When you see these “Make $5000 a week for doing nothing!” ads, the get rich quick approach to selling on eBay, your first reaction is skepticism as well it should be. We share in that skepticism. In all of our collective experience at PoliceAuctions.com, we never met anyone who got paid for doing nothing. Instead, we have found that the more you make, typically, the harder you are working. There is a direct connection between effort and income, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing.

Buying items cheaply and reselling them eBay or other channels can be a fun part-time hobby or a full-fledged enterprise or something in between. The great thing about working for yourself is you get to set your own goals and work at your own pace.

Is it possible to build a full-time career out of selling on eBay? Absolutely.

Here is a story we seem to here often. The executive leaves old job, strains his family resources and becomes wildly successful through selling on eBay with sales of over $300,000 per year:

http://www.ecommerce-guide.com/article.php/3560241

Here’s another case study of someone who started on a smaller scale, making only a few sales a month:

http://sbinfocanada.about.com/od/onlinebusiness/a/ebaycasestudy.htm

So the answer to the question of how much can I make by selling on eBay is how much effort are you willing to put into it?”