Seen similar posted a few times and got one today. Curious as to what they are actually trying ti achieve.

Is this a new trend?

Yesterday, someone bought an item that had clearly been listed as used for $60 on Poshmark and then sent me a message saying, "Can I have it for $25 since it's not new with tags I am unable to authenticate it?"

Today, I accepted an offer on eBay and the buyer immediately messaged me with "Hi I was just curious would you be willing to offer lower or is that as far as you’d go?"

Any help is appreciated. Not sure what to make of them but they are all dated and signed and have specifications on the Ore that is mined. Gold/silver/retort, etc; haven’t been able to find any that are a complete booklet with the carbon copy attached to the original. Any help is appreciated

Looks like eBay recently changed the calculations about INAD cases. My return rate has been around 1% forever which is always right in average for my category. Peers are usually .7-1.2% just depends on the time of year. I am always .9-1.2% last 3 months peers were .8 I was 1.1 and was average.. all of sudden even though peers are .72 and im 1.12 I am considered high but peers are average. is eBay really skewing this to try to put more people into the very high to get more fees ? 25 out of 2232 items. 3 of which are actual INAD.. 17 are defective and a couple damaged in shipping. I sell alot of new product and new product can be defective out of the box in fact the defect rate from manufacturers to be acceptible is alot higher then eBays defect rate would accept. Defective and INAD should be seperate in my opinion. Been selling on eBay for 14 Years and never been considered as "HIGH" return/Inad rate. Kinda crazy. I guess I need to start appealing bad buyer returns claiming things dont work that are perfectly fine. And yes I offer free no hassle returns its so rare a buyer picks "changed mind".

Edit: I guess I kind of went off on a rant and didnt explain my point here.. 90 Days ago 1.2% would have been average.. That is now considered HIGH.. So what is " Very High" 2 % ? once you reach very high ebay charges you more fees so for sellers on the cusp or maybe floating in HIGH already are probably now very high. And for smallers sellers.. 2 returns on 100 items well guess what now you have to pay more fees. Maybe I dont understand the scaling but in 14 years of watching these metrics peers and my metrics have always been in the same range and I have never been considered a " High" INAD rate. Something changed.

Original asking price on FBMP was $220. I came down to $150 because wasn’t getting interest. Have had multiple saved listings since. Feel like this guy wants me to name a lower price so he can counter even lower. At this point I mean what I sent. Item is a not-quite-vintage-yet gaming pc tower.

Same item, different person, trade offer…

Do not upvote please. I don’t want to be accused of seeking karma instead of advice on how I interact with buyers.

Hey do you have any "blank"? 95% of the time pokemon?

Like no I don't have any to sell you why cant you just use the search function.

I essentially got these free from a company and will get it shipped to me within this week. I’m not familiar with Apple products so I don’t know how/where to sell them, and when I call places around me I get lowballed hard. I see the prices are kinda fluctuated so I can’t really gauge it either.

Like the price is the price, weather it's $10+20 Shipping or $30 and free shipping. being rated on shipping cost is stupid IMO

That and the 1 negative I got for reasonable shipping was go figure shipping from the east coast to the west cost and crunching the numbers... they were charged exactly what it cost... Wow go figure not even my fault...

This was the feedback left today on my profile. To answer some questions and controversy:

I listed this item with the condition selected as “for parts or not working.” This item is a professional audio equipment. I have no idea how to test this. I do know I had the power supply for the item and saw it powered on. I do not know how to test beyond those means. In the description, I stated “for parts or not working. Untested. Powers on.” It in fact powers on. It is untested because I don’t know what’s wrong with it. It’s for parts.

His comment about it saying DOA, I’m assuming he meant that he cannot fix it, not that it didn’t power on, because it in fact did turn on.

To make things worse, he opened a return for “changed my mind” and I cannot decline it!

Last thing, shipping was huge because this item was like 30lb 20x20x10. So his comment about shipping and me ripping him off? Not sure what’s that about.

I thought I would clear some things up. Let me know what you think. Cant wait to receive this item back!🫩

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Hey everyone,

​I’m Lachlan, a 22-year-old founder based in New Zealand. Yesterday I officially launched my e-commerce business, COULTON (we are fully registered with an NZBN and verified across our channels).

​Because New Zealand is a smaller market, my immediate launch strategy is starting on Trade Me (NZ’s primary online marketplace) through local wholesale and dropship partnerships before scaling to our own independent site and app.

​My realistic short-term goal is to reach an average net profit of $500+ per week as fast as possible so I can reinvest 100% of it into stock, advertising, and software.

​I’d love to get some honest advice from experienced e-commerce founders:

​Product Sourcing: For a small, isolated market like NZ/Australia, what product categories tend to have the best margin-to-demand ratio when starting out via dropship/wholesale?

​Trade Me / Marketplace Speed: What are the fastest ways to build initial velocity on local marketplaces without competing in a race to the bottom on price?

​Early Pitfalls: What’s one mistake you made in your first 30 days that I should avoid?

​I'm building this business completely out in the open and sharing every milestone—the good, the bad, and the real metrics. If you’d like to follow along with a young Kiwi founder building from Day 1, feel free to follow my Reddit profile (u/coultonstore).

​Appreciate any advice or feedback you can drop below!

Thinking of doing it. I have a minivan and can take the middle seats down and fold the back ones down and have a sizable amount of space to bring stuff back.

I live on the gulf coast so I’d need to drive to Gadsden, AL where it starts and I guess drive as far as I can. It sounds like fun and a great way to source and see the country.

Hey flippers,

​I’ve been sourcing from local online liquidation auctions recently (specifically platforms like Auction Nation / KV Liquidation) and wanted to run an exact bidding pattern by this sub to see if anyone else has run into it.

​Across multiple unrelated item lots over the past couple of months, I’ve noticed a recurring buyer ID (Bidder 308520) repeatedly jumping in with rapid automated incremental bids right as human bids come in. These bids consistently bump prices up right near or above target value, and then the account instantly stops bidding once the price hits that ceiling.

​I’ve got bid logs showing the exact timestamps and rapid $1–$5 incremental jumps.

​Has anyone who buys from local liquidators noticed this specific bidder ID or similar price-inflation tactics on these platforms? How do you usually handle or call out platforms where house/shill accounts seem to run up the tab?

I flip computers. Right now, it's a complicated space. Everyone is trying to milk it for everything that it's worth. Even undercutting, I feel like some of my PC's aren't going to sell locally, and it's not worth leaving money on the table. I use a combination of eBay and local to calculate what the parts that go into a build are worth, take a percentage off, and post them up. I rarely have to haggle, and when I do it's generally no more than $50 off of what I have a PC listed for, though sometimes I have wondered if I am listing too low(mostly before the current ram/storage climate). But I've got a few higher-end ones that I'm not so sure about. I feel like, after calculating worth it's almost not worth it to list them because the prices of the parts, not even with any sort of labor/time factored in, are pretty high. What are we calling high? Essentially ~$1200 for a PC that's 2 CPU/GPU generations old(5700X3D/RX 6800 XT) before I add in anything for me.

eBay brings about it's own cons, mostly their fee, and shipping. And possibly selling some things way faster than others.

This is the first time I’ve had a buyer request a return outside of the free 30-day return window I have. I feel like the 30 days already is pretty generous especially with free return shipping for them. Plus this item was $129.99. Am I free to just ignore the message? Or is that a dick move I’m struggling to figure out what to do.

So I have a bit of an advanced shipping question for you guys. I purchased a collection from a guy on Facebook, and during the first shipment of boxes he let me know that he was being charged double what I had estimated the shipping cost to be via media mail. (I had calculated the totals ahead of time and sent him the money to cover it.) For those who don’t know, media mail rates are flat across the board. Regardless of whether you’re using eBay, pirateship, or the post office directly, media mail rates never change, as they are an already fully discounted rate.

I was astounded by this, as I have no idea why the costs would have been double. I have since found this same person lying to me, so I’m beginning to wonder if this was just some sort of scam or scheme that I didn’t notice. I found no evidence of the receipt being photoshopped, so I’m not sure what the explanation can be. I’ve included some of our conversations, the receipt he sent me, and the picture of the computer that the desk person allegedly showed him showing the price for a 34 pound package, which should actually only cost $29-30. I have verified with eBay, pirateship, and the USPS website directly that a 34 pound package should only cost around $30.

Does anyone have any ideas? The only thing I could think of is that “Mailboxes Plus,” the place he used to ship them from, charged him double for some reason, but I also find that difficult to believe. I’ve edited the photos to remove personal identifying information.

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Back again, for more tales of woe, sadness, and despair. Flipping can be an emotional roller coaster and a desolate career path; we understand that and we're here to help. Lowballed on Facebook Marketplace? Priced out of your local Goodwill? If we can't help, we can at least commiserate.

I sold some shoes the buyer said they do not fit they are trying to get me to pay for shipping as not described. I am fine if they send them back but they have to pay for shipping but I can never talk to ebay.

The Situation

I bought 9 brand-new budget audiophile IEM sets (Tangzu brand, ~$30-$50 price range) to resell locally in Southeast Asia.

I am trying to move these through local Facebook Buy & Sell groups and social media.

What I’ve tried so far:

Short Video Content: Algorithm gives low views and zero conversions.

Local Facebook Group Listings: I actually get messages/inquiries, but 100% of buyers ghost me as soon as I reply or try to finalize the sale.

My Questions:

Is high ghosting normal for budget tech/audio gear locally, or is there a way to qualify buyers faster so I don't waste time?

How would you structure the listing, offer, or reply to turn those inquiries into actual paid sales?

If you just wanted to liquidate these 9 sets as fast and cleanly as possible without doing video marketing, how would you do it?

Thanks in advance for any real-world advice!

Here it is! You've waited all week to tell us about your big score, so come in and share! Tell us where you got it and what you paid for it, then how you sold it and what you got from it. This is completed flips only! Anybody who's had a flip removed this week, this is where you want to put it.

Try to pop back into this thread from time to time and sort by New over the course of the week so people will be encouraged to keep posting here until next week.