One thing that I researched quite a bit was selling DVDs on eBay. I had about 30 DVDs to sell and was able to sell them for about $7.00 each plus about $4 shipping. Since they were my own DVDs, that was good enough for me. After this I started looking into getting them cheap so that I could sell them all of the time. It turned out that there were about two places that seemed best.
The first place that looked promising was a DVD buying co-op. It was free to become a member and they could get all of the new releases. They mainly catered to small video rental places, but just about anyone could join it seemed. The biggest draw back was that there was a minimum MONTHLY order. The minimum was only $200, but I was not sure that I was ready to commit to that. The other problem was that the DVDs were not super cheap. I was looking to get these DVDs for about $3 to $4 each, and there seemed to be only one way to do it.
Bulk used DVDs. The best price per DVDs seems to be buying a lot (as in large group together, not "a lot" as a general quantity) of used DVDs for about $300 to $800 at a time. These would have 100 to 200 DVDs and the price would be right, but some would never sell. You never have your own pick of what is in there. Some will sell well, but others will cost more in eBay fees listing it than it will put in your pocket.
I came to find that one of the most popular types of DVDs were television boxed sets. These would sell for thirty to forty dollars a season, but would cost me about $20. Then I noticed some sellers selling a complete nine season set for about a hundred bucks. These however are bootlegged ones from China. A word of warning: this will get you a visit from the FBI if you sell them.
Anyway, I never went past selling several of my own DVDs (and I eventually bought some of them again later)
I do think that there is potential here though and I have found that there are places like the CD Exchange stores where you can buy select DVDs and make some money on the side. There is surely money to be made in bulk.
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