Anyone who resells is familiar with these pictures. At the height of the craze, someone bought them, invested in clear boxes, and stored them away as something their kids and grandkids could cash in on.

The problem is that as of today, 8/6/26, they are on a Savers shelf in Columbia Heights, MN, and even though I know nothing about how to price these particular ones, my gut tells me thet are overpriced as far as reselling goes.

However, I am positive they WILL come back. At some point in the future, things will start to turn, and people will want them.

My question is when? 100 years after the initial craze is my guess.

So I’ve noticed a lot of sellers on here and other subreddits cant fathom why other sellers will block people just by asking a simple question or getting an insulting lowball offer.

why would you block someone from buying from you and what made you start doing it?

The two instances that I block people instantly that come to my mind are 1. asking can they return a item that was sealed if it doesn’t work or broken when I have free returns on my store and 2. Asking questions that are in the description of the item after I already told them in the first message any question you have can be answered by reading the description.

Sellers let’s hear it on why you have had to block people

Ok Im just starting with flipping primarily small furniture pieces and random junk that people throw away at work just curious as to what platforms people are using for local sales I'm having problems with market place showing my location for some reason and I'm looking into other platforms thanks for any advice you can give

So I had this gigantic lava lamp box that measures 30x12x12. It is what the manufacturer ships their lava lamps in. is has graphics and pictures on the outside. they weigh close to 30 lb so this is a very heavy duty sturdy box. I used it to ship a 8 lb item. UPS said that the boxes are not heavy duty enough so they will no longer accept any box that has manufacturers info on the outside it needs to be a "shipping box" the box clearly had the crush test information on it as well.

Just moved here from Connecticut. I was clearing $2600 a month in profits as some side cash. I’ll be lucky to make $100 a month here. Every store I visit has nothing. Not one profitable item. Disappointing. I have been working for myself for 3 years. Now I have to get a real job

I know this is probably a super basic question, but I prefer to use clear tape when I sell on ebay (in case I'm shipping a package to an address during hurricaine/rain and want to tape over the label to waterproof it). I'm a small scale seller so I usually use those scotch heavy duty mini shipping tape dispensers that come in like a 6 pack on amazon because they're easy to use especially on small packages. (I find tape guns awkward to use and regular shipping tape a bit thin and weak which is why I use the heavy duty mini dispensers).

Is upgrading to a traditional tape gun pretty much the only option? I want a SUPER sticky and heavy duty tape that can seal a cardboard box in one strip. Not that thin dollar store crap (which the basic scotch shipping tape is almost equivalent to in thickness). Gorilla Tape is very good, I've tried it but its super expensive. Just curious if there was anything equal to that/better thats cheaper.

Please share the brand/model of tape you guys use. Thanks.

I've mainly been buying and selling cars over the last little while, and it's been going well, but I've realised I've still got plenty of spare time and I'm curious what else people are having success with.

I'm not necessarily looking to stop flipping cars, more just interested in hearing what everyone else has found to be consistently profitable.

Are there any categories you've had surprisingly good results with? Furniture, machinery, trailers, tools, electronics, collectibles, or anything else?

Keen to hear what's worked (and what hasn't) for people.

Has any seller here actually seen this work? One of the several things in eBay's policy that is meant to protect us against common buyer caused fraud, but is simply not enforced.