The Less Immediate Present
Ok so, I’m turning 26 this year and thought;
“Hey, why don’t you become a billionaire this year?”
“You should definitely start a business…or something to that
effect. There’s nothing else to do here anyway, is there?”
Nope…
So I figured, why not get started small and try to learn
business step by step in a practical, warts-and-all fashion while in my small
home town? Sure, it half sounds boring and dangerous, but the other half is
completely bonkers fun. eBay was surprisingly easy to set up on, so I thought
I’d give it a shot as a seller. The reassuringly small transaction fees are appealing – it’s
literally a couple of pence for now. I’m sure as time passes, though, my eager
thirst for business prowess will eventually swallow me whole. After which point,
obviously, my stellar sales will be drawing eBay’s fangs closer to my throat…
But that’s probably much later down the line, two years minimum.
The More Immediate Present
My first listings are as follows:
1x Silent Hill Playstation 1 Game (PAL region) with original
Silent Hill (PS1) Demo disc (including original sleeve/manual). Pretty good
nick too
1x Similarly good-nick Bust-A-Groove Playstation 1 Game (PAL
region).
Total cost to me; £1.00 (or £0.50 each)
Total expected profits: £19.00 (or £20.00 – £1.00 original
investment)
Chance of first time buyer making significant profit via
this endeavour? I’m going to say fifty-fifty. Why?
I’ve listed the Silent Hill game first, and am presently
uploading the Bust-A-Groove auction on eBay. I recently became an eBay addict
and splurged on a total of three things – all Gamecube related. A few months
ago I had a similar experience with Amazon, but am presently over that phase.
eBay is intense though. The power it puts in ordinary people’s hands (and fast
access to boot) to monetise their property to complete strangers across a
worldwide market is truly phenomenal. I don’t mean to gush eBay or admit my
sexy love affair with Google (I’m something of a fetishist nerd), but
seriously. I’ve managed to acquire some curious property for a meaningless
price, and have managed to sell it on pseudo-anonymously with almost no effort
on my own part. I truly feel like a capitalist today…
So I just finished uploading Bust-A-Groove, and noticed that
a default product description came up (likely written by a seller of the same
item elsewhere) and it was so badly written. I couldn’t edit it, so I emailed
eBay customer support saying, you know:
Heeeeeey eBay,
New User here, just
wondering… Can you help me with this thing I can’t do?
Thaaaaaanks,
Kind regards,
New User.
I’m expecting no reply anyway – this is no man’s land, ain’t
no-one gonna help me but me.
Two items for sale, postage mostly covered, and the will of
the fortune goddess on my side, I’ll meet my targets and be a true business
entrepreneur or something to that effect…
While write things
like this, BackwaterTyrant is busily trying to better himself by sleeping in
and watching Game of Thrones. If you’d like to follow his odd journey into
business further, please show your support with a kind email to bananahammock12@googlemail.com
Yes you read that
email right.
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