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Becoming a full time eBay seller is practically living that internet marketing dream, making an excellent income working solely from home or wherever else you have access to a computer, being your own boss all the rest of your time. It’s the promise of dreams for so many individuals and now it has finally come true for you.

What they don’t tell you in the success stories, though, is that becoming a full-time eBay seller is by no means for everyone. You really, really ought to try it part-time before you even consider taking it up full-time, and even then, caution is advisable. Before you burn your suit, here’s a list of questions you should ask yourself.

How Much Do I earn from eBay now?

Do some mathematically equations and try and work out how much hours you work each week, then divide your total work hours by the amount of actual profit you make every week. Your conclusion should be, if you were working full time on the job, would you earn as much money as you are currently?

Do I Have a Good Job?

Think about what you might lose if you give up your job to focus on eBay. If you’re in a well-paid job with good promotion prospects then it’s well worth reconsidering: you might get a few years down the line and wish you’d stayed in your traditional job, as you’d probably be the CEO by now.

Would I Really Make Much More Money?

Unless you choose to sell large quantities of products whether small or large, most of what you’ll find your time doing will be waiting for auctions to end and it is possibly for you to wait while your at a work place just as easily as you can from home. That is primarily why the amount of money you’re actually making on eBay depends greatly on the kinds of products you’re selling, for low priced items, taking the full time route could prove to be a good move. For highly priced items, there’s a good chances that you’ll be stunted by the amount of money you’ll require to invest in further inventory long before you hit any limits you might have on time.

Is my Home a Good Place to Work?

Quite apart from anything else, you might find that the dream of home working is more of a nightmare in reality. People can start to depend on you to get things done that need to be done during the day. If you have a wife and children then they can resent the fact that you’re in the house but refuse to have anything to do with them for large parts of the day. Giving in to any of these things and stopping work for a while will cause your profits to fall.

Can I survive if it All Goes Wrong?

Well looking at it from this scenario, if you had maybe a month or two where you sold nothing, do you think you’d be able to survive? Or do you think you’d panic and begin an erratic search for a job with fixed rates, cursing the very day you found eBay? That’s the real question you have to ask yourself. If you made it through the entire batch of questions, then I think maybe you are cut out for life as a full time or part time eBay seller, even if you don’t believe so, you’d be very surprised how far you can actually get working only part time.