About a year ago I hit a wall when it came to my eBay reselling business. I had bought thousands of items from thrift stores, perused yard sales until my eyes bled, and even bought a dozen pallets from liquidation.com. One day I was sifting through other people’s eBay sales on Instagram and saw someone …
When we first started selling on eBay, we had things stashed in cupboards…then sneaking across the floor, then creeping out of our small extra bedroom. eBay quickly took over our house and left us having nightmares. Things were impossible to find when they sold and we had no room for new inventory. Our pride in …
List Perfectly is probably the most important piece of software we use in our reselling businesses. When it goes down or doesn’t work right, I wouldn’t say that it’s catastrophic but it definitely disturbs our workflow. Luckily, List Perfectly is rarely down. However, when it is, we have found several fixes and work-around that have …
In the past, there have been some absolutely crazy items sold on eBay (a potato chip shaped like Beyonce’s face comes to mind…) However, this was mostly in the days when they weren’t many other online alternatives. Now, however, many unusual items are sent to auction houses or other places to be sold for top …
Nothing hurts worse than picking up a beautiful wool jacket at a thrift store, only to find out that the original owner threw it in the dryer and shrunk it. Or a fleece that is pilly beyond belief. In fact, sometimes I wish people would donate their clothing without washing it. Except for when they …
Three years ago we had huge plans for the coming year on eBay. We had started selling thrifted stuff on eBay full-time just a couple of months before and had plans to double our sales in the next 12 months. This meant getting our monthly sales up to around the $15,000 mark which we knew …
During the golden days of eBay, my wife and I would always upgrade our phones for free. We would find a killer deal on a new or refurbished iPhone and then resell our old one. We obviously didn’t get the same amount for our old one that we paid for a new phone but we …
One of my first exposures to shipping via media mail came before I even started reselling on eBay. My wife encouraged me to sell my textbooks on Amazon at the end of every semester instead of selling them back to the campus bookstore. I was all about making more money but, like most people in …
Having a package not delivered where or when it is supposed to be is one of the major headaches that can come with shipping. We ship hundreds of items a month through our eBay business and, more months than not, we have packages lost in the mail, damaged, end up at zip code 01153, etc. …
I’ll admit it, I don’t love actually shipping things after I sell them. I love almost every other part of my business but actually boxing things up to ship out is such a drag. Because of this, I had hesitated to spend much time looking at (or improving) my shipping set-up and my old LP2844 …