Most people start an eBay business without any money, it's not that don't have any it's just that most of them start by either just buying a few items on eBay or they simply decide to have a clear out at home and so they sell some of their unwanted items instead.

Plus of course many people simply do both, they just decide to buy and sell things at the same time, that's fine.

Whatever the reason, wanting to start using eBay as a free website (because that is basically all that it is) can be both financially rewarding plus at the same time just the challenge of it can also be very encouraging..

If you were to open a store online for yourself (which simply means if you started your own website) regardless of whatever you sold, the first problem that you would face would be getting traffic to your store? It does not matter what you were selling, it doesn't matter whether its designer clothes, sunglasses,, children's clothes or any of the thousands of other categories that there are available you would find it very difficult to get your website found amongst the millions of websites that are already out there.

• On the other hand eBay is ranked among the top ten websites in America so if anybody enters a search for the product that you have listed on eBay then they are almost certainly going to see your article for sale. Yes, instant traffic.

• Plus the cost of promoting an item on eBay which is seen right across America (and worldwide) is almost certainly less than putting an ad in your local newspaper, and you don't have the to maintain a website also you can take up as much space as you want in full glorious color.

While eBay gets all of the customers for you.

Finding products to sell on eBay can be a challenge but rest assured that whatever category you may be interested in you can be sure that there is somebody that wants you to sell their product.

That is what they made it for.

So to summarize: Every time an item is either bought or sold online money changes hands. So to answer your original question 'can I make money on eBay' in a nutshell the answer is this;

eBay takes in money at the rate of $2,000 a second night and day and you do not even have to look for the customers...

So the bottom line and the answer to the question is this;

'Can you make money online?' No, you cannot make money on eBay.

'Can you earn money online' Yes, you most definitely can earn money on eBay.