Could you work for £500 a month
As business has improved we have needed to add new staff, to cover our increased work load. So monthly salaries are very much on our mind.
In conversation with one of our trade buyers, who buys to sell on eBay, was proudly discussing as often dealers do, that he has been really busy on eBay, and had sold nearly £6000 over the last month.
Apart from the fact this has nearly hit the VAT threshold, eBay will be taking approx £1380 in fees let alone any postage and ancillary fees such as PayPal. By the dealers own admission unlikely making more than 30% as generally to own antiques you need to pay up otherwise a competitor will buy them.
Now anyone who has ever sold anything on eBay knows the treadmill it is, let alone the effort to pack china and glass. However you cut it, a lot of work for not a lot reward. Approx £500. From out knowledge of listing online think between 5 to 7 hours a day, 7 days a week, £2.55 per hour, pretty horrifying.
Unlike at www.topbananaantiques.com where even for a £50 cabinet per month we add to our website free of cost and deal with all the packing and posting and emails etc.
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