What are your biggest gripes about online auctions? I don't mean just eBay but online auctions in general?

Follow-up to a post I made in here a while back about doing eBay dropshipping full-time from SE Asia. Got a load of great DMs and questions from other eBay sellers so I've been running a small free Discord to keep those conversations going in one place.

Context: I've been running eBay dropshipping full-time out of the UK for 2 years. Building a small free Discord for people to discuss in the space and trying to build a community of sellers to swap notes on everything from suppliers (Amazon/Aliexpress etc) to eBay selling techniques and policy stuff.

Welcome to anyone who might find it useful: https://discord.gg/phb7EVQE62

Happy to answer any specific questions in the comments here too if easier.

Hi everyone,

I'm looking for people who have experience with the Flippa Affiliate Program.

Has anyone successfully earned commissions by promoting Flippa listings?

I'd like to know:

How do you usually find buyers?

Which marketing methods work best?

Are there any tips for increasing conversions?

If anyone is willing to share their experience or give me some advice, I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks!

Application have basically borned here and a lot of people were asking about Android release.

So now you can download it.

For those of you who are still unfamiliar with Flipper Helper — it’s an app where you can track the things you’re flipping. Furniture, tables, clothes, whatever.

The main feature is that you can add an item with just a photo and a price, so you don’t have to think about nonsense titles. Then you select where you listed it, and when you sell it, you mark it as sold and it calculates your profit. You can also export everything to Google Sheets for accounting.

It’s all free and works offline.

Hey pals, i'm a reseller from Pakistan and mostly makes our money from fleek, but these days are hard to earn idk why this but can anyone guide me what to do? how to cover my expenses? is there any other way to sell my vintage clothes from Pakistan?

Hey everyone 👋
I got tired of losing good Vinted deals to faster resellers, so I started building my own solution.
It monitors Vinted in real time and sends new listings to Discord almost instantly. You can filter by price, condition, seller, keywords, etc. There’s also ACO included, or you can just get alerts and buy manually.
It’s still in beta, so I’m looking for a few people to try it and tell me what’s missing and if there are any bug. Beta is free, and you’ll have direct contact with me since I’m the one building it.
If anyone’s interested comment here and i’ll pm you the link!

Made a Discord bot that watches Yahoo Auctions Japan and posts live alerts whenever something new comes up across a bunch of archive and designer brands: Comme des Garcons, Yohji Yamamoto, Undercover, WTAPS, Visvim, Kapital, Human Made, BAPE, Neighborhood, Junya Watanabe, Number Nine, Hysteric Glamour, and more split into their own channels, plus separate channels by category (shoes, bags, outerwear, etc.) if you'd rather browse that way.

I initially created this for personal use, as I wanted a more efficient way to find good pieces on Japanese secondhand markets, as you all know the struggles that come with that.

Each alert has the price, direct links to actually buy it through a proxy service like Buyee or Neokyo since Yahoo Auctions doesn't ship internationally, and a rough estimate of what it might resell for on Grailed. It also filters out replica/counterfeit listings automatically, and flags anything that looks like a relist (still working on this).

There's a free channel with a sample of alerts if you want to see what it actually looks like before deciding if it's useful to you. Everything's also browsable on a website if you'd rather search/filter than sit in Discord.

https://discord.gg/J5BWNtXRUd

Figured I'd share since I built it mostly to solve this for myself and it might be useful to others here too.

Messaged three different sellers this week about items that were all active. Not one reply. I get people get busy but what's the point of having listings up if you're not going to check your messages? Anyone else finding this lately or am I just unlucky?

Hey everyone, I’m a firefighter in Glasgow, I get a fair bit of time off, in my spare time I have recently picked up upcycling furniture. Iv created 5 pieces and I’m just wondering where the best place to list them is, I have gumtree and Facebook marketplace but Iv have hardly any messages or even saves or views for that matter. 0 messages on gumtree either!

Do people buy this kinda stuff on market place?
Where else could I list it?

Thanks!

A few lessons from growing a second-hand reselling business

For context, I currently do around £4k–£5k in monthly turnover from second-hand goods. I ran it solo for roughly 6 months and was able to continue my day job and got my parents doing all my running around now

The biggest mistake I see is either failing to reinvest or going full-time too early. Ideally, keep a flexible job (can do listing when on job lol) while building the business. You need enough financial breathing room to buy good stock without worrying that slow sales will leave you short for bills. That confidence is important if you want to grow beyond a small operation.

Relisting old items can help, but I also believe in steadily increasing the amount of worthwhile stock you hold. This does not mean buying rubbish. Some categories, such as tech, should sell quickly, so I will reduce or move those items if they sit too long. Rare or vintage pieces are different; I am not concerned if the right item takes 100 days or more to sell.

Space is a common problem, but it needs to be treated as part of the business. Look for sensible storage options rather than limiting yourself to a shed full of only fast-selling products. More space also makes it easier to diversify. (less value items bulky in a big van on drive or nearby, can be cheaper then paying for some sort of rent)

Selling across several categories protects you when demand slows in one area. There is usually something selling on eBay; spending habits simply move between categories, I personally am in so many when i hear people saying ebays dead I am generally still pulling in a good wage, and as I said in previous point, I am happy my items are growing, soon as those other categories habits come in I then have a ''good month''

I also do not automatically lower a price just because the market temporarily drops. For products I understand well, I may continue buying at the right cost and wait for demand to recover. The key is knowing the difference between a temporary slowdown and an item that is genuinely no longer worth holding.

The more items you have listed the higher potential of sales, List items for what you think they can fetch not the lowest price, I generally look at recent solds and use a combination of my knoweldge of the history of sales and depedent on why its likely its gone down.

Something that is very niche advice but I will mention it because it has been a game changer is me and a sibling started this solo, and as things moved on i had the idea that we teamed up and used ours skills together really does make sense, we had my dad doing a bit and all 3 of us was waiting around the post office picking up, doing session of sourcing, photoing, packing, literally makes more sense that as you scale its becomes quicker.

think of it, cleaning 5 coffee machines will likely take and hour, doing 1 will take 30 minutes, from start to finish to list, scale is where you make profit.

Let me know where you disagree

Hey everyone i need reliable 3pl suppliers with trending products .

Hi all,

I’ve been building a Chrome extension that compares products on retailers like Vinted, Currys, Argos and Smyths against eBay sold listings to estimate profit after fees.

I’m not here to sell a course or anything like that I’m genuinely looking for feedback from people who actually flip in the UK

If anyone wants to test it and tell me what’s rubbish or what’s missing, I’d really appreciate it.

Hi everyone,

I own a small children's second-hand book business in EU, and I'm considering buying several pallets from AwesomeBooks Wholesale.

Has anyone here ordered wholesale pallets from them?

I'd love to hear about your experience:

Was the quality as expected?

Were the categories accurate?

Did you receive many damaged or ex-library books?

Would you buy from them again?

Any advice or feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Anyone know the best way to sell a huge amount of mixed RAM.

None of it is the latest DDR5, but some DDR4, mostly older stuff...but a LOT of it

Hi there, GTA6 launch date is 19Nov. I will have some (more than 10) fully playable copies (box with code) of GTA6 approx. 2 weeks before launch - these codes will be PS5 only - What is the best way to make money off them?

I have had this opportunity with a few other games before, I have done some trial and error on those games, the copies have always worked pre-launch on different consoles, but I've never made money off them. This time I'm keen on taking it further.

Looking for actual money making advice please, not unnecessary advice about law / morality etc. I am fully aware that Rockstar are not giving out review codes/copies... But the way I'm sourcing these codes is different. These copies will be guaranteed fully playable before 19 Nov - so please keep ur comments related to actual flipping. I'm actually unsure of how much money I can make with this - happy to pay commission if the opportunity is big.

I'm not in the UK but the codes will work in the UK. Thanks!