How to sell plants on ebay
Selling Plants On eBay Experiment
hey guys welcome back to the thrifty
Christian YouTube channel in this video
we're gonna talk about selling plants
live plants so this is something that
when I was up early one morning doing
some research I discovered that people
were selling live plants and they were
selling seeds and cuttings from plants
and it was something that I really
wanted to just kind of test to see if it
could be done now I'm gonna give you a
little bit of a backstory here my mother
loves plants and when I stumbled across
this I thought wow you know my mom I
used to own a nursery a long time ago
when I was in the landscape industry so
my mom was always helping me you know
she always loved to come out and take
cuttings and and you know propagate
plants so I thought I wonder if this is
something that would interest my mom
because that's all we really talk about
you know we talk about our plants and we
talk about you know wouldn't it be nice
to just grow this plant if we could it
was always a challenge for us to go in
and try to grow or propagate from either
a cutting or a seed you know certain
types of plants so that's what we've
done over the years so in this um you
know I explained to my mom what I was
finding on on eBay and I challenged her
I just said basically hey let's let's
see if we can grow you know a tray of
tomato plants and let's see if we can
sell one so basically we did that we
grew a tray and in these following Clips
I'll show you the process on how I you
know we're how I grew that how she grew
the plants I could give her credit for
that and how we did the shipping so if
this interest you guys I can show you in
another video or something else where I
found these sources
but you can just basically go onto eBay
and look for you just type in seeds
plant seeds or live plants and you can
put in a variety of a plant and like I
said in this case we grew little tomato
plants and they just grow so easy and
they grow so fast that you know it's
it's not much of a challenge to do but
if you figure you can grow 72 individual
cells with multiple plants in each cell
you know and it's not something that you
have to yeah you don't really have to
monitor these plants you just have to
have a little bit of us you know spaced
so it's something that people can do now
I'm gonna add this disclaimer I am in
way a no way shape or form versed in
trans transporting agricultural products
across state lines so in this video I am
actually taking a risk now I can say
that when we listed the product right
there was a pop up and it was a warning
stating that you need to read and
understand the laws for each state as
far as how to you know ship plants and
what can be shipped across international
lines as well so since we're not doing
anything international which I know is a
no-no thanks to that border wars show
that I watched years ago that
specifically talked about people who got
caught the airport's trying to introduce
a fruit or a plant or something like
that so that's my disclaimer if you guys
want to do this please do your own
research please do not hit me up with
comments because I cannot answer those
questions simply because I need to keep
myself free of any liability in those
areas okay
so the first thing that I do is I just
come to the little tray and I just
extract the little plant like so these
trays are called cell trays and
basically what they have is just a
double liner so here you can see the
little roots on the bottom the bottom of
the tray holds moisture or water and
that allows you to just set them out
here I've got them sit out here by my
pool patio because my mother actually
grows them so anyway just pull a couple
of them out and then we walk them inside
there's Chico and I've already pulled
them so I bring them and then I put them
on this paper towel so that way some
excess moisture can get pulled off of
them and then I just wrap them in
cellophane like that and then from there
I took two plastic water bottles and
basically I'm just gonna slip these two
together and put them inside that and
then put this over the top of it and
then put them in the box but I'll also
put some paper or some bubble wrap
inside the box so that way it won't
jostle around and shipping so let me do
that real quick okay so there we go
I just put them right inside I didn't I
don't even have to tape this together I
don't have to tape the two halves
together it's about the same size as a
regular bottle and at this height they
fit in perfectly if they're not crowded
there the stems are not bent but yeah so
now I'll just
strategically place it inside the box so
there we go
it's not gonna go it's not gonna get
damaged the plants are gonna be fine you
can see that they're not gonna they're
not gonna get damaged in any way so now
I'll just tape this up throw a label on
it and get it out as soon as possible so
being that this is the first time that
I've done this I'm really really curious
as to how much this weighs and what it's
going to cost me oh my goodness
I can't believe it only seven ounces
that means that it's gonna cost me to
ship it to Illinois
and thanks to USPS for messing up all
the pricing it'll cost me three dollars
and twenty eight cent to ship that to
Illinois and that's gonna be awesome so
that's right about where I wanted the
pricing as far as shipping and I may go
in and modify these boxes or find a box
that's a lot smaller to reduce maybe
another couple of ounces and get that
price down even further so considering
that I've got air pillows very
lightweight the plastic bottle very
lightweight and the two plants or the
two cells inside seven ounces that's
great but I'm happy with that
so my profit margin will be hanging
tight let's see okay I think let's see
okay so I put in that the I put in that
the cost was a dollar and I sold it for
951 I could raise that price in the
future if the sales go well which is
what I'll do incrementally raised the
price if these sell very well so the
shipping cost me three dollars and 28
cent and my total profits after PayPal
and eBay fees is three dollars and
seventy eight cents so like I said if I
can get that around four dollars a unit
net profit I'll be really happy with
that
so anyway okay so one final thing I
forgot to show you guys I just put out
some printed out some instructions that
just typed up real quick and I'm gonna
put that in the box along with the plant
so that should wrap it up okay guys so
that's it for this video
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