OT - sorry, but ...

Sorry to throw this at you guys, but I need a little insight.  Is there any legitimate "work at home" opportunity around that you guys have had experience with - or know, with relative certainty to be on the up and up. I really  need to generate a second income to start getting my credit back on track.   I am blaming some of my recent bad food choice behavior on worrying about money - lame excuse, but I'm clinging to it for now.   I figured if I could get started paying down my cards now, I could start looking forward to preparing to finance my "follow -up" tucks and such next year about this time.  If I think those surgeries are possible, I'm hoping the motivation to drop my last fifty llbs will emerge. ANYWAY ... anyone know of anything?  I just haven't got the availability with my other job to be able to commit to a part-time position with at any of the local spots. Thanks for reading this far ,,, MARK

Mark, My best experience with a work at home job is through eBay. My wife is an artist and sells her work on ebay. She paints specifically for a active market of art that people tend to use for adding color accents to their homes, nothing too wild but colorful. I on the other hand I use to go to our local flea market and find regional kind of items and collectables and sell them on eBay. When I lived in Florida I sold sea shell based jewelry that I would pick up for cheap by local hobbyist at the flea market and re-sell for a 200-300% markup. Collectables such as older wind-up style watches, older hand tools, and older radios, coin banks and metal based toys were also easy to re-sell.   Of course it is best not to tell the locals what you’re doing with these items after you buy them. If you live in a area that has a sense of charm or uniqueness such as farm community, New England, old west etc., its easy to offer an item that may not be available in the rest of the county/world.  Think of the collectors you know and what they like to collect locally and see if there is a market for these items outside of your area. If the item is small easy to ship, and has a moderate selling price of $20-$60 (when your buying costs are in the $5-$10 range) it’s a reasonable marketable item to sell if you can work it into the collectable areas of jewelry, home decoration, rare car parts, vinyl records,  market. 

 Your start up costs are low if you have access to digital camera and web access. As a test, buy a $100 worth of a variety of local items and put them up for sale. As the items move, use the profits to buy more items on the next go around. There  is a good web page on this strategy. http://www.entrepreneur.com/ebusiness/ebaycenter/ebaycolumnist/article81186.html and http://ezinearticles.com/?Finding-Products-to-Sell-on-eBay&i d=56397&opt=print

 

Herb

Hey Mark, I know where you're coming from on this. I searched around for something like that back when I first injured my back and seemed like I every single thing I came across sounded to fishy to me. A gal posted this exact same question on the Main Forum this morning and has been getting quite a few responses. Check it out. Here is a link to the thread: http://www.obesityhelp.com/forums/amos/a,messageboard/board_ id,4856/cat_id,4456/topic_id,3340610/action,replies/