derekwong28 - 12:39 pm on Jul 28, 2007 (gmt 0)

You can easily start up for around $500-1000. There are very cheap or free shopping carts. I wouldn't bother too much with web design because sometimes, it may even hurt your sales. You don't really need a lawyer or accountant yet. I would concentrate on SEO at first and go slow on PPC.

Where you may really need to spend money is in buying stock. I would make sure that you find the product(s) you want to sell first before proceeding further. You need to know things like MOQ and lead time, because it may really stretch your budget. You may need to make sure that you have a line of credit just in case.

If you do not want to risk taking in a lot of stock, I would suggest that you try out dropshipping first. I am not that sure about eBay though. Many products will sell well in an webshop but not on eBay. If you can find something that sells well on eBay, it will probably do spectecularly well in a webshop.