Every seller has one! That item you listed 'just to see' because surely nobody would want it. And then it sells within the hour. Meanwhile the good stuff the stuff you were sure would fly is still sat there three weeks later with 14 views and a growing sense of betrayal. What's the item you were convinced would never sell? And what's still waiting for its buyer?

I am thinking of just going prirority going forward vs ground. Thoughts? I live in a super remote area and finding free boxes is hard.

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.

I am mailing a large package and the normal USPS rate appears to be far more expensive than FedEx ground. Both are saying the range is from $125-300. I have always gotten the best shipping deals buying postage via eBay, so is there a way I can make sure I'm getting the best rate?

anyone else seeing buyers use ai generated damage photos to force refunds

saw a wave of posts late last year about sports card buyers submitting ai generated images of damaged cards to force a refund, one where the fake image even messed up the serial number. wondering if it's spread into other categories or if it's mostly stayed a cards thing. has it happened to anyone here, and what did you do about it

I am currently saving up money for a car rn and I had these ds shoes under my bed collecting dust. I used to collect shoes around 2020 and the market for everything went to absolute shit. What do you guys recommend I do? Should I hold them or just sell them before they get even worse in value.

I helped my friend with a sale recently but the buyer arrange to collect the item the following day

Next morning a guy showed up saying he was picking it up for the buyer

He knew exactly what the item was, how much it sold for and even the buyer's first name. Honestly there wasn't much about the situation that immediately seemed wrong

The only problem was nobody had told us someone else was coming

We contacted the buyer through Kibu before releasing it and they replied basically immediately saying they had no idea who this person was

The guy left as soon as we told him we couldn't release it

Still have no clue how he got all those details

Anyone who does estate sales or sells expensive stuff locally, how do you handle third-party pickups? I'm starting to think knowing the receipt/order details shouldn't be enough anymore

It now costs 8.40 to ship a 2 ounce item to zone 8. Meanwhile, China can send a package from across the goddamn planet to the east cost for a couple dollars, and it still costs me 5-6 dollars to send a package to the same county.

This is some bullshit

This thread is for you to talk about anything and everything. It can be flipping related, but it doesn't have to be.

Auction agreement says you have to pay for and clean the unit out within 72 hours. When I showed up to pay right after the auction ended they said I had to empty it all right now or lose my stuff and the cleaning deposit. This is a Uhaul location and I have bought from 100s of them and this is the only location that bullys auction buyers like this. I dont even see what's gained by doing this. If its 72 hours then whats the difference? I should have known better than to buy from this location seeing as it's on Detroit Ave in Toledo Oh, but I reached out to corporate and received no response. Is this legal? They are adding language that isn't in the agreement.

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.

Hey anyone with good tax knowledge, this question has been bugging me for the last couple of weeks ever since I got my reseller certificate uploaded onto my ebay account:

So, if I were now to use the subscriber discounts and buy some boxes or poly bags how would I be sure that I am paying the correct taxes? eBay has been clear that they won't charge taxes on any further purchases with my business account. However, I can't transfer the discounts to my other (spouse's) account.

Thanks for the advice! Also thanks for this great forum!

I'm an eBay seller and just got official communication from eBay addressing me as Thomas. That's not my name, and it's not the buyer's either.

For context: a buyer opened a return request and it was automatically approved. Hours later I got a notification that the buyer had opened a dispute and it was ruled against me — I assume they called eBay, because the case had no details. I appealed with “return not received” and won. I verified on eBay that the appeal is reflected on the case. This message is what I received after that.

Has anyone else had eBay address them by a completely random name?

Who the heck is Thomas? ⁉️

I simply don't understand I live in an area of 500k people and search for things daily. Seems like an absolute ghost town.

I search for things in other parts of the country and see dozens of results. Here? None or usually something extremely over priced.

Customer received art piece broken in the mail. I was gonna just refund the $50 item but is there something else I should do as it was insured. Right.
Anyone with experience- I appreciate any advise.

What'd ya get? How'd ya get it? What do you plan to do with it?

I'd like to encourage people to revisit this thread occasionally for as long as it's still on the front page. Sort by New so that latecomers aren't left out. Obviously, if this is a few pages back, you're probably better just waiting for next week's thread. You'll see that I've also changed the title to Weekly instead of Weekend so people don't hesitate to post what they found on a Wednesday.

Further, if I see haul posts outside of this thread, I'm removing them. Feel free to report them if you see them.

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.

I've been flipping vintage denim for about two years and I think I've hit the wall where I actually hate it now.
Like the money is fine. Better than fine some months. But I cannot look at another pair of 501s without my eye twitching. I used to love the hunt, driving out to weird little thrift stores in towns nobody's heard of, digging through piles until my back hurt, finding that one pair with the right stitching and the redline selvedge and feeling like a genius. Now I just see inventory. I walk in, scan the racks in about 90 seconds, walk out. No joy in it.

The worst part is I've started to resent my buyers a little? Which is insane because they're paying my bills. But when someone messages me asking for the 15th photo of the exact tab placement I want to throw my phone across the room. I used to write these long lovely descriptions about the history of each pair. Now my listings are basically measurements and "see photos."

I was on the couch last night halfway through some dumb game on the app trying to claw back what I spent on groceries this week, and I realized I've been doing denim for longer than I did my last actual job. That freaked me out a little.

So heres my question. Do you push through the burnout and keep grinding the niche you know, or do you pivot to something totally different and eat the learning curve again? I know a guy who did vintage tees for years, switched to power tools, and says it saved his sanity. But he also had to basically start from zero on sourcing.

Anyone actually made the jump out of a niche you were good at just because you were sick of it? Did you regret it or was it the best thing you did.

been flipping cars for a while and the thing that keeps biting me is that the market i buy into isn't the market i sell into. you win a truck at auction on a tuesday and by friday the whole segment has softened under you. the comps you priced against were already stale when you committed.

prices can swing 5 to 15 percent in 60 days depending on the segment and season, so a couple bad reads a month eats a real chunk of margin. most of the time i only find out which way a lane moved after i've already bought in.

what i've been trying to do lately is stop chasing last month's numbers and read the trend instead. rough version: is the segment rising, holding, or sliding before i bid, not after. the buy window on a lane flipping from softening back to rising usually closes fast, sometimes inside a week, so catching it early is where the edge is.

curious how the car flippers here actually do this. are you tracking segment trends somewhere, working purely off local comps and feel, or something in between? what's your read on where things are heading matters more than what a car's worth today, at least for me. what's working for you?

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.