What sells most on the Internet? Is the days of being able to make a living from the Internet over if you are just starting out? What is the worst item/product to sell on the Internet?

Let me expand.

In previous posts I have indicated a desire to set up an online "business" for my mother. She is 60 years old this year and was on welfare. She is now off welfare because our government has determined that people her age and older should be forced to work and have essentially forced her off the system, through threats and constant harrassment through letters and phone calls about how she isn't doing enough. Bare in mind they were going to put her on what we call sickness benefits as they determined she was too sick to work full time but again the Govt. changed their mind and everyone that was going to be put on sickness benefits was removed and told to get full time work instead. She is not well and cannot work full time, but the Government no longer cares, they just don't want to pay welfare anymore - to anyone. So I thought I would help her out by establishing an online based business she could make enough money from to live on. To date this has failed miserably.

I was generously given a list of people to contact that did dropshipping for makeup from Wayne. I contacted all the places listed and none of them responded in any way.

So I looked at eBay. People seem to make money on there. They sell Jewellery for example (we spell Jewellery that way in Australia). So I began to google for wholesale jewellery places and I'll be damned if I can find where these people on eBay are getting all this jewellry from to be able to sell at the prices they do and still make a profit! I mean I'm not talking cheap stuff, I'm talking 10, 12, 14, 18 Karrot gold rings and earrings etc. The closest I found was Thailand that had minimum of 3 or 4 items but even still their buy price is more than the people on eBay can sell it for.

So I looked at clothing. Clothing doesn't seem to sell too well on eBay - fair enough I suppose. People want to be able to try them on before buying.

I know this isn't your concern, but if I don't do something soon I fear my mother will have a nervous breakdown - or worse, from a lack of money and now the lack of support from the govt. I don't make that much money myself in my 9-5 job, so while I do support her at the moment, it's not enough to cover everything.

So, this leads me back to the start. Is it too late for a new comer to make any sort of living on the net? Is it only those that have been in the "business" a while that can do this? Has the horse bolted so to speak, and am I coming in at the tail end of what was a good thing?

It appears to me, that unless you have 600,000 web sites you don't make any money. Is this true? Are the days of being able to make a living on the net over?

I found this site - auctiongenius.com that offers to teach you how to make $4000 + per week from ebay. Sure, but at $800 to do the "course" with the next one not starting until Spetember and being in US times - meaning 1am my time, it sounds more like a scam than something than would truely work.

Does anyone actually make a living from the Internet anymore? Is it a reality or is the only way to earn money still through being bound and chained to an employer in a traditional bricks and mortar environment?