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If you are new to selling on eBay, Mecari, Etsy, Poshmark, or any one of the other online marketplaces, one of the hardest things to do is placing the right price on an item you want to resell for a profit. For example, if you price an item too high, it might sit on your […] Read More

On the surface it seems like it’s easy to figure out what an item is worth, eBay openly shows you the listed prices and even has a filter for showing you the actual sold listings of an item. And even with this available pricing information, it’s amazing how often people wrongly price an item they […] Read More

Some flippers feel weird about checking prices in front of others at garage sales, moving sales, swap meets, and the like, is it considered rude behavior to do this? When I was new to reselling on eBay, I felt really weird about checking prices in front of others. I’d do anything to hide my phone […] Read More

Last month I was looking through a box of car magazines at the swap meet and I found a few rare vintage racing program books at the bottom. At the time, I did not know their value and I figured each program book was worth maybe 15 to 20 dollars. To my surprise, one of […] Read More

What are eBay’s fees? It’s a question every new eBay seller has, and is very simple to figure out with a pocket calculator, once you have some insight into how eBay calculates fees. First and foremost, here is an official link to eBay’s fees page, which breaks down the fees for just about every type […] Read More