How to Buy and Sell Websites for Big Profits on Ebay

If you're web savvy and generally know how eBay works, you can easily make $500 U.S. in one day typically doing minimal work.

Here's how it works - everyone at some point or another has dreamed of running their own business. Most people turn to eBay to buy e-books on commerce, marketing, start-up businesses etc. While searching for these particular items you'll come across many already-made-websites referred to as "established" or "turnkey" web businesses. Such websites can range in topic from selling credit repair manuals, how to receive free government cash grants, and selling items through an affiliate. I'd recommend staying away from joining an affiliate, as you do not keep 100% of your profits.

Turnkey websites are very popular, because not only do you receive the information you're going to sell yourself, but you can re-sell it to customers for whatever price you wish. The only hard part is marketing this site to generate enough traffic to make it worth your while. So it's in your best interest to sell these sites, not own them.

While searching for some of these websites myself, I came to notice that there are many of them that are exactly the same - identical layout, images and content etc. So where are these sellers getting these sites from to sell them for $300-$500?

If you do enough research and search Google you can find "lots" of turnkey businesses (sometimes hundreds at a time) for around $50. This price includes all of the materials you're going to sell as well. What a deal huh? Sure beats paying hundreds of dollars.

Now for the fun part! So now you've got a zip file filled with already made websites. The next thing to do is create a domain name that relates to the product you're going to sell, and put a website up. Make the .com name catchy and right to the point (2 words or less).

Submit the site to a few search engines, jazz it up a little bit and fix any spelling or grammar errors the previous programmer forgot to notice and you've got yourself a professional looking website business.

Basically you can then turn to eBay and sell the site as an established website business. You're not lying - it is fully established (you've got the product ready to sell, the domain name is registered - you're ready to go!) You may want to look at how other sellers are marketing their auctions on eBay before you jump right into it. Professionalism is the key, and if your auction listing is filled with crazy looking font and wacky colors, the buyer will go somewhere else.

Start the listing off at a low price (this will attract more bidders). For example, the latest listing I put up started at $1.00 and it ran as a 3-day listing. By the third day and 15 minutes before the auction was over, the bid was only at $14.50. Not really great, but just wait until the last few seconds before the auction closes to see some real excitement. Nonetheless, this website sold for $512.67 U.S. Basically I bought a lot of sites, registered a domain name, fixed the site up a bit in Front Page, uploaded it to my server and then passed it on to eBay for the world to have a chance at owning it. This whole process took me an hour and a half.

Anyone can easily do this; you just need to know where to look. Currently I'm running 4 auctions, all of which I expect to hit at least $300-$400.

When the auction is over, attend to the buyer as soon as possible after they send you payment. Not doing so may result in a negative feedback left on your account. Reputation is everything - buyers want to buy from a trusted seller.

If you're looking to make some extra money online, this is the way to go! I've been doing this for months and have seen unreal results.

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