8. Step Six: Find and Manage Your Inventory
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A successful eBay business involves the selling of large quantities of merchandise. To sell that merchandise, you first have to obtain the merchandise—which means finding a steady supply of items to sell. These items become your business's inventory.
Managing your inventory sounds simple on paper. You identify items you want to resell, purchase those items (at as favorable a price as you can negotiate), store those items until they're sold, and then sell and ship them to your customers. When you run low on inventory, you order more. Hopefully you don't order more merchandise than you can actually sell. And ...
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