r/UsedPartsSellers

First 1000 dollar total sales week, selling used auto parts. Before i was only selling on Facebook marketplace locally and was doubting if i should start selling on eBay since it was a lot more work to get everything cleaned, pictured, and posted. But let me tell you it is worth it. The start is always slow but as you get more parts listed the sales drastically increase.

Apart from increased sales and selling parts that would almost never sell on facebook. You also avoid wasting a bunch of time texting back and forth with facebook buyers, setting up meet up times, and they never show up.

With eBay it’s just that satisfying Cha-Ching notification and the part is sold.

Now going all in on eBay lets see where this takes us

If you are selling used auto parts no matter the scale feel free to join r/UsedPartsSellers where we can share experiences, advice, issues, stories, and grow together.

Beginning of 2026 started parting out cars and selling used auto parts. Mostly sold through Facebook marketplace since after trying to post some parts on eBay and there were no sales at all, not even any views. I got discouraged and could not get myself together to keep posting.

3 month two and i got a couple of sales and a month later decided to decided to go all in on eBay as much as i could. And results are surprising.

At around 50 active listings i started to see some vies and a sale or two in a week, at 100 active listings sold 7 parts during the weekend and it seemed it would be like that every time, but the rest of the week had 0 sales. And now at around 200 active listings i started to see daily sales. This week 10 sold so far.

Now the side of this that everyone comes across returns. My first experience with returns happened on my birthday. And further more it wasn’t one return. I open my phone and see 2 returns pending. For a moment my heart rate goes up and i start panicking. Read them, first one states “changed my mind” second one reads “wrong item received” i start contacting the buyers and another return request lands “wrong item received”

This felt like the end of selling on ebay packages got mixed up in the usps facility. I did not have a label printer and they stuck wrong labels on wrong packages. And one of the buyers was really really mad. And understandably, when someone buys car parts most of the time it’s urgent repair.

After returns settled i got 2 negative reviews and sales dropped down for about a week. It really did seem like maybe this is not worth it maybe i should just stick to selling locally. But a couple of positive reviews landed and sales picked up again and better then ever.

My goal is to get to posting 100 parts a week with in the next month

This is still only the beginning and i have a lot to learn. Many of you are more experienced and have a lot to share, your stories, your mistakes, your systems, and a lot of lessons learned. Anything is appreciated, your stories are welcome.

r/UsedPartsSellers

First 1000 dollar week on eBay

2 month 187 active listings 41 sold