Work at Home Ideas | WorkatHomeFiles.com Top Work at Home Ideas, Tips and How to Avoid the Scams

I’ve put some more ideas on the list today and removed a few too as I decided to try to aim at work at home businesses that are largely carried out in the home so are suitable for WAHMs and WAHDs (that’s work at home moms and dads if you’re not familiar with those terms).

I’ve been experimenting some more with Squidoo and Hubpages so have given them a mention, they actually present some excellent opportunities for those who can write articles. A squidoo lens (page) I wrote about 24 hours ago is already on the first page of Google for a reasonably common search so I’ll definitely continue experimenting there and write a full post on the topic soon.

Other opportunities like website building and marketing are also now listed, some friends are doing both and doing it very nicely too

Check out the growing list of home business ideas here

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To make money on eBay there are several factors to consider and many sellers will tell you if you want to make decent returns without stress you must think of these particularly:

Is the product something not easily and cheaply purchased in a local store? The more commonplace the item the less your chances of selling yours at a good profit margin. Some of the best selling items on eBay are collectibles and antiques for this very reason.

Is your product in demand enough to start at a low price and allow competition between bidders to rise the eventual selling price for you? There is a lot of evidence that low starting prices attract more interest and therefore higher winning bids.

Is the likely profit margin enough to allow for the occasional poor auction result? You don’t want to sweat on the results of every auction. The cheaper you source your items the greater your chance of profits. Source collectibles and antiques at deceased estate sales and even garage sales for next to nothing and make excellent returns on eBay.

Is it easy to handle and ship the goods to the auction winner? The more time and effort you have to put into this element the less time and motivation you’ll have for repeating the success of the first sale. Try to stick to easily handled items that you can use pre-paid mailing for if possible.

Check out my Squidoo Lens on this for more on making money on eBay

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As great an opportunity as eBay is, there are also some eBay scams to watch out for if you’re trying to make a business out of it:

Bid Rigging or Shielding – in this scam, either two bidders work together, or one bidder using two accounts, rigs the outcome of an auction. One bids low on your item then soon after the other bids unrealistically high say two or three times the value of the item. The high bid prevents anyone else from making a competitive bid but of course that bidder backs out before payment time. You’re now left with just the low bid to sell to! This is one of the reasons why using a reserve is a good idea. Read More…

Posted under Scams, eBay