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10 tips on how to find cheap gold, silver coins, sterling silver jewelry, flatware & other items.

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How to find cheap gold, silver coins, sterling silver jewelry, candlesticks, vase, plates & more at garage sales / thrift stores.

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Tips to finding treasures for resale

Today, I went out and did some treasure hunting in Pittsburgh, PA.  I found a TON of stuff and got some great head cam footage which will eventually be up on my youtube channel the Armed to Sell Network. 

Regent Square, an upscale neighborhood where I am staying had their annual neighbor hood garage sales.   Pittsburgh is one of the places I am researching on setting up one of my stores so I was very excited to see what I could find.  

 One thing I found a lot of today was silver.   I found a bunch of sterling silver jewelry, sterling silver salt & pepper shakers, 7 sterling silver candlesticks, some Mexican sterling silver forks, sterling silver letter opener & 1 gold cuff link.

See what large lots of silver are selling for right now!

How to find cheap silver coins, sterling silver jewelry, candlesticks, vase, plates & more at garage sales / thrift stores.

Finding silver coins, sterling silver jewelry and other items at garage sales & thrift stores is not as hard as one would think.  There are many treasures out there just waiting to be found.  The number one piece of advice that I can give if you are new to hunting for silver, gold and other precious metals  or items for resale is to do your research.

Check out my free research website list to help educate yourself on what to look for as well as identification of the things you find.

How to find cheap silver tip #1 - Know what US coins are silver.

US dimes dated 1964 and older are 90% silver.
US quarters dated 1964 and older are 90% silver.

US half dollars dated 1969 - 1965 are 40% silver.

US half dollars dates 1964 and earlier are 90% silver.

US large dollar coins dated 1964 and earlier are 90% silver with some exceptions of later dates with 40% silver content.

How to find cheap silver tip #2 - Know what sterling silver looks & sounds like.

When it comes to sterling silver jewelry, flatware & dishes, it is important to know what sterling silver looks like as well as how it sounds.   

Sterling silver is an alloy of silver containing 92.5% silver & 7.5% other metals, usually copper.   

Sterling silver is usually stamped in some form, once again review my research website list for silver smith hallmarks & stamps.

It is a soft metal which can give you inside into whether or not is is silver or not.  Stamps usually look rounded like the metal is sloping in.  

Weighted sterling is very thin and prone to denting.  Silver plated items do not dent easily.

When you tap on something sterling silver such as salt and pepper shakers, it will sound dull and does not reverberate like brass or copper does.

How to find cheap silver tip #3 - Pick up everything that you think could be sterling silver.

This tip works for many different things, not just silver.   

If you think something is sterling silver, pick it up, pay attention to how it feels, note the weight and the sound when you put it back down.  Doing this will build a memory of the different metal types you are going to come across while looking for silver.   

How to find cheap silver tip #4 - Have a loupe to check hallmarks.

How to find cheap silver tip #5 - Do not assume the seller knows that they have.

Many times when I go to garage sales or thrift stores, I find sterling silver marked dirt cheap because the seller does not know it is sterling silver or they just don't care.   Refer back to tip #3, pick everything up and check to see if it is silver.   If you don't pick it up, you won't find it.

How to find cheap silver tip #6 - Thrift stores have sterling silver as well.

I have found many sterling silver candlesticks & vases at thrift stores.  Many employees who price goods at thrift stores don't have a clue what sterling silver is which means you can score some great cheap silver if you are lucky enough to come across it before someone else does.

How to find cheap silver tip #7 - Do not listen to,  " It is just costume jewelry".

I don't know how many times I have been told that everything in the box is just costume jewelry to find out that there are 14K gold & sterling in little baggies for $1.00 each.    Put forth the extra effort, look and you shall find.

How to find cheap silver tip #8 - Go often.

The more garage sales & thrift stores you go to, the better your chances to find cheap gold & silver, the better chances you will find it.

How to find cheap silver tip #9 - Dig through boxes.

Dig through everything, you never know what box is going to have 

How to find cheap silver tip #10 - Ask sellers directly if they have any gold or silver.

Asking a seller directly if they have any gold or silver may not be the cheapest way to get gold & silver but you will at least have the chance to get some.  When I am at garage sales, I always ask the sellers if they have any gold or silver they are interested in selling.  This requires you to know what the current spot prices are ( these again can be found in my research website list ).   Make them a fair offer and chances are you can score some below spot gold and silver.

How to find cheap silver final thought.

The cheap silver & gold is out there waiting to be found.  Usually, it takes hard work & perseverance, but sometimes all it takes is a little bit of luck.   Good luck at all of those garage sales & thrift stores, and remember, if you really want some gold or silver, you can always find some in the on Amazon.

How to start selling on Amazon. Create an Amazon seller account

How to start selling on Amazon.  Create an Amazon seller account.

Selling on Amazon is a great way to make money from home.

I have been selling on Amazon for over a year so I thought I would take some time out of my day to give you some tips on how to make money selling on Amazon.   Most of you are probably aware that eBay is a great place to sell used goods online, but did you know that Amazon is a great place to sell used goods as well?    I have sold over $50,000.00 in new and used goods on Amazon since I opened my Amazon store Sneaky Squirrel Games.

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How to start selling on Amazon.

Things to consider before selling on Amazon.

Before you just hop in and start trying to make money selling on Amazon, there are a few things that you should know.

1. It is important to know what products sell on Amazon.  Make sure to check out my Article on How to find the best products to resale on Amazon in 2013.
2. The Amazon payment system is not like eBay.  Instead of receiving your money instantly when a customer places an order, Amazon used a 2 week disbursement system, your money sits in your Amazon account until their system sends the money to your bank account.
3. For the most part, listing products on Amazon is MUCH easier than listing products on eBay.  There are no pictures to take as the listings are already created for you.  The drawback to this, is that if there is no listing for your product, then you have to have a premium account in order to create a listing from scratch.
4. When I first decided to start selling on Amazon, my sales skyrocketed through the roof.   I did over $5,000.00 in my first month.  This skyrocketing threw a red flag up on my account and Amazon suspended my account for 2 weeks to make sure that I was a legitimate seller.  2 weeks is a short suspension, most sellers who get this suspension get a month.   This suspension does not mean that you cannot sell on Amazon, it just means that you will not receive any disbursements during that time period.  Once your account is reviewed and Amazon has decided that you are a legitimate seller, your funds will be released.  It is a 1 time thing so don't worry if it happens to you.
5. It is important to know what you want to sell on Amazon.   You can check out my Amazon's best seller article to find out where to research what to sell on Amazon.
6. Amazon fees are higher than eBay, but they make up for that fact in the form of better customers, faster listing as well as faster sales ( if you are selling the right products ).   
7. If you are leaving eBay to sell on Amazon, know that for the most part, Amazon will side with the buyer just like eBay.
8. You do not need a premium store to sell on Amazon.   That being said, if you do not have a pro merchant account, you will pay an extra $1.00 for every item you sell.  If you plan on selling more than 40 items a month, I highly recommend that you open up a pro merchant account.   The account costs $39.99 but will pay for itself if you sell 40 items.

To start selling on Amazon, register your Amazon account

Click here to setup your Amazon seller account.   

Go to your Amazon seller account.

Under your main Amazon account, you will find your other accounts.  Select "Your Seller Account" and you will see a screen similar to the one below.   If you have already created an account, you can select the above link and go straight to this page.

This is where you will decide whether or not you want the pro store or not.

Create your Amazon seller account.

Once you choose which "start selling " option you want, you will have to create your Amazon seller account.  This information will consist of creaking your display name, agreeing to the user agreement, credit card information, billing address as well as phone verification.

Once you have created your seller account, you will be able to start adding new products to your inventory.

Sell your first product on Amazon after you create your account.

Under the inventory tab, select the "Add a Product " option.

Enter the product you wish to sell on Amazon

 

You can search by name, UPC, EAN, ISBN or ASIN.

Select the product you wish to list from the search results.

At this point, you must determine the condition, and set a price.   You can use the competing marketplace offers to figure out how you want to price the item.

When selling an item on Amazon, pay special attention to the Amazon Sales ranks.   In this example, the i-Dog Soft Speaker white has a sales rank of 63,963.   The LOWER the rank, the faster the item will sell.

Fill out Amazon product details.

The main points to fill in when filling out the Amazon product details are the following:

Condition:  Be as accurate as possible, it is always better to be more conservative on the condition.  Only list as new if the item is truly new.

Condition note:  Do not skip over this section.  This is your chance to stand out from the other sellers and make your money.   Be as descriptive as possible about your item and tell them why you are better than everyone else.  

Your Price:  Determine what you what to price your item at.   I can and will write an entire section on how to price your Amazon items.

Quantity:  Amount of items you have

Gift Option:  Check out my article on how to standout as an Amazon seller.

Shipping:  Set methods for shipping, Amazon can really screw you if you don't have your shipping setup correctly.

Save and Finish.

Rinse & Repeat to add new Amazon products.

Now that you have your account setup, you have added your first product, all you have to do is do everything all over again for your next product.   The more products you add to your Amazon listing, the better your chances of having a sale.   Don't forget to check out my Article on How to find the best products to resale on Amazon in 2013.

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How to make $500.00 - $1000.00 a day selling new and used goods online. Buy low to sell high.

How to make $500.00 - $1000.00 a day selling new and used goods online.  

Buy low to sell high.

Amazon / Ebay sales updates for the How to make $500.00 - $1000.00 a day selling new & used goods online.

Here are some of the items that sold since the upload of this video.

TOTAL INITIAL INVESTMENT ON PRODUCT $100.00

Bruce Lee The Master Collection - Sold for $34.99 on Amazon,  Profit -  $30.99

The Newlywed Game - Sold for $34.99 on Amazon, Profit  of $29.99.

Breaking Bad Season 2 - Sold for $14.99 on Amazon, Profit of $9.99

Dragon - Sold for $8.99 on Amazon, Profit of $7.99

Pink Nintendo DS - Sold for $44.89, Profit of 34.89

TOTOAL RETURN TO DATE:   $113.94 so far with a whole lot more left to sell.

Buy low sell high, how to find the best selling products on Amazon / Ebay for resale 2013

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Best selling products on Amazon 2013

When it comes to figuring out what the best selling products on Amazon / eBay, there are a few options that you may not know about.   In this article I will discuss a few of the places you can research the best selling products on Amazon & eBay 2013.  This best selling products information is for mostly new products.   If you are looking for research information on older collectible items mostly sold on eBay, view our free research website list which contains many links websites that we use for identification or pricing of various collectibles such as antiques, pottery, sterling silver, vintage kitchen items and more.

How to find the best selling products on Amazon 2013.

Best selling products 2013 

Did you know, Amazon has a best seller list dedicated to the best selling products on Amazon?

Amazon's best seller list features all of the best selling products from every category your can think of. Why would you be interested in this type of list? Well, if you are reading this article, chances are, you are trying to figure out ways to make money by selling items online. The Amazon best seller list, is a great way to research what items to sell online.  Whether you are a picker looking to buy low and sell high, or a business owner looking for product for your store, the Amazon best seller list is a great way to start.

We have compiled the entire list including direct links each of Amazon's best seller list.

Check out the entire list or select one of the categories below and get your research on!

Amazon's best selling products list 2013

Appliances Arts, Crafts & Sewing Automotive Baby Beauty Books Camera & Photo Cell Phones & Accessories Clothing Computers & Accessories

Electronics Health & Personal Care Home & Kitchen Home Improvement Industrial & Scientific Jewelry Kitchen & Dining Movies & TV Music

Musical Instruments Office Products Patio, Lawn & Garden Pet Supplies Shoes Software Sports & Outdoors Toys & Games Video Games Watches

How to find the best selling products on eBay 2013.

Then it comes to finding the best selling products for 2013 on eBay, it is not quite as straight forward.  Here are a few ways you can research products.

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Popular items on eBay

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Completed listings on eBay

Another great way to figure out how to find the best selling products is to use eBay's completed listings.   

eBay's completed listings can help you figure out what products are currently selling for, give you a market price as well as help you research new items that you didn't even know were selling.

Step by step instructions:

• Go to the sold listings page on eBay

• Type in the product you are interested in selling.   Remember to use keywords that best describe the product you want to sell.  You may also want to research the words that describe your item to ensure you are getting the proper data.

Hot product research tips

When you are trying to figure out what the best selling products are, remember to set your search to " Shipping + highest price "  as your search order.  This will put all of the high dollar items at the top of the list.    If you see products that have lots of green, you will want to add that to the list of products you want to sell.

That's all for now folks, remember, research is the key to being able to successfully find the best selling product to sell on Amazon & eBay.  The two ways I have mentioned in this article will put you on the right track to finding those products but it will take much more research and hard work to find those items, price them and get them sold.   Check out my other article on media scouting to help you weed out products when you are out in the field.

Make $4000.00 a month picking garage sales, selling used goods on eBay / Amazon.

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How to stand out as a third party seller on Amazon using Amazon's gift wrapping service

How to stand out as a third party seller on Amazon using Amazon's gift wrapping service.

The importance of standing out in the online market place.

When it comes to selling online, it is important to stand out in your listings as well as your overall business.

I am constantly looking for new ways to stand out as well as add value to my products and services.   It helps attract new customers as well as keep the customers you currently have.

In this short blog post, I am going to go over one of the ways I indirectly stand out on my Sneaky Squirrel Games Amazon Storefront.

Amazon gift wrapping services.

Last year was my first year selling on Amazon.   One of the very first options I setup in my Amazon store was my gift wrapping services.   

I wanted my store to stand out from every other third party seller out there, brainstormed for a little while and came up with my custom vintage video game gift wrapping services.

I didn't realize how important the gift wrapping service was in helping me stand out in the Amazon market place until I tried to buy a video game specific gift during the holiday season.  

I was amazed to find that there were very few third party sellers offering gift wrapping services, let alone the type of gift wrappings was offering

As I was skipping over the plethora of third party sellers that did not have gift wrapping services, it dawned on me, I wondered how many prospective customers were doing the same thing, Those prospective customers, wouldn't be jumping past my listings, they would be stopping by to check me out.

Final thoughts.

There are many different ways that you can help your online store stand out.  

When it comes to Amazon, the gift wrapping service is one of many different ways that you can do it.   

If you have any other ways of getting your Amazon store to stand out, I would love to hear about them, comment below.

Amazon gift wrapping service examples.

These are a few examples of Amazon video game gift wrappings I have done in the past. 

I use vintage video game magazines, strategy guides as well as RPG table top games such as Warhammer 40k.

These particular magazines / books are ones that had issues such as ripped pages or stains to the point that I wouldn't be able to sell them but they work perfect for making cool video game gift wraps for my Amazon customers.

Warhammer 40K Ork Kustom Weapons Amazon gift wrap

Mario Kart 64 Custom Amazon gift wrap

Mario Kart 64 Winner's Circle Amazon gift wrap

Using iPhone iPad or android smartphone to create fast ebay amazon listings

Using iPhone, Android or iPads to create efficient eBay / Amazon listings. 

About a two months ago I started brainstorming was to make my online business more efficient.

I was hiring my first employee to help me with my EBay and Amazon listings but my second computer was WAY to slow.

I needed to come up with a new way for both of us to be able to research eBay & Amazon items as well as create fast efficient eBay & Amazon listings.

I found a myself with two options 

#1 Purchase a new laptop 

#2 Purchase an iPad

Using a smart phone or ipad to create eBay & Amazon listings just seemed to make more sense.

I decided to purchase the 32gb 4th generation iPad.  Since she had never used an iPad before, I was a little concerned that there might be a little bit of a learning curve since she had never used one before but she had no problems figuring it out.

Within a few days of using the ipad for listing I came to the realization that using a mobile device such as a smart phone or iPad to create listings on EBay or Amazon is not only more efficient, it is healthier and increases productivity.

Health benefits of creating eBay & Amazon listings with a smart phone or iPad

When you list on a mobile device such as a smart phone or iPad, you have the freedom to get away from your desk, saving your back, buns, stomach and heart.  It also gives you indirect exercise that you normally wouldn't get sitting at your desk.

What applications I use for creating listings with my mobile device.

eBay mobile application for iPhone, ipad & Android

eBay mobile productivity benefits of using an iPhone, ipad or android to create listings.

#1.    There is just something about the ease of listing with my phone that really helps me get through the "back of the pile" items, you know the ones that I am talking about.  The ones that your really not that interested in and tent to sprout like mushrooms in dark corners.

#2.    Using your iPhone, ipad or android for listing also helps you from being distracted.  How many times do you find yourself on facebook or some other social site when you should be listing?  Using your iPhone, ipad or android doesn't take away that option but it does take away the urge.

#3.    Need to answer a question or pull some inventory?  No need to waste paper printing off what inventory you need to pull, just take your phone with you and look it up as you go.

#4.  I can only speak for the iPhone and ipad but with the voice recognition feature you don't have to type most of your description, you can just dictate your description and it will appear in the listing.  It is not 100% accurate and you do have to go back and do some editing, but it eliminated the need to use a keyboard which is nice.

Now that we have went over some of the general productivity benefits of using an iPhone, ipad or android to create listings, lets dig a little bit deeper into the applications I use on my iPhone & ipad.

Here are a few of my favorite features of the eBay mobile application

My favorite part about listing with eBay's mobile app is the category suggestion feature.   No more digging through categories trying to find the right one.  Two months in and I have not had to look up an item yet, this time saving feature is great.

Another great feature of the eBay app is the built in camera capture option, snapping pictures while creating your listings saves you lots of time.  

Gone are the days off hooking up a digital camera to the computer and downloading all the pictures to my computer, they are just there and it is wonderful.

Mobile Amazon listing with Profit Bandit for iPhone, iPad & Android.

With profit bandit you can scout as well as list directly to Amazon from the program.

Amazon's Mobile application will not let you list directly to Amazon but with Profit Bandit, you can.

I use this program on my iPhone.  I can scan the barcode, plug in a few bits of information along with a price and have my listing on Amazon in under a minute.

This particular program does cost a flat fee of $15.00 but it quickly pays for itself and is a great tool for finding stuff to sell.

Final thoughts on using a mobile device for creating listings on eBay & Amazon.

The eBay Mobile application as well as Profit Bandit will without a doubt increase efficiency as well as speed of listing.  The only drawback that I have found is that there is currently no option to ad a store category to the listing