04-17-2009, 01:24 PM
nachoman Wrote:Wow. That looks fantastic. Have you been making enough money by selling structures on ebay to be worth your time and cover your costs? Or are you looking at this as a way to hone your modeling skills while earning a few bucks doing something you like to do anyway? The reason I ask is that I have often considered making a few extra items and selling them on ebay to recover some costs of tools I need and to make a few extra dollars.
Hey Kevin, thanks
Im doing these right now just to make a few extra bucks here and there. Being out of a job for almost a year now has really been tough, so doing this and making a few extra bucks here and there really helps, not to mention my girlfriend and I have our 1 year anniversary coming up and i wanna try and get something nice for her lol.
Right now, im just trying to score buildings as cheaply as i can, while taking into account the shipping for the buildings i buy, the fees from ebay and Paypal after i sell the structures, and the packing materials needed to ship these structures in, im not making a whole lot. Of coarse, the buyer pays for all Packing Materials, and all Shipping Costs, but this still does not help me much for the fees i get charged from both ebay and Paypal.
I try to start my starting price at a reasonable price, from past experience, if it is a reasonable starting price, the bidding usually ends up going higher then if you just started the auction for what you wanted to get for it. For the Cargill Grain Elevator that i have listed right now, i did a starting bid of $49.95. It has 17 people watching it with 4d 20h left. The structure cost me $54 (2 Grain Elevator Kits, shipping included), so i always just have to have a little hope in the auction that it will be at least what i paid for it plus the fees from Ebay and PayPal, so i always hope to be in the positive side when it ends, and at least make enough to break even..... Ive been pretty lucky in the past and have not really had anything sell for anything less then me breaking even on it....
Im trying to get ahold of 4 more grain elevators (so i can make 2 more of these and decal them for COOP and Con Agra Grain), and 4 Red Wing Flour Mill structures. Plus i just bought 25 Walthers Modular Series kits, which i hope to make more then a few buildings out of lol