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Copyright©2006 Tracy Yates – http://www.e-bookemporium.us 
The “Dirty Secret” Hiding On Ebay
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LEGAL DISCLAIMER
The contents of this ebook are for informational purposes only and is Copyright© to Tracy 
Yates of E-Book Emporium. It is in no way accompanied with any type of monetary guarantees 
either to the information provided or how any individual reader applies said information to 
their buying practices either written or implied. It is in no way a defamatory information 
product to any information seller or to the company eBay, or any other third parties 
associated. 
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While the bulk of the content herein pertains to the auction giant eBay, this corporation is in 
no way associated with any portion of this informational product. Ebay is a registered 
trademark and copyright to eBay.
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Scam. Rip-off. Crap. Useless. Taken.
This is how you feel after buying a product that promises you so much but delivers so very 
little. Everyone in the entire world has more than likely experienced this feeling at one 
time or another. But when you are looking for a concrete way to earn more money through 
eBay, and you may even be desperate for the earnings, these feelings are multiplied to 
astronomic altitudes!
Throughout this ebook, you're going to read some things you may not want to face. And 
some of the content may upset you. Apologies in advance for this, but it's high time 
SOMEONE told you the TRUTH! And sometimes the truth can be an ugly business. Try, as 
difficult as it may be, to look past the harsh ugliness and open your mind to the possibility 
that the information here is based in FACT from personal experiences.
The hope with providing this information to you is to arm you with the knowledge you need 
to hopefully save yourself money when searching for the "golden goose" or easy road to 
riches that many are trying to sell through eBay.
Don't know what that means? Well, take a look at these "example" auction titles and 
consider if you ever thought about purchasing them:
"I Made [Insert Ridiculous Dollar Amount Here] Within [Insert Ridiculous 
Time Frame Here] By Selling On eBay!"
"Make Money From Home For FREE All On eBay!"
"I Will Share My Closely Guarded Ebay Profiting Secrets With The World 
For The First Time"
"Sure Fire System Earns You Thousands A Day On eBay"
"Earn Enough From eBay To Be Set For LIFE!"
Heck. You may have even bought a few of them! Plenty of people searching for their 
"instant riches" dream have. You aren't by yourself here. Everyone wants to be financially 
stable and have "money freedom". Who in their right mind wouldn't? And almost everyone 
would like to have this wealthy independence with minimal work involved.
The key word in the above statement is DREAM. It's a "dream". 
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The cold reality of it is that to gain your financial freedom YOU HAVE TO WORK AT IT. 
The person selling the "instant riches" product had to work to create the product and sell it. 
You have to work to use the system described by following X-Y-Z steps. And on and on it 
goes. Everything is based on WORK. Or effort put forth to attain your goals.
This is your wake up call. . . .
"There Is No Such Thing As A 'Free Lunch'."
And that, my friend, is the TRUTH of the matter.
Are you finally ready to learn the "Dirty Secret" that is hiding behind all the "hype" you see 
floating around on eBay?
If you are tired of sifting through all the "bull" being shoveled into your face about making 
money from eBay and want to know the REAL truth, then you are in the right place. Inside 
this ebook, you will read the cold, hard facts when it comes to earning real profits on eBay. 
And none of the garbage you just read above even comes close to being figures you can 
actually earn.
And why those making the above outrageous claims really ARE earning the money, but also, 
why YOU NEVER WILL until you wake up to the facts right in front of your eyes.
So, if you are ready to separate all the "trash" from the buried treasure, let's get started so 
you will waste no more time, or money on crap systems and information that amount to 
squat!
“WHY CAN'T I GET RICH LIKE SO AND SO? THEY'RE DOING IT. SO 
WHY CAN'T I DO THE SAME?”
Honestly? 
Because "so and so" doesn't really want you to! Who else will they have to sell their next big 
"secret system to easy eBay profits" to? That's the first big piece of the puzzle. You have to 
understand that the person selling their "how I made X-amount-of-dollars on eBay" doesn't 
really ever reveal the actual steps to their entire system. 
Why is that 100% true? 
Because then they have nothing left to sell you later on. 
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Everything you need to earn your own profits with, you'll already have within ONE SINGLE 
PURCHASE. And that doesn't factor in very well to their profiting equation.
Add to that the fact that revealing their "secret system of churning out steady profits" to 
YOU would give them another person to compete with. And what person that is online to 
make their OWN money wants to make things harder on themselves?? Uh, NOBODY.
Plus, let's remember too that you can adopt any type of "persona" you want online. And it's 
all too easy to create the "nice guy or gal", or "I got rich almost overnight" character that 
honestly wants you to succeed. Why would they? How would that benefit them in the long 
run? It wouldn't. Therefore, they don't give you the real tools you need to succeed and will 
come up with every excuse in the book telling you otherwise. Including the ever popular: 
"Most People Will Do Absolutely NOTHING With This Information And 
Stay Stagnant In Their Earning Potential. You MUST TAKE ACTION 
For This System To Work"
Most times, that last statement in and of itself is TRUE. And we're talking from a physics 
principles point of view. Every action has an equal re-action as a result. Obviously 
shortened here, but the principle remains the same. If you do nothing, then as a result you 
will receive nothing. If you do something, then you will receive something. Simple physics.
However, a majority of people that DO take action still won't see the same results of the 
one selling them the system because they have left out certain aspects of the system in the 
first place for extra "back end" profits later on.
Please, DO NOT FALL FOR THE PICTURES! 
You want the "real deal" about who's buying what from them? Check out their eBay 
feedback and take time to browse through what they have actually sold. It is so easy for 
any person with a tiny bit of working knowledge of image editing software to fabricate 
“financial proof” images, it isn't even funny. So be wary these may not be actual figures 
you are looking at.
Now, this “financial proof” picture tactic is used to "suck you in" and get you checking out 
their auction listing and reading their sales copy. Which if you notice, gets you pumped up 
and believing that you might possibly be able to do what they are doing and live the "rich" 
lifestyle so many people desperately want.
You took the bait(the “financial proof” images, the fabulous vacation shots, expensive 
property or sports cars they bought, or the half naked girl, or guy, who they don't even 
know), and now they're reeling you in(getting you to read their sales copy) for the catch(or 
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the sale).
Another giant piece of the "non profiting" puzzle is that most of the content that makes up 
these "super systems" are either common knowledge or can easily be found throughout the 
internet. Half the time, it's simply a matter of rewording older techniques and then 
repackaging it as if it is a brand new state-of-the-art money making system. It's not. In all 
honesty, most so called "new" systems or tactics are really re-vamped "classic" marketing 
tactics.
The most disturbing factor of this “repackaging” trend is the fact that most of the 
information they are providing you with was originally obtained from, most likely, a free 
resource. For example, all the “how to eBay” guides are comprised of free information 
simply re-worded provided by the main eBay site to begin with!
But, I'm about to reveal to you the real reason why "so and so" is profiting and YOU 
  
AREN'T
  
 
from their "unbeatable" profiting system.
One simple word sums it all up. . . .
COPYWRITING
These people are masters of this craft. You may not believe this but, you can have the 
crappiest product of all time and still sell a million copies of it if you know how to write a 
good sales ad. There are literally hundreds of examples of this if you need concrete proof. 
And, since you are reading this ebook right now, you probably own many of them, so you 
know first-hand how crappy they are!
Think about that last sentence for just a second. 
How many products have you purchased up to this point with the promises of easy, quick, 
cash? 2? 10? 35?? And have ANY of them worked for you? Have ANY of them explained a 
different way to earn this cash you so desire? Or is it a matter of taking the SAME 
information and "packaging" it in a different way with only slightly similar language, or 
writing styles?
And, because the copywriting is attracting, or "reeling you in", on one point or another, you 
are buying their product. And THAT, dear friend, is how THEY are making their "fortune". 
FROM 
  
YOU
  
 buying into their beliefs. 
Which ultimately leads to you BUYING THEIR PRODUCT.
Even if it's only $5.00 you're spending, that's another $4.00 profit they're earning taking 
them that much further to their money goal. All those "little" profits begin adding up over 
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time.
And HOW, exactly, is their copywriting style "hooking" you in? Well, it's either one of two 
things, or a combination of both. . .
A LOW PRICE
and/or
PLAYING OFF YOUR EMOTIONAL TRIGGERS
What is the meaning behind the "emotional triggers" they're copywriting is evoking from 
you? Well, how about these, just for starters. . .
You Want To Earn More Money
You Want To Earn EASY Money
You Hate Your Normal Day Job
You Want To Work For Yourself And Be The Boss
You Have A TON Of Bills To Pay And Need Quick Cash
You Want To Be Successful And Tell Everyone How You Became An "Instant" Millionaire on 
eBay
You Want To Save Money On X-Y-Z Purchases
Are you starting to see the pattern here? 
There's always ONE MAIN FOCAL POINT of any good copywriting sales letter. And with eBay, 
the main focal point is usually MONEY. Take heart though, because there are literally 
MILLIONS of people searching for ways to earn fast, easy money. So you are definitely not 
alone in this quest. :-)
Why is there only ONE main focal point for each sales letter? So that you don't get 
distracted from the action the writer wants you to take. TO BUY THE PRODUCT!
And as for the price portion of it, that's pretty self-explanatory, but we'll discuss it further 
here so you can clearly see what is going on "behind the copywriting scenes".
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Say Mr. E has an information product that sounds great and claims to show you how he has 
made over $20,000 in under 2 weeks time. Plus, Mr. E says that by giving you this 
information, you will be able to reproduce his success for yourself. For just $5.00. Sounds 
like a good deal right? I mean, 5 bucks isn't so much to part with, is it?
And that's PRECISELY the mind set Mr. E wants you to be in so you give up the cash without 
hesitation.
Now, imagine for a moment that there are, say, 15 different listings for this particular item 
with 600 copies available for purchase through each of those 15 listings.
600 x 15 = 9,000 - That's 9,000 copies of his information product, or ebook, available for 
purchase through all 15 of his listings on eBay. Now. . .
9,000 x 5 = 45,000 - That's $45,000 if Mr. E accomplishes his initial goal of selling out all 
9,000 copies.
Let's say that Mr. E can only sell half of those copies available. Got the total all figured out 
already? Man, you're quick! But, for illustration purposes. . . .
9,000 / 2 = 4,500 - 4,500 copies of Mr. E's money making system ebooks are sold
Bringing Mr. E a grand total of $22,500 earned gross. I say "gross" because Mr. E will have 
to pay out some of that money for eBay listing fees and PayPal payment processing fees. 
Even though this is just a small percentage out of his overall profits. So he's still managed 
to reach his initial $20,000 goal.
Interesting, eh?
Are you starting to get the picture now? Hopefully you are :-)  It doesn't take a rocket 
scientist to figure out that any single person can come up with some "fool-proof" eBay profit 
system within the span of a DAY and earn a couple thousand dollars by a couple days end. 
Especially if this is something one can only retrieve by purchasing it from the main 
individual selling it.
It's like taking candy from a kid. Excuse the cliche, but it is.
Take all those people on eBay selling electronic books, or "ebooks", for .99 cents. Sure, 
they're only going to receive a small portion of that after paying out the listing fees and 
payment processing fees. But even if they manage to eek out .33 cents each for those 
items, and they're selling enough of them, they can rake in a tidy little sum after the day is 
done. Let's do a little more math to illustrate this point further. . .
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Ms. C has her own eBay store, which will allow her to list her items for just a few cents. 
Let's say .05 cents for each listing(last I read, the actual store listing price was .02 cents, so 
this example is a little exaggerated).
Now, let's say that Ms. C has around 400 items listed within her store. A reasonable number. 
So. . .
400 items x .99 cents each = $396
Not an extravagant number by any stretch of the imagination of course. BUT, what if Ms. C 
manages to sell out HALF of her items on a daily basis?
200 items sold per day x .99 cents each = $198 A DAY TOTAL GROSS EARNINGS
Okay, let's parle that into a week's worth of earnings. . .
5 days x 200 items sold per day = 1,000 items sold in a week
1,000 items sold x .99 cents per item = $990 total gross profits in 1 
week
Obviously, Ms. C is going to have to pay her monthly $9.95 eBay store fee for having her 
shop, but that's a MONTHLY fee, not weekly. And say Ms. C has to pay out HALF of her 
earnings for the payment processing fees. 
She still walks away with around $500 a week. And monthly, Ms. C is earning a total income 
of: $2,000, minus the $9.95 eBay store fee of course.
Is this an impossible figure to reach? Not at all. Is it difficult? Could be. Depends on what 
you're selling. If you have 400 ebook items that only YOU are selling on eBay, then you have 
a better chance of reaching that end result.
Exclusivity aside, the infintecimal price of just under a dollar makes reaching that profit 
goal much more possible. Especially if Ms. C is selling more popular, newer titles. eBay 
buyers looking for these specific information products are more than happy to fork over the 
"under a buck" funds for what they want. To be perfectly frank, who hasn't done this a 
couple of times?
Understand that the above "example" isn't meant to be some type of prototype for you to 
follow. It is meant to let you begin to see how some of these folks harping that they are 
making "thousands" of dollars monthly on eBay is entirely possible.
Money is the universal language. Oh, you thought it was love? Nope. It's cash. Money makes 
the world go-round. Money makes eBay go-round-and-round-and-round-and. . .Well you get 
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the idea here.
Everybody wants it. Everybody needs it. And most importantly, everybody wants MORE of 
it. Money is the strongest pull for selling a product you will ever see in your entire life.
Especially if another person convinces you that you can either make more of it or save 
yourself some of it, the outcome is always the same. You are ready to go for it just to try 
and get your little "slice of the pie".
Remember, this isn't an ebook designed to "earn you X amount of dollars in X days". This is 
an ebook designed to help educate you on the secret tricks of those people trying to 
separate you from your money. So in effect, it's main purpose is to, hopefully, save you a 
few dollars that you might otherwise unnecessarily spend.
If you want to know how to make money on eBay, there's a couple of ways you can do it, 
and I'll tell you each of them, right here so you don't have to spend money on a bunch of 
"crap" ebooks, courses, or guides that will tell you the EXACT SAME STUFF.
Are you ready? Here we go. . . .
1. Buy Wholesale Products And Resell Them For A Higher Price Than What You Initially 
Paid
2. Utilize A Dropshipping System 
3. Sell Physical Products You Already Have Lying Around The House
4. Sell Digital Products
That's it. That's all there is. Either you're selling "physical" products or "digital" ones. Period. 
There is no "golden goose" hidden somewhere on eBay. This is all there is to making money 
on it. End of story.
And, here are some additional "tips" that you'll also see sprinkled throughout all the other 
"money explosion" guides. . . .
TIP #1
Find something to sell and sell it. Or at least attempt to. Whether you accomplish this by 
going through your own items at home, frequenting yard or garage sales, rummaging 
through thrift stores, buying new product wholesale, using a drop-ship system, writing up 
an exclusive digital information product or guide, selling resale rights products, etc., just 
have something of VALUE to sell through eBay.
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TIP #2
Start your bidding price as low as you are willing to go for your item you are placing up for 
auction.
TIP #3
Have your own "USP" or Unique Selling Proposition. Think about what makes YOUR product 
different from everyone else's, such as, your customer service, price comparison, product 
quality, exclusivity of your product, etc.
TIP #4
Use an attention grabbing auction listing title to stand out from your competition using 
specific keywords that your potential customers may be searching for.
TIP #5
Make your auction listings easy to read sticking with the basic black text on white or light 
colored backgrounds.
TIP #6
Do something pro-active with the information provided to you within X-Y-Z guide or you 
won't see any positive results from reading it.
TIP #7
Use your "About Me" page to advertise your other products through your site links and 
generate leads to build a emailing list of potential customers.
TIP #8
Keep a list of every eBay buyer's email that purchases from you to send messages to later 
for back-end sales after the initial auction has ended.
TIP #9
Be creative with your auction descriptions to make your listing stand out from other similar 
listings.
TIP #10
Try running a "mystery auction" listing by taking items you already have and don't want 
anymore. Throughout the duration of the auction, offer clues to the items included within 
your "mystery auction". Be sure that the items you are offering are of value and not a bunch 
of dollar store items one can get anywhere.
TIP #11
Automate your auction delivery system as much as possible if you are selling digital 
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products either through Outlook Express "Message Rules" or through a web based service 
such as http://www.auctionhawk.com.
TIP #12
Don't get greedy with your shipping and handling fees. Stick to the actual fees or very 
closely to them.
TIP #13
Start up your own eBay store and get it free for 30 days just to try it out to see if this is 
right for you and to lower your overall listing costs.
TIP #14
Consider looking for misspelled auction listings and correcting them for more exposure and 
profits if you have the same product(s) for sale, or if you purchase those misspelled auction 
listing items.
TIP #15
Consider listing your auction for the full alloted time of the 7 day duration as you will get 
more positive results.
TIP #16
Don't participate in the 1cent or 1p auction listings to gain more exposure or receive fast 
feedback. You are doing yourself a disservice and certainly devaluing the product you are 
offering to others. The ONLY time this is a good idea is if you have created your own digital 
ebook product, written and offered exclusively by YOU to build your feedback rating and 
earn back-end profits. NEVER use another author's product to do this with as you will 
receive a much more negative backlash in the end.
TIP #17
Always be TRUTHFUL about the items you are selling on eBay. NEVER LIE!
TIP #18
Be sure to read all the auction listing FAQ and rules before you list an auction item as you 
will lose money if you break eBay's terms/rules and they end your auction early for you!
TIP #19
Use pictures along with the description of your auction item. You will attract more 
potential bidders/buyers this way. And, pay the extra .35 cents to list a gallery 
picture/photo/image with your auction title. This will also attract more bidders/buyers.
TIP #20
Always list your auction item within the appropriate category on eBay.
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Obviously this isn't all the “tips” available out there, but I have something special in store 
for you that might just provide you with more of them. And it won't cost you one red cent. 
Below, you will find it. Enjoy!
ADDITIONAL BONUS FREE GIFTS TO HELP YOU FURTHER
Now, remember everything you've read above and take the information for what you feel it 
is worth within each one of these products I'm including here for you to utilize. As with 
everything in life, take only what you need to succeed and leave the rest ;-)
I can almost positively guarantee you that the information found within each of the 
products available for you to download below will be profoundly similar to any "new" how-
to-profit-on-eBay product you are considering purchasing. No matter how exciting it 
sounds. The base information/instructions are practically the SAME.
Make sure you are connected to the internet before you attempt to access the below 
products since you will need to download them.
- Online Auction Profits Manual
- eBay Holiday Frenzy(RIGHT CLICK and "Save Target As. . .")
- eBay Extreme Package
- How To Sell Info Products On eBay
- The Secret Of The 1 Cent Auction Revealed(Not a recommended method, but always a 
good idea to arm yourself with all the available information on the subject)
- The 90 Day Powerseller Challenge
- 97 eBay Success Secrets
- 10,000 Words & Phrases That Sell Like Crazy!(Not exactly “eBay” related, but can be 
applied to auction listing titles)
- Auction Sources Big Book
- Automate Your eBay Sales
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- eBay: The Inside Story
- eBay Traffic Funnel(RIGHT CLICK and "Save Target As. . .)
- eBay Entrepreneur Kit(PDF version)
- eBay Cash!
- Special Report: eBay Drop Ship Profits(RIGHT CLICK and "Save Target As. .")
- Keeping It Positive: eBay Feedback Guide
- 12 Little Known eBay Niche Markets You Can Profit From(RIGHT CLICK and "Save Target 
As. .")
- eBay Pulse Guide: Version 2
- Resell It On eBay
- Mining Gold From eBay
- Info Profit With eBay
- EZ eBay Ad Builder
- The eBay Buyer's Guide(RIGHT CLICK and "Save Target As. .")
- The eBay Seller's Guide(RIGHT CLICK and "Save Target As. .")
 
Lastly, I want to mention one other ebook that is selling on eBay that has terrific, and very 
useful, information contained within it. It isn't free, or cheap. It is however extremely 
affordable at just $10.00 a pop. The author, John Thornhill, is fast becoming an eBay 
information selling product expert. He has written numerous related, and I must say 
informative, articles on the subject, has his own web site, including an exclusive “members 
only” area, and is an active information product seller on eBay through his eBay user ID: 
planetSMS.
John's ebook is the exception to all the aforementioned “rules” in this ebook. It is well 
worth the tiny cost and you will learn much from having a copy of it. There's no affiliate 
program associated with it, so you can be sure that I'm telling you the truth here.
If you're interested in learning even more about selling information products on eBay, I 
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highly recommend you pick up a copy for yourself and see what John has to say in his 
remarkable ebook “The $10,000 Auction” here:
http://stores.ebay.com/PlanetSMS (look for The $10,000 Auction ebook on the upper right 
hand corner of John's store inside the box: “Can It Be Done?”)
Oh, and one last point. . . .John is in no way associated with this “plug” to his product. But 
I would like to personally thank John for creating such a wonderfully informative product. 
Congratulations and much success to you John!
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Well, we have come to the end of this, what I hope was informative, ebook. What I want 
you to come away with is the knowledge that while it is entirely possible to earn profits 
from eBay, not everyone will.
 And, not everyone selling on eBay truly wants to see you succeed in your endeavors. Take 
everything you see and read online with a huge grain of salt and consider the source this 
information is coming from. Then ask yourself, “Does this person honestly have my best 
interests at heart, or they just in it to make themselves a quick buck off of me?”. It may 
take some trial and error, but eventually, you will find those people that can be trusted 
and the answers to your eBay profiting questions. Even if you have to reach those answers 
on your own :-) 
After all, you are your greatest coach and educator!
To Your eBay Success,
         (YES. .That's really me!)
Tracy Yates
Tracy Yates
http://www.tracyyates.com 
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