Or do they effectively have a monopoly?

I now find that ebay’s seller fees cut too far into my margins on low value items. To rub salt in my wounds, they charge again for accepting payment by Paypal (part of the same company).

The final straw has come from them imposing tight limits on the number of responses a seller can make to enquiries after a listing expires or sells out. Ebay say this is to protect members from being spammed – Any fool can see it is really about protecting themselves from sales off ebay – leaving sellers with no means of contacting their potential customer.

Recent fee increases have been ludicrously high, and I only hope that it backfires on them, with sellers doing as I am doing and seeking out an alternative.

I don’t know their current profits, but in the 3rd quarter of 2004, they averaged $2million A DAY! Seems that isn’t enough for the greedy bastards!

Hi Pete!

Couple of ideas:

1) Try amazon.com – works similar to eBay’s ‘buy it now’ concept. However they too charge fees that some may find exorbitant.

2) Open your OWN web store. Not as complicated as it sounds; you’ll need a hosting company that provides free shopping cart / catalogue software. You could choose to get set up with a merchant account for credit cards, or just take payment by money order. That way, you’re in control! Check out vervehosting.com and colinstone.com for some ideas.

You’ll never know until you try!

Kind regards.

How does one earn money online? Real money not the stupid points and signing up for stuff. But how can i make some money online. Im in a foreign country and could do with some cash.. dont speak the language.. I’m currently learning though.

Try selling things on ebay.

I’m kind of new to this and I’m curious how someone goes about doing this. Like do you have to pay Google to get ur site on the top of the list or what? And if it is at the top of the search, is it like that forever?

Hi,

No, SEO doesn’t cost anything, It’s how you organize and structure your site so that the search engine spiders come to your site and index it so that people can find it. Since there are billions of websites out there, you may get listed but you’ll probably just be added to the bottom of the list unless you use search engine optimization.

The way to optimize your site is to use the right keyword-focused content. If you want to know what that entails, here’s an article that explains it: http://www.simple-internet-strategies.com/search-optimization.html

There are ways to pay Google to get to the top of the list but you would be clearly marked as an advertiser and therefore, you probably wouldn’t get clicked on as often as the unpaid listings. I don’t have stats to back that up but it makes sense, doesn’t it? Who willingly listens to an advertiser?

Best Regards,

Healthy Mom

some companies will pay you if you put thier ad on your website, and they pay you per click. has anybody made any money doing this ?

hey i wonder if you ever join google adsense. if you have a blog or a website then you can join this program. All you have to do is just giving up some space of your blog or site for the google ads. and the most important is that you will be paid for every single click on the ads by a visitor. i have joined this program and i can tell you that i’m making about 500-1000 dollars/month. i will share you my experience with you. i have wrote it down in e-book form,you just download it from my blog:

http://yourfinancesolutions.blogspot.com/

For those who ever work in paid online surveys, please share your experiences! Are they really paying you for what you do? The work seems to be easy, is it? Please recommend some reliable paid online survey sites, mostly with free sign ups.

If you need to pay to earn money for doing survey, it’s usually a scam site. You can earn money online for free at this site by doing daily survey.

http://best-online-paid-surveys-usa.blogspot.com/

Hope this help,

I mean, I heard about etrade.ca, and some currency trading online, which look and sound lucrative.

Could you suggest some similar online schemes, something you may have successfully tried ?

Please share your opinion / stories / advice with me.

Thank you so very much for your time and effort.

God bless you and your loved ones.

Key Word-SCHEME. Nothing worth being involved in includes the word SCHEME.
Online Trading- Usually requires 5K+ in an online trading account. If you are not an experienced trader you will be broke in 5 seconds. Be prepared to stay up for days on end to catch the Asian market action. Even the ones that do know what they are doing loose big.

Currency Trading- They take those guys out on stretchers. Also requires a stockpile of cash.

Try getting a good old day job. There is no such thing as easy money.

figure out a way for the dumbos who bank on line that can’t keep there accounts straight to funnel there problems through your!!!

Im going on a class trip in May and need around $2500 for it. What are good ideas to make good money at school? And some community ideas are welcome too.
Thanks!!

sell those fund raiser books door to door they sell for $20 each talk to your school having the people sell them.

I am using this website’s legitimate program http://www.googleadvertise.com This job program makes me real money with online forms that spreaded on traffic tools.

I would like to make some money online.Can anybody tell me if all of those survey stuff actually works?I don’t want to be scammed or anything like that.

Making money online is really simple. You don’t need any knowledge to start earning cash. There is a lot of ways to earn money, but remember that it IS possible to make money online. Users who claim that earning cash from home is scam, haven’t made a penny because they didn’t try it.
Personally I read
earn.onlinewebmarket.net
where anyone can find great ways of making money from home

i can’t really get an actual job right because of transportations problems, etc, but i figured it would be nice to make a few bucks off those websites where you can write articles and they publish it for some money. i’d probably be interested in writing about sports(specifically football) so does anyone know any websites? and also i’ve been looking at triond recently does anyone know like how much that pays, how hard it is to get an article published etc?

I suggest you to sign-up at http://forums.digitalpoint.com and look at the Content Creation forum. Direct link to Content Creation forum: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/forumdisplay.php?f=102

I recently saw the advertisement for Berry Tree. I viewed the video on that website. It claimed that they would guarantee my success. Before I join, i want to know if this is another internet scam. Please help. Thank you very much.

I just viewed the video. I’m convinced that a "Patent Pending" service like myberrytree.com is total bull. Why people believe stuff like this is beyond me. Perhaps greed or desperation destroys good common sense.

I’m looking for a way to make a little extra money online.

I found several websites that offer "updated/ current" listings of market research companies that will pay for completed product surveys and participation in focus groups.

These sites cost about fifty bucks ,one time, to become a member, is it worth it? Can I really make some money, or is it just a scam?

Please answer if you have experience in this area, and let me know the pros and cons and details. If this is a real possibility then pls tell me the most reputable/reliable website to join.

Or, explain another way.

Your expertise is appreciated;

Jonnie

The rule, as always, is to stay away from those that ask you to pay before you can get these surveys.

Legitimate market survey companies such as Pinecone Research recruit members based on demographic characteristics — e.g. mothers of babies 0-12 years old — and will send surveys of products and services targeting this demographic group. Pinecone Research, however, pays only $5 per survey — you’re definitely not going to be rich with that. They can give you anywhere from 1-5 at most surveys in a month.

Other companies simply ask you to answer as many research as possible, and you don’t earn anything just the chance to win at a raffle (which I find lame).

Pinecone Research http://www.pineconeresearch.com
GreenField Online http://www.greenfieldonline.com
Harris Poll Online http://www.harrispollonline.com
BuzzBack http://www.buzzback.com
SurveySite http://www.surveysite.com
SurveySavvy http://www.surveysavvy.com
Survey Spot http://www.surveyspot.com/

http://www.internetpaidsurveys.com/

Looking for a part time job. Something that does not require a 1st time payment & thats not a scam. Anybody?

You could try the affiliate program from Big Fish Games. However you won’t make quick money unless you already have a popular site to work with. Anything that says you’ll make quick money online is a scam, unfortunately.

http://www.rewardfish.com

When someone buys a game after following your link, or after visiting a free web page you set up using their tools, you earn 25% of the purchase price. Plus the company remembers you referred that person and you get 25% of their future purchases, too.

Basically you want people who are interested in games to visit your game links, or the link to the free page you set up. It’s not hard to track how many people you’ve referred (and how much money you’ve made, once you start earning).