$1,437 in 5 hours this week from 10 flips, also open to affiliate deals with recurring pay per sub for the paid version
$1,437 net profit on 5 hours of actual work this week, 10 items closed. Wanted to share the playbook properly because the community I built around this has been running variations of the same setup, and the numbers across the board are getting hard to ignore.
For context, I am a 20 year old CS student, and a few months back I built a free open-source bot that watches Facebook Marketplace, Wallapop, Vinted, and Mercari, and pings Discord the moment a listing matches a filter you set. Repo is here, https://github.com/ethanashi/fbm-sniper-community
This week was Apple heavy, which has honestly been the trend for me lately. Here is the full breakdown of the 10 flips, all on eBay UK.
- MBP 16" M3 Pro, £1,250 to £1,549, +£299
- MBP 14" M2 Pro, £780 to £999, +£219
- MBP 14" M4, £720 to £899, +£179
- iPad Pro 12.9" M2, £480 to £625, +£145
- AirPods Max Silver, £240 to £329, +£89
- Apple Watch S10, £255 to £329, +£74
- Dell Inspiron 15, £120 to £179, +£59
- Akai MPC Studio, £40 to £74.99, +£35
- PS5 DualSense Camo, £25 to £49.50, +£24.50
- PS5 DualSense White, £20 to £39.99, +£20
After eBay fees and shipping, that comes out to roughly $1,437 USD net at the current conversion rate. The five hours split roughly into 90 minutes of seller messages, two hours of pickups, and the rest on listing and packing.
A few things from the playbook that are working consistently for the community right now.
The first one is that speed is everything, and I really mean everything. Most decent listings on Facebook Marketplace are dead within fifteen minutes of being posted, because there are always five other resellers watching the category. The bot pings, you reply within sixty seconds with the same dead simple script every time, which is "Hi, still available, I can pay today." Do not negotiate over text, do not ask five questions, just lock in the meetup and inspect on pickup. The whole edge is that you are the first message in the seller's inbox.
The second one is the filter recipe, which I will give you exactly. Set the model name, set the max price at 60 to 65 percent of the recent eBay sold comps, and exclude these words in the listing text, "icloud, locked, cracked, parts, for repair, read description." That exclude list is doing most of the heavy lifting because it filters out the listings that look promising in the title but turn out to be junk in the description.
The third one is that Macbooks have been a goldmine for the last two months. Three of them this week did £697 in combined profit, which is more than half the total. People list their old Macbook Pros based on what they remember paying for them, not based on what they are actually worth now. The M2 Pro this week was a guy upgrading to an M4 who just wanted it gone the same day, and the bot caught the listing within about three minutes of it going live.
The fourth one is that the smaller flips still matter, even when the headline ones are the Macbooks. The two PS5 controllers, the Akai MPC, the Dell, that is £138.50 of profit combined on stuff that took about an hour total of work across the whole week. The bot pings on all of it, so the marginal effort of grabbing the small ones is almost zero once you are already out doing pickups.
One offhand thing while I am here, I have been looking for a few people who can help spread the word on the paid hosted version of the bot, basically affiliate style with recurring pay per sub. If you run a flipping channel or a side hustle audience anywhere and you would be down to talk numbers, just message me and we can figure something out.
Happy to break down the filter setup, the Macbook angle specifically, shipping logistics, the math on which categories print, whatever you want to dig into.