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Submitted by John_GameAssassin on Monday, January 23, 2012 - 13:01

In this video, I go through the basic steps in using our Assassin Search tool to find games online which you can resell on ebay for a profit.

It explains exactly how in around 10 minutes you can find these games and build your own personal list for when you come to purchase stock for your own business.

Enjoy :)

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Submitted by John_GameAssassin on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - 10:01

Ebay is the world's biggest marketplace, it's were you will undoubtedly be able to present yourself to the largest consumer audience without spending thousands if not millions on advertising.

This kind of exposure comes at a price though, and that price is large profit reducing fees aswell as (in most cases) a high amount of competition.
So in order to push your business forward...

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Submitted by John_GameAssassin on Monday, January 16, 2012 - 09:08

There are 2 trends in the gaming media headlines at present, reports of the huge rises of sales in the digital gaming market (xbox live, steam, psn, facebook etc) and reports of the decline in high street “boxed games” market.

With publishers like EA making a push for sales in digital downloads and in-game content where does this leave the average independent games seller?

This...

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Submitted by John_GameAssassin on Thursday, January 12, 2012 - 11:32

There are something like a billion people on the internet today (well maybe not quite that many, I don't know the exact figures but you get the picture) and that means you have countless potential customers .
To the inexperienced seller this sounds like it would be pretty easy to get a load of new customers without much time, money or effort.
The problem is that with such a huge...

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Submitted by John_GameAssassin on Tuesday, January 10, 2012 - 11:35

After reading this article on tamebay 'is mobile shopping coming of age' it's got me thinking, with this recent trend of customers checking for the cheapest online price while standing in a shop, could a new offline business model for general high street stores see their online...

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Submitted by admin on Monday, January 9, 2012 - 10:14

We've all done it, it's a fact of business, you've bought in some stock but for some reason there's a few items which you just can't seem to sell no matter what you do. Maybe you need to sell them in order to free up enough cash to buy in your next order so freeing that money up is essential to move forward.

So what do you do, do you sit on this poorly performing stock and hope that it...

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Submitted by John_GameAssassin on Friday, January 6, 2012 - 14:41

Advertising is all well and good but it can cost you a lot of money, sometimes without much return. For the average new online trader, your budget can be tight so you need ways of attracting new customers/making them aware of you and gaining trust.
How are you going to go about doing all that without spending thousands on advertising and marketing, well here's a couple of ebay based...

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Submitted by John_GameAssassin on Thursday, January 5, 2012 - 13:05

Suppliers within the Gaming Industry, it's an important topic and one which you need to understand if you are selling Video Games.

Businessdictionary.com defines a Supplier as an:
“External entity that supplies relatively common, off the shelf, or standard goods or services.”

Meaning that a supplier doesn’t have to call itself a “wholesaler, distributor” or similar for you...

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Submitted by John_GameAssassin on Wednesday, January 4, 2012 - 11:23

Today I want to help answer this important question for you, why exactly should you sell video games?

If you look around the internet these days on various business forums, everybody is saying that the Video Games Market is saturated! So why on Earth would you want to run a business selling them?

Well, the main reason you are probably interested in this market to begin with is...

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