Would you like the chance to be able to earn an additional income from selling goods on eBay? If you would but don't like the idea of having to keep an eye on stock or shipping goods to customers, then why not consider making money using consignment selling. This is where you act as the middle man for someone else in the selling of their products.

However, there are certain things you need to do to set up your consignment business to ensure that you end up making a profit from the items you sell. Below we take a look at just what some of these things are.

1. The first thing you must do is establish a PayPal Account. This will take some time to complete as you will need to provide information to verify who you are. This will include verifying that you are owner of the bank account that you are requesting funds to be deposited to. To verify the information is correct PayPal will forward two small amounts of cash to your account. You need to write these down, then you need to log on to PayPal and click verify and input the amounts deposited. Of course, once set up this then means you will be able to receive payments from customers directly.

2. The next thing you need to do is set up your seller's account on eBay. You will need to input the details relating to your PayPal Account. Once the account has been set up you can start to sell items. However, as you do actually input any items for listing on eBay along with putting in the sale price of the item make sure that you include information regarding the costs of shipping goods to your customers.

3. If you are intending to really make a go when it comes to making money on eBay with consignment selling, it is worth also setting up your own website. It is important that the domain name you select is one that coincides with the product or services that you are selling. There are plenty of places online where you can purchase a domain name and website package for a small amount of money.

After you have purchased your domain name, then you need to create the website. If you wanted to save money and have the know how, you could actually build your own. Again there are plenty of places online that offer advice, tips and templates for you to use in some cases for free in many cases they will also offer free hosting for the site as well.

Above we have looked at some of the things you will need to do in order to make money on eBay with consignment selling. Certainly the more time you dedicate to building up your business, the more people will trust you and this in turn will see you turning more leads in to sales.