How much do you make selling on e-bay?

I think the beauty of dropshipping is your only expense is the listing fee and paypal fee if there is a sale. So say.............if an item costs you wholesale $6.00 and it sells for $12. you deduct any fees from your $6 profit and the rest is money you made without any other cash outlay. Granted these are small sums used as an example (volume sales would make this profitable though). Perhaps the answer would be to have a website and use dropshippers for your inventory, bypassing the whole eBay thing all together. Now marketing comes into play, getting the traffic to your site and buying, but Granny always said............"Nothing ventured ....... nothing gained"

There are those that do and there are others that say, it won't work. Playing it safe only gets you what? (I should'a down the road?). Taking the risk (if you can afford to) gets you the money. Just a thought!

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The most money I ever made on eBay was.......

I bought a 1960s Barbie at an auction for $205

Cleaned her up & sold her the next week for $439

I have made other good money on eBay, but their prices are always going up & I don't have the time to constantly list little items -
I need to be able to make large amounts on each item to make it worth it to me -

Actually I suspect the reverse is true, eBay is driving down the price on many items. For example you collect block planes and need a Stanley #9. Largely before eBay you might look for years for one and be willing to pay whatever the seller wanted. Not you are likely for find a couple listed at the same time.

As noted above, when something is selling well, and it isn't something unusual, others eventually see it and saturate the market. I was among the first selling 25' retractable dog leashes, hearing aid batteries past their best-if-used-by date, el-cheapo China batteries and protein/power bars. Now the market on these is saturated to the point prices have dropped greatly.

Sometimes a market may simply not be there. I used Afro-American figurines as an example above. Do a search on Afro-American figurine and see how many are listed out of the something like 16M eBay current listings. I suspect the low number is due to a lack of market rather than prices.

Like other selling doing so on eBay takes some marketing smarts at least as far as writing a title to attract as many lookers as possible, a good and accurate item description, good descriptive photographs, pricing and customer service.

Almost everyone who has done much eBay selling has a 'oh my God' story about something bought cheap and sold very, very high. However, those are few and far between.