As far as eBay goes, it's not difficult, just time consuming. The best way to go about it is to do an ebay search for the stuff you plan on selling (or similar to) to get an idea of what it's going for. Post Office flat rate boxes are your friends, but you can also guesstimate shipping at USPS.com if you know about the box you'll be packing it up into and the weight. Overestimate shipping by a dollar or two, because it is the suck when an auction that sells for 50 cents is $1.50 short on shipping.
List things by how you think you'd be entering the search query, try not to set a starting bid over $5 ($1 seems good, $0.01 is something I won't really do again, because really, eBay? Really?), and when you mail stuff, pack it very well. eBay loves it some packaging.
Oh, and if you don't have eBay sending notifications to your primary email, log in once or twice a day to check for questions.
Also: eBay does not withdraw listing fees and percentage-of-value fees until the billing cycle AFTER the auction ends. Just saying, because suddenly having money vanish from my Paypal a month later was surprising.
If you want to eBay furniture, do "local pickup only." Craigslist is a much better option for that, with a stipulation of "you haul."
And if you should show up in the Northwest, homeless and hungry, me and mine will feed you and house you and tell you where NOT to apply (West is the devil, Wal-Mart is almost as bad, customers SUCK at Home Depot, the hospitals pay well but only if you can project the customer-caring image, and speaking of training people to project that image, Amazon does not pay well but does take excellent care of its employees, as does McDonald's).
As far as eBay goes, it's not difficult, just time consuming. The best way to go about it is to do an ebay search for the stuff you plan on selling (or similar to) to get an idea of what it's going for. Post Office flat rate boxes are your friends, but you can also guesstimate shipping at USPS.com if you know about the box you'll be packing it up into and the weight. Overestimate shipping by a dollar or two, because it is the suck when an auction that sells for 50 cents is $1.50 short on shipping.
List things by how you think you'd be entering the search query, try not to set a starting bid over $5 ($1 seems good, $0.01 is something I won't really do again, because really, eBay? Really?), and when you mail stuff, pack it very well. eBay loves it some packaging.
Oh, and if you don't have eBay sending notifications to your primary email, log in once or twice a day to check for questions.
Also: eBay does not withdraw listing fees and percentage-of-value fees until the billing cycle AFTER the auction ends. Just saying, because suddenly having money vanish from my Paypal a month later was surprising.
If you want to eBay furniture, do "local pickup only." Craigslist is a much better option for that, with a stipulation of "you haul."
And if you should show up in the Northwest, homeless and hungry, me and mine will feed you and house you and tell you where NOT to apply (West is the devil, Wal-Mart is almost as bad, customers SUCK at Home Depot, the hospitals pay well but only if you can project the customer-caring image, and speaking of training people to project that image, Amazon does not pay well but does take excellent care of its employees, as does McDonald's).
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