Have you purchased your calendar for 2008? Expensive huh? What will you do with your 2007 calendar? Let me share a tip with you that worked for me. A couple of years ago I turned about $20 into $360 on eBay within a couple of months and anyone can do it.
Time is your friend
While wandering in a mall in the middle of the week in late January 2004, I walked past the kiosk selling calendars. The kiosk appeared for a few months every year, sold calendars till the new year started, then disappeared. On the day I was there, everything was 75% off since they were about to close. Good thing about calendars, they get cheaper as the new year slips by. There were a number of calendars there featuring transportation such as [tag]Harley Davidson[/tag], muscle cars, Corvettes, trains, and exotic cars. At 75% off they were about $3 each. Each one had nice printing with clear pictures (no ads, month names, or any other stuff unrelated to the actual photos). Each one had at least 12 nice photos - one for each month.
I got home, and carefully trimmed each calendar down to individual pages. Photographed each one, and listed it on eBay for $6.95 per photo page. After fees, I would wind up with about $5 per page if they sold. Know what? They did.
All of them.
My $3 investment for each calendar had turned into at least $60 once I sold them piece by piece. I was very clear in my description that the print was from a calendar and contained a calendar page on the back. No secrets. Since the pages were relatively thin, I used a small diameter shipping tube to 
save on shipping (and offer a low shipping price - USPS First Class).
Six calendars at $3 each = $18
72 photo pages at $5 profit = $360
Many sellers on eBay are trying this, but they aren't doing it right. They're trying to sell stuff my grandma would put on the walls. Sell what people get passionate about! Ferraris, Harleys, Corvettes, and Dodge Chargers, not pictures of scenery and puppies. This is basic stuff.
The nice thing about this is it doesn't matter how old the calendars are. The dates don't matter anymore - just the photos. Take a look at what I found.
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