High-Tech Chatteling
High-Tech Chatteling
Imagine that you have an EBay store, or other type of store, where you sell let’s say- books. How awesome would it be if you could go to a book sale to buy books to sell for profit, you take out your cell phone, punch in the ISBN # and see how much it is selling for elsewhere - even online. This service can help you save time, therefore making money for you.
It is called, ScoutPal. Most of us own and use cell phones regularly, if you make it web-enabled (or use a PDA) and learn to use it as another tool to find out what prices are on various products, you are tapping into a High-Tech answer to success. This is definitely a look at our future when dealing with High-Tech ways of making profitable buying decisions. It is especially helpful too when buying wholesale, or for resale. Finding out if something is selling at a much higher price somewhere else, is the way to be able to supply a product in demand, in another place also, assuring a good profit. ScoutPal can help you to accomplish this task quite easily.
Now a look at “Chatteling”: the definition of this word in the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary is as follows:
Chattel pronunciation: [cha-t l] (noun) - an item of tangible moveable or immovable property except real estate and things (as buildings) connected with real property.
Therefore, the “business idea” here is to find items of merchandise for pennies on the dollar, then turn around and sell it for big profits. By including new methods like using ScoutPal you make this age old trade High-Tech, giving you an advantage over others trying to do the same thing, without the added technology.
We have offered an example of selling books, but you can have a business with just about anything that you choose to sell. How do you find these items to sell? Your answer is yard sales, garage sales, merchants going out of business, closeout stores, store sales and clearances, donation stores, etc.
You can then offer these items for sale in the newspaper or on the Internet for a profitable amount of money. These types of items can do very well on eBay or any of the many auction sites available to you. There is even Craigslist.org if you buy and sell large items and only want to sell in areas close to you. This is also an excellent place to find merchandise to sell too.
Make sure that you have a reasonably good digital camera, (most phones offer these also) and take good pictures of what you are selling from various angles, then include positive information, the more statistics and information you can provide the better. This will save you time in the end, by not answering countless questions from customers and it will show the customers that you are professional by offering as much information as you can provide them.
If you are one of those types of people that are self-motivated, hate the 9 -5 regimen, and would like to be your own boss, this could be the “business idea” for you!
Resources:
http://www.craigslist.org
http://www.scoutpal.com/
http://cgi5.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?SellHub3Visitor&_trksid=m37
http://www.amazon.com
http://www.abebooks.com/
