Renegade Ebay Sellers

I made my first attempt at an eBay business in 1997. It failed miserably. As did several other would-be million dollar eBay businesses I tried. I didn’t get it, I read the books promising success if I followed their eBay business success rules.

Andrew Lock & Jeremy Frandsen

End my auctions on Sunday night, check. Find some random Powerseller to emulate and copy his auctions, check. Get ready to work for my eBay business in every waking hour, after my day job, check. After several tries following the advise from the top ‘how to make real money on eBay’ books, I realized they were crap and I quit trying to make a business on ebay work. I was almost relieved to go back to just 8-10 hours of my day job.

After several more years in the 9-5 grind I couldn’t take it any more. About that time a book came along that changed it all, Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki. I decided the era of the day job was over and if I was going to try the business thing again I was going to ‘fail forward’ and not give up.

I spent over a year trying to be a ‘Donald Trump’ in the real estate business, but I didn’t like that business much. Finally, I got into the info marketing/internet business fold. It clicked and I have doing it full time ever since.

The first thing I tried was an information business using eBay. I took Dan Kennedy’s advice which was, look at what everyone else is doing and do the opposite. By following his advice I made a few people mad as well as making a successful business. I then went on to several other businesses using a similar model. I now have many different internet based businesses after finding multiple ‘renegade’ principles and ways to automate my business therefore taking ME out of the equation, (as much as possible). To this day I make the majority of my income from eBay businesses, how many of the other ‘experts’ can say that?

I also found that most of the guys that write the eBay books have never had an eBay business. They are simply professional writers hired to write a book. You really have to be careful who you get your information from! End my auctions on Sunday night, not necessarily. Find some random Powerseller to emulate and copy his auctions, NO WAY! Get ready to work for my eBay business in every waking hour, only if you’re crazy!

I love internet business and using eBay as a tool to generate business. Most of all I am finding that I love teaching others how to become Renegade eBay Sellers.

Andrew Lock

I finally ‘cracked the eBay code’. That may sound overly dramatic, but I assure you that I’m not exaggerating. Quite simply, I devised a systemized approach to exploiting unconventional eBay techniques that fewer than 1% of sellers know about, let alone use.

I’m actually one of a very small handful of education specialists, trained by eBay. Honestly, I don’t agree with everything that eBay teaches, but being certified means that I am perfectly placed to inform my students of the very latest developments and features of eBay, sometimes months before they become ‘mainstream.’ It’s a very powerful advantage that you can benefit from too.

I’m a fairly private person but I’m happy to let you in on a few personal details. I was born and raised in the South of England, I married my lovely wife Luci in 2000, and we fulfilled an ambition in 2003 by moving half way around the world to California. In the Summer of 2006 we moved to Salt Lake City, where we overlook the mountains near Park City. It’s a beautiful part of the country that seems to be largely undiscovered. I encourage you to visit, you will love it.

I owe a debt of thanks to my marketing friends Yanik Silver, Dan Kennedy, Bill Glazer, and Zig Ziglar and others, for showing me what marketing is really about. The insights and lessons that I discovered as a student of these guys has been invaluable, and they have been a major influence on my eBay system. Conventional marketing is dead, it’s a pointless waste of time and money, but sadly most people are stuck in the dark ages and are still doing it the hard way.

It’s a constant frustration to me to see so many eBay sellers fail. Even many PowerSellers give up because they are fed up. Simply having the label ‘PowerSeller’ doesn’t mean anything significant, it simply means that the person received payments of more than $1000 per month through eBay transactions. How much of that is profit is anyone’s guess.

I invite you to check out our eBay resources on this site. Thanks for stopping by, I look forward to meeting you in person at one of our live presentations or trainings.