How to Start and Run an eBay Consignment Business

by Skip McGrath

Make big profits on eBay with no upfront investment! Make thousands of dollars per week--with little or no financial risk--selling other people’s stuff on eBay. How to Start and Run an eBay Consignment Business explains how to locate and work with consignors and successfully deal in the goods they want to sell, including collectibles, retail store closeouts, estate items, corporate merchandise, and much more. Find out how to get started selling on consignment, decide what kinds of items will be the most profitable, and set up your business. You’ll get sample contracts, forms, and flyers, as well as tips on creating a web site, marketing your business, and automating day-to-day tasks. Whether you want to supplement your income or become a registered eBay Trading Assistant, you’ll find everything you need in this helpful, step-by-step guide.

Genres: Nonfiction, Business

336 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

Skip McGrath is an eBay Gold PowerSeller and registered eBay Trading Assistant and has been selling full-time on eBay since 1999 and on amazon since 2006. Skip, and his wife Karen, started selling books, antiques and collectibles on eBay and later expanded to house and garden wares and photographic equipment. Karen quit her job to do eBay full time in 2000 and Skip left an executive position with a Fortune 100 company to concentrate on eBay and Amazon full time in 2004.


Skip has written several books about selling on eBay and Amazon including:

Complete Idiots Guide to eBay
The Complete eBay Marketing System
the Complete Amazon Marketing System
eBay to Amazon
Titanium eBay
Three Weeks to eBay Profits
How To Make Good Money Selling Used Books on eBay, Amazon and The Internet

In early 2000 Skip launched The Auction Seller's Resource at www.skipmcgrath.com and began publishing The eBay Seller's News, a free monthly newsletter for professional auction sellers.

Skip is a contributing editor to eBay Radio with Uncle Griff and has been featured on Entrepreneur Radio on several occasions. He has also been interviewed extensively and featured in stories about eBay in Newsweek, the Seattle Times, Washington Post, and Entrepreneur magazine and appeared on several TV interview shows including Good Morning America, Fox News and San Francisco ABC's PM Magazine.

Skip attends numerous eBay events where he has been a featured speaker and appeared on numerous panels.

You can read the current and back issues of his newsletter and order his books from the Auction Seller's Resource at www.skipmcgrath.com. Skip also publishes a weekly blog at blog.skipmcgrath.com.

Reviews

[Karen · Rating 5 out of 5]

This IS the bible for ebay consignment services. Skip covers every detail, at length. No one should start a consignment service without this book.

[Martin · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great book for getting the guts of the trading assistant business down. Very well done by an experienced ebayer.