We all know that coupons are a great way to save. Coupons can save 100’s of dollars each and every month. It can be a chore but I want to let you in on a little secret.

You can sell your coupons for cash, if you’re in a situation where you need to generate some extra money you can do it with coupons. In my ebook “25 Things” This  topic is well covered, but I thought I would share it with Pennyroll readers.

How to make money with coupons on eBay

(Excerpt from 25 Free Things that sell on eBay)

1. Coupons, Coupons, Coupons

Coupons are an amazing business on eBay, and extremely profitable! In fact, they are one of the best listed/sold ratio on eBay. I’ve seen everything from free soda coupons to discounts on dog food, baby formula, food products, make up, and of course just about everything else.

Coupon come in a variety, of shapes, colors, sizes and discounts. There’s a coupon available for just about every product or service that can be imagined. I’m sure that you’ve come across a coupon today, that would have been a great seller on eBay!

There are several people that sell coupons they find in the Sunday and Wednesday newspaper. They create an entire business just from that one source. I recommend that use as many sources as possible.

I’ve personally sold  Lowe’s coupons, subway coupons, fashion bugs and many more, I’ve made a profit on each one and received nice feedback as well. This is a great item to add to your arsenal of eBay auction items!

Let me show you a few example (see the image below) “$20 dollars off any $100 dollar purchase” It’s from a national chain store. I picked it up over at the post office this afternoon! They have a bin and a table where everyone tosses the coupons and magazines they don’t want from the PO boxes. They don’t know the secret you now know. They are tossing out money! Have you ever tossed away a coupon?

It’s Free Cash! Sell one a day and at the end of the month pay a big bill or two. Sell 5 or 6 a day and make a car payment at the end of the month! Once you realize that this is money you will start seeing coupons everywhere.

Cabela’s $20 dollars off $100 dollar purchase!

If you can’t see the auction in the background, it’s the same coupon as pictured selling on eBay. The Coupon received 3 bids and ended at $2.25 This coupon was free at the post office, it’s basically a piece of what many people refer to as “junk mail”. When you see these items laying around the post office, you are looking at carelessly tossed out free money. Everyones heard the term one mans junk is another mans treasure, but did you know that applied to junk mail as well?

Next, is a typical and pretty common Lowe’s coupon that comes in the mail (I’ve sold them). When it comes they are usually all around the post office, most people just toss them away in that big bin full of junk mail or leave them on the table at the post office.

This is a lot of 6 Lowe’s coupons offered on eBay at 11.99

But the big question, did they sell? The answer, YES they sold over and over!

Thats 30 coupons for $60.00 dollars! That’s big money and that’s an entire business if you do it full time. Or, do what I do add it to your collection of income streams!

Let me just say that coupons are definitely not the hardest thing to come across. In fact generally speaking it’s much more difficult to avoid them then to get a hold of them.

When I checked out at the grocery store today I received 5 coupons along with my receipt.

There are many different ways to get coupons, you can pick them up in the local papers, the entire paper not just the coupon section, try the entertainment section! Many local newspapers offer coupons on both Sunday as well as an additional coupon day, generally Wednesday or Thursday.

Get on mailing lists, you can sign up  on the Internet. Get on the major distributors mailing lists such as Johnson & Johnson, Proctor & Gamble, Purina , Lowe’s, Home Depot, Enfamil, etc. Get a few each time you go to the post office, I guarantee they are everywhere. It’s basically free money, pick it up

Take a look at some Completed Coupon Auctions