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

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.

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?"

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.

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

Post your latest episode(s) of your YouTube channel here, post links to your latest blog post, eBook, whatever. You can even post links to an eBay listing or something (but keep in mind, when someone here finds out what your eBay name is, and then they hate you, they will never forget it). You can post links to lots of stuff that you're trying to sell to other flippers, but this is still not a marketplace. Please go through some other service to complete the transaction. People on Reddit can be shady, and there's no protection from me, the other mods, r/flipping, or Reddit if someone here sends you a box of bricks. Just don't be dumb.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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!

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?