I'm just thinking of opening my own personsal selling site. wil it work?

hi bulastika. good idea you have here for earning some extra cash. i've done something similar myself. i purchase items in bulk or those on sale from mom and pop stores and sell it on-line for a profit. i used to have an eBay account where i sold audio and video cds and dvds. you can go that route and create for yourself an eBay account or even pose pictures of your merchandise in your facebook account. doing that automatically gives you your client base with your current facebook friends. i've earned some extra cash but not as much as your projections. that is one thing that you might want to check though. everyone wants to earn big but a 400% return is stretching it a bit too much. that's just my opinion though. another thing that you can look into is to sell items that you own but do not use anymore like old clothes, books, and even electrical appliances and furniture. just make sure that whatever you're selling are still clean, functional, and up to date and not out of season. hope these tips help you out bulastika and good luck on your endeavor. cheers and happy mylotting!!!

Hello, bulastika! I've been planning the same for years now. Yes. The problem is how I can sell online for here in our country, most people prefer not to use credit or debit cards. I am also thinking of PayPal as an alternative, but I am sure only few Filipinos are using PayPal.

I would suggest you to stick to e-bay first, where there is lot of traffic.Starting your own site and getting enough traffic might take time. So stick to popular sites, see the profit,gain experience and then you are are likely to get lot of customers. Maintain good relation with your customers and then start your own sites and popularize it among them. Product price margin of 400% seems too high. Every buyer online does there homework, before maeking a deal. If you buy a cup for .50 cents and selling for 1.50, people are likely to buy. No one will buy, if the products is priced 20$. All products must be reasobably priced.

A markup of 400% on those secondhand purchased for your resale business, it may work out well for you, very soon, your personal selling site will make you a very rich person in Philippines when many people begin to place their orders, it probably will work out fine, but we never know, unless you try it. GO for it, wish you well.

good luck with that, I think that's a good idea, especially if you can buy some stuff cheap then put your own brand then sell it double or more. or try to take photos of some products on where you live then just post it on your site, that way you don't need to invest money, all you need is take photo's post it on your website, then if someone ordered then that's the time you make the purchase of that product. sure ball:) good luck!

In my experience, what you should do it set up your site with complete listing of your products and at the same time list the item on ebay with slightly higher price than on your website and create external links on your listing to your website, like more information about your company and etc. At first your buyers might just buy from ebay since they didn't know a single thing about your company, but after you reach 500-1000 positive feedback from buyers, they will start showing on your website. When you reach that stage, you can start slowing down on ebay since you will have the listing fees and all that, but not on your website. But the most important thing to start selling on ebay is customer satisfactory, even 1/100 negative feedback would cost you something with paypal. Another thing about ebay is your customer payment will be held until they give you a positive feedback. For the item you would sell i would suggest checking some wholesaler website like aliexpress for cheap stuff or you can subscribe to globalsources products where suppliers will personally contact you with their quotes and company information. What i mean is that the stuff they sell for like $65 each would sell $150 on ebay. Goodluck.

That can be good.Laki tubo mo nyan hopefully. :) Online site would be ok.At least you don't have to rent a space which can cost you a lot.

The problem with setting up your own selling site is attracting the traffic. Personally, I'd forget about that and sell through Ebay or maybe Amazon instead, because those sites already attact millions of visitors.

Oh. Your too much. Haha. Maybe, just a suggestion, there are 2nd hand buy and sell online sites out there. Maybe you can sell products of your own on those sites. By this one, you will just earn, and get rid of objects which you do not use already, and it is very legal. :)

I feel that perhaps if your selling percentages were a tad bit lower then you can make a nice profit. Remember that in order to be successful in that type of business, you have to sell quality products that can also beat your competitors price. Sometimes you have to be aware of that a lot of products that are sold under market value aren't necessarily of good quality.