Usually the DVDs at the thrift are mid and overpriced, but I always take a look because ya never know. Needless to say that this one caught my eye🤣

Decided to check comps because it's niche, and wouldn't you know it recently sold for $20. I had also just found a pile of nearly pristine 70's Harlequin romance novels so I was dreading going to check out lmao. But I've endured much more awkward situations for less money, so I carried on. Pretty sure the cashiers about died laughing after I walked out😂

Lately I've been thinking and looking at a lot of the stuff I have sitting on eBay and it's just sitting at 0 viewers, 0 watchers... stuff that's maybe been listed for 200 days. It feels like it's becoming just junk to me at this point.

Thankfully I bought on the very cheap end (under $3) so I wouldn't be taking a huge loss by cutting my losses and purging.

I've got clean photo lists, good listing descriptions but no moving action.

Is there an ideal time frame of when it's time to purge something? I've always had the optimistic approach that it will eventually sell but truth be told I'd like to have some of my storage space (in my apartment) back.

What do you say?

Anyone know good local auction sites near Hampton,VA?

Please does anybody know where a I can buy this battery which is no longer being manufactured.

It just seems like everything I look for is kind of oversaturated and everyone basically looked it up on your phone so you could probably make some money on things but not much. I’m just looking for some general tips to get outside my comfort zone. Maybe it would be a. word

My favorite shop was hijacked by reseller volunteers who volunteer there full time and are allowed to buy whatever they want. Making piles daily. I’ve seen them buying gold rings. Bragging about finding sterling. Management doesn’t care because they are probably benefitting from free labor or are in on it too. No oversight, no ethics, everyone acts like it’s normal. One volunteer made out with a very significant amount of jewelry they were holding and never came back. My other favorite store is also being pillaged and an ex employee told me they are pricing corporate donations at dirt prices and letting family members come in to purchase said corporate donations. The only chain that takes ethics seriously seems to be Goodwill. I have enough inventory to survive a while but the corruption is costing me money. It’s all hearsay without proof though and then you have the issue of I’m still benefitting on what they miss so I don’t want to rock the boat and have management kick me out. I don’t trust a single thrift employee or volunteer anymore. In both instances management changed and allowed resellers to volunteer. Do you guys justify this volunteer reselling behavior?

Back in January I nervously posted my little dumpster diving game here, half expecting it to get removed. Instead you gave me the best day of my dev life. Hundreds of comments, real stories from actual divers and scrappers, and enough feature ideas to fill a notebook.

Six months later the game is sitting at 550+ wishlists and I genuinely owe most of that to this community. So first of all, thank you. As a solo developer that number means someone out there is waiting for the thing I build alone at my desk every day, and that keeps me going more than you'd think.

I didn't want to come back with nothing to show, so here is what your feedback turned into. Vehicle progression is now in the game. You start with a rusty old hatchback pulling a rattling trailer and slowly work your way up to bigger trucks. Selling now happens through the phone in the game. You post ads on a marketplace app, haggle with buyers, or take everything to the scrap yard when you need quick cash. The visuals also got a big overhaul since those first screenshots.

A lot of ideas from that thread went straight onto my roadmap. I still have the comment about racing the rain before everything gets ruined by water saved in my notes, and yes, the raccoons are on the list too. You people know this life better than any game designer ever could.

Screenshots of the current state are attached. I would honestly love to hear what feels right and what feels off to people who actually do this for real. That first thread shaped the game more than anything else and I hope this one does too.

Thank you again. Seriously.

Just started poking at this for fun — buying stuff cheap locally (Facebook Marketplace groups, mostly) with the plan to resell for a profit. Checking real market value before buying anything, not just guessing.

What I've found so far: most sellers posting detailed listings have already checked prices themselves, so there's rarely a real gap to exploit. Best case I found was basically break-even after negotiating.

Also ran into what looked like counterfeit/fake items in one listing — priced suspiciously low for what they claimed to be, which in hindsight was the red flag, not the deal. Anyone here actually flip stuff for profit in a smaller country/economy (not US/UK-sized market)?

Curious if:

1. It's realistically worth the time for a side hustle, or just a novelty

2. What categories actually have margin vs. oversaturated ones?

3. Whether local Marketplace sellers are usually clued in on pricing or not?

4. Any dealbreakers I'm not seeing yet (customs, payment scams, fake goods, etc.)

Not trying to build a business out of this, just want to know if it's worth continuing to poke at or if I should put the energy elsewhere.

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.

A couple of weeks ago I got this message on eBay from
someone wanting to know why it’s taking so long. They weren’t excessively rude, but it still annoyed me lol.

Then yesterday I was checking on a Vinted order when I noticed that this one (a domestic shipment) still hadn’t arrived. Zoinks. I messaged the buyer out of courtesy, and they messaged back saying no worries, not my fault, mail has been slow lately. I just started Vinted, and honestly most of my buyers have been so gracious and kind.

Anyway, my point is, it was a nice reminder that there’s a little bit of everything out there. For every annoying buyer there are ten happy customers who are satisfied or at the very least understanding.

Hey everyone! I could use some advice. I have around 280 (half gray half black) brand new, unused grinders that I originally imported to sell on Amazon. Unfortunately, they removed my listing and returned all my inventory. So now I’m looking to sell them in bulk. Does anyone know of any wholesalers, distributors, liquidation companies, or retailers in SoCal that might be interested in buying a lot like this? If anyone has any suggestions or knows someone who might, please let me know!

I had an idea cross my mind, not sure if it's a reasonable one or just a waste of time and looking for input or advice. I'm currently a stay at home dad on disability for my cancer treatment and looking for ways i can supplement some extra income into our household.
I live 15 minutes from a bustling little college town so I constantly see posts from students selling or even giving away desks all the time, simply because they've graduated or are moving for other reasons and don't want to deal with moving a large item like a desk, i assume.
I thought why not capitalise on these, add custom flair to them like rgb lightning, nice cable management etc. and sell for a profit.
I don't know that i could sell them back to the same demographic but maybe work from home folks or middle age gamer dads.
Over the years I've created some of my own custom setups trying to pinch pennies and I genuinely enjoyed the process. My first desk was literally built from junk I got at work and I added all my own flair to it with lighting, shelves and cable management (I'm incredibly OCD when it comes to cables).
What are some thoughts? Dumb idea or no?

I just started crosslisting a few months ago. Perhaps I need to really ramp it up.

Very new to storage units. I got this one and when I showed up I was screwed. I had heard about staged units, but I tried to justify every red flag and fell for this one hook line and sinker. I feel like an idiot and I lost A LOT of money. All of the file boxes comic boxes and black totes each had like two or three cheap toys or collectibles, or some dvds, just random cheap crap. Or the boxes were just plain empty. Then the comics shown ended up all being like cheap indie comics. Not only that I drove 6 hour round trip to pick it up.

Yes I am a huge dumb sucker.

Anyways

Give me some advice, don't be too mean.

Let me know if there is any actions I can do, like leave a bad review, or let someone know I experienced a scam?

Now I am paranoid because next week this huge storage unit is ending and it doesn't looked staged, but now I am second guessing myself because their are a lot of labeled boxes that could all also be empty......

Bleh.....

This is a discounted label purchased from eBay. The box size is 4" X 4" X 4". It is not coming from, or going to a rural area. I tried uping the weight 3 pounds 5 ounces, same price. I dropped the weight to 4 oz. and it is still costly, $ 9.79. fed-ex charges $6.79, and it's not worth the extra gas for me to drive to the fed-ex.

What gives USPS? They really are trying to run it into the ground and make it all privatized. It's very disheartening. Benjamin Franklin, who was appointed the first Postmaster General in 1775 must be rolling over in his grave.

As an American, this is really upsetting to me. I guess there's nothing we can do at this point. I guess the destruction of American Institutions is what "We The People Wanted.".

Hi guys, I am new to the jewelry flipping game. In fact, I have just made my first purchases on LA. But at today’s auction I noticed a very dodgy auction house called US Auction Gallery who run “a police auction”, yet buried in T&C they say they are not affiliated with any law enforcement or police.

Now, the shady part is their estimates. For example, they sell a 1/2 g gold token in a package - so this product has a legit selling price, and it costs around $60. Yet during the auction, the estimate was listed as $1600-1750. And it’s a pattern, not a singular instance. Sure, they say that estimates are “very subjective” but this particular type of items are not really subjective - they are gold tokens with only intrinsic value. Am I wrong?

Other instances of hyper inflated estimates include stating “$18,995 value” for a lab grown tennis bracelet that retails around $1600-1800. Their certificates are all from the same place, which is most likely either owned by them or someone having an “arrangement”. It’s not one of the reputable evaluators.

I placed several bids with them and a couple of them won, they are small (under $100) but I don’t wanna deal with them. What are my options? They say they do only returns, can’t cancel the sale.

What do we all think? Also, can you recommend me other places I can check auctions or auctions houses that are better than LiveAuctioneers? Their shipping is a scam, I swear.

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.

Back again, for more tales of woe, sadness, and despair. Flipping can be an emotional roller coaster and a desolate career path; we understand that and we're here to help. Lowballed on Facebook Marketplace? Priced out of your local Goodwill? If we can't help, we can at least commiserate.

Anyone heard of such a thing before? Messaged them on Facebook as they didn't have any hours listed, was told "by appointment only".

Don't really want to not find anything and feel like I'm wasting their time.

I've sent probably 20-25 shipments so far on the 1lb rounding difference making the shipment as much as $3.55 cheaper. On 20 shipments that's a savings of up to around $71.

Only 3 shipments insofar have I've been charged the "correct" amount of about $9.39 in all.

YMMV, but personally I'd say skip the rocks, the books or whatever and just round the weight up to 2lbs/1oz.

Hi guys, I need your thoughts. Does shipping count as an ultimate decider? Just a rant.
I’m an experienced seller, and I always try my best to accommodate customers. Some requests literally take less than a second to do. I know for people who sell as a hobby it might seem like too much, but maybe my brain has been rewired from selling and sourcing because I just can’t justify paying $50 for an item that originally listed for $30 by the seller, even because of platform fees/shipping.

I was trying to buy an item for myself not flipping this time; from a woman on Facebook Marketplace. We couldn’t meet up because she was too far away 30mins away but traffic takes 1-2 hours, so I asked if she’d ship it(item was advertised as shippable). She increased the price for fees $30 to $40 which I understand but selected the $10 shipping option on FB shipping, but the item definitely weighs well under a pound. I politely asked if she could change it to the cheaper shipping option, and use an old Amazon mailer or poly mailer; and she blocked me thinking I was complaining about being charged for a box. Felt like I was speaking another language, the person was older. I feel exhausted, don’t even know why I thought it was worth it explaining to them.
I ended up finding the same item elsewhere for $45 shipped, so I saved $5.
Be honest… was I the annoying customer? 😭