Getting a Paycheck from eBay

Sep 20
09:37

2007

Jeff Barber

Jeff Barber

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I too wanted to be like everyone else, selling goods on eBay. But after a short while, I just didn't have enough stuff to sell. Then the light bulb came one. Sell other peoples stuff instead and get a commission.

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Everyone knows who and what eBay is all about. There are well over 180 million ebay members. Day in and Day out people sell their goods on ebay in hopes to make a few bucks. “One man’s junk is another man’s gold”. Some of us unfortunately do not have enough junk to sell monthly in order to make a decent profit. Well this is where this article will help you.

Ebay has what’s called,Getting a Paycheck from eBay Articles an affiliate program. This is where you advertise for those who are selling product on ebay in exchange for a percentage of the sales generated. Not only can you get a percentage of the sale but if the buyer is a new ebay customer. You will receive at a minimum $25 for their ebay registration. This is not bad for not having your own products to sell.

A company called Comission Junction handles Ebay’s affiliate program. You will have to sign up with them first in order to get an ebay affiliate id. Commission Junction also has hundreds of other companies that use them to handle their affiliate programs. For now, we will just focus on ebay. Once you have your CJ account, search CJ for the ebay affiliate program. You will see that they offer banners, text and other advertising tools for you to use on your own website or in emails. Both Commission Junction and eBay affiliate programs are FREE. Can’t beat that!

The method described thus far is mainly for those that already have a website and want to put banner advertising for ebay on it. Next, if you want to display a single ebay product or a category of ebay products on your site. You will have to create an ebay account then sign up for their affiliate program. Even though Commission Junction manages ebay’s affiliate program. This signup gets you access to ebay’s product tools. With these tools you will be able to put links on your estore or blog that points to a particular ebay page. Once your visitors click the link and make a purchase, you get paid. Other ebay tools allow you to define which products to show on your site. This is nice because now your site actually looks like an E-store with product to sell. Same thing applies here as well. Visitors click, buy then you get paid.

As you can see the affiliate program is pretty straight forward and could allow you to make a few extra dollars a month. The catch here is that you need or should have your own estore website or blog. Getting your own site up and running is not really a big task. In fact, if you don’t have a site yet. I encourage you to get one set up. Don’t be left behind. The entire world is using the Internet. I’m sure you have something to offer. It’s Fun.