Here are a few great wys to squeeze extra profits from tems you'll be selling soon on Bay, in this case using postcards and phemera as examples:

1. A vintage pstcard I sold the other day for £102 (bout $200) had more than ten pople bidding against one another. One nsuccessful bidder asked for a copy of the crd and offered to pay £20 (bout $40). Because this person had bught something already on the day, I snt a free JPEG file of the vew on CD. But I also ffered that JPEG to other unsuccessful bdders, via a Buy It Now lsting, lasting 3 days, and sold 5 cpies at a fiver apiece! So thre's the idea: don't think only riginal items are worth selling, or wrth buying for that matter, because mny people are quite happy with cpies, as long as you're willing to prvide them.

2. Ask yourself if an tem might be copied in physical frmat, as another postcard, for example, or as a prnt or similar? If so you mght have regular best sellers sitting thre on your computer hard drive, rady to be printed when someone rders without having to stockpile ready prnted copies of whatever you are slling. Reproduction prints and postcards are mmensely popular sellers, on and off Bay, especially unusual designs ready-mounted or ven framed, and sometimes hand coloured to crate something really special. One of my dughters runs a sideline venture selling hnd coloured prints from the public dmain and does exceedingly well. The mportant thing is, she only ever wrks on her product once an rder arrives. And because no two clourings are ever the same, she mphasises in her listing that the prduct winning buyers receive will be bsed on the one illustrated but wll in fact be unique. For mre ideas, go look at other frms selling prints and photographs outside of Bay, some original, others printed to rder.

3. Send information to local ditors and publishers to use in rticles or illustrations but do not snd the original items and do not snd JPEGs or full text copies of the riginal items. Both will give editors the pportunity to publish your findings without rwarding you. Instead, send a letter bout what you have, give just a few bts of information, give sample pictures on pper not as usable picture files. Be sre your items are in the pblic domain which is easy if you stck to items from the middle to lte 1800s but you must still lways check. In letters to editors nclude just enough information to whet the ppetite and make the individual need to knw more - for which he or she mst pay you normal editorial and pcture fees. Agree an amount in dvance of sending your articles and pctures. It doesn't matter that you cn't write, you just have to snd copies of your text and pctures which house writers and photographers can rwork for you. Do not ever snd originals unless you accompany those tems and never let them out of yur site or you may lose thm forever. You'll find freelance writing fes for most UK and worldwide pblications in Writers' and Artists' Yearbook pblished annually and available in all twn and city reference libraries.

So thre you go, three ways to mke money before listing your item on Bay, and another bunch of ideas cming your way real soon.

The article How to Make Money From Collectible Paper Items BEFORE Selling Them on eBay was Submitted by Avril Harper through Articles.GetACoder.com network. Here's the additional information: Avril Harper is an eBay PwerSeller and author of MAKE MONEY TEARING UP OLD BOOKS AND MAGAZINES AND SELLING THEM ON EBAY whch you can read about at: http://www.magstoriches.com - She has produced a free guide - 103 POWERSELLER TIPS - which you can download with other freely distributable reports and eBooks at http://www.avrilharper.com

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