Posts from ‘November, 2008’

Following on from the last post, selling items in Amazon’s marketplace is also a good source of extra cash. Not every type of product is sold on Amazon, but for things like books, CDs and DVDs Amazon can have real advantages over Ebay.

Unlike Ebay, items you list with Amazon stay listed for 60 days, and more importantly, there are no fees for making a listing, but fees for making a sale are higher. If you have ever bought anything on Amazon it is very easy to alter your account to a sellers account.

I know this is a no-brainer, but selling stuff on Ebay is always a quick route to ready cash for me.

Everybody has stuff at around that they don’t need, don’t want or can’t remember why they got it in the first place. It makes perfect sense to offload anything of value, however small, to bring in some cash and also to clear some clutter at home.

Over the years I have sold cars, furniture, clothes, model kits, books, CDs, toys, old wooden floorboards, magazines, electrical goods, and pretty much anything else you can think of.

So the Bank of England has shocked the world by cutting interest rates today by a massive 1.5%. This will have a direct positive effect on a proportion of the population, (including me, actually), but the overall economic outlook is still bleak, and will be for sometime to come.

So what things can people do to ease their current financial pain?

Obviously it is just as important to spend less as it is to earn more, but assuming you aren’t a shopaholic or compulsive gambler, most people have enough common sense to tighten their financial belts a little.