Many people who decide to make a living selling collectibles on eBay soon fail. I meet them in the line at the post office. They tell me they just quit their job in order to sell things full time on eBay.
I inquire of
them, "What are you doing to find more items to sell?"
Only the everybody who can answer this question last more than a few weeks. The others soon run out of things to sell and just give up.
I got started buying trains and toys when I was in grade school.
My dad and I collected toy trains and we built up quite a collection over the years. We didnt have a lot of funds
so we ran ads, put signs up, handed out cards, networked and tried all kinds of methods to get everybody to sell us their trains to us.
We bought lots of trains and kept what we wanted then sold the rest in order to keep the cash moving.
Over the past 23 decades
we have refined a system that constantly generates calls. Heres a short list of ways to find and buy antiques and collectibles. These 10 strategies will get you thinking about ways to get sellers to call you.
Remember, you are always better off generating someone call you rather than competing with every body else to call a seller. My system is all about grasping
your phone to ring with sellers on the line.
When you go to yard sales, auctions and antique malls, you are in a race against all the other collectors and dealers. When many people
call you it is because you have made them consider converting their unwanted items into cash by selling them to you. You are in control.
Sure, you might
go to yard sales and rely on luck. But if you are serious about selling on eBay you absolutely need to have a steady stream of collectibles coming in. You can not
rely on blind luck or acquiring there before the other dealers.
You absolutely need a system to get a constant stream of new items coming to you to sell.
Here are 10 quick ways to get many people
to sell you their antiques and collectibles. These will get you thinking about ways to make your phone ring. I buy and sell toy trains, but so you may better focus on what you specialize in, I have substituted the word widget for toy trains.
1. Develop a selling
plan outlining exactly how you are going to generate your phone ring.
2. Have a strategy that will generate the seller want to take your offer. This is the psychology of buying and creating a win-win situations. Nobody desire to lose. Make every seller feel like they are grasping
a great deal and theyll bring you more business.
3. Ask the human
in line behind you at the post office, bank, and supermarket if they have any widgets for sale. Being shy doesnt contruct
you funds
!
4. Show off the widgets you have. There are MANY ways to do this. Let many people
enjoy the widgets you have and your phone will ring with others wanting to sell widgets to you.
5. Run ads that say "Top Dollar Paid For Widgets."
6. Send a letter to local real estate agents telling them you pay cash for unwanted widgets. They commonly encounter all the people anxious to sell.
7. Tell other widget dealers you will buy any widgets they dont want.
8. Pay others to find widgets for you by offering a finders fee to anyone that helps you buy widgets.
9. Send Thank You letters to everyone youve bought widgets from in the past, and remind them you pay cash when they get their friends and neighbors to sell you widgets.
10. Network, network, network. Its not as hard as you might think it is to spread the word in a community that you are the person to call when someone has a widget to sell.
Learn more about buying and selling antiques and collectibles.
