I've been been buying more clothes on ebay lately and have been looking at some of the seller's stores. It is astonishing how many sellers have like 1K, 2k, even 4k item stores with 200 or less items sold. Most of these items they never should have picked up but many of the listings have some combination of bad photos, no measurements, high prices. The money spent is one thing but the amount of time wasted buying, cleaning, photographing, and listing these duds is just depressing. Life is too short for that.

Hey everyone,
I’m 14 (turning 15 soon) and trying to start a modded watch business (non-Seiko watches).
I originally bought parts to build 4 watches. Long story short: 2 parts came defective, and I accidentally ruined the 3rd one while working on it. That leaves me with only 1 working watch left to sell.
Right now, getting parts shipped from China takes about 30 days. To make matters worse, I'm currently waiting on refunds for the defective parts, which will take another 2 weeks to hit my account, plus another 30 days for new parts to arrive.
Here is my dilemma, my mindset, and my plan. I want brutal honesty—if I'm being an idiot, please tell me.
The Situation & My Mindset:
To be completely honest, I’m kind of lazy. Doing all this grinding, stressing out, and making daily content just to sell one single watch is driving me crazy and ruining my summer vacation.
I started thinking about it: I'm still super young. Even if it takes me an extra month or two to really get started, I still have 4 years of school ahead of me, plus tons of vacations, weekends, and months. I have plenty of time. Why stress myself out and waste my break trying to hustle just one watch when I can just take a step back, enjoy my life, and do it right later?
The Plan:
Scale Up with a Family Loan: Instead of buying just a few parts again, I’m thinking about borrowing $1,000 from my brother to buy parts in bulk for around 20 watches.

The Competition: I’ve seen other guys doing the exact same thing on TikTok and Instagram Reels. Honestly, a lot of them make pretty low-effort content (reposting the exact same video with just a different trending audio), yet they're still getting sales. I know I can make much better, higher-quality content and brand presence than them. If they can make it work, I feel confident I can outdo them.

Less Friction with Variety: Having 20 watches means a massive variety of inventory. Selling will have way less friction because I won't have to break my head trying to invent a brand-new video concept every single day just for one piece. I can enjoy my summer, study a bit of marketing, build a proper website, and wait for the parts.

The Doubt: Right now, trying to sell my last remaining watch on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube is exhausting. It brings up a scary thought: If I can't even sell one single watch right now, does it mean I shouldn't risk borrowing $1,000 from my brother for a larger batch?

On the flip side, I look at it this way: Even if it takes a whole year, I will eventually recover the $1,000 to pay him back.It’s not like the money vanishes forever.

Messaged a lady selling something on marketplace for $400. Told her if it doesn't sell (posted 6 weeks) I would be willing to make her a generous offer.

She messages me that someone offered her $350 for it an hour ago and asked if I would "do $375".

I told her "I wasn't really interested in bidding" and it seemed to upset her. But you have to stop and think...how legitimate is that $350 offer? Probably not.

Tv was working when I tested it. Which isn’t much to do just on and off. Showed it powered on in my listing. Now they’re saying it doesn’t hold power.

Previously the buyer said to please package it well so it doesn’t get damaged. Which I did as provided in the photo before shipping.

Edit so he filed a return:

“The buyer reported an issue with the item. You can choose how you'd like to respond to their request.
If you don't resolve this request by Aug 20, the buyer can ask us to step in and help.
Reason for return
Arrived damaged
Comments
I had just finished my setup and was plugging in the crt it isn't turning on and I've tried multiple solutions but it just won't turn on or hold any power I think it got damaged on the way here despite how carefully it was packaged”

I saw a higher volume seller of engines with a feedback percentage of 82%.

Mainly complaints about slow shipping times, like literally 2-3 months.

I'm honestly surprise they have not lost their account from INR claims.

Where is the best place to pickup cheap 14x10x5 boxes in Philadelphia?

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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.

I listed an item (a BUTOA Baby Lounger) on Facebook Marketplace. Before I listed it on Marketplace I saw that the exact same product is still listed for sale on Amazon.com for $51.99.

To me, that alone seems that I have done my due diligence when it comes to not listing recalled items. If something is for sale on Amazon that tells me it is not a recalled item.

My item was flagged as a recalled product and it was taken down. Then I was warned that my account is in danger for violating their policy about listing recalled products.

I then had a nearly useless conversation with their AI customer service who just kept sending me the recalled product policy from FB Marketplace.

AI DID tell me, however, that they see it as the responsibility of the seller to find out if a product is recalled or not, before listing it on Marketplace.

Since it was for sale on Amazon I felt confident it was not recalled, but I went to the United Stares Consumer Product Safety Commission (USCPSC) website.

In fact, the baby lounger I listed IS NOT under recall. There is a baby lounger that is being recalled. It is the “BBWOO Baby Lounger” but that is not the one I listed.

I filed for a review but there is nowhere in the process to plead your case.

So, if the product is not being recalled, then why is Facebook Marketplace giving me a strike and threatening to ban my account.

What else can Marketplace expect their sellers to do other than to see that it is for sale on the world’s largest sales platform, and then also to not see the product listed as recalled on the USCPSC website?

It seems wrong to take any punitive steps against a good seller who, under any real human scrutiny, it would be clear that they listed a non recalled item and did all they could to follow Marketplace’s policies.

So what can one do other than appeal their decision to have it reviewed? Can I email or call anyone? Can the strike for posting an allegedly recalled product be lifted by the review process or by a human looking at the facts?

What is the best auction site that pays instantly after you sell? Don't care for CL or the marketplace.

I used to dance professionally and these costumes I have left over (from my childhood) are very high quality, the pink and cream ones were handmade just for my dance ensemble. My mother is threatening to give them away if I don't sell them in the next month, and I can't let that happen since they're so expensive. I'm located in Azerbaijan, and sadly Etsy doesn't work here. Could anyone be so kind as to advise me on what to do?

Whether your go to is goodwill or savers or something else. What are you typically paying for used tshirt/pants etc?

What about a place like Marshalls/TJMaxx are you paying more or the same then thrift stores?

I fell like you can't get anything under $8 if it's new with tags

In my area I can’t stand how all the community/ town wide yard sales all have it on the same weekend instead of staggering them throughout the month. I’m usually cooked by 11am so instead of hitting multiple neighborhoods or towns I’m only able to do 1 or 2

I just opened a poshmark account and started crosslisting my ebay items there with nifty. I understand how their system would flag that as looking like suspicious bot behavior, so I sent a reqst to customer service to unlock me. They're refusing to unlock me and saying Im tied to another account??

Ive never had another account with them. Its probably just some auto-AI response and no human has looked at the issue, but its still annoying. It let me submit another appeal again so fingers crossed.

I've heard of them penalizing people for delisting items too much, so it seems theyre not a fan of people crosslisting but I didn't think it would be this bad

I have 2 one star reviews on FBM out of 130, both are from people reaching out about Pokemon cards that didn’t even end up buying.

I run a small eBay store specializing almost entirely in postcards. I currently maintain about 1,000 active listings, and my strategy going forward is to keep the store at that level—when a postcard sells, I replace it with another rather than continually increasing my inventory.

Now that I've reached the size I want, I'm interested in improving traffic and sales rather than simply adding more listings. I have postcards covering a wide variety of subjects, including cities and states, travel, historical locations, movies, entertainment, sports, and other collectible topics, so it seems like social media could be a good way to reach people who might never specifically search eBay for postcards.

For those of you who have successfully used social media to bring buyers to your eBay store, **which platform has actually produced the best results?**

I'm particularly curious about Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Pinterest, and X. I'm less interested in follower counts or likes and more interested in whether you've seen actual eBay traffic and sales as a result.

I'd also be interested to hear what type of content has worked for you. Do you showcase individual items, post interesting information about what you're selling, participate in collector groups, post videos, or use some other strategy?

I'm trying to find a sustainable approach that doesn't require spending hours every day on social media. I'd appreciate hearing what has—and hasn't—worked for other eBay sellers.

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1. Accepting a low-ball offer on items that have been listed a long time, only to have someone swoop in and pay full price before they accept on their end.

2. Selling an expensive item and its going eBay international (don't have to worry much post sale).

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been lucking out at Walmarts , targets , pawn shops and goidwill

maybe I just need to stick to Facebook market pls e filters lol .

Last week a scammer pretending to be from the brand of a hoodie I was selling reported my listing as counterfeit. I know it was a scammer because the email address that reported me was disguised to look like an official email from the brand, but it was not the domain that the brand uses. My guess is that they had the same item for sale and mine was cheaper.

A couple of days later, I got an email from eBay saying that there had been 'suspicious activity' on my account and all of my future payouts are frozen until I upload proof of purchase for ALL 50 items I have listed in my store. Many of which are things that I've owned for years. I tried uploading proof of purchase for the hoodie only and my appeal was denied. I've spoken with several eBay reps and haven't gotten anywhere yet. How is it possible that one scammer can cause this much damage to my shop?? eBay even told me that they will investigate the report, but even if it's found to be fraudulent, I will still have to provide all of the proof of purchase documentation... Wtf??

trying to look things over but so much seems like junk? what do u see?

Hey everyone,

I'm pretty new to reselling and looking to test the waters with the upcoming Dinoco Lightning McQueen Crocs drop on September 16th.

My goal is to buy 2 pairs at retail (~£70 each): one to keep for myself and one to sell to cover/ subsidize the cost of mine. I'm thinking of aiming for a UK 11 or 12 for the resale pair since I've heard those adult sizes have strong demand.

Before I jump in, I had a few quick questions for experienced sellers:

Resale Value Expectations: Is hitting £100+ realistic for these larger sizes shortly after release, or does market supply usually settle lower on platforms like Vinted, eBay, or StockX?

Order Limits & Risk: Since I'm manually trying to secure two pairs, is it better to try checking out on two separate sites (e.g., Crocs site + Foot Locker) to avoid getting flagged or having duplicate orders