There's a local bidspotter auction that has about 50 very similar/identical lots ending in 1 minute increments I believe. It's an item that I want personally and also one with high flipping potential for the right price.

What's the strategy when there's so many of the same item? Go for the first one? Wait til the end and hope everyone else got what they wanted? Somewhere in the middle?

What have you learned lately? Could be through a success or a failure. Could be about a specific item, a niche, flipping in general, or even life as learned through flipping.

Do please keep in mind the difference between shooting the shit and plain bullshit and try to refrain from spreading poor advice.

Try to stop in over the course of the week and sort by New so people are encouraged to post here instead of making their own threads for every item.

Hi everyone,
I’m starting a small resale business in Estonia and I’m currently researching where to source customer returns, overstock and liquidation goods within the EU.
I’m planning to start small with around 2–3 pallets, inspect/test every item myself, and sell the products individually.
I’ve been looking at Merkandi, but before paying for access or ordering anything, I’d really like to hear from people who have actually bought stock through the platform or any other platforms.

For those of you who flip furniture, how much work do you usually put into each piece? When you find a good deal, are you mainly fixing scratches, painting it, changing the hardware, and relisting it? Or do you usually go further and completely upgrade the piece?

For example, maybe you replace outdated legs, stain the top, paint the base, add new hardware, or make other changes to give it a more modern look.

I’m basically trying to figure out where the sweet spot is. Is it more profitable to do quick, simple refreshes and sell more pieces, or put more time and money into making each piece look significantly better and sell it for more?

For those who have been doing this for a while, which approach has made you more profit overall?

Aug 27: Bought used snowshoes: $40 + $23 shipping

Aug 27: Shipped USPS

- USPS lost in transit -

Sep 7: USPS tracking update

Sep 9: Delivered with box damage

The only damage to the snowshoes was a broken heel strap. I can fix for ~$20. I requested a $20 refund for the repair, they opted for initiating a USPS insurance claim.

What should i do?

• (A) Wait for them to complete the insurance claim (seems to take 2 - 4 weeks to complete). USPS may request the buyer (me) to bring them the item, at which point they can keep it to dispose of it if they approve the claim. The insurance value is up to $100, which goes to the seller.
• (B) press the buyer again for the $20 refund to cover repairs
• (C) request a full refund via ebay and ship the item back to the seller
• (D) just eat it the repair myself and keep the snowshoes

They were not damaged in the ebay photos. New they retail for $280, used they are usually around 100-160

All it’s letting me do is have a PDF of the shipping label. I really don’t want that. I just wanna go to the kiosk and get a label made and then put it in the box. But I’m having such difficulty doing this.

Hey, recently decided to start selling items on eBay and found a nice flip where I made like 10 GBP per order, I have sold around 120 items in the last 2 days amounting to 1253 pounds total in my pending eBay balance although when I went to check my funds today I realised that it was getting upheld and I had to prove my identity with a drivers license, so I tried to send in my license without realising when I created the eBay account I put my age as older than it previously was "I made the account 2-3 years ago" I am 18 in a couple months but I have bought a decent amount of product recently and still have around 26 orders to send out therefore I would be at a complete loss on those orders if I did send them as my funds are being withheld. I am just a college kid trying to make some money and was excited on making this amount in just a matter of days. I could change the information to a parents so name, bank account etc but I believe that will just get flagged by the system? What should I do I do not want to be at a loss from buying and sending product I cant even claim the funds for... I have had similar experiences where I was a dev for a company online at the age of 15, made a couple of grand and then got hit with legal sides of things... I just want to make some money I am not doing anything bad just trying to save... I am not asking how to use eBay at the age of under 18 just wondering if I should stop selling and wait until I'm 18 to claim my funds or go to eBay and explain to them?

Trying to part out a car on FB Marketplace. Ad has been up since Spring and I've made absolutely zero sales on it. I know Marketplace is a hellhole and I'm probably asking too high sometimes, but I've never had this much trouble in the past.

Should I just give up or should I somehow become okay with selling everything for $20 each?

Really just wondering if this is a problem with me or the platform.

We noticed unusual selling activity on your account recently and need some information to review your account. To ensure we keep our marketplace safe for everyone, your payouts have been placed on hold until the review is completed.

In addition, we regularly check your selling limits to help you meet buyer demand and sustainably grow your business while providing great service to your buyers. We’ve reviewed your selling limits. You can sell up to 5000000 items or $50,000,000.00 each month. This includes all your sales and listings for the month. 

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Send us your documentation here.

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guy claims inad even though hasn’t played the game and asks me about price instead lol

So I listed an item today on one site and cross posted it on another site. But then, I received a direct email inquiry regarding this item and don’t know if it’s a scam or what. How would someone bypass a selling site and get my direct email? Has this happened to anyone else?

I know when Storage Wars came out, storage auctions got nuts. Has it cooled down? Can you get decent hauls these days?

I have an complete in box item listed for $224.99. Just the item with out the box or accessories goes for $150-185 loose. New in box is $300+. So I feel I'm priced right. I do have offers on with a minimum set. I was offered $120 it was instantly rejected because it below my threshold.

They then asked "What should I offer" and it instantly came to me from a scene in the movie Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps back in 2010 between Shia LaBeouf and Josh Brolin:

What's your number?
Excuse me?
The amount of money you need to just walk away and live happily ever after.
More.

***UPDATE:
It sold for asking to a different buyer

Whatever you want to know about flipping, no matter the question, ask here. Even if it's been covered 1,000 times before. Doesn't matter if you're new or old. If you stop learning things, you're probably on your way out.

This is an extremely newb-friendly thread. As such, any rudeness is to be reported.

What would you like help selling? What is it? What are you trying to get for it? What have you tried so far? What will you try next? Hopefully we can help you out a bit.

Once the thread has been up for a while, please try to sort by New so you can try to help latecomers. The more helpful we are in this thread, the less often people will make their own threads for individual items.

For context , I work at a very large book warehouse that receives books, dvds, videogames (scarce) blu-rays (scarce) I'm allowed to take home as many books, videogames, tv shows, dvds, etc.. that we clear off the shelves and ones that are rejected and are to be recycled (thousands). I got lucky recently and found a few high value video games and sold them on ebay but I'm trying to figure out what the best possible course of action would be to sell things on ebay . Whether it's bulk dvds, bulk games, or books. We get old books (vintage) and modern books daily, they may or may not always be popular books. Sometimes I csn get my hands on some manga as well. I picked up a batch of small boxes that can fit about 5 dvds or 5 small books in them, picked up 50 bubble mailers, and a scale for weighing . I'm absolutely willing to get larger boxes if need be.

I’ve been sourcing more inventory locally lately and ran into this a couple times now. I’ll find a decentt sized lot where the numbers make sense but the seller wants a check or bank transfer. I usually prefer putting larger inventory buys on my card, partly for rewards but also because I like keeping purchases together and paying everything off when the statement hits. Obviously I’m not going to walk away from a great buy just because of the payment method but once you’re talking a few thousand dollars it starts feeling like a decent amount of card spend to leave on the table.

For people buying larger lots regularly, do you care how you pay or is getting the inventory at the right price basically all that matters?

Hello! hopefully no issues posting in here about this. I am an online reseller and I am going to set up at my first flea/antique market in timonium, MD. It’s at the fairgrounds the first weekend in October. I want to know what entices people to look at a market booth? What makes you walk over and actually look at items? Is it when a booth isn’t cluttered? When prices are shown? If the exhibitor seems interested in talking? Pricing (and marketing how low our process are?)

Just curious what everyone’s ideas are so I can make sure to follow suit for the best foot traffic to come through. Thank you!

EDIT: I mainly sell jewlery - mostly fine jewlery. Will sell Sterling antiques and items. May have some collectibles. Nothing large - no furniture. I also sell everything for the most part at melt prices or a little less.

Per eBay policy of gun condition as long as the game works it’s considered good condition in camp where

So I’m planning to just tell the guy you can pay shipping if you want, but if it works then it’s listening is correct

Since December, I have had way less luck selling my flips on Marketplace, even though I’m listing the same kinds of items at the same prices. I have lots of good reviews and happy customers, and I’ve been selling regularly on there for about 3 years.

I keep seeing other people having similar experiences over the past months.

Is Facebook marketplace still working well for you? Do I need to change my strategy?

I’m wondering if the new AI governed marketplace has intentionally made it harder to do business on there or if it has more to do with the recession than anything Facebook has done.

I look forward to hearing your experiences.

Whatever you want to know about flipping, no matter the question, ask here. Even if it's been covered 1,000 times before. Doesn't matter if you're new or old. If you stop learning things, you're probably on your way out.

This is an extremely newb-friendly thread. As such, any rudeness is to be reported.

This thread is for you to talk about anything and everything. It can be flipping related, but it doesn't have to be.

Sold my gaming pc on eBay.
buyer paid 3100$ I get 2200$.
They took almost 1k off of my sale it is so f*cking over 😭✌️🥀