Ten days ago I made a post about using a simple php script to create a web page of things for sale on eBay. I chose as an example Shimano Bicycle parts. I know little or nothing about bicycle parts, but I did a little research on eBay and found that there is a large subsection that is concerned with different brands of bicycle parts and Shimano was the largest section.

I created the RSS feed on the Ebay Partner Network and used my PHP script to convert that into a formatted picture list of ebay auctions. The script is set up so that if anyone is high bidder on one of the auctions I get a chunk of change. (The chart at left shows the clicks – blue line, and the revenue – yellow line. I made $4.46 on the best day. On the best day I got 44 clicks.

The web page received a low volume of hits. On the most active day it received less than 50 hits on the web page, which is hardly anything and it averaged less than 15 a day. I made, however, $15.68 in those ten days on one page of bicycle parts. I had just one blog entry pointing to the page and one link on my Facebook profile. This was enough to get the 150 hits in ten days on the page from people searching Google and Bing for Shimano parts (Bing is getting bigger).

This is magic. It’s free, and it’s not hard. I am glad that not many other people are doing it. I spent a day looking through eBay for high volume search items. I have a dozens of these pages out there and I am looking for more. I’m up into the hundreds this month.

I just read this post back and it reads like a sales pitch. I’m not selling anything. All I need now is testimonials.