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Judge for yourself — here’s a good portion of my ebook’s actual introduction that gives you a good idea of what to expect and what you’ll be getting from this dirt cheap but priceless guide:

Yeah, I’ve done pretty well selling used golf equipment on eBay. How well? How does $1,000 a week in sales grab you? As far as ‘enterprises’ go, let’s face it, that’s not drop dead impressive... unless you consider the following:

• that’s on a very part-time basis, and...
• I have oodles of fun doing it!

Both points are critical to note. This eBay thing is not how I make a living, for one. But even more important: This preliminary information hints strongly at the potential returns for someone who may want to seriously invest more time and energy into this endeavor.

Quite promising is an understatement.

Maybe it’ll be clearer when you realize fully exactly what I am. Who the heck am I? I’m many things, but probably the easiest and most well-rounded way to describe what I do is that I am a writer and publisher.

How does golf come into the picture then? Here’s how: I play it. That’s it. I like playing golf. I’m not even very good at it. I’m not a pro. I’m not even in the golf business per se. When not playing, I like spending a lot of my time learning what I can about it and fiddling around with equipment. In all sense of the word, golf to me is nothing more really than a very enjoyable hobby.

I, in other words, am probably very much like you as far as golf is concerned. Save for maybe one big, serious difference: I’ve also figured out how to generate $1,000+ in golf equipment sales on eBay weekly... on a very part-time basis. Bringing money in while I’m ‘hobby-ing,’ so to speak.

On top of keeping in mind that in no way am I in the golf business (prior to this eBay operation, of course), it would also be critical for you to note the fact that as a writer/publisher, neither was I previously involved in any retail operation of any sort, golf-related or otherwise. This is very important because it points out that I had absolutely no specific business or supply-side advantages, specifically in stocking my initial golf equipment inventory.

And no, smarty pants, I didn’t have a friend in the industry or a pal at my local golf shop who could supply me with the inventory I obviously would have needed to get started.

What I’m trying to point out here is that I was exactly where you probably are right now: You want to ‘play golf’ on eBay, but have nothing to play with.

Really? Then do what I did. I bought what I needed to play with (my golf equipment inventory) from eBay itself.

Yes boys and girls, you read that right... my operation is nothing more than a traditional buy-and-sell. I buy from eBay, and I sell it right back on eBay. That’s what I did to get started, and that’s what I continue to do now whenever I feel like it.

It’s a very simple and classic business concept. So simple and natural, in fact, that although you may feel that you ‘obviously’ already know what needs to be done, you’re actually on the verge of wading into dangerous business waters, my friend. Dangerous in the sense that if you think there’s nothing more involved beyond getting on eBay; buying, say, a driver; and selling it right back on eBay for a profit, then you’re dead in the water.

Of course, there’s a bit more to it than that, Grasshopper. But the good news is... in practice, not a heck of a whole lot more. If you know what you’re doing, it should go without saying.

It’s not like you don’t see people on eBay trying to do the buy-and-sell. They sure are attempting it, but more often than not, they’re also quite unsuccessful, unfortunately. Why? Because, for the most part, they’re doing it wrong. Here’s what you’ll normally see...

• Mr. Golfdealer Wannabe bids $100 and wins a TaylorMade driver.
   
• About a couple of weeks or so later, Mr. Wannabe puts the TaylorMade driver back up on eBay. Somebody bids $103 and wins the club.

‘Great,’ you say, ‘Mr. Wannabe just made $3 profit.’ Uh huh, are you sure? There are missing pieces of transaction data we have to consider before we can conclude anything.

We didn’t mention shipping costs, for instance. How much did it cost Mr. Wannabe to have the club shipped to him? How much did he charge to ship to the subsequent buyer? As any eBay veteran knows, you have to keep a close eye on shipping and handling charges, never forgetting that the good old s/h is always part of the ‘deal’ picture (one very common way eBay newbies get burned, by the way).

For the sake of argument, let’s assume Mr. Wannabe did pay a reasonable amount for s/h, and that he also charged his new buyer the same to ship and handle the club. It’s a wash, in other words, and a non-issue.

‘Great,’ you say again, ‘so Mr. Wannabe really did just make $3 profit.’ Umm, not sure about that yet.

How much time did Mr. Wannabe spend looking for the club, bidding, winning and paying for it? Then, did he spend any time and energy cleaning it and getting it ready for resale? And, how much time and energy did he spend putting together and preparing the club’s eBay listing — writing the description and administrative instructions, photographing the club and getting the pics online, etc.? How about the actual cost of the packaging materials he used to eventually ship the club in, not to mention the time and energy (again) it took him to get it all securely packaged up and ready to go?

Once more, just for the sake of argument and simplicity, let’s say all that just cost Mr. Wannabe exactly $3 in time, energy and materials. ‘Great,’ you comment again, ‘Mr. Wannabe broke even!’

Well, not if you count (and you better) eBay’s fees for the transaction. Because of ranges and options, what eBay charges total per transaction varies, but at a minimum as of this writing, that $103 transaction cost Mr. Wannabe exactly $4.05 in eBay fees.

Do the math: Even with our pretty generous assumptions (not to mention that we haven’t even included all costs), Mr. Wannabe lost money on this deal.

The really dangerous honey-just-take-this-gun-and-shoot-me-why-don’t-you part is that, if Mr. Wannabe isn’t careful, he’ll think he actually made a bit of money on the deal! And what often happens when someone thinks he just stumbled on an easy, nifty way to make a bit of cash? ‘Hmm,’ he’ll conclude, ‘my take wasn’t much, but seeing as there are tons of clubs I can buy and sell on eBay, I could easily duplicate and multiply my profits. Imagine how much fun and how profitable it’d be if I bought and sold 10, 20, 50, heck, 100 clubs a week!’

Uh, right. As you can very plainly see, do your numbers wrong, you can spend your kid’s college fund PDQ. And remember, Mr. Wannabe’s loss in this single example is a very conservative and grossly underestimated figure. Now imagine the actual loss * 100. Shudder...

You point out, however, and rightfully so: ‘Uh, Eldon, but Mr. Wannabe could have actually ended up getting $110, $130, $150 or even more in an eBay auction right?’ Right you are, my sharp friend! Glad you’re thinking and paying attention. But since we’re all being so smart and doing some nice what if’s, you have to admit, since it’s an auction (we’re assuming Mr. Wannabe structured it as such), he could also actually end up with far less, right?

Since it’s more enjoyable to think about, let’s focus on the runaway auction scenario... no doubt every eBay seller’s dream. And definitely, they do happen. But just like planning on paying for my retirement by buying lottery tickets (heck, winning them happens too, doesn’t it?) doesn’t make a heck of a lot of fiscal sense, neither does a business plan that revolves around banking on runaway auction bonanzas.

Here’s a very important lesson for you to learn right now, something that every seasoned serious eBay trader will tell you is true without blinking (heck, any economist who’s never set foot one on eBay will tell you this is exactly how things work): With standard or normal products — we’re talking common, everyday brand name golf equipment here, not some fuzzy image of JC on a piece of toast — in a free market, prices will pretty much stabilize on what the market will bear.

In other words, trend-wise (what you can bank on) on eBay, what you’ll be paying retail for a single normal item (e.g., $100) is pretty much what you can sell it for (e.g., $103) within a short period of time, give or take a few pennies here or there.

What this really means without thinking too hard: Buying and selling this way is not good business.

That conclusion should be pretty clear, maybe even obvious — the numbers aren’t secret — which is why I’m often amazed at how many actually try it. After all, the fact that on eBay nothing’s really stopping your prospective customer from bypassing you and instead going directly to your ‘source’ pretty much makes this kind of buy-and-sell-on-eBay business model a somewhat silly, and highly risky, timing gamble.

On occasion, you may very well get lucky and end up buying a product for far below value, no doubt about that, particularly if you employ some of the eBay bidding success techniques I describe in this ebook. For example, I recently bid on a set of Ben Hogan irons with an eBay market value of about $300. My winning bid? $120. And yes, within a week of receiving the clubs, I had resold the set on eBay at a price much closer (actually, a little bit over) its estimated $300 value. Oh yeah, this kind of ka-ching does happen. Although, as they say, this is highly irregular and far from business plan worthy.

Obviously there’s a bit more to this eBay buy-and-sell business thing than meets the eye.

‘Well,’ you point out, ‘there are wholesale and large lot golf equipment categories on eBay.’ Yes, Grasshopper. Good! You’re thinking right. However, from experience, these B2B (business-to-business) categories are more often than not quite useless. Take one look and you’ll probably have no problem seeing why: You’ll normally find products that consumers don’t really want.

Think about it: If consumers really wanted the stuff, the ‘wholesaler’ would likely be selling the items B2C (business-to-consumer) on eBay and making more money instead of trying to unload the useless junk on unsuspecting Mr. Golfdealer Wannabe.

‘Na ah,’ says the wholesaler, ‘I’m in the wholesale business. I don’t do individual retail sales.’

BS. On eBay, it’s just as easy to sell direct-to-consumer, if not easier. No doubt there’s a bit more to product fulfillment on the backend when you’re selling smaller, individual quantities to consumers, but a few mouse clicks on eBay quickly reveal that this should be more than offset by the much larger returns on individual product sales, not to mention the fact that if little old grandma can do product fulfillment on her kitchen table, you assume that a real wholesale operation can figure out how to do it even better and cheaper.

They’re not retailing because no one wants the stuff or (and I’m just being nice here) they’re not getting the return B2C that they would B2B. Giving them the benefit of the doubt and assuming the latter, if this ‘wholesaler’ can’t even get a good enough return B2C on eBay to abandon his ‘wholesale’ operation, for heaven’s sake, then what makes you think you can?

Point is, you’ll rarely see a legit wholesale ‘golf equipment and products consumers really want to buy’ operation on eBay. They simply don’t have to be there. Not only do real wholesale channels already exist and are quite healthy and established outside eBay, a number of them have figured out that they can unload tons of stuff B2C themselves on eBay, at healthier profits than selling them wholesale to small operators like you, as I’ve already alluded to...

...So, what do we know so far? Well, we know that the following are unreliable sources of resalable golf product:

• individual golf ‘item’ eBay auctions
• golf wholesale/large lot eBay auctions

Sheesh. What do we have left?

Well goody goody gumdrops... you’re just a few mouse clicks and moments away from learning of an excellent, regularly updated and freely accessible fountain of golf products that you can tap for your eBay buy-and-sell operation. Yes, it’s freely accessible, and no, you don’t have to leave eBay to get to it!

But before I tell you what it is...

This Isn’t an eBay Tutorial

Remember that you were forewarned that this ebook is not designed to be an eBay tutorial. Besides the fact that eBay is simple enough to figure out and use (else — think about it — it wouldn’t be so popular), something I have no doubt you can figure out quickly on your own, I’ll include a recommendation in this ebook for any 3rd party learning material...

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