Here are 10 quick ways to get people to sell you their antiques and collectibles. These will get you thinking about ways to make your phone ring. I buy and sell toy trains, but so you can better focus on what you specialize in, I have substituted word widget for toy trains.

1. Develop a marketing plan outlining exactly how you are going to make your phone ring.

2. Have a strategy that will make seller want to take your offer. This is psychology of buying and creating a win-win situations. Nobody wants to lose. Make every seller feel like they are getting a good deal and they'll bring you more business.

3. Ask person in line behind you at post office, bank, and supermarket if they have any widgets for sale. Being shy doesn't make you money!

4. Show off widgets you have. There are MANY ways to do this. Let people enjoy widgets you have and your phone will ring with others wanting to sell widgets to you.

5. Run ads that say "Top Dollar Paid For Widgets."

6. Send a letter to local real estate agents telling them you pay cash for unwanted widgets. They often encounter people anxious to sell.

7. Tell other widget dealers you will buy any widgets they don't want.

8. Pay others to find widgets for you by offering a finders fee to anyone that helps you buy widgets.

9. Send Thank You letters to everyone you've bought widgets from in past, and remind them you pay cash when they get their friends and neighbors to sell you widgets.

10. Network, network, network. It's not as hard as you might think it is to spread word in a community that you are person to call when someone has a widget to sell.

Learn more about buying and selling antiques and collectibles.

Paypal makes it difficult to use a credit card to send money through Paypal. This is done making credit card payment option difficult to find, and warning users about "risk" because you cannot buy Paypal's insurance.

With a credit card purchase, you do not need Paypal's insurance. Your bank will reverse charge free if seller scams you.

One other way Paypal makes it hard for users to instantly send money with a credit card is by limiting total amount you can charge.

The first time I tried to use Paypal to pay for an eBay auction, I was unable to use my credit card because amount was above limit. That was a $700 item. I think single item limit is $500, but could not find confirmation of this. The lifetime limit, or total amount you can send all eBay sellers with a credit card is $2,000.

If you wish to pay for an item with a credit card through Paypal you should confirm seller takes card transactions. This can be done reviewing auction and looking for credit card logos adjacent to Paypal logo in payment methods screen.

Whenever you pay for an eBay auction through Paypal, you should check seller's Paypal status. Do not send large amounts to unverified users, and watch that user's address matches auction details.

Paypal is an easy way to pay for your eBay purchases.