Thread 60824952

nothing sells anymore

>>60824952 (OP)
that all De Minimis Exemption Exports of goods to the US will end on 29 August 2025. That means no shipments valued under US$800 will enter the US duty-free, whether they originate from the UK, EU, or any other country.

they have decided to suck as much money from sellers as they can. every thing is paid, double fee'd , and ebay bucks were
>phased out due to lack of use
unfortunately it can be a pain to find other places to sell stuff depending on the item
>plus they still profit as long as u use paypal

>>60824952 (OP)
Increased competition and bad management

eBay sold their soul and switched from organic auctions to just being aliexpress with extra steps, long ago, to juice short-term numbers. Just like etsy.

>>60824952 (OP)
no one wants to buy means spending for average family is low which means contraction in the economy

>>60824952 (OP)
But saaaar the youtube video showed how a dropshitter is making $100k a month reselling useless chink shit

>>60825020
I never auctioned for anything at ebay. I just go there to instant-buy things that amazon doesn't sell

It's a great place to source stuff to resell on Amazon for double or triple the price. Amazon buyers are so dumb

>>60825062
Yeah anything I want to buy on Amazon I check ebay first because you get way more choices and are often cheaper

>>60824952 (OP)
covid killed off all the boomers that were buying there.

the strong push to send packages with tracking drove up prices, as did ebay raising rates on everything. Nobody is auctioning things anymore because they know there's a solid chance it'll sell at a loss. The lack of auctions means less people looking to bid on auctions, so it becomes a feedback where auctions are a dead sector. Huge amounts of chinese crap and literal scams have clogged the searches.

>>60824952 (OP)
>nothing sells anymore
Consumers have no money for baubles at this point.

>>60825065
I only use ebay because it has guest checkout with no account requirements. Fuck amazon and their bullshit with constantly trying to automatically opt me into prime shipping by hiding the button on a cluttered webpage full of shit.

>>60824952 (OP)
>rampant scalpers
>con-artists
>people manipulating feedback and refunds

>>60824952 (OP)
Bump
You mean you don’t want to promote 100% ?
I’ve been selling mostly boots all year
It seems that sales dumped off in April
I went from 20-30 sales every month from Jan-March to 10 sales up until now
Going to list some more volume friendly items
What are you selling desu ?

If it’s non commercial just sell on vinted or FB marketplace

>>60825034
this bro knows

I still use eBay as a buyer.

Maybe you should stop using the same ChatGPT description and AI artifact ridden pictures worse than if you used a point and shoot camera from 20 years ago so I can't even see what the fuck I'm buying.
Apologies if this isn't you, but it's such a high percentage of everything on eBay I'm assuming it is.

>>60825034
Kek
This
>>60825582
100%
Most expensive things I list I put 20-24 photos of every conceivable angle and joint/bond of the item.
No way I want returns for some failed camera work
I look back at photos I posted back in 2017/ 2018 and I ask myself wtf

>>60824964
So if I got something now would it be duty free? Or only if it crosses into the US before Aug 29?

>>60824964
Good. Fuck dropshipper scum and fuck non Americans.

All these sites have become the same thing: throw the sellers under the bus to appease the negroid buyer base. I just sell stuff at the farmers market. Much less likely to get scammers and retards and most importantly NO REFUNDS policy.

>>60824952 (OP)
just use marketplace like a normal person

>>60826147
So how da fuq does market place work ?
Other than having Jamal meet you at wal mart to rob you ?

>>60824952 (OP)
For me sales died in May. Dropped from $1500 per month in sales to $150. Assumed it was a summer slump but I think something is up with ai. Was browsing my page on someone else’s laptop and next to the buy button was an “ai suggestion” to buy this same thing for however much percentage less from another eBay store. Like, why would eBay do that? Why make less in fees by directing everyone to the lowest price?

>>60825406
Hottest day of the summer today, boot sales can only go up from here

>>60826479
>Why make less in fees by directing everyone to the lowest price?
Because we're in the middle of the largest cost-of-living crisis since the Great Depression, tied with the fact that everyone is undercut by china subsidizing all their manufacturing.And since paying your own people to work is socialism the only time people buy is if it's the most dirt-cheap option they can get.

>>60826536
>>60826536
Fucking Kek
I am in Florida though
Mostly what I sell is work boots
Industrial sites and journeyman don’t take a break in the heat
But ya, fashion boots, I don’t expect those to sale until after Labor Day

Ebay is based compared to shitmazon.
I prefer to buy vintage used items over chinese dropshipping garbage.
I sell on ebay, a lot of random stuff.
I think there's an algorithm that ranks your account, you have to list consistently and have items people want, i think most of the complaints for no sales is from hobby sellers who will only list a few things per month, your traffic dumps if you are not constantly posting, you cant really set it and forget it. Ebay wants the biggest variety of items, so they reward the most active sellers who post fresh inventory daily.
Expecting to sell all your items at once is insane, think of a grocery store, their sales are trickled in over time.

I also like to buy gold jewelry for spot or close, I've had a lot of luck buying from random normies

>>60825975
you're the one paying the duties you dumb fucking american

No one's buying any shit off marketplace either

Everyone's savings pool/spare cash has been dwindled away over time

>>60826803
This
I have not been listing every other day, I take breaks I’m listing until I get inventory
End listing sell similar is the alternative

>>60824969
I noticed that trend about 10 years ago, the last time I actually sold something on ebay. They really started shitting on sellers.

>>60825997
You HAVE to have a refund policy because sellers don't understand that you can't sell heavy, high value audio equipment packed in newspaper and bubble wrap. Plus I've had multiple sellers just try to fuck me over for no reason.
You may be a sensible and honest seller but you need to understand how retarded and dishonest a lot of the others are.

>>60826885
and yet they will still buy the newest gizmo they would rather throw their shit in the trash than attempt to resell it

My eBay store has turned to shit with tons of items sitting at zero views. I have no idea how their stock has gone up, it's dead

I’ve sold on eBay for 7 years. This year Im probably doing 50-60k profit maybe more with a good Q4. June-August is always my worst time of year. People are out doing shit for the number. If things dont start ticking back up mid-September than you actually have a problem.

>>60827511
I’m going to have to start a refund policy to pick up my sales I guess
Since generally you can get fucked by scammers saying
INAD, for the smallest retard shit
Plus something you might sell like software items the general public is to retarded to use

>>60827888
What kind of goods do you sell bro
I sell a little bit of every thing.
I’m in Orlando so sourcing here is way easier for retail arbitrage
There like 20 Burlingtons
And 50 rosses

>>60828058
I sell mostly vintage clothing. Where I live I get a ton of old carhartt work jackets and carpenter pants. Alot of industrial/flame resistant clothing too. My town is mostlt retirees and blue collar workers and their families. I sell other stuff too if Im knowledgable on it and its at a good price.

>>60824952 (OP)
boomers died

I scam video games from big resellers on ebay and turn around and sell em for tons of profit, i've basically get them for close to free making my profits at least 90% or more on each game sold.

>>60828225
Bro I have hella Redwimgs right now
One vintage pair from 2013 Gortex and leather lineman

Take better pictures.
Lower your price.
Sell things people want.

>>60824952 (OP)
consumers are running out of money

>>60828225
I’m this shit hole right now looking for RW factory 2s

>>60824952 (OP)
It makes no sense hearing the claims people buy from Temu or whatever and sell on Amazon or eBay.
Who actually buys those knicknacks?

I buy a ton of shit off of ebay.

>>60824974
this, normies came to the internet and fucking ruined literally everything.

>>60824952 (OP)
Selling more than ever.
Probably cucking guys like you in the rankings for big dawgs like me.

>>60826860
Except he is not, he will simply not buy the item, you will make no sales and will have to get a real job

>>60824952 (OP)
I noticed at least a year or two ago, after pretty steady sales for a long time, that suddenly I wasn't selling jack shit. I mean, sales had really ground to a halt (I mostly just sell my own stuff I need to get rid of; niche collectibles and pre-owned tech, etc.). I begrudgingly started promoting my listings and lo and behold, I magically started selling again. So now I let eBay rape my asshole for an additional 8-10% per transaction, but at least I actually get rid of shit. Can't imagine actually trying to run a business on that piece of shit website.

>>60828425
Its gotten worse over over the years but this year is really turning up the heat. Way more scammy buyers trying to rip you off and little to no moves made on eBays end to back up sellers. Shipping costs getting higher even on flat rate packaging. Selling fees going up in nearly all categories. I love what I do and make good money working part time hours, but Im building an exit strategy to just live off dividends and do ebay at a hobbyist level.

>>60828485
Most of my eBay funds are used for crypto
I’m 2017 I was selling dumpster finds from office stores
Made 350 bucks in a month then bought pike 3k chainlink

>>60828521
I used a good bit of my ebay funds on an old shitcoin called Switcheo. When it mooned I paid off every dollar of debt I had. I probably would have alot more money if I stayed in crypto but honestly just being debt free was my goal with it. Not constantly paying a bunch of people has been a blessing.

>>60828556
Being debt free is actually making it
Half the retards on the board don’t understand that

>>60828556
Do you ever bid on gov auctions ?
I won a couple pallets of toner
Better than crypto and gold combined

>>60828612
I live in bumfuck nowhere in a town of less than 10k people. The only auctions around here are usually farm and livestock. Sealed In Box Name brand toner is somewhere in my top 5 things to sell. They move fast for good money.

>>60828735
Man
Govdeals auctions is where I bid
That’s where all the shit is

>>60828855
Checked. Looking at the site now. Thank you.

>>60828869
You’re welcome
Look for the ink toner
Any Xerox that says not for resale is metered and you can’t actually legally buy it so stay away from “Metered” toner

>>60828612
Are you the retard that bid 4k on a pallet of toner that had a value of 5k?

>>60828406
>Except he is not, he will simply not buy the item, you will make no sales and will have to get a real job
fuck u nigger. I rely on europoor trinkets to make my girlfriend happy for 50 dollars. now u want me to pay duties that will be miscalculated and halt my ceramics. jews just don't want us to be happy and europeans to stop making craft goods, or let me buy a phone for less than 800.
mr trump inspect every good crossing into the US for it's tax purposes. sounds like 1776. he only make every LSD dealer unfathomably rich.

>>60828485
>>60828425
maybe you fucktards should consider lowering prices. sick of you stupid "i know what i got" twats making sales so difficult. the shit you have isn't worth what you think.

>>60828893
Lol
Hell fuck no

>>60828893
I’ve seen plenty of retards bid them up to the point of where there is no money at all to be made
I always ask… who are they ?

>>60828910
Read my earlier post retard. Sales on my end are fine. Theres just more bullshit to deal with and as someone who generally doesn’t need to put up with it, Im open to taking a few steps back.

>>60828962
Mine are down
But I’m a part time seller and not listing that much currently waiting for Q4

I spend a few thousand on ebay each year. Always buying, never a seller.

What are the fees like as a seller? Are they the same percentage regardless of item sold?

>>60828988
Another anon said it but listing consistently will make or break you. I made friends with the manager of a thrift and in exchange for moving around the furniture they’re selling in the morning I have first pick of the day. You need to have some kind of an edge like that on competition to really establish yourself. Doesn’t need to be forever, 1000-1500 quality items and you’ll see sales every day

>list 50 warhammer models in the last 2 days
>one (that is worth 40 dollars) gets an offer for 20 dollars
>I sell one (worth 30) for 25 to some mexican kid who still hasnt paid for it yet
god dammit you useless /tg/ fucks buy this plastic crack before warhammer is 100 percent trash and these things are worthless. AND PAY FOR THOSE NURGLINGS YOU MEXICAN SHIT, I CUT YOU A DEAL AND YOU REPAY ME WITH DISRESPECT? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>60826401
facebook marketplace

They should sell whores

I sell books, my sales go up in August because of college kids buying for fall semester

>>60824952 (OP)
>nothing sells anymore
It still sells for me, but the international sales fees are fucking INSANE rn, they went full mega-jews. I'm nearing 20% in fees if the buyer is foreign, ebay legit make more money than i do while they do fuck all!
I really, really need to find an alternative, but idk where to begin with, i mostly sell numismatics (ancient coins) and ebay offers the most visibility when it comes to that...
But it's so so hard to make money when you account for shipping + sale fees + taxes and all the bullcrap. If i sell a coin worth 20€, to make money out of it i basically have to find it for 10€ so i can pocket a miserable 5€. And ofc it's hard to find a 20€ coin for 10€ in the first place, because, well.. ppl are ready to pay 20 for it...

It would be a life saver if they came back down to 5% sale fees, and they definitely can, various others platforms like MKM do very well with 5%. But ebay decided to vampirize it's sellers to death out of stupid greed, it will be the death of the platform eventually.

>>60829158
A friend of mine is selling old books (like 16-17th century stuff) and he tells me it's such a pain in the ass because buyers always whine about dog-eared pages, old scribbles & notes, humidity spots,... minor damages of all sorts who weren't advertised. As if he could post 600 pictures so each page is covered on the auction lol..
And it can be good money, but the liquidity is so fucking low you always ends up with big inventory you hardly can get rid off, until some autist wants it.
Plus the postal services playing football with the packages so the covers/pages ends up dinged.

Selling fragile ancient items seems quite cancerous desu.

>>60829032
kek
the resellability of warhammer crap is something i always wondered about, now i get my answer.

This is a comfy thread
Its so nice to be out of some of the shit poast here
The retarded XRP Vs Link Threads
Where do some of you nigs source at ?
What are some of you phags selling ?
>>60829193
Jeeze man
The good ole' days when fees were like 10%
I remember giving shit away for dirt cheap before video games went up in value.
>>60829215
>Buys book from the 1500s
>Some peasant makes a note about how he is going to die if the raddishes and sows do not bloom with the potatos this spring.
>Leaves copy of will and testament on the back
>JEW_PS rips open package to make sure its really Media Mail and not Mexicans mailing sneakers to Familia back home
>Buyer Files a INAD and gets item for free
Sounds worse than selling vidya

>>60829242
>Where do some of you nigs source at ?
ebay too lol.
My business model is i purchase coins' lots/collections from recently croaked boomies whose' kids are dumping asap for a quick buck, then i resell those individually. Sometimes it can be jackpot, best i did was a super rare norwegian 2 kroners i bought for $5 and sold back for $980 a month later. Sometimes you fuck over yourself because you have to gamble on the coins' condition/date bcuz of low res pics. And boomers were retards so a bunch of chink fakes lies in their collection, you better be very careful and know what you do.

>The good ole' days when fees were like 10%
Well technically they are at like 11.5%, so not too far off, but the fact they charge you fees on total amount (so shipping included), plus 20% taxes on the fees they make, plus various stuff mean you ends up paying much more than 11%. For me it's mainly for international shippings, locally i don't have to pay all this crap, it's just the 11% with nothing added.

>Sounds worse than selling vidya
Depends i guess, at least your main audience are mainly cultivated old white men, so they behave, are honest (but rigorous) and aren't scammers. With vidya, you have to deal with zero moral compass little pieces of zoomie shits whose modern society teached you basically have to lie and cheat to get ahead and no consequences will ever bite your ass.

>>60829290
I have like 400 Vidyas here.
I'm in my 40s and have Vidya from the 90s still growing up and used to get stacks from thrift stores when they where only 1.00 for a PS2 game or Game Cube Game.
I stopped selling them online and started selling them to a game store in town, where the guy gave me a fair price.
I'm going to have to start listing them again online to cut down the stock I have
I also have like 30 various consoles from over the years that are my personal ones and ones I got for free / cheap.
>Sell Copy of Xbox Spider man
>List the copy as Like New
>Autist in Jax buys it
>Immediately messages me
>This doesn't look like New to me
>Reply okay no problem I tell you what I'll give you a refund is that what you want ?
>Autist replies that now he feels bad
>Says I'll buy another game off of you
>Buys spiderman for Nintendo DS
>Leaves Good Feedback
What the actual phuck

>>60829032
I'm going to find your listings and buy one.
Prepare your anus.

>>60829302
kek
I guess selling vintage vidya is the sweet spot : your main target become millenials, so a generation in their cash making years, who loves to see anything as an investment vehicle, and ready to spend big money on nostalgia items.
I'm a bit on your segment too since i also deal with MTG cards, mainly vintage & old bordered foils (low liquidity but nice bux).

Did you purchase the 200 SNES you posted in your previous post? I don't know anything about those, but $37 seems like a good deal for a working machine.

>>60829327
>>60829327
Hey anon
I'm actually the other anon that did the Ink and work boots post earlier
I have not listed Vidya in some time, I've been focusing on the work boots and Dr. Shartens
99% of the neck beards that bought games from me where 100% great, but there was always 1 that caused me issues.
I'm going to have to start listing some of these, and the golden era of Vidya hunting is over.
As for the 200 Nintendoos
I didn't buy them ,I saved that screen shot back in like 2018, I was amazed that someone would sell that many at one time.

>>60829327
will post a picture tomorrow of my stash if this thread is still up
I'm off have a good night all

>>60829373
Nice i'll come back then, gn fren

>>60829241
if you paint it well it resells for more, but it has to be good. like really good. your autist ass probably isnt good enough.

and some vintage models did increase in value since I bought them. the sexy daemonettes I bought as a kid sold for like 200. but nobody wants my ugly ass 80s tyranids. the idea of old shit increasing in value is partially true but mostly a boomer meme, maybe 1 percent of old shit accrues value and the rest gets thrown in a dump

>>60824952 (OP)
Probably because of Facebook marketplace

>>60828910
My stuff sells just fine as long as I pay the additional goy tax aka promote your listing. Just say you’re a brokie next time.

>>60828910
I will die before dropping the price ($850) on my vintage sanrio plushies

>>60824952 (OP)
I have never not sold something I listed. A band shirt took like 10 months to go but everything else is under a week.
>>60824969
I don't care for their policy of charging the fee on shipping and sales tax.

>>60828288
Its true. The real redpill is that npcs just buy stuff on impulse.
I sell a lot of used goods and its pretty often that i sell stuff for higher than the market price.
Theres differences in consumers for each platform. I tax the zoomzooms on depop for example for the trendy y2k stuff, I manage to sell stuff for double the price on there compared to what it goes for on ebay. Ebay has a lot of boomers, amazon has the most npc consoomers. A lot of people dont compare prices because if they were smart they would be buying all the chink slop on aliexpress instead of amazon.
Another redpill is to sell stuff for women, women buy way more stuff period, 80% of all transactions in america are bought by women.
Guys buy hobby stuff and stuff they need, girls just buy whatever they come across that evokes some feelings in them.
Its fucked up but I understand why corporations target npcs so much with advertising and marketing. Theres probably people buying my stuff with klarna

>>60829711
>Guys buy hobby stuff
>girls just buy whatever they come across that evokes some feelings in them.
There's no difference between these two statements.

Does anyone here sell jewelry, particularly gold and silver?

>>60828910
Its true. It sucks that ebays estimate price is usually lowballed as fuck though.
Sometimes if I have something at $100 listed for a long time and I relist it as similar and lower it to $70 it will sell fast.
But than again sometimes people buy higher priced stuff. The other day I sold something which was available for $21 with free shipping for $28 with free shipping.

>>60828855
Shieeet thanks for the tip. I never tried auctions. I have built relationships with mexicans that source bulk stuff at flea markets. Vintage hats, clothes etc. Antiques aren't doing very good right now.
I do sell some printer ink sometimes.

It would be so awesome to live in LA / SAN FRAN and buy up all the stolen boosted stuff from nigger fentanyl crackheads for pennies on the dollar, though you can get pretty fucked from technically being a fence if youre unlucky. I think the Mexicans and Asians buy all that stuff and ship it to their countries

>>60829001
Averages to around 15% fee, I think it depends on the categories some are 10%. What's Jewish is that they apply these fees on top of shipping too because people used to list stuff for $1 with $99 shipping to avoid the fees.

A lot of people bitch about the fees but honestly its very worth it for the global reach.
There are some items that will sell for $1000 overseas to the right person, that you wouldn't even be able to sell for $5 locally. Ebay is great at finding that one buyer, the 15% is nothing vs doing all that advertising yourself.
Some people complain about scamming, I haven't experienced that very much, the times they tried to scam me ebay sided with me because they say they didnt get the package and the tracking shows delivered. Only bad thing is if you ship something very heavy like a stereo and they want to return it, it can make it not worth it and there's some people that know that and prey on that because sometimes its better to let them keep it.
I've never had someone return the wrong item.


Ebay is pretty good with high end stuff now because they authenticate it for buyers / sellers. I bought a nice $2000 gold cuban bracelet for close to spot from an account with 0 feedback and Ebay tested it for me

>>60829737
I had someone bid higher than my buy it now price once. That was funny.

>>60829782
It would be easy enough to waive the fee on shipping if you choose to calculate postage based on distance to the customer and buy the label through eBay with the proceeds. You'd never see that money in the first place.

>>60824952 (OP)
Nobody has money to buy stuff anymore.

>>60829020
You can literally make millions if you have access to enough products at the right price, list hundreds of items per day and have unlimited storage to store them all. My bottleneck is finding enough items, I do about 10 listings per day right now, I would love to try to double that.
Im selling about 500 items per quarter with an average price of $65. When I was posting 5 per day it was about 350 per quarter, so its not a 1:1 increase. Im interested to know how opening another account and splitting the 10 items per day would effect the performance.
It definitely feels like their algorithm will feed you sales and keep you at certain levels in order to be able to make a full time living from it. They also want to spread around the sales so that every seller gets some sales so they dont get discouraged and quit.
My items are mostly all random so you would think the performance would vary wildly, but it doesn't and many of my associates say the same thing.
Stop posting for a week and the sales will drop. Kinda sucks I even post on the weekends, but I still prefer it over working some retail job with npcs, and dont have a jew boss who takes 90% of the fruits of my labor. at least im constantly learning about the value of random items.

>>60829158
May I ask how you usually package your books?
I sell books occasionally and just double wrap them with mailer envelopes, softcover or Hardcover, I dont know if that can result in them getting damaged, I haven't had any complaints yet. Basically im wondering if you use boxes for them, because I go through tons of boxes for other stuff and dont have book sized boxes usually

>>60829193
Depends on what you sell. The fees are only a big problem if you're selling shit with low margins. Most of my margins are never below 200%, usually its in the thousands, but the con is that I can't get any quantity of my items, its usually one item.
The fees are also terrible for gold and silver, its impossible to sell gold for spot when you only get 85% after fees, in that industry the margins are pretty thin.

Dont the fees fuck up dropshippers?
I bought something on ebay and got it delivered by amazon and then I realized the bastard just posted an item from amazon for a higher price and tried and then just ordered it to my address, I can see the fees fucking up their little $2 profit

>>60829242
This thread is old /biz/ vibes.
Its very hard to give up sources in this industry. Sourcing is pretty much a closely guarded secret amongst all resellers, I would love to help my /biz/ bros and if I was to ever divulge you guys, it would be the ones i tell.. but you fuckers would actually be competent enough to potentially be serious competition.
Theres way too much normie goy cattle niggers making tiktoks and youtube videos of them flipping $20 Starbucks mugs from the thrift store.

The best advice I can give is that knowledge is everything, the person with the right knowledge can go to a yard sale and buy a million dollar faberge egg for $10 that dozens of other dudes passed on.
after that its just buy low sell high. Buying in bulk is very powerful, that's one of the oldest ways to make money. In a way, we are carrying on the legacy the primordial profession of being a merchant.
I seriously learned a shitload of this stuff from merching on runescape as a kid. If you can successfully flip lobs, you can flip anything irl.

>>60829797
Poorfag projection

>>60829290
True about the vidya customers. Seriously, games are one of the biggest scammed items. Bunch of kids and manchildren love trying to say they never got it or returning their scratched disc as your good condition one.
Same with stuff like iphones, full of nigger and jeet buyers
The boomer items are pretty honest, I've had some nice old ladies write a heartfelt letter and mail $20 to apologize for them returning a remote because they just ended up finding theirs

>>60829723
Nah guys will go on online with the specific intention of buying a fishing pole or some work boots they need.
Women will go mindlessly scroll on market sites without any goal, they'll come across totally random stuff and just impulsively buy it because it's cute.
>I need some boots, I will meticulously research these brands and balance quality with price and performance, finding an optimal boot for my needs.

>omg that (insert random shit) Is sooo cute!! I just HAVE to buy this now!

>>60829792
I've counter offered people less than their offer price sometimes as a seller. Im not a kike so I conduct my business honestly, and have a perfectly clear conscience so sometimes if i think an offer is more than enough I'll save them some money.
One time a guy wanted to buy half of the stuff in my lot for half price, but I didnt want to pick through it and also wanted to get rid of it all so I just gave him all of it for half of the price.

>>60829796
The ebay shipping discount? I do get my labels from them, sometimes it saves quite a bit of money. I think sometimes heavy stuff is cheaper with other carriers though.

>>60829892
Yeah like if you buy your postage through eBay the way they also discount it (or say they do, who knows what's really going on there), what's the non-jewish reason they can't just not take 12% of that cost as a selling fee because you are never pocketing that money in the first place?

>>60824952 (OP)
Ching Chang and every one of his cousins is selling there.

>>60829290
Would be better for ebay to transfer the fees to the buyer so that they have a true picture of the cost of the item. Problem for ebay is the tax liability shifts to ebay and they have no one to dump on.
Never forget ebay has a large stake in craigslist now.

>>60829848
bump
Invest in what you know.

>>60824964
what the fuck
fuck this gay retard earth

>>60829848
I got most of my early skills flipping Madden Ultimate Team cards online as a kid believe it or not. They had an auction/market system and I would just refresh the newest cards page for like an hour and snatch up any cards that got listed on accident. I’d keep the guys that made my team better than sold any lesser players or dupes for a profit, then do it all over again. One day it just clicked that I could do this with real money.

>>60829032
Update: Couldn't find you.
Had no idea how absolutely saturated Warhammer figurines are on eBay.

Sorry bro. I woulda bought an Ork or two.

>>60829848
100%
I will give some info in this thread but no where else
But limited info
I will never give up my source for brand new factory 1 red wing boots

>>60832752
they must have released a new update or something and now everyone has to sell their shit units with shit stats as of the new update. summer tends to clog up the market too, shit sells much better in winter when people are stuck inside without much to do, and need to buy presents for relatives. in the summer there arent many holidays of note and people are spending their time outside, so not many people are buying warhammer shit, thus the market slows down and turns stagnant. I made like 4000 dollars selling warhammer shit last christmas, and maybe 200 this whole summer
>woulda bought an ork or two
fresh out of orkz, they sold like hot cakes. the dark eldar did too. Ive got a painboy left and thats it. oh, and some flash gitz. almost didnt sell them because they looked like fun to build, but didnt wanna devalue them by building them so theyre pretty much NOS

>>60824952 (OP)
Buying comfy shit off of Ebay makes me feel comfy as a buyer

>>60833116
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUmmxW7Ksc8&t=1s
your comfy ebay buying background kino, sir

>>60829723
Do you understand subset/superset relations?

>>60824952 (OP)
Global economy is kill by boomers, everyone is spending all their money on basic services and rents having 0 money at the end of month, i am very worried about this unless you are in an industry targeting breeding groups like amish, religious jews, mormons or that type of group the world seems fucked.

This is worse than 2008 or 2020 i believe the current economic slowdown going on worldwide is due to demographics of too many old people and young people not only paying taxes to old people but rent leaving every industry except cleaning old people shit at nursing homes dry of income.

It's actually unbelievable how bad shit is getting it a few years ago you could build a gaming pc for 300-400 usd now it's like 1500 usd, it's as if most industries lack demand so they don't invest in increasing capacity anymore.

And as economies of scale go to shit you have things like ebay were instead of earning more with less fees they rather bleed dry the sellers.

>>60829801
I have 4 e-bay accounts and yes splitting them is terrible. There are niche accounts that I don't list as much on and they are dead in sales until I start listing again. Fuck them and their algorithm. I'm tired of dealing with this shit. I can sell things steadily on Amazon. Focusing on shipping items out not constantly listing. We should get a boost on e-bay for shipping something in 24 hours. The same as listing an item.

>>60827243
the one time i ever sold something, i got a bid within a week (i did price the pc-ram relatively well) and got the sale. Why would you use ebay to sell regularly tho?

>>60835278
>gaming pc for 300-400 usd
nah gaming pc is one of the things that remained ok surprisingly. they are gatekeeping 16gb fairly hard with the 8gb psyop. modded skyrim (as it's meant to be) overflows 8gb easily. when RAM has always been cheap. what is really annoying is the hundreds of used/open box dropshippers filling the search.

>>60825020
really a big part of it, when I look for a cheap used part and get pages of "from china" that'll take 3 weeks to get here I just get off ebay lol, it's only good for find old rare shit but a bunch of sites/apps do that now

I have a friend who's turned flipping DVDs on eBay into a fulltime job and honestly, it's a pretty unhealthy looking life. You're assessing the value of so much junk, buying it alongside weirdos all day at thrift stores. It makes you jaded from your original passion. You become like a vulture or a rat.

It's a lot of gambling on items to resell and that fries your brain over time. I remember people calling shopping and bidding on eBay addictive back in the day, and same's true these days for selling stuff online. My friend's missing valuable life experiences with this flipping shit.

>>60835322
I think shipping same day and accepting returns does boost your account though. the problem is that the algorithm is a black box and there's no concrete information about it, sometimes when they tweak with it you can see a huge spike or drop in your sales/views.
I heard amazon is really good but it simply doesnt work for my niches.

Anyone ever use cross listing apps to put stuff on all the platforms? I've been meaning to look into it.
Some certain stuff sells well on postmark and mercari, it would be a pain to delete the listings after something sells, but opens a great avenue for diversifying platforms and since they all have independent algorithms you can unlock more potential sales.

>>60824952 (OP)
eat a dick, sad merchant

>>60835322
You are saying splitting them is terrible, is that because you dont post on all of them consistently?

My idea was to have 2 accounts and consistently post 5 items on each per day, compared to one account with 10 items per day.
I dont mean specific accounts for specific niches, but just general purpose accounts for all random categories

>>60835951
Its pretty based compared to sitting in a cubicle shuffling papers around for Mr. Goldberg all day though.
Theres something very satisfying and primordial about going out into the world and scavenging for your living, its satisfying the monkey brain, when you come across good $$$ it hits the dopamine receptors. Every day looks different for me, none of my days are identical so it never gets monotonous.
The bad part is you turn into a hoarder, my mom is literally kicking me out of the house because of my hoard of inventory. Dumb bitch doesnt understand that its money, my pile of junk gets slowly converted into cash. This is different compared to typical hoarding that is just useless worthless garbage.

Im investing into vintage band tees, they seem to appreciate like fine art because there's a limited supply, after covid the value of them blew up along with all the other shit like pokemon cards, cars and watches from all the excess money. Theres raggedy faded nirvana tees that go for thousands.

>>60824952 (OP)
The real answer is that there aren't any deals on the site anymore. It used to be the wild west where bidding was actually fun. Now sellers basically charge BRAND NEW condition pricing as the STARTING bid. What's the point? I'll just buy it brand new rather than from some dickhead who probably stole it anyway.

A lot of second hand sellers are much more aware of the secondary market value of their goods. Gone are the days of going into Goodwill or a retro game store and actually getting a steal of a deal...

>>60835951
I’ve said it before, you need an edge on competition. Rubbing shoulders and dealing with bad mannered thrift junkies will only get you so far. Its when you get people bringing stuff to you specifically one way or another over a prolonged period that this gig starts feeling like a cheat code. I’ve taken this entire month off from sourcing and listing to just shipping and still making substantially more than the average person in my area. This next week im turning on vacation mode and doing a road trip to the west coast. I couldnt imagine the cocksucking I’d need to do to get that vacation time “approved” at a W2

>>60824952 (OP)
ebay started using captchas for things as simple as trying to view an item. this will ultimately decrease sales.
amazing how captchas ruin a site huh?

>>60825406
Damn. Very brave. I sell tech literature. I can not even begin to understand the horror of dealing with retail customers in the clothing niche. Do they even know their sizes? What profit margin do you have to be able to deal with the returns and the fraud? How much do you earn a month?

>Removing the ability to leave negative feedback for buyers
>Removing paypal
>Increasing fees
>Skewing the search algorithm to "pay to play" so sellers can have their listings seen and buyers not see what they want
>Not fighting against the US government and all its silly tax decisions
>Allowing any scumbag to return a bag of rocks instead of expensive item and get money back based on postal tracking info alone
>Advertising for your competition on your own listing
>Only thirdie support if you manage to escape the chatbot
>Punishing sellers with higher fees if they have too many "defects" (getting scammed counts as a defect)
It used to be great. I did make consistent profits there about a decade ago, but even then the downfall had started.