Part one covers how to start dealing. You can read it at the above link.

Read my Silent Sales Machine Review and get a Free interview I did with Jim.

http://www.abebooks.com is a site with lists of used books without ISBN numbers.

http://www.amazon.com is a site where you can look up newer books with ISBN numbers, and recently made toys and board games.

Share your links below.

Terry

Initially I did OK with the site. eBay paid me  a few hundred a month for the traffic and the articles were based on trains in my collection, or on items I’d sold on eBay so I didn’t have to spend much time adding new articles.

Just before train99 fell out of Google,  eBay changed their affiliate program and my earnings dropped so the site was only making about $25 a month.

I assumed Google had blocked train99.com and the money wasn’t worth  the time to try and fix it.

Recently I’ve been playing with Google’s Webmaster tools  for my ebay advice website. I added train99 to the list of my websites in Google expecting to see the site had been blocked.

It turned out there was a robots.txt file on train99 telling search engines to ignore the site. I wouldn’t have added this to my site, but it’s been years so I can’t say that for sure. I don’t even know when it was added since my site has been moved to different servers. I changed the robots.txt file and now I’m waiting to see what happens.

Two weeks after I changed the robots.txt file Google crawled train99, but has yet to index any pages.

It’s a PDF that explains how to sell low priced items on ebay and then sell the buyers more expensive items. The process works for affiliates too.

Terry

Actually, one’s not an article, it’s an interview Jim and I did about how we went from eBay sellers to building online businesses. Great stuff, and FREE!

Jim Cockrum on building an online business

The other article is a Review of Jim’s Fullfillment By Amazon package. My article explains when you want to sell on Amazon rather than eBay, and my thoughts on Jim’s package.

Terry

This helps me keep track of them, but also helps YOU find them.

I’ve decided to give some of them away, other have low prices. You’ll find reports on Antiques, Collectibles and eBay, Creating and selling information products and on Internet Marketing.

Here’s a link:

eBooks by Terry Gibbs

Terry

Get your copy of The Marketer’s Guide To Facebook.

Terry

Things like:

• Basketball shoes - 10-20 years old in great shape can bring hundreds depending on the brand and athlete tie in.
• Old advertising matchbooks - most of these are worthless, I’ll explain in the book which ones bring the most money.
• Employee pins. Like the matchbooks, most of these have no value. I’ve sold some for $50-250, and seen a few sell for $1200 and more.
• Kitchen appliances. I once sold a wood tray that went with a 1930’s toaster for $150.
• Collectible cards and stickers. My first eBay sales were Wacky Packages stickers I had collected in grade school. I didn’t have a camera, but had a scanner. The shoebox full brought in more than enough to buy a camera. (Digital cameras were expensive back then!)
• Cereal premiums. I sold a set of Dick Tracey rings years ago for $145. They were from Post cereal.
• Got suggestions?

What have you sold that brought an odd amount? Something that surprised you? If you post a comment below with something you were pleasantly surprised with the selling price, I’ll give you a copy of the book when I get it finished. By posting you’re giving me permission to use your name and words in the book.

Terry

PS If you post, please be as specific as posible. If you’re story involves dishes tell us the maker, the pattern, and the price.