Selling assistant

[dhw4-32]

I am looking for someone or a company to list and sell and manage my products on e bay.  I live in the South Bend In area. How do I locate someone. 
Dave 

[maxine*j]

All you can do is advertise locally, in the South Bend area.

Once upon a time, eBay had the Trading Assistants program, and that didn't work out. They later tried again with eBay Valet and that also failed.  The fact is that selling things for others has so many problems and pitfalls that very, very few people will do it.

The first problem is that people nearly always have an unrealistic idea of the value of their stuff, so a lot of emotional drama develops.  Plus, the sales will be on the seller's 1099K, so he will have to do extra bookwork in regards to his tax filing.  Then there are questions such as: "How will you and the seller handle the refund when a buyer waits 179 days and then files a claim with PayPal or does a credit card chargeback?" Are you willing to wait 180 days for your money? If not, will you guarantee to cover the loss if this happens? How will you guarantee that? Or, "Who eats the loss if a buyer gets a refund but the returned item is damaged or a sorry substitute is sent?"

And those are just a few issues, out of several equally serious ones.

So, the chances of your finding anyone who will sell for you are slim to none. Sorry to be discouraging.

If you do find someone, be sure you have a clean, clear, detailed, written contract.

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[frankenhobbit]

No-one is going to work for the effective rate of pay that selling other peoples items on ebay and taking 'a cut' will work out to. Most sellers have to work pretty hard at it to make a living keeping ALL their profits. 

Sellers making a living are selling in volume and specialize in certain areas, which helps reduce the time spent 'per item' shipping and getting it to the carrier. The shipping time (including getting it to the carrier), materials and 'cost of the label'  is the real decider on if an item makes a decent profit or not. 

If you are selling differnent odd items that are  under around $80, you would effectively be better off donating them and taking the tax deduction if you do not want to sell them yourself.  

Selling them locally eliminates the shipping and the eBay fees.  Though even then, what is your time and vehicle costs worth? I'd personally not bother for under $40-50 unless they came to pick it up or I could throw it in a bubble mailer and stick it in my post box.