No hits on my Items on eBay

The first road block has arose with funding my travel to far off exotic places. My two items, the first items, did not sell and no money was made. Actually to be clear I am $1.00 in the hole in my mini-project to raise enough through eBay by January to travel somewhere cool.

I have made an observation:

• I am not going to move enough items at $ 0.50 to fund my travel if I am selling two items at a time.
• There are too many video games posted on the internet to make any steady sales, I need a niche market.
• I need to visit more garage sales, I have only visited that one since starting this social experiment.

We will see if I can right the ship before it become too late

Ebay Store from Garage Sales to pay for Travel

I read a post on one of my favorite blogs called Get Rich Slowly and it got my mind to spinning wildly out of control.

I am a man of three's as a rule of thumb so here are my observations:

1. Ebay Store
2. Garage Sales
3. Travel

This is going to be my $100.00 experiment. I am going to purchase $100.00 worth of Garage Sale stuff and sell it on Ebay to see if I can raise enough in 6 1/2 months to take my Diva and I on a Vacation.

Rules:

1. Experiment ends Jan1, 2010
2. 100.00 in crap plus shipping and handling (I will pay back shipping and handling from profits so in the end it is genuinely only $100.00 invested.)
3. Vacation must be realistic

Caveat: I purchased a bunch of soft cover books at a thrift shop awhile ago and tried to sell them on Amazon with no success.