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Can You Really Make Money
Tearing Up Old Books and Magazines and Selling them on eBay?
Hard-bitten
American skeptic goes up against England's 'Superseller':
Guess who wins?
He gave up
on selling books online.
But she
claims to rake in the dough by offering book pages
for sale.
Scam or the real deal?
Once, I bought an old newspaper that someone was selling on
eBay.
It was dated in August of 1945, with a huge headline announcing the
Japanese surrender ending World War II.
Now at the moment that newspaper came off the presses back in 1945, my
dad was on a U.S. Navy ship somewhere in the Pacific. He had just
completed his basic training ("boot camp") and was on his way to fight
in the war.
Who knowns? That timely surrender might have saved his life.
The sweet thing about that particular newspaper was that it happened to
be from my dad's own hometown, the same town where his new bride--my
mom--was then living, awaiting his eventual return from the Navy.
Knowing that that particular paper would be drenched in personal
meaning for him, I bought it and gave it to him as a gift on his 70th
birthday.
As valuable a souvenir and historic artifact as that newspaper was, I
was able to get it very cheaply from its eBay seller, because I was the
only one who entered a bid for it. While nice for me as the
buyer, this helped convince me that anyone trying to make real money on
eBay by selling "paper" – magazines, books,
newspapers,
etc. –
was
probably doomed to failure.
I'm happy to say
that an English
woman by the name of Avril Harper has blown my thinking out of the
water and turned me 180 degrees around on this! (Here's
her site if you want to check her out right now.)
I've tried to sell paper online myself – books,
specifically. When Amazon started letting anyone sell used books
through its website, I jumped in with both feet and both
hands. I
began scouring yard sales and thrift stores for books I could pick up
for a quarter or 50 cents, then resell on Amazon for $5 or $10 ...
even, occasionally, for as much as $50.
For a couple of years I had great fun selling books this way, and it
gave me a pretty good side income. But then something happened.
More and more people began selling books through Amazon. Soon there
were hundreds selling the same titles, and asking prices dropped
accordingly. Pretty soon you were seeing dozens of listings for used
copies of the same books, with sellers asking as little as 1
cent
plus shipping for them! It
was plain nuts.
I quickly realized that selling used books online was no longer a
profit-making endeavor, at least not for me. Even on eBay you could
(and can) find scores of out-of-print and even comparatively rare old
books, in numbers so great that many failed to attract any bidders at
all.
All this time, though, Avril
Harper was raking in the dough--not by selling whole books, but by
ripping them apart and selling the individual pages! And
she's still doing it.
Now she's published an
e-book explaining in exact detail not only how
she pulls this off, but how anyone can duplicate her methods to make
money, too.
The e-book is titled, "I Make Good Money Tearing Up Old Books and
Magazines and Selling Them on eBay."
So what exactly is
she talking about?
Well, in brief, she's picking up old books, magazines and other printed
material for cheap or free, then she's going through them and carefully
removing the pages that she knows someone will pay good money
for--things like prints
(pictures) of particular subjects, maps and old advertisements.
Then she's advertising these things on eBay – and getting buyers left
and right who are willing to pay her big money
for them. (Click
here if you want to read it in her words.)
The exciting aspect of all this is her contention that the field is
wide open for others to duplicate her methods, not just in England but
in the United States and other countries as well.
In fact, she says the U.S. is especially ripe territory
for someone to go gangbusters making money this way. She says there are
many more potential buyers of paper ephemera in the U.S. than in her
own country, as well as more sources of the old books and magazines
which supply the "products" to be sold.
Here's what Avril
Harper herself has to say:
"For the past few years I’ve been tearing up old books and
magazines and selling them on eBay and generating very good profits.
The entire concept has made me an eBay PowerSeller – three
times
over – yet I genuinely am just touching the surface of this
exciting opportunity.
"There’s much more to this business than any one person can
ever hope to tackle and the
market is wide open for more people to copy me exactly and
generate some extra spending money or even earn a full-time living
this way.
"You will discover, in precise detail, exactly how to operate one or a
string of eBay businesses, all selling individual items removed from old books, magazines and
newspapers,
and how to turn almost every page of those publications into a
profitable earnings source for you."
She points out that no special skills or knowledge are required. "All
you need are the publications themselves and knowledge of what to do
with them next, alongside a complete step-by-step guide to placing your
ads on eBay at the right time, in the right place, at the right price.
All this takes just a
few minutes to do and costs very little."
As one who has been around the block selling things online, I can tell
you that Harper has me excited about this business all over again. Her
83-page e-book is a no-fluff manual
with exact, step-by-step
instructions for selling pages from books and magazines
and making huge profits.
She tells how you can easily sell not only prints and old
advertisements to people who are hungry to buy them, but also newspaper
clippings, advertising novelties, even old dress-making patterns.
As valuable as the information on what to sell, is Harper's advice on
just how
to sell it. Being a successful eBay seller is both art and science, and
her hard-won knowledge in this area can keep beginners from making the
mistakes that could sink what otherwise can be a hugely profitable
venture.
Is there anything to dislike about "I
Make Good Money Tearing Up Old Books and Magazines and Selling Them on
eBay"?
Well, to be perfectly honest – if a bit picky – there are a couple.
A very
minor "complaint" is
that Avril Harper tends to discuss prices in terms of British pounds.
That's only natural, because she is British, but it might be slightly
disconcerting to some American readers to see that £ symbol
sprinkled through the pages. After all, they want to learn how to rake
in the bucks
–
the dollars!
The methods, though, are what count, not the currency used to
illustrate them. As Harper says, the business of tearing up books and
magazines and selling their "innards" is wide open in the U.S. and
likely is even more so here than it is in England. So, if you need to,
just visualize $$$
whenever you encounter a £!
My other gripe is slightly more serious. That is the fact that this
e-book does not really give instructions on how to mount the prints and
advertisements that you will be selling, although the author says that
this will make them more attractive to eBay buyers and will increase
your profits many times over.
Fortunately, mounting is
simple--I've
done it many times with photographs of mine that I entered in local
photography contests. Mounting materials are cheap and easy to come by,
and you can find exact instructions all over the Web. So,
this
one small lack in Harper's e-book should not deter anyone from putting
her methods into action.
My recommendation?
Get "I Make Good Money Tearing Up Old Books and Magazines and Selling
Them on eBay" if you have even the slightest desire to start making some serious money
online, doing something that is fun
and easy. It's 99% of everything a book on this subject
should be, and you probably won't even miss the other 1%.
As for me, I plan to start ripping up books this evening.
Click to learn more:
Make Money Tearing Up Old
Books and Magazines and Selling them on eBay
– H. Tim Sevets,
Books Editor,
Solid Gold Info Writers Consortium
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