what if I told you can declutter your house and make about two grand doing it
in the process I just I hate clutter I don't know do you feel the same way I
can make money getting rid of clutter that's a good thing and so I took a
month and sold off all kinds of junk all around my house and ended up making over
two grand from selling all this so that's why I want to chat about and it
might even be easier than you think so in this video I'm gonna show you exactly
what I did and how you can do it too
alright so for me this whole process started with books and I had a bookshelf
full of books that I wasn't gonna read again and so I figured let's just
declutter and make some money from it because I know some of you do not have
as many books as I do and you don't care about selling books I created an
entirely separate video on that which I will link to down below that you can go
view if you have a bunch of books to sell we move on to the other stuff that
you have in your house next on the list I went and found anything around my
house that I didn't need it wasn't going to use and I pretty much asked myself if
I haven't used this in the last year and I don't see a need for the next year
then it's probably time to get rid of it now as you can imagine a lot of this
stuff is not stuff that you're gonna be able to sell because you and I have a
lot of junk that is nearly no value to anybody but there's plenty of stuff in
there that is a value I've seen studies done that say that the average U.S.
household has up to five thousand dollars of stuff that can be sold on
eBay the average U.S. household so I don't know about you and I didn't find
that much for myself but I found two grand so that's not too bad alright so
how do you do this you might ask well here's we do let's do it
and basically what I did was I went all around my house and just found all the
items that I did not want anymore and just began taking a couple pictures of each one
of them and so then what I did was I kind of sorted them by stuff that I thought I
could ship for a reasonable price you know and so this might be something you
know five pounds or less and then anything bigger than that I wanted to
sell on a local resale place so Craigslist was what I used but after but
since I've done this I've discovered a couple other apps that I like a whole
lot more for this in the main reason being is that they allow you to see
reviews of the other users they allow you to
that the other users been verified by you know by Facebook or something like
that and you also get to see a picture of the person in many cases so you just
know who you're dealing with versus on Craigslist I've just found
that there's just a few more scammier people on there and it's not all the
time but occasionally somebody's you know trying to scam you out of something
say mail that thing to me and I'll mail you a check next week and you know so a
lot of times it's kind of obvious that they're trying to scam you but I haven't
run into that on these other apps at all and so here's a quick breakdown of three
different items that I listed on Craigslist, Let Go, Offer Up and Varage Sale
and for me the number is the number of offers that I got on that particular
item so Let Go has kind of been the clear winner for me as I've listed a few
different things and so I'm just gonna walk you through and show you exactly
how easy this is and this is kind of my go-to now for selling things locally
all right so we will just go over here and we'll just go ahead and get the app
pulled up so here it is this is your homepage you can just kind of click and
see what other people are in with other people are selling if you're interested
in anything but we're gonna click sell your stuff just so we can do this click
other items and then we're gonna just go ahead and list this Bluetooth speaker
now what's really cool is that they try to figure out what it is for you just to
make this listing process even easier so it syncs this is a coffee maker but
we'll fix that in a second just take a picture of it and then we
can change it from coffee maker to Bluetooth speaker that would be
disappointing I think and price we will leave the same let's leave that twenty that's fine
it's electronics and a little quick post and it literally is that simple now you are
listed up there and if you want better chance of selling it you can click add
more details and you know add the model name add the brand you can take a few
more photos if you want but you don't have to it just might help you give
improve your chances just a little bit to sell it and really it's that simple
and then from here you'll get notified if somebody's interested in what you're
selling and then you can work out a meeting place
and a price and you know time to meet and all that stuff and it's as simple as
that and I've used this app a lot it's really popular and it's just been a
great way to sell off some stuff around the house and make some extra cash from
it and this is just a quick breakdown of the things that I sold on Craigslist and
how much we got for each one of them possibly to just give you some ideas and
our approach has been that I want to sell big bulky things locally that don't
require me shipping them so I don't want to ship a mountain bike or mini-fridge
or a 8 foot ladder like that stuff just doesn't make sense to ship because it
would just cost me a ton to ship it but for anything that I can ship and that
isn't gonna be that expensive you know so ideally stuff five pounds or less and
it doesn't take up too much space that stuff I always sell on eBay because
eBay is the biggest bang for your buck because instead of just selling to a
local market you're now selling to the entire world so there's just a much
bigger opportunity to sell and to sell for a better price on eBay
so all things being equal when I can sell something on eBay that's my go-to
and then if I can't because it's too big for some reason that's when I sell
locally that Craigslist or Let Go in this case alright so now let's move on
to eBay and this is a quick breakdown of all the items that I sold over at eBay
and how much I got for each one of them and to keep this video from turning into
too long of a video I am just gonna quickly show you the process of me
selling my broken iPhone on eBay and just kind of walk you through the
process using the app and if you want to dive deeper in this I have another video
that walks you through how you can tell how much something will actually sell
for on eBay so you can kind of get a feel for what you might be able to sell it for
all right so with that let's take a look at this broken iPhone and get this thing sold
alright so I got this old iPhone 5 so this is like what a few
versions back and I just recently updated and I'm going to sell this I
don't know the Intel but this has a cracked screen and I actually have masking
or what is this packing tape over it so it's just not in good shape at all but
I'm gonna sell this on eBay and I'm just gonna walk you through that process of
how I list it and just really how simple this is it is so simple
ok so what your going to want to do is when you get your
phone if you don't have the eBay app yet just go to the App Store and then you
can go to a search box right here and we're gonna type in eBay
search for that and then this is the eBay up here so you can just get that
and download it in my case I already have it so I'm just gonna open it up
okay so now that you're over here we can just kind of type in whatever item you
want to sell if you have a barcode if you have the box of the item you can
actually scan that with this barcode scanner to save yourself even more time
but in my case I'm just gonna go ahead and type in what I got here
iPhone 5 let's just see and then we'll start Auto filling the different options
here so it's not a 5s it's a 5 it is black and it's Verizon let's see if they
got that on here here we go iPhone 5 16gb by black Verizon ok so I
can just select that and it's going to create a draft for me pull in all the
details and so if you're selling a more obscure item that isn't that common you
might not be able to do this you might need to manually enter in your title and
description but they have a lot of items in here that'll kind of pull that for
you now if you're selling a used item you don't really want to use a stock
photo it's a lot better if you use your own photos so I'm gonna go ahead and
just kind of pull in my own photos over here so obviously I'm doing this on an
iPhone it's going to be a little bit different on an Android but I think you
get the idea so I'm just selecting the photos that I
took of this phone and I'll just kind of you can drag these around and I'm gonna
put this one of the front screen showing that it's on there so I just took a
handful of pictures I took about 7 pictures of the phone more is always
better than less don't just take one picture and I also took a picture of the
cracked screen because this one has a cracked screen and any kind of flaws or
problems with the item you're selling you want to make sure you have pictures
of them and let the buyers know because the worst thing you can do is not tell
them and so anyway so we have a handful of images here and we're going to click
done on the photos this is our title it's already kind of built in there
nothing really to change there or actually I will change I'm gonna add
that as a correct screen like we're gonna put this in the description but it
doesn't hurt to add it other places as well all right so do that say done
category it already did that for us put this in there condition we're gonna
call this used and then details we can add a few more
details about it so in my case I'm not gonna spend a lot of time because it's
an iPhone and everybody pretty knows what they're pretty much knows what
they're going to get so we'll just come back out of there
details are done all right format in price so this is what's great is that
eBay tells you for most items where they think you should price it and so they
suggest starting your option at 49 bucks in this case two similar items that sold
at a starting price between forty and sixty five dollars you know and you
could do that sometimes I like to price it lower than that to get more people
bidding on it because the more people who are bidding on it the more likely
the one of them is to buy it and to drive the price up so if you have ten
people bidding on your item becomes a little bit of emotional thing if you've
ever been involved in an auction where you really want to win and so that'll
drive your price up a little bit versus if you price it really really high fewer
people are gonna bid on it so you probably won't get as high of a price in
this case I'm gonna probably split the difference and just go with like a $29
start price on this and then I'm also going to add Buy It Now price because I
think these are fun so the Buy It Now price is basically
somebody can just bypass the entire auction and pay whatever we want
whatever our price is and they can walk away with it right then and that's kind
of a fun thing and sometimes it surprises me so what I'm gonna do is
based on here it's a similar items that were sold we're listed for between $60
and $99 so I'm gonna listed Buy It Now price for $99 so somebody wants it at
that price they can just come and get it and meanwhile I have the start price at
$29 and starting prices you know you can go with eBay's recommendation that's not
at all gonna be bad but I typically tell people whatever the start price is if
set that wherever you would be happy to sell this item so this item only sold if
this phone sold for $5 I would not be happy making you know going through the
work to sell it for $5 but if it sells for $29 it's worth my time and so I'm
happy to do that so find that point for yourself and that should be your
starting price and then from here shipping is just I typically just you
what they have built in and just kind of go with that because if you have this
hooked up through PayPal which I recommend you do very strongly you can
just print the shipping right from PayPal throw it in your mailbox and just
be done with it it's really really simple
and the way they set up shipping is that it's calculated we can just click over
here real quick by default is calculated based on where the buyers location is so
it's going to be adjusted to every buyer location and then also a really cool
thing they started not to long ago its international shipping program where or
their global shipping program they call it where you can sell to anyone in the
world but you don't have to ship outside of the United States so if I sell this
phone to somebody over in Europe I won't need to ship it over to Europe I will
just need to ship it to eBay's hub that might be in Virginia or something like
that and then the day will take care of getting it over to Europe for the buyer
so anyway so I recommend having that on and pretty much it's leaving all this
stuff as it is and then down here is the preferences for payment and stuff like
that and let's just flip over there real quick and you definitely want to hook up
a PayPal account so if you don't have one you need to get a PayPal account
it's just the gold standard for eBay everybody uses it on here it's a I don't
think you have to do that but you're gonna very few buyers are gonna work
with you if you don't because there's just a lot of protections for the buyers
when they use PayPal and so PayPal just makes the whole transaction process just
safer and more convenient for everybody people get paid instantly and the
instances of fraud are pretty much non-existent for most eBay transactions
because everybody's using PayPal versus if you are mailing checks or money
orders so stuff like that that's where it gets really shady and you might run
into people trying to scam you and stuff like that so pretty much use PayPal stay
safe and that's the best way to handle this so from here just hit continue and
then it's just kind of going through double check and everything it shows us
here our listing fees all of this stuff is free I don't know the exact seller
fee is I believe it's let's click here I believe it's 10 percent or something
like that and not sure if I'm gonna show it on here or not
anyway yeah so it says your first 50 listings per month 10
percent total amount of the sale so that's what you're gonna pay so if this
sells for $70 I'm gonna pay them 7 bucks and they also have an option here to
auto relist it so if it happens to not sell the first time they would
automatically just relist it again and do that up to 2 more times for me and so
that's pretty much it so I can click preview here and just double check make
sure the pictures are right and I don't have anything weird in there I can read
over everything read over the description and all the rules and then
that's it and then I can click list it and so I'm just gonna go ahead and click
list it and there we go and it says now your item is listed first sale so what
we can do is I can view the list see if I would like and now it's just sitting
up here on eBay and so it shows out there and then you know you will
probably assuming you have notifications turned on you should get notifications
if somebody bids on it and when it sells or anything like that but you can come
over to this is my eBay tab and from here you can always kind of flip down to
see the items that you are selling let's just see what we got here so here's the
one active item I have them selling and it'll show you how many people are
watching it and those are people who are just kind of paying attention and wanting
to see what's going on but haven't bid and they'll also show you the number of
people bidding on it as well you know and that is the listing process but as
you can see it's just a very simple streamlined process and yeah they've
just worked really hard to make it really really easy to sell something so
your homework now is to go find something if you have a phone laying
around let's go find that and try to sell it or find something else and let's
just give this a shot and I want to see how it goes for you
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