5 Fad Items Which Are No Longer Collectible

5 Fad Items Which Are No Longer Collectible

I seem to spend a lot of time advising you what you should collect… but what about the other side of the coin? Although it’s good to know ‘what’s hot’, sometimes it’s just as useful to know ‘what’s NOT’ i.e. what’s fallen out of favour and, in terms of collectability,...
Profiting from Edwardian Social Media – Postcards

Profiting from Edwardian Social Media – Postcards

The whirlwind that is ‘social media’ has, in recent years, engulfed us with unseemly haste. It has bestowed upon us a whole new, rather comic, lexicon: terms such as ‘blogging’, ‘crowdsourcing’, ‘Twitter’, ‘Facebook’,...
How to Profit From Garden Centres… and Even John Lewis

How to Profit From Garden Centres… and Even John Lewis

Some years ago when I first became serious about buying and selling online, I started very cautiously by finding stock offline and then selling online, initially on Amazon.co.uk. The stock was the kind which can be sourced by anyone, nothing special you understand....

How to Give Your eBay Listings an Edge (for prints)

An email flooded in last week, from a member asking how they could create an eBay listing for their prints, in such a way  as to make it stand out from the crowd. I thought my reply would be worth sharing with all the Profit box members: My advise to make your prints...

How To Remove Those Pesky Dried-On Labels

Here are a couple of labour saving tips for removing stubborn price and labels, prior to sale: Paper products Flimsy Paper – When removing dried and hardened labels from flimsy and brittle paper you have to be very careful.  Any kind of scratching or rubbing...