I recently purchased a Mercedes Benz CLK 430 convertible while on vacation in Florida.  I was planning on driving the car back to Chicago, but decided against it after realizing how much work I have ahead of me for clients.  I came across the website UShip.com and placed my car up for auction to be shipped to Chicago.  Two bids have come through and I am weary of accepting either of them - take a look at the screen shots below:

I wouldn’t trust someone with my $30K+ benz if they can’t spell correctly and represent themselves in such an unprofessional manner.  I wonder how much business the seller, Ramunas, has lost because his UShip profile resembles the grammar and spelling of a 3 year old.

I had no idea that eBay had purchased UShip till I noticed their logo on the bottom of the site - seems like a perfect fit for their business model.  If eBay power sellers are making a small fortune selling items on eBay - why not start selling on UShip; in fact, you dont even have to do the shipping yourself.  Here is a method on how to make a full time living by shipping cars, boats, trucks, trailers, livestock, lawn mowers, etc… for other people:

• Don’t do any of the shipping yourself.  Simply align other shippers and sellers, and collect a spread.
• Advertise outside of UShip (Google Adwords, Yahoo Search, Microsoft) and send to a landing page/lead generation form.  You can give the landing page and lead form to affiliate networks to generate leads for you.  Use a small budget of say $1K and see if they (their publishers) can generate useful leads for you.
• Take the leads and place them up for auction on UShip.
• Connect the clients with the shippers and collect your spread.

I have no idea how much someone can make from something like this, but it’s an arbitrage play, and if you can present yourself and your company in a better light than the UShip shipper above, I can only imagine that you will find yourself with a full time and sustainable business model that requires very little work as you don’t have to do any of the shipping yourself.