Selling Coupons on Ebay

Selling Coupons on eBay

by: Lissa McGrath

In Skip’s weblog he talked briefly about baby coupons being a hot eBay item. I told him I was planning to test the market with some formula coupons I had received from the formula companies (all new parents get these) and write up an article for his Niche of the Month. The article became a bit too long for the newsletter, so Skip put it here on his free articles page.
When I got to writing it, I realized that it wasn’t just baby coupons that were hot sellers on eBay, there are coupons for almost any item you can think of! As of this writing, there are 12,751 coupons for sale on eBay.

Before I talk about the other coupon types, let me show you the results of my six auctions this week. I sold $45.00 worth of formula retail checks which are a bit more desirable than retail coupons because you are not limited to just one per transaction. Still, I have seen just coupons selling for a decent profit too. Remember – I got all of these for free in the mail.

$ Amount of Coupons
Selling Price
$18 (two x $7 and one x $4)
$14.66
$5
$3.24
$5
$3.58
$5
$3.58
$7
$5.53
$5
$3.55
Retail Value: $45.00 Sold For: $34.14 eBay Fees: $5.09 Inventory Cost: $0.00 Profit: $29.05
I know $29.05 doesn’t sound like a lot, but consider that it took me five minutes to write the listing and they are almost identical so I just changed the amount for each auction, and there were only six auctions. Also, there was no cost to me which is very important if you don’t have a lot of money (like a new stay-home Mom!) My total time invested in these six auctions including photographing the items was less than 30 minutes.

And, as I said, it’s not just formula coupons that are hot sellers. The following items are from an eBay completed items search for coupon that I performed today. I’m showing a sample, so these are by no means the only types out there.

TO READ THE REST OF THE ARTICLE:

http://www.skipmcgrath.com/articles/coupon-article.shtml

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