming an eBay Top Rated Seller and Powerseller. Gina developed an interest in classic, quality shoes at a very young age while shopping with her mother. Interesting Notes Gina lives in the Northeast corner of New Mexico. It is close to Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas, and Kansas. The closest thrift store, she can get to get real thrifting is 3 to 5 hours away. Gina started selling stuff because people who have stuff that they do not want, gave it to her. It was not as a consignment, though. People knew that Gina could sell it. It did not enter into her mind that it would be a kind of a business. About 5 years ago, she went to a tiny thrift store about an hour and a half away from their area. It had a pair of rare, European shoes sold for $50. Sh

� Buying and selling baseball cards on eBay throughout college, Josh turned a $1500 loan from his father at graduation into a $2 million a year business selling fine antiques and works of art. Although dealing in a wide variety of antiques, Chamberlain has found a niche in the world of Asian arts and has become eBay's largest US dealer in this field. Interesting Notes Josh is a collector and entrepreneur by heart. Since he was still a kid, he loved collecting baseball cards and coins. As a kid, he used to set up yard sales in front of their house. He would sell puppets, toys, and anything he could sell. To have money for college, Josh would buy and sell baseball cards. He started on eBay by buying and selling magazines for $10 and baseball cards for $5. Upon graduation, his father gave him a $1500 loan because his job offer did not start until 6 months. He took the loan and went to the Auction. He doubled it and went again to another Auction and doubled it again. He was young and he saw the opportunity to

Laurie Wong is a 2016 eBay Shine Award Winner in the Charity category. She didn't start her community resource center and food pantry, Reflections of Trinity, as an eBay business. But with a friends help and a willingness to try something new, Laurie began what she calls her online adventure in 2005. Its a decision, she says, that changed the trajectory of her business. With the ability to sell locally, nationally, and internationally on eBay, Laurie reports that Reflections of Trinitys revenue has increased between $60,000 and $85,000 for each the past five years. In 2015 alone, Reflections of Trinity distributed 12,429 boxes of groceries (622,965 lbs. of food!) to those in need and in 2016, they crossed the million dollar mark by distributing over one million dollars worth of groceries to those in crisis!. Along the way, Laurie says shes gone from skeptical and uninformed about eBay to a power seller with an Anchor-level eBay Store and staff of three. Laurie is a proud mom to 6 grown adults and grandmothe

Cyndi is a long time seller with over 15 years of experience. She and her husband now sell on eBay as their sole source of income. Last year they did just shy of a quarter of a million dollars in sales and today, she is here with us. Interesting Notes Cyndi needed a way to stay home to take care of their third child who was very sick. She heard eBay from her Dad. The formula "stuff + eBay = Money" formed in her mind. They had stuff in their house. They had a digital camera. They needed money. And so Cyndi tried eBay. It was the time when most items on eBay are on Auctions and pictures taken need to be developed and scan to get listed. Most of the items they sell now on eBay are clothing. They have started to do more estate files. They bought a Disney collector's estate in the fall. Now, they buy a thousand CDs because they've got a great deal. She has 253 CDs in stock right now. Cyndi's husband, Matt, is the creative one. So, he takes care of the photography task. While Cyndi does all the data entries and

Gabriel Sharp is 38 year old entrepreneur and eBay reseller. Gabe is an eBay Top Rated Seller and Powerseller with a desire to help others succeed on the platform. Interesting Notes Gabe used to work as a bartender in a restaurant for 20 years. He started working when he was 16 years old. He loves to sell, so he started out with drop shipping. He moved his way up from there. 7 years ago, Gabe has been successful in running a store with a partner. He reached a point where he considered it full time. One day, he woke up with a feeling that he would not want to work at his job anymore. He called his employer and informed that he is not going back to work anymore. Gabe took a chance and it worked out. Now he sells on eBay, Amazon FBA, and Etsy. He is buying and selling for over a decade. He also does online marketing, social media management, and drop shipping. Drop shipping is working as a middleman. You copy and paste pictures and descriptions from your actual wholesaler. You sell it for your price so you c

For over 18 years, Lynn has made her living buying and selling on eBay. She is a third-generation antiques dealer with over 40 years experience in the antiques business. She started helping her grandmother in the antiques store and at shows when she was just 4. She is also an eBay consultant, author, and teacher. Her learning tools & free ezine will teach you how to sell online with eBay while staying organized, turning a profit, and having fun! She loves selling on eBay and can't stop-- some people think she is addicted! In 2015, she sold over $100,000 worth of unique items on eBay and she wants to help you do the same. Interesting Notes In 1967, there's a law to call something antique when it should be a 100-year-old. In today's time, you can consider a 50-year-old item antique. Lynn describes a thing Vintage if it is anywhere between 10 to 40 years old. Like a computer 10 years ago can be Vintage. Anything over than 40 years old can be called either Antique or Vintage. It is your choice whatever yo

Andrew runs a company specifically focused on providing solutions for sellers on multichannel. This is borne out of him previously running an eBay multi million dollar business started over 14 years ago. His company works with small to medium enterprises to big corporations with their main aim being making them a success online. With their partnership with M2E pro, a multichannel software solution they are able to automate a lot of the time consuming tasks allowing business owners to work on their business not in their business. Interesting Notes About 4 or 5 years ago, Andrew started E-Motive. It is a company that helps sellers of all sizes to sell in different countries and channels. He started E-Motive after eBay approach him as a seller. He gathered that eBay would like to bring big brands to sell on eBay. One of the great things he likes about eBay is, it (eBay) is ever changing. It is keeping up to date with the new innovations. It is spearheading the new trends in the market. Compared to any other

Nick Maglosky is CEO of Ecomdash, an automation software system that streamlines backend ecommerce operations. Boring tasks like inventory syncing, sales order routing, product listings and supplier communication all become hands-off with Ecomdash. He loves his Blackberry, Cleveland sports, and calls Charlotte, NC his home. Interesting Notes Nick is from Ohio and moved to Charlotte, North Carolina to work. He worked in the operations with the Fortune 500 companies. He worked there for five years. Then he had a random career change and got into executive recruitment about three years. He got into that job so he can network marketing companies. He got recruited by a startup technology company - a technology consulting type firm. He worked with them for four years. It was sold, however, and Nick was there when it happened. Nick's dad and grandfather both have businesses. Later, Nick got the entrepreneur bug. He went to graduate school to get his MBA. After he graduated, he was looking for another startup to do

Dave is an Ebay power seller and owns 2 cell phone repair stores called Buycellfix. He also teaches people around the country how to make money on Ebay selling used cell phones. He currently sells $20,000/month on Ebay. Interesting Notes Dave has two brick and mortar stores. They are open seven days a week. And Dave works only three hours a week on the said businesses. He also has an eBay store. Dave posts ads on Craigslist and Facebook groups looking to buy used cell phones for cash. Then people would call him and he would buy. He would price to make a profit and then sell it on eBay. 50% of the cell phones he buys are broken. But, they don't fix the phones that they buy. When they do repairs, it is strictly for profit. But when they buy a phone, they don't fix it to sell. The $20,000 a month only took him three months to hit after starting on eBay. He started off with $300 in an envelope. It went to $250,000 sales after eight months that he has started. Dave is 35 years old now. Before the age of 30, he w