r/Flipping

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.

I am currently repainting and adding nails to couches to flip them, but quickly running out of customers.

Anyone have any low effort flips? Not scummy enough to flip cars so don’t ask

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?

I came from a wordsy marketing career before getting into flipping, and about two years into the game I still feel really overwhelmed with tracking sales and cost of goods.

I keep most receipts and try my best to log everything down, but I just find it really tedious and time consuming so I procrastinate and sometimes put off the task of logging sales and receipts into a spreadsheet until the end of the month.

How do y’all stay on top of it?

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.

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'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.

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

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

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.

Hi everyone,

I just want to know, is reselling items from online auctions in the US a thing? I’m from England and i’ve been doing it with UK Online Auctions for about 3 years.

I recently made my own tool that scans auctions, compares every listing with eBay sold prices, calculates a maximum bid after considering added fees/postage, etc. It then displays these and allows you to simply click on them, takes you to that specific listing, also a button to take you to eBay sold listings for you to do your further research.

This tool has saved me countless amount of hours and found me silly amounts of profitable items, even the most random things such as dyson hand dryers, professional lawn bowls and a portable toilet…

I would like to know does this sound useful in the US space? Please let me know your feedback!

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!