More anything for a buck
I seem to be stuck on this theme. I promise that this will be the last “anything for a buck” post for a while. In previous posts I have talked about taking odd jobs to try and generate some income – however small. I recently ventured into online auctions. We all know someone who says you can make money buying and selling stuff on Ebay. I have always filed those comments under “making money on the Internet bull….” While I am sure that there are people who make money this way I never bothered to look into it.
Given that I have a lot of time on my hands (I am an out of work bum, after all) I have been going through and cleaning out the closets. In the process I came across a lot of reasonably valuable stuff that I never use. No, I didn’t go on a wild spending spree in the past to accumulate junk that I would never use. Most of the surplus stuff I got from my former employers. I have been fairly successful in the past. As a result I have won my share of sales incentives, contests, trips, etc. I won a great trip to Tahiti once but that is another story. I have collected a small assortment of watches, luggage, pens, and such that are still in their original packaging. I decided to put some of the stuff up on Ebay to see what happened. Most of the stuff sold for well below its retail value but given my cost basis was zero I couldn’t lose.
My conclusion to my foray into online auctions is that you probably can make money here with a lot of time and experience. As for me, I now have cleaner closets and enough money to pay the electric bill.
