Professional ebayer reporting in. Vintage american toys (80's era) was what I started with. I'm no longer in toy niches, but I have plenty of experience with it.
>>6636174some of this was ass backwards advice
I started with toys because it was my own personal hobby and thus I knew the market and the items within it very well.
It was an easy project to get into and profit in because I knew the product intimately, it was easy for me to find profits because I was well versed.
The mistake with dealing in "what you know"/personal interest items is if you have any level of success, it may kill the interest for you. After 3 years of dealing in toylines I personally collected I had to take a good 2-3 years off from even thinking about anything related to them. To this very day my interest in the various lines I collected has waned so I only get the more interesting stuff now where before I would take any and everything related as long as it was in toy form
in my experience ebaying in general has a significantly low scam rate unless you're dealing in high risk items (high value electronics, iphones, videocards, etc), far below 1% much less 10. I might have 2 cases out of every thousand transactions that is a blatant scam.
what you WILL get a ton of is buyers that are self entitled, nitcpicky cunts who will try to squeeze every dime out of you however they can.
-know your break even prices so you can haggle. you WILL haggle.
-know your competition prices so you are competitive.
-good, clear photos that show the items condition and reflect any flaws (also state any flaws in description)
-be ready for people to complain about the smallest thing for partial/full refunds, ie dot your i's and cross your t's.
