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Make Money on eBay From Dead People (Someone Has Just Died – and There’s Money to Be Made from the Passing!)
by Avril Harper author of 'Bank Big Profits Selling Vintage Topographical View Postcards on eBay' and 'Make Money Tearing Up Old Books and Magazines and Selling Them on eBay'.
I have to confess I’m not too keen on this idea because I don’t like making money from other people’s misfortunes. So what I’m telling you now is not a personal recommendation, even though it can make big money for you almost every day of the year.
The upshot is, when a much loved celebrity dies, you’ll find memorabilia relating to that person’s private and working life suddenly gains a new and much more profitable existence on eBay.
So today when the sad news came that Norman Wisdom has died, it was only expected that his autograph and stage and film memorabilia would grow quickly in value. And that is what is already happening with more than ten listings for Sir Norman’s autograph having appeared since breakfast today when most people heard the sad news. Many more will appear before the day ends.
Unsurprisingly, sales soared within hours for hand signed Wisdom images and autographs, including several fetching fifty pounds to just under two hundred pounds each for Buy It Now listings on eBay. I checked and discovered some of those same items were listed several weeks ago, sometimes months, and found no takers.
Today though they’re selling like hot cakes, including some having just sold at £4.99 each similar to others fetching double figure sums and no doubt upsetting sellers who could easily have asked two or three or ten or twenty times more for Wisdom memorabilia today.
These are those tips which could make easy money for you:
* When a famous and well loved celebrity is on borrowed time, that’s not the best time to list his or her memorabilia for sale. Once news of the passing hits the headlines, that’s the time to list new items of memorabilia or revise prices – upwards – for items listed before the death.
I learned that from personal experience the day George Best died and my eBay earnings shot through the roof. Until that day I had a book signed by George priced at £20 in my shop and no takers; I had a few cut autographs from his glory days, priced fifty to sixty pounds each and again no one buying. But my autographs sold within hours of George leaving the building and had I chosen to I could have added fifty or sixty or many more pounds to my prices and still attract early orders.
* A colleague who sells big name celebrity memorabilia on eBay spends much of his time buying autographs, posters, photographs and similar items relating to ageing stars and others suffering terminal illness. He pays as little as possible for those items, he usually buys in bulk, and he lists and sells them on eBay the very day a prominent celebrity dies.
* It’s important to list and sell memorabilia as close as possible to the death being announced before people go off the boil and forget about buying.
That’s because, for whatever reason, prices always peak shortly after a celebrity’s death then go into rapid decline.
That’s what happened when the last Pope died, where one Saturday a trader at Tynemouth railway station flea market was doing a roaring trade in plates and cups depicting Pope John Paul II, the next week was pretty busy too, and next week the interest had all but gone.
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