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Buying and Selling Physical Products Online

by Ehanson
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I’m wondering if anyone has experience with this.
I recently was looking for a way to make a little bit more to supplement my income and saw someone looking for assistance selling their computer. I offered to help refer a buyer and after a few days I managed to find someone interested. Emailed the seller but there was no word back...
I have an interested buyer for a $2100 computer and I thought why don’t I just give them a new computer of the same make and model, they send the payment, I’ll buy it at a rate below the manufactures pricing and ship it to them for the remaining portion making some a profit on the margin, which could pay my rent alone. There's serious money to be made if done correctly.
Though, I'm wondering if that's the right way to go about it... I'm not sure if they'd like dealing with a middle man.

I'm sure people do this on Ebay. Thoughts? Advice?
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    Sounds like it would work, the only problem is, make sure you get paid by the buyer before buying the computer- cos if you buy the computer first and the buyer backs out, you'll be thousands down and own a new computer that you don't need lol!
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    • Profile picture of the author Monika Verma
      Originally Posted by acesites View Post

      Sounds like it would work, the only problem is, make sure you get paid by the buyer before buying the computer- cos if you buy the computer first and the buyer backs out, you'll be thousands down and own a new computer that you don't need lol!
      Yeah ,agree with this and I think it's quite risky too.
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  • Profile picture of the author travlinguy
    Originally Posted by Ehanson View Post

    I'm wondering if anyone has experience with this.
    I recently was looking for a way to make a little bit more to supplement my income and saw someone looking for assistance selling their computer. I offered to help refer a buyer and after a few days I managed to find someone interested. Emailed the seller but there was no word back...
    I have an interested buyer for a $2100 computer and I thought why don't I just give them a new computer of the same make and model, they send the payment, I'll buy it at a rate below the manufactures pricing and ship it to them for the remaining portion making some a profit on the margin, which could pay my rent alone. There's serious money to be made if done correctly.
    Though, I'm wondering if that's the right way to go about it... I'm not sure if they'd like dealing with a middle man.

    I'm sure people do this on Ebay. Thoughts? Advice?
    You're describing the essence of capitalism. You've got something or you can get it. A buyer wants that thing and can afford to pay for it.

    The trick is how to get the trust of this person so they'll pay you up front.

    As already mentioned, it would really suck to come out of pocket for the computer and not have the buyer do his part. You've already had the original seller disappear in this thing.

    If you really want to do this get yourself an account on eBay and/or Amazon. Buyers feel comfortable with strong companies backing the transactions. Good luck.
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