Can You Really Earn A Living Ripping Up Old Books and Magazines?
Written on December 26, 2008 – 11:01 pm | by Guru
It might really astonish you, but among the easiest items to sell on eBay is pieces of paper. But only if you know the right sort of paper to put up for sale there.
Among the possible paper items that can be sold in the online auction, certain old pictures do particularly well. Want to know the one subject that makes for an all-but-certain sale? Dogs.
It is completely true. Your friend the dog can put food on your table!
Selling images of dogs to dog enthusiasts and art collectors in general can be a nice little business. So, there’s room for more folks to get in and make money.
A great thing about this moneymaking idea is that you can obtain your stock–dog pictures or prints–virtually for nothing.Then you turn around and resell the pictures–for a nice profit, of course–at eBay or another auction-type site.
Some folks make enough from this to pursue it full time. Dogs are practically the perfect subject in which to specialize, but some others have proven to do almost as well. Trains and sailing ships, for example.
Where can you find suitable old dog pictures? The answer: drawings and photographs found in second-hand books that you purchase cheaply at flea markets, from second-hand stores and from other online sellers.
Fact: You frequently can sell one image that you took from an old book, for several times the cost of the book itself. Your job is targeting those people who are seeking a specific image subject.
Man’s best friend has proven to be a consistently top-selling subject. Some buyers like all kinds of dog pictures. On the other hand, some prefer to concentrate on a particular breed. Consider that a person who devoted to chow chows may have hundreds of prints of this breed framed and on display throughout his house.
With some diligent searching, and a bit of luck, you can find a large number of books about dogs from the late 19th century and the 20th century, that contain wonderful color plates illustrating the different breeds.Many of them will have 15, 20, 30 or more of these plates.
When you find this type of book, you can carefully remove the pages with the images, and mat them them individually. Believe this: You can then sell them for as much as fifty or hundred dollars-each!–on eBay.
A tip: Retrievers and other breeds of hunting dog tend to fetch the most collector interest when it comes to specific picture subjects.However, you can make good money on eBay selling old photos and other art of just about any kind of dog.
Besides the aforementioned dogs, ships and trains, keep an eye out for books with prints of old timey cars, cities and towns, country scenes, and horses. A number of other subjects have been shown to sell well, too.
To be a success in this, you must take time to learn where to find old books with the images that will sell. You must also learn how to remove the images so as to avoid damage. And, you should learn how to present them (starting with mounting them) to catch the attention of the high bidders on eBay. The authoritative source on all of this is How To Make Money By Tearing Up Old Books And Selling Them On eBay.
The good news? If you want a proven way to make money online, one with surprisingly little competition, your best friend could very well be a dog. (And here’s an objective look at the business of selling paper online.)
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