u/ConclusionHeavy6003

Speed matters when you’re competing for newly listed inventory obviously. But there’s a point where more alerts just becomes more noise. If you’re tracking hundreds of products, even a fairly targeted search can pull in weird titles, wrong models, parts, bad conditions, overpriced listings, etc. I relised you end up spending more time qualifying alerts than actually buying. Curious how other high-volume buyers handle this. Do you keep searches really narrow and risk missing oddly listed items, or search wider and use filters/rules to sort out the junk afterward?

For sellers that source parts internationally on ebay, I keep running into listings where the price looks great until you work out what it costs to get the thing to you. $70 vs $85 sounds obvious, except the $70 one is overseas with $24 shipping and the $85 one is domestic/free shipping. Once you’re checking a bunch of listings, comparing the number ebay puts in front of you isn’t really comparing the same thing anymore. How are you guys handling this when sourcing inventory? Are you calculating landed cost on everything, filtering international listings out or just getting good enough at eyeballing it?