The Magic of eBay Arbitrage

Arbitrage means to buy an item for the purpose of reselling it for profit.  Although the concept traditionally means reselling in a separate market to that from which the product was acquired, for our benefit the term also applies to buying something on eBay with the purpose of reselling it quickly, also on eBay, for almost guaranteed profit. 

This buying on and reselling later in the same or alternative markets is also called ‘Flipping’, sometimes ‘Leveraging’.

For the purpose of this report arbitrage involves one or more of the following basic steps:

*  Buying online to resell online.

*  Buying offline to resell online. 

*  Buying online to resell offline.

So you might make money, for example, where you discover items selling on eBay.com which you know will sell at higher prices on the UK site.   The same goes for collectibles selling in the UK which you think might fetch higher prices outside the UK. 

For example, at a local antiques fair I recently bought eight large photographs of men and machines felling giant Redwood trees in Eureka, California in 1880. 

These fascinating old pictures had been hanging around in the seller’s box for months, finding no buyers among local visitors to the fairs he attended in Gateshead and Hexham in the north east of England.

Those photographs, beautiful though they might be, had little collecting interest in the UK, and they were tying up selling space, they were in danger of getting damaged on that seller’s stall.

The twin problems of stock tying up space and the threat of damage are why the seller offered to reduce the price by twenty per cent if I bought all of these items, total nine, pre-discount price £125, with discount £100.  So I paid the £100, uploaded them all to eBay’s UK site priced £39.99 each, total almost £320. 

Remember up to this point these items had not been viewed in modern times outside a few miles radius of Hexham in Northumberland.

Once exposed to the world an eBay living in Eureka offered me £300 to take the whole lot of my hands, which I accepted and made a quick £200 on the deal. 

That is one of many examples of buying at flea markets and boot sales and listing the products on eBay that has made me very high profits.

However, for those who don’t want to travel to flea markets and boot sales, there are plenty of opportunities for buying stock on eBay and reselling also on eBay, as this report reveals.

There are in fact a great many ways to make money from arbitrage, sometimes using eBay as buying or selling medium, sometimes by buying and selling entirely outside of eBay.

And because there are so many ways, and also due to the fact you only need on really good idea to make a good deal of money, I’m covering just two arbitrage opportunities in this report, being:

*  Profit from Other eBay Sellers’ Errors, Notably Spelling Mistake Arbitrage

*  Buying Products Offline and Reselling Them on eBay, Mainly Buying from Flea Markets and Boot Sales.

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