Millions of magazines are offered by the box full each year at garage sales across the nation. Often they are priced at $.25 or less per magazine. Some of these magazines offer a huge opportunity for savvy eBay sellers who are able to separate the wheat from the chaff.

This special report contains a list of more than one hundred magazines that can typically bring $50 or more when sold in lots on eBay. This is not a “pie-in-the-sky” list of magazine that, with lots of luck, you may stumble across once in a lifetime.

Rather, it is a compilation of magazines, most of which have been published within the last 30 years, that you can find with regularity at garage sales. Many of the titles included in this report also appear regularly at thrift stores and book sales.
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Domino magazine is an excellent example of a magazine you have a good chance of finding at garage sales or in thrift stores that can be extremely profitable when sold on eBay.

Domino magazine, published by Conde Nast, first appeared in April 2005 with a Spring/Summer Premiere issue. The magazine’s tag line, “A Guide To Living With Style” described the overall content of the magazine - interior design.

In January of this year, Conde Nast announced that the March 2009 issue would be the last issue. During the four years between 2005 and 2009 a total of 28 issues were published.
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In an ideal world we could spend a Saturday morning going to garage sales , thrift shops, or an auction sale and bring home a half dozen or more items we paid very little for but that would sell for $25 to $50 or more on eBay.

As most of us know though, we don’t live in an ideal world. Some days the great buys just aren’t there. Other days, someone beats us to them. If all we look for at garage sales or thrift shops are those $25 to $50 items, there are going to be a lot of days when we go home empty-handed.

The purpose of this special report is to provide you with enough information about something that can be found at many garage sales, thrift shops, book sales, and auction sales, that, when marketed properly, can provide sales of $30 to $50 on eBay. That something is cross stitch patterns and related items.

At first glance cross stitch patterns may not appear to be eBay gold. However, consider the following:

• The term “cross stitch pattern” is entered into Google’s search box more than 160,000 times each month.
• One enterprising couple has operated an on-line membership site devoted to providing cross stitch patterns to it’s subscribers for more than four years. They charge $3.95 a month and make more than a quarter of a million dollars a year.
• Some individual cross stitch patterns regularly bring $30 or more on eBay.
• It’s not uncommon for small lots of cross stitch patterns to bring $50 or more on eBay.
• When found, cross stitch patterns can often be purchased for $.25 or less. When purchased at these prices, even patterns that have no value on their own can be listed in lots and often bring $1 or a little more per pattern when listed in mixed lots of 30 to 50 or more.

Of course not all cross stitch patterns are created equal. While some do very well on eBay if marketed properly, others attract little, or no, attention. The purpose of this special report is to show the reader what patterns are worth buying and how to list them for maximum profits.

This 33 page special report covers what cross stitch patterns, pattern publishers, pattern designers, and cross stitch kits consistently sell well on eBay.

You can purchase The Auction Rebel Guide To Cross Stitch Patterns On eBay for $14.95 through the button below.

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2009 is here. What are you going to do to take your business to the next level?

If you are selling antiques, collectibles, books, or other used items on Amazon, eBay, or some other on-line venue - 2009 is the time to ramp up your business and expand.

That’s right! In the middle of uncertain economic times, when so many people are either cutting back their eBay listings or abandoning eBay altogether, now is the time you should become more aggressive and look for ways to expand and grow your business.

Let’s take a look at how, and why, you should.
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eBay buyers are always ready to buy inexpensive books in lots. The astute seller can take advantage of that by selling books by the lot on eBay.

Many of us are always looking for books that will quickly sell for $50, $100, or more. Unfortunately, the reason people are willing to pay that kind of money for them is that they don’t appear that often.

Fortunately, there is another way to generate $50, $100, or more sales on eBay with books that are much easier to find.

Garage sales, thrift shops, FOL, AAUW, and other book sales often have books that can be purchased for as little as 5 or 10 cents each that aren’t worth listing on eBay. However, combine ten, twenty, or more of these “worthless” books into related lots, and it’s not that hard to create a small bidding war that brings you $25, $50, or $100 or more on a regular basis.
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Since it’s publication two years ago, Buying Stampin’ Up Sets At Garage Sales has produced more email from readers than any other post on The Auction Rebel. Because of this continued interest, and because much of the original information is no longer up-to-date, I thought I would revisit the subject and put together some more current prices and information.

The popularity of rubber stamping and scrap booking has grown over the last two years, resulting in increased interest by both sellers and buyers in these sets on eBay. This increased popularity has also resulted in a growth in the number of Stampin’ Up sets showing up at garage sales.

The increase in sets available at garage sale provides the savvy seller with the chance to garner some nice profits selling sets on eBay. However, this increase also means you can get stung if you aren’t careful.
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William W. Johnstone is the author of well over 150 mass market paperback book for men. As is often the case with mass market paperbacks, most of Mr. Johnstone’s individual titles don’t have stellar sales records on eBay. However, he does have a growing number of faithful readers and there’s a way you can take advantage of this.

The majority of William W. Johnstone’s titles are part of one of seven or eight different series he has written. These series range in size from three or four books up to more than thirty books. It’s these series that can provide you with nice profits when sold on eBay.

The secret to profitably selling William Johnstone books on eBay is to buy and sell them in lots within each series. For the purpose of this article, we will look at his six most popular series and one fiction genre his works is also popular in.

The First Mountain Man series consists of 14 different titles. A lot including all fourteen titles will usually bring somewhere between $50 and $100 on eBay. Smaller lots made up of between 6 to 10 titles usually also sell, but only in the $15 to $20 range.
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Based on the response to two recent reader polls The 2008 Garage Sale Challenge will begin on May 1, 2008. This year’s Challenge will be similar to The $10.000 eBay Garage Sale Challenge from last summer, but will include a few twists including the opportunity for you to take part if you choose.

What’s Different This Year?

1. Amazon is being added as an additional sales venue. While I talked some last year about books I’d purchased at garage sales being put on Amazon, my sales from Amazon were not included in the actual Challenge. This year they will be. I’m doing for two reasons. One, Amazon can provide a viable income source for many of you and there are no real additional acquisition costs. Two, quite a few readers wrote saying they would like to see them included.

2. The 2008 Garage Sale Challenge will include inventory purchased at thrift stores. This change is being made primarily based on the number of poll responses requesting a thrift shop challenge.

3. Interested readers will have the opportunity to actively take part in The 2008 Garage Sale Challenge on weekly basis by challenging themselves, setting their own goals, and sharing their results with other readers.

My primary reason for doing last year’s Challenge was to show that anyone can start with a small amount of money and build a successful part-time, or full-time, eBay business. My goal for this year’s Challenge remains the same. The changes to this year’s Challenge fit right into that goal.
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Walk into the book section of any thrift store and what is most likely genre of book you find? If your area of the country is anything like mine, it is paperback romance novel. The same holds true for other common hunting grounds for the eBay seller such as garage/yard sales along with Friends Of The Library, AAUW, and other book sales.

Wherever you find books, you are likely to find that the paperback romance genre makes up a large percentage of the books you find.

They are completely ignored by 99.9% or more of book sellers and eBay sellers. At most sales, the people you see hovering over these paperbacks are almost entirely women and are avid readers who devour them at an alarming rate.

The fact that there is such an abundance of these mass market paperback romances should tell us something. In fact, each year, over fifty percent of all paperback sales in the United States are romance novels. People are buying and reading them in large numbers. And, if people are buying them, there should be some way that we, as eBay sellers, can exploit this niche and make money from it.

Fortunately, there is but most sellers haven’t yet learned how to go about. That’s fine, because it means that with just a little bit of knowledge you can take advantage of this huge paperback genre while having little or no competition no matter where you live.

This 11 page special report looks at five different ways you can market these mass market paperback romances on eBay to help insure your auctions get bids and to maximize your profits.

You can purchase The Auction Rebel Guide To Romance Mass Market Paperbacks for $10.00 through the button below.

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This free report from The Auction Rebel contains 222 plus a few extra non-fiction books that regularly sell for $25 or more on both eBay and Amazon.

Unlike many lists of ‘hot selling’ books, the books contained in this free 15 page report aren’t the most expensive books selling on eBay. Rather, these 222 titles are books you actually have a good chance of running across at thrift shops, garage sales, and Friends Of The Library or other local book sales yet that bring good prices on eBay and Amazon.

Each book listed in this report contains the book title, the author, publication date, and a price range that you should realistically be able to sell the book for on eBay. I’ve made an effort to be conservative with these price ranges.

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