Selling for a profit on eBay is easy when you have kids. People are earning hundreds of dollars a month by selling kid related items. Here are some general ideas to help you get started.

--Kids Items You Can Sell

Clothes, toys, and videos are good moneymakers on eBay.

* Go to eBay and look up a "lot" of size 6 girls’ cloths. You will find they are expensive! The average price for a “lot” of 20 good conditioned clothes is about $35.00.

When your kids grow out of their seasonal clothes do not throw them out! Bundle them into different lots by category. For example, bundle girls dresses separate from girls play clothes, but only do that if you have at least six of each different type.

“Lots” of any item sell better than single items unless the item is unique or high priced. For example, a hand-embroidered dress that you paid a lot for would sell better by itself, instead of bundled with other basic dresses.

* The next item to lookup on eBay is toys! Most toys in good condition will sell for a lot of money. One idea that works well is to buy hot items in October at Wal-Mart or Toys-R-Us and sell them on eBay. Busy people are willing to pay extra for the convenience of getting the items delivered to their home. For example, last year a Mega Power Ranger came out in stores around October and sold at Wal-Mart for about $45.00. The same item sold on eBay for up to $65.00, plus shipping. The Yellow Power Ranger is yet another example where the store price was about $6.00, while the same item was selling on eBay for about $20.00.

Save those McDonalds toys. Some Kids Meals toys sell high. Take those Star Wars toys from Burger King...very collectible. You will find them selling on eBay from $1.00 to $5.00, not including shipping.

EBay has a whole section devoted to dolls and bears. If your daughter doesn't want her collectible dolls anymore sell them on eBay.

* Kid's videos and DVDs are also good moneymakers. Bundle about three of these together and you can usually make about $7.00-$12.00 per bundle. Bundle more movies and the money goes up. Disney movies in hard cases can go for a higher amount. This also works for other types of movies as well.

Tip: Have your children ever received duplicate birthday or Christmas presents? You can sell those on eBay also. Look at the eBay listings for items of interest to see if selling on eBay is worth more than returning the item to the store.

Kids Crafts You Can Sell

Around the holidays, especially, have your children place their hand in paint and make a print on some quality paper. Add a holiday related poem and you have a great craft to sell on eBay.

Have your kids make gift jars with ready-made mixes. For example, hot chocolate mixes in a jar with a plastic spoon tied to it with a ribbon. Dip the end of the spoon in white chocolate.

Baby Items You Can Sell

Used baby items are very profitable too! Baby items cost a lot of money, especially in their first year. Any "gently" used items are generally good sellers on eBay.

Tip: If you have a perfectly good piece of infant clothing that has a stain on it, try soaking it for about 24 hours in an OxyClean solution. This will usually lift those costly stains out of anything! It works best and faster if you can do it before it has been run through the dryer though!

If you have baby coupons that you will never use, sell them on eBay! Left over diapers and formula sell well also. A “lot” of 35 used cloth diapers usually sell for around $38.00 plus shipping. Four Fuzzi Bunz diapers (cloth diapers with hemp inserts) can sell for as much as $40.00.

There you have it. Plenty of ideas for selling those leftover kids items on eBay...and you can even make a nice profit while you are at it!