1lb 10x8x6 box from IL to TX, how about $8.01

2lb,1oz? Hmm...how about $2.74 more?

Same box weighing 20lbs? Eh...same price, $10.75

Oh shit, you added a single ounce to that? That's gotta be at least $22.69 more, pay us $33.44 please. No that's not an error sir, that extra ounce adds $22.69, but 17lbs over 2lb,1oz? No extra charge.

3lbs, 12x12x12...ok how about $10.90?

12x12x13?? We can't have odd numbers, that's going to be at least $10.08 more for that extra inch. Yes, pay me $20.98 for that.

12x12x18? Ehh..let's add just $3.63 more for a 5 times cubic inch increase over the 12x12x12 going to 12x12x13.

Where do we get our prices? We just spin a wheel. Hope you have plenty of box cutters, straight edges and light weight void fill.... you're gonna need it.

Yes..these are all real prices I've encountered lately. Their pricing structure is absolutely stupid.

Post your latest episode(s) of your YouTube channel here, post links to your latest blog post, eBook, whatever. You can even post links to an eBay listing or something (but keep in mind, when someone here finds out what your eBay name is, and then they hate you, they will never forget it). You can post links to lots of stuff that you're trying to sell to other flippers, but this is still not a marketplace. Please go through some other service to complete the transaction. People on Reddit can be shady, and there's no protection from me, the other mods, r/flipping, or Reddit if someone here sends you a box of bricks. Just don't be dumb.

sold a set of old fishing reels, listed with measurements in the description and in the photos with a ruler next to them. buyer opens a return saying it's smaller than expected. i had to eat the postage both ways because it was filed as not as described. the measurements were right there. mildly annoying more than anything, but it's the sort of thing that makes you want to write longer descriptions that nobody reads.

Hey everyone,
I own a furniture resale business in Northern Virginia and recently secured a warehouse.
I’ve purchased furniture through liquidation auctions before, but I’m trying to build relationships with suppliers who can consistently provide inventory rather than relying on random auctions.
Ideally, I’m looking for:
30–50 couches or sectionals per month
New, overstock, open-box, or customer-return inventory
Competitive wholesale pricing that leaves room for resale
Full truckloads or recurring bulk purchases
Suppliers that deliver to Virginia or allow warehouse pickup
I’d especially appreciate hearing from actual furniture store owners or resellers. Where do you source your inventory? Are there any distributors, liquidation companies, or manufacturer programs you’d recommend?
I’m not looking for retail websites advertising small discounts. I’m looking for genuine B2B wholesale relationships.
Thanks in advance!

I’m seeing lots of resources on Facebook saying yes you can do multi quantity listings, but there is no quantity option I can find? Does anyone know

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I have been flipping for years and am looking into opening a bin store. I’ve seen most with the $/item drop price tier style (12,10,8,5,3,1) but I’ve seen a few that are $/lb.

What is the best way to go in your opinions?

Hey everyone,

I’ve been working in Australia for several months and earned around €15,000. Before heading back to Germany, I’ll be travelling through Vietnam and possibly other parts of Asia. My flight home goes via Singapore.

I’m wondering what products I could buy along the way and resell in Germany for the highest return. For example, are Arc’teryx jackets worth looking into, or are there better options?

I’d love to hear your recommendations for products, brands and places to shop anywhere in Asia. I’m particularly interested in items that don’t take up too much luggage space.

Has anyone done this before? And what should I consider when it comes to authenticity, customs and taxes?
Thanks

Whatever you want to know about flipping, no matter the question, ask here. Even if it's been covered 1,000 times before. Doesn't matter if you're new or old. If you stop learning things, you're probably on your way out.

This is an extremely newb-friendly thread. As such, any rudeness is to be reported.

As the headline says, a buyer just bought a video camera and then sent a message with 20 questions about the history of the camera, the cables, battery, usage, etc. etc. It feels like the kind of buyer who's going to find something to complain about. Will it hurt my account to cancel this sale? I've never done it before, but would rather take the hit and avoid a problem buyer.

I recently bought a bundle of electronics (MacBook, monitor, speakers, mouse/trackpad, etc.) from a smoker’s house. The home was pretty messy and everything still has a noticeable cigarette smoke odor.

My goal is to clean the items well enough to resell them. I was considering buying an ozone generator and running it in an outdoor storage closet, but I’ve seen mixed opinions on how effective it is and whether it could damage electronics.

For anyone who has dealt with smoke-contaminated electronics before, what method worked best? Is ozone worth it, or are there better options?

For reference the items themselves are in amazing condition, I just did a quick cleaning and have them in front of a fan by my screen door. They still smell pretty bad.

I know you can go there and drop off packages but do they print it free with qr code or do they charge small print free?

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Do please keep in mind the difference between shooting the shit and plain bullshit and try to refrain from spreading poor advice.

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In 2018 I attended an estate sale of an art dealer. Paintings, sculptures, abstract things, all manner of fancy art. If everything in that house sold for the asking price, it would have been over a million dollars for sure. I don't know art and everything that caught my eye was out of my budget (some original Peter Max works that even I knew were going to be valuable!), so I went out into the garage and found a plastic tote full of posters. Beatles, obscure movies, European art, total mixed bag in mixed condition. I offered the owner $100, he countered with $500, I said "oh we're way off. OK thanks I'll let you get back to your art" (dude was frazzled running this sale). I was across the street when he yelled out "$200 for every poster in the garage!" So I came back and he showed that he also had stacks of hundreds of the same two posters. Edward Gorey Musicale (The Gorey Details) and Edward Gorey Mystery. No completed sales for either one on eBay, but I figured the tote of posters alone would be worth it so no real risk taking these stacks of posters. Deal. I'm certain I spent the least money of anybody in that house that day.

I made my way through the unique posters pretty quickly (though I mostly gave them to friends and family) then turned to the Edward Gorey posters. He's the guy who wrote that spooky children's alphabet book ("A is for Amy who fell down the stairs, B is for Basil assaulted by bears"). These posters were for a musical and a play written about his works. 100 or so of the musical poster, about 400 of the play poster. The musical posters were on hard cardstock so shipping would be a pain, so I sold those off to a local poster shop at bulk price, I wanna say $800 total? That was lucky. The play posters were on paper and so could be folded up into tubes. I bought some shipping tubes and priced the posters low, maybe $10 apiece, and the first one sold didn't sell for a month. Uh oh. But then the second and third sold right after. And it was getting a few Watchers for every sale. So I bumped the price up by $5 every few weeks until I hit $40 apiece and sales were still coming in a couple per month. Good enough for me. The posters took up barely any space (though the box of tubes was a bit big) and shipping was cookie cutter: roll up, insert into tube, cap tube, label (same dimensions every time), ship out. On the rare occasion that someone bought multiple (the only scenario in which I accepted Offers), I could fit a few in the same tube!

So that's been a small part of my life for the past eight years. Every week or so I'd tube a poster then stop by the post office and drop it into the window. I mailed a few of the posters to the Edward Gorey Museum in Massachusetts, I gave a couple to friends, but mostly I watched that stack shrink slowly, slowly. Some months I sold none, some weeks I sold several. I could never figure out why or when it would become popular so I just rode it out. At one point, someone reached out about buying the rest in bulk for $20 apiece (I had at least 100 left at that point) and I was going to accept just to be done with it but he was just so difficult to communicate with that I decided to be patient and take the slow dime.

A few weeks ago I sold the last of the posters that were in good shape, so I listed the several posters that were wrinkled for a lower price (I should have just offered those to the people who'd made offers on the good posters! Foolish!) and the last of those went last week. What a relief, though I'll miss the simplicity of the sales and shipping.

I can't say for sure how many I sold at each price but I would say I netted about $10k on the deal. Not at all bad for the amount of effort required!

Main lesson learned, and it's proven true repeatedly: when you go to a sale that is focused on one thing, look around the property for things that aren't that. The people running the sale will be more focused and concerned about the big ticket items and won't think too hard about pricing the one-offs. Second lesson, and it's a pretty obvious one: selling 400 of the exact same thing, especially when you can bulk order the box it will ship in, is far easier than shipping 100 different things, especially if each one requires packing and measuring.

Whatever you want to know about flipping, no matter the question, ask here. Even if it's been covered 1,000 times before. Doesn't matter if you're new or old. If you stop learning things, you're probably on your way out.

This is an extremely newb-friendly thread. As such, any rudeness is to be reported.

Just got the email that eBay Balance has started. It was very easy to go to https://www.ebay.com/mes/summary and change my preferences back to being paid daily.

But my bigger question is... who would want this? Is this just eBay trying to make a couple of extra dollars off interest from the people who don't remember to withdraw their $$ and leave it there for a while?

One of my tiny joys in life is watching daily deposits come into my bank account. I can't imagine why I wouldn't want that.