I guess if you were to tell most people you are making high profits by selling on places such as eBay, Amazon, etsy, and other ecommerce platforms, they will think you are selling the latest all singing gadget, with all the bells and whistles. Well as you know or if you don’t I am about to tell you, these latest gadgets do not have high profit margins and you have loads of other people selling them as well.
So what is this mystery business that allows me to make high profits, and does not mean I have to sell the latest gadget? The answer is paper. Yes you read right paper. In fact it is paper torn or cut from books, maps, magazines, posters. You see the books of ages gone by often contained many richly coloured pictures, and unlike modern books these old books contained many coloured pages and often many black and white pictures, that people love to collect. Books and magazines that were printed in the Victorian era, where meant to be kept and read over a longer period thus the paper they were printed on was of a higher quality than the modern day publications.
People will pay high prices for these pictures, maps, adverts, sometimes for projects, research or more often than not people will buy them to have them framed, and then they will hang them in their rooms around their homes.As you go about car boot sales, estate sales, charity
sales keep an eye and ear open for these richly decorated items, then go home and take the book apart and start to make some money by selling the pictures.
Some of the more popular items people keep buying time and time again are :
@ Adverts from Victorian publications, these can be full or half pages.
@ Another high profit, high selling item are maps, for some reason people love these old maps to hang in their homes or offices.
@ A third sector that people have a passion for are patterns of all types ; Knitting, sewing, dress making, building plans, blue prints and the list goes on and on. Again these are used to decorate homes and offices, but at times you have businesses and craft people who need or want to re-create a pattern.
To put the above into some context for you, think about the BBC who make period plays and they need a pattern to make a dress from that period. They go to Google and do a search for the type they are looking for. If you have said pattern in your eBay store, guess where they will buy, yes you.I hope through this simple article you can see how a simple book, can make you some good profits.
