There are thousands of people every day who decide to start a home business.  And the majority of people will go online and start their search for their ‘golden opportunity’ of financial freedom.  Those same people will then be inundated with websites and emails of get-rich schemes, ‘ground-floor’ opportunities and promises that they too can be successful.

I spent several years trying to make a go of  multi-level marketing , and other businesses that heavily relied on you selling over-priced products and recruiting others to make money.  I finally had to admit after all those years and 10′s of thousands of dollars later that I just couldn’t do it.  I just couldn’t sell products that were over-priced when products of equal quality were freely available in the local stores at less than half the price.  And I couldn’t attract other people to start a business that had a 97% failure rate.

By the way, if you have been involved in network marketing you would have heard the saying, “….the only way to fail is to quit!”  Well, most people don’t just quit, most people ‘quit’ because they just can’t afford to keep going!  Their dream of making money in a home business ends up getting them in to more debt than when they started.

So why is eBay the perfect home-based business for anybody?

• it is free to join eBay
• you can start by selling things from around your home that you no longer want or need
• you choose your own products to sell
• you choose where to get your products from
• you choose what price you sell for
• you can sell as much or as little as you please
• no one ever has to know what you are doing to earn money

Here are the things you will NEVER have to do with an eBay business:-

• recruit people to join your business
• distribute letterbox flyers to get people to buy from you or join your business
• spend large amounts of money advertising your products or opportunity
• travel to training meetings of any kind
• cold call customers or business prospects
• follow-up with customers who have purchased from you with the ulterior motive of getting another order from them
• purchase minimum monthly amounts of product
• ‘baby sit’ your downline and manage their business as well
• spend every evening on the phone on business opportunity calls hoping that your prospects are on there too

Starting an eBay business is about YOU!  You will sell whatever product you want to, when you want to and for the price you want to sell it for.