(02-20-2014 02:15 AM)ducane Wrote: [ -> ]I looked for programs that could alert me on price changes on amazon but the only ones I could find alerted you only when the price dropped, not increased. Pretty useless to me.
Haven't used it myself, but wouldn't something like this do the trick?
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detai...mfcd?hl=en
Thanks @flseo and legion for amazon tracker links.
Will look into those two
Okay guys, I'm not here to brag or nothing... I'm just bloody excited after the way yesterday and today have gone.
There's money to be made from these guys. If you're a flat-out newbie like I was to making money online, I would ask you to commit yourself to mastering this method first and foremost. No more bullcrap excuses. It's just too common sense you'd be silly to ignore it.
Take this to the bank: if you are diligent in putting in the effort to search for products, create bundles and LIST them, you'll make a neat regular income from this after 1 month. Guaranteed! No ifs, buts or maybes. I'm not saying you'll be rich, but you'll at the very least guarantee £25 a day.
Don't jump off to the next get rich scheme until you've given this a very good go. What's a good go? Have 200 assorted items listed over a month (you should be able to list that amount in 2 weeks but lets say a month). That's listing just 7 items a day, bloody hell! If you have 200 items listed, I guarantee you at the very least £25 a month. If you do it and you don't make that, pm me and I'll paypal you the balance.
So you've got your work guys. If you're lacking motivation, fix that. Eat right, get fresh air, exercise, go jerk off, meditate, do whatever. If you don't commit to this and you're broke and jobless like I was, then you don't deserve to be successful anyway. No get rich quick scheme will save you.
With Love,
Ducane
@ducane:
Excellent! You are an inspiration to us all
Will try to catch up with you
I hope to join you as one of Quasar's successful mentees (is that a word
)
cheers
The jerk off part only lasts five minutes, will make the motivation walk longer. 
Thanks for the pm answers, will be listing a few over the week-end.
Continued good luck over there, Ducane.
@Ducane, any updates? You have been a motivation. thanks
Rep added for Quasar. PM requested. TY
Okay guys, I've got another sweet one. Let me just set the scene for this please:
I have said last week that my new thing is bundling items and selling as a package. That was very profitable for me margin wise, until one problem I had exposed a disadvantage of the system. One of the items in the bundle had run out on Amazon so I had to take down the listing. Gutted!
However out of this problem came a tidy solution. Lets stick use a DVD example. Lets say I make a listing of "Marvel Classic dvds - spiderman, thor, iron man, etc", instead of listing it as a bundle for say £50, I list all of them in one listing but make categories so the customer can pick and choose the exact ones they want. This means if amazon runs out of Spiderman lets say, I could simply amend the quantity of mine to 0 (out of stock), that way the listing goes on.
Here's what I'm saying:
1) Make a photoshop image of all the dvd covers on one single image. That's going to be the main pic that's advertised for your listing.
2) Make listing variations so that when the customer click on your listing, there's a drop-down of all those dvds individually. It looks like this to the customer "item - Select(drop down next to select). That way customer scrolls through the drop down and picks say Thor, then the price for thor comes up.
3) customer pays for thor only - say 5 pounds.
The advantage of doing this system is endless:
1) You can kill many birds with one stone: I make a listing putting Thor, Spiderman, Iron Man, etc meaning I am ranking on ebay for all these with one 30p listing.
2) Because your main image shows all these dvd covers, its more attractive and makes you look like an authority in the DVD field.
3) This one is the key: On the main ebay results page, your listing shows the price for all these items as £4.50 - £7.50. You don't eliminate people on price from the off. They don't know if Spiderman is £7.50 or £4.50 till they use the drop down and the price changes.
The potential for this system is endless. You can list the products of a manufacturer and do this. I could list Jamie Oliver kitchen classics and make an image putting his pots, mortar, etc from his brand into one main pic, make the price £3.50 - £34, and jamie oliver fans go in there and pick what they want.
When they select say Jamie oliver pot, obviously the pic automatically changes to JUST the jamie oliver pot so it looks proper nice. I'm rambling, ask any questions on this if you like.
I am using this system now and it attracts a lot of views and sales, way way more views than any ordinary single listing. We're going pro baby!
To those who fear customers receiving amazon box, I have 183 ratings, 100% satisfaction. It's all in our heads, customers dont give a crap if you send amazon box. Although I say in my listing that orders will be fulfilled by a third party and their info won't be shared beyond that.
ducane
+rep given. Once again you posted another excellent idea. I am still having problems finding products. Can you share your tricks for find products. I am in UK too. I tried spending few hours everyday but never seem to find profitable products.
Thanks
Hey Buck, lets talk about finding products mate.
When I first started like 3 weeks ago, I was all excited thinking I could find a product on amazon that didn't exist on ebay and then clean up. Uhm er no, I couldn't. I didn't even find one single item.
Then I thought I could find a product with very few ebay sellers and I could make £2-£3 per item or so. I did find 2 or 3 such products but sales were so rare(1-2 sales a week if I was very luck) that it wasn't worth the energy and hours taken to research the item.
Then I settled for .60p - .70p profit items. This gave me hope. I just went to bestselling US and UK amazon items, created listings and put .60p or so profit on. I had a lot of joy out of it because it simplified my research process and I used my time and effort to just list products. I would make lots of sales across all items and the profit added up to about £15 a day or so
SMALL SIDETRACK: I even had a page up of embarrassing illnesses list from google, flung the name of the illnesses in amazon, any product that came up, I listed it.
Then I began combining items. I would take whatever was selling well on the 60p profit range, and look for complementary products. Because my complementary listing was unique, I'd increase the profit to £3 or so. I knew the product was popular already.
Or you can just combine items of the same brand that complement each other and list it.
Then I have moved on to selling concepts. You can bundle 4 disney movies together, say 'Disney 6-hr DVD collection, Keep Baby Occupied' and chuck it under toys and games. The reason you can put it in a random place is because nobody is actually typing 'how to keep baby occupied' in ebay but we all know its a need mums have.
So we create the item and put it where the eyeballs will see it i.e. under toys and games where it will stand out being a dvd. That way mums can notice it and a taste for that product is created. It appeals to mums who are busy. Chuck a nice profit on that and wait for the bait. Big companies do this all the time. I went to River Island, a clothing store to buy my girl a gift, at the till, they had a book called "Candy Kittens Book - Recipe book for sweets".
What? It had F-all to do with clothing but they knew that once the ladies saw it, their appetite for that product will be aroused and they'd buy it even though thats not what they went in for. That's what you wanna do here.
My point is try and think of what the person is trying to achieve and give them a package. The person that wants a Jamie Oliver pot isn't just looking for a pot, she wants a piece of Jamie brand. Why not sell her a pot and 'Jamie: Shop Smart, Cook Clever, Waste Less' which is on sale from £26 to £12.
Now it might not sell but it's a .30p risk and you've moved away from finding profitable products to thinking up profitable concepts. The ball's in your court now.