eBay Money Making Unveiled Part 3

No pictures today, I'm afraid - try to console yourself with the fact that it's because the scams I'm talking about today are a little harder to spot. So far, we've talked about eBooks and Casinos.

Generally, the type of thing you'll see on eBay (and around the internet, as we'll come to find) will consist of a very, very long listing telling you that the seller is making hundreds or thousands a week. There will often be large, colourful letters, and possibly also pictures of cars, mansions, often 'beautiful' women. Undoubtedly, there will be an obligatory screenshots of PayPal or a company called ClickBank showing the money rolling into the account.

There may even, if you're lucky, be a testimonial or two from other satisfied customers.

What is always strangely absent is any information about what these businesses are. Let me enlighten you:

Firstly, think it through - a guy or gal somewhere in the world is making several thousand a month, and they're selling their secrets on eBay for between £0.99 and £24.99. Now, they are starting to try to explain this away as "it's a big market" or "I want to help the 'little guy' ", but it will never make sense...

...until you realise that THIS is how they make so much money - selling on a guide telling you to sell a guide about how to make money by selling a guide about how....etc.

This is also the basis of many of the websites that you'll find by typing "make money online" into Google and checking out the ads on the right hand side.

Tomorrow, the other things these businesses can tell you to do that don't work as well as they say, and how this fits into the images of "ClickBank" accounts in eBay listings and on websites. For tomorrow, we start talking about "affiliate schemes"...

'Til then!