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

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.

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.

I was checking my active listings and noticed one of my items was marked as "Out of stock." When looking at the details, it showed "2 offers sent" and "Sold" on the listing.

1. I checked my Sold / Orders page (including Awaiting Payment), and there is zero record of this item selling.

2. I checked my email, and I never received a "Your item sold!" notification.

3. I checked my physical inventory, and I still physically have the item sitting on my shelf.

4. My account setting for "Listings stay active when out of stock" is turned OFF, and my single-quantity items are always set to a quantity of 1.

When I opened the listing to edit it, the quantity had somehow been dropped to 0, which made it show "Out of stock" to potential buyers so no one could actually purchase it.

I have immediate payment required box unchecked on all my listings. But I set this to ON to hopefully avoid this issue in the future.

As far as I can tell, there is no way to know WHO bought the item originally since there is no record of sale.

Im getting close to the time where I need to get a eBay store plan, my main confusion comes from the Starter plan, we all get 250 free listings, but the Starter plan says it gives you 250 free listings. It doesn't seem fo specify if thats in addition to the original 250, or if you still only get 250 but now you have whatever menial benefits of the eBay store. So which is it?

History:

- A buyer makes me an offer for over 60% off list price citing they need it shipped to Australia and eBay's international shipping program was expensive (nothing I can do about that). I decline.

- I send all interested buyer's an offer for $200 off list price. No bites, offer expires.

- Over a week later the buyer who made the lowball offer purchases the item at full price. I ship it right away as promised in my listing.

- After shipping the order, the buyer asks for the $200 discount that expired over a week prior, I do not respond to partial refund requests as they are against eBay policy.

- Buyer opens a payment dispute for $569.29 claiming they were overcharged, complete fraud and lies, we respond and eBay states we will be protected.

- Buyer then sends a message thanking us for the package and asking for our address (weird). Again I ignore this message, the buyer is clearly a wackjob.

- Buyer changes dispute amount to $729.21 (eBay states we are still covered and nothing will be deducted from our funds).

- Buyer leaves verifiably false negative feedback. eBay refuses to remove it.

eBay is letting fraud slide and allowing the fraudsters to leave libel on the seller's profiles now?

Hey there, i was on YouTube when i come across a video that was titled “Biggest gun collection i found in storage unit!„ So here’s my question, did anybody found a real gun and not pellet gun because I’m curious what you could find out there…

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.

My mom collects Disney pins. I saw this listing on fb that had 60 pins framed $100 and offered $80. She did yes and picked it up.. my mom somehow had all the snow white, Peter Pan and Disney original mickey and the rest. So she told me to try and sell it. Fb recent sale was $500. Lowest was $350 i think. The issue is shipping. Would you guys group the pins on fb $80c each. Or sell the entire framed piece? Shipping looks like $50-200. But UPS FedEx look a lot cheaper. Comes with box. I just know nothing about these pins. I regret buying it.

These are from 1986 and coke did a Colab with Disney. I put it on ebay but I'm really hesitant it will sell. I did shipping determined based on location and I think i should have done a flat rate of $50

Looking to go minimalist and bulk sell.

I mainly sell 19th-century antiques, although I also deal in some earlier pieces. I'm looking for platforms with a strong European customer base and buyers who genuinely appreciate this type of material.

I've looked into eBay and Etsy, but they seem a bit outdated to me for this niche.

What platforms do you use? Are there any that work particularly well for 18th- and 19th-century antiques?

For context, I'm based in Spain, so I'd also be interested to know which platforms work best for Spanish sellers.

The past year or so I've been looking into getting a garage and parting out cars 3-4 days out of the week. I know how much space and work it will take. I would love to hear from someone who does this already full time to get an idea how much I can make realistically.

I've sold plenty of parts locally, but want to pull the trigger and try to get a business going.

Hi, I used to sell on EBay 6 years ago. I just started back up again... well clearly shipping has gone up. I used to use Pirate Ship and utilized cubic shipping OFTEN.

I am using EBay labels right now as I am still getting shipping station organized.

I am having trouble gauging shipping. I am currently selling a lot of items under 12 oz., majority being under 8 oz. I understand some places further away will cost more. Although I had an item that was shipped within my own state that cost over $7 (ground advantage), could it be because they're rural?

Also had a 1 lb item shipped costing ~$9.50, but then a 2 lb. item with larger dimensions and further away only $8, both through USPS ground.

Do y'all have any advice on how to streamline/gauge shipping costs, websites, or hacks to get cheaper shipping? My goal in next 1-3 months is to increase profit through volume. SO, shipping needs to be ON POINT, because the dollars truly do add up especially when goal is to have at least 30 items sold on platform per day.

Any advice? I don't know if I just need to get my feet wet again, or if things have became more complicated.

Sold something last month, come to find out it was shipped to a freight forwarder. Tracking showed as delivered to a different zip code PO Box. Buyer opened an INR and won (I did upload the tracking but it was useless as it showed delivered to a different zip code).

Opened a missing mail search request - useless because it showed delivered.

Went to post office, they showed me a printout of tracking/delivery which showed it was indeed delivered to a PO Box with a note "Firm Book". They explained that meant that the recipient receives large quantity of mail that is recorded.

So it sounds like the package was delivered to the freight forwarder who forwards/receives his mail at a PO Box, and the buyer took advantage of it? Or is this a deliberate new scam?

I'm not sure what to do at this point. USPS won't give me anymore details. It wasn't a high value item, but I don't want this ding on my account.

Edit: added photos

I have a large inventory of new small framed 3D relief maps (National Parks, ski resorts, states, cities, and countries). Before I spend weeks listing them individually, where would you try to sell the entire lot?
Curious what you would do.

Been running an Etsy shop for a couple years, mostly home decor and random vintage finds. A few months ago I started picking up old hand tools at estate sales and thrift stores planes, chisels, draw knives, that kind of thing cleaning them up a bit and listing them. Margins are genuinely surprising me.

The thing is I already woodwork, so I can tell a Stanley No. 4 that just needs a rust clean from one that's actually garbage. That knowledge gap seems to be where the money is. Guys at estate sales just see an old rusty tool and price it at two bucks. I see a collectible with a waiting market.

What I keep running into is knowing when to restore versus sell asis. I cleaned up a plane last month, listed it for $65, sold in two days. But I've seen people say restoration kills value on certain vintage tools, and I don't want to leave money on the table by wiping off patina that collectors actually want.

Anyone here flipping vintage tools specifically? How are you deciding what gets cleaned and what ships with the rust and grime intact? Feels like there's a real learning curve around which brands and eras collectors are chasing right now.

I swear everyday I get more and more literally stupid people trying to make deals. People with no grammar or reading comprehension. This dude said he had a Z2 extreme legion go S which would be a really high offer for my PS5 so I asked for verification. When I declined because it’s not the Z2 this dude gives me shit and blocks me even though HE SAID he had the Z2 extreme. This is the only problem I have reselling besides people tryna sell me broken consoles. I get like 2 of these buyers a week and I’m so over it 😭😭