/biz/ - Business & Finance

They need to fix the Quickbooks integration asap

Also, promotions are essential now

>>55818167
Baffled this piece of shit hasn’t been usurped yet

>>55818167
>ebay shill thread #5743
Buy an ad you cheap faggots.

>>55818167

>>55818167
>get off a 10 day restriction
>2 days later get another one
Yeah this is winding down for me by the looks of it. Oh well, did 10k in sales and made about 2k. I'll keep going until I get permabanned.

>>55818618
Selling *what?*

>>55818167
The fee structure is absolutely fucked now and they pay out to your bank account instead of paypal for tax purposes it's over.

>>55818625
Dropshipping stuff from Amazon

This weekly propaganda ebay posts make me bullish on the stock

>>55818384
This. I'm almost certain they can't afford the server power, so their algo seemingly shadow bans everybody on a rotational basis. I notice I now only make a couple sales a week during 2-3 consecutive days vs selling every other day like a few years ago

>>55818372
I have been having coaching from an e-Bay promotions expert (salesman). It is true. That is a sea of crap on e-Bay and only promotions get you to the top.

>>55818372
Just use excel

>>55818618
Not worth the risk for a permaban. What do they get you on? Shipping times or cancelled orders? I just could never live with treating customers like shit and making them wait a week before something ships out

>>55818167
Everyone on 4chan makes 200k wageslaving except you, they don't need an ebay store. That's what my pals on 4chan told me.

>>55818804
Mostly it's for selling fake shit. That's why I never resell second hand luxury shit I find like Rolex watches, Gucci or Louis V handbags because a snooty brand designer can claim your shit is fake whether or not you know it's real and the ebay operator is a retarded poolina who isn't an expert on these things, so if you can't provide a receipt, your strike still stands

>>55818167
I've sold a couple items I didn't need anymore. Not sure what niche I could get into as far as running a store. But overall, it's been a good experience.

>>55818790
I knew it. Promotions is the new shakedown from the mafia

>>55818167
could I sell crypto stable coins on there for a 12% margin using low quantities? say $50 of USDC for $66.31 (12% after fees)?

>>55818372
I didn't use promotions ever for years. I figured sales would slow down with a lot of normies being financially obliterated so I started on them. Usually like 3.5-5% eBay recommends some funny numbers with their algorithms. It's like 50% of my fucking sales now. Basically just another permanent fee increase. Every year the Internet becomes more saturated and e-commerce becomes more expensive to do. Aaaa

>>55818384
I mean their primary competitors are Amazon (just as shitty but with a nicer UI) and Craigslist (which is still a 90s style directory lol. Not that that's a bad thing.)

>>55818922
I make $200k and still have side hustles. If I knew how to make a couple hundred bucks on ebay each month, I'd totally do it.

>>55820491
What kind of side hustles? Making something decent from them?

>>55818430
...you think ebay is advertising themselves on 4chan?

>>55820455
checked, you manually change to 3.5-5%? Does it work? They always default me to like 12% and it's like a shakedown

>>55820457
Wouldn’t Mercari be one of their main competitors? It’s pretty popular

>>55820513
I sign up for new credit card and bank accounts for the bonuses, do online/in-person surveys and studies, stake ETH. Not counting my staked ETH, I'm averaging $1200 per month this year. Staking is another $3000 a month at current prices.
>picrelated

>>55820592

No auctions on Mercari though.

>>55818167
My store is going through some slow times currently, mostly because I have been putting less effort into it. I honestly feel like shutting it down to focus on university. With the amount of time I have to dedicate to it I can't make any worth while profits anymore.

>>55820629
Might have to look into churning offers from banks. Been doing surveys but not getting a whole lot, here in Australia there just doesn't seem to be as many offered. Maybe I need to use a VPN and say i'm from Kentucky or something

>>55818742
lol

i smell curried hands

>>55820672
I'm not sure how that would work out. The highest paying online studies are specific to my healthcare career. I guess you could look up some American practitioner's licensing info and impersonate them.

>>55820693
Yeah it's pretty jeetish, i've even had people on eBay try to dropship from me because an item has ran out of stock. Still, considering the ridiculous things the rich do to make money, this is far from the worst thing I could be doing.
>>55820694
I've seen other people making 1.5-2k in focus groups, I doubt they're all in healthcare. Mind sharing what sites you use, or will it get flooded?

>>55818167
Currently selling off my DS/3DS collection that I built up when that console was reaching its EOL. I’ve also sold a few guitars on there over the past decade or so.

eBay has been fine, but their fees are bordering on outrageous and you get a lot of shitty “Karen” buyers wanting 18 pictures of the cellophane corners of a $29 Zelda game. I don’t think I’d have the patience to make a living doing this, that’s for sure.

>>55820717
Sure but most are specific to my location and career..
CIC (biggest and easiest moneymaker)
Curion (second biggest)
Jackson Associates
Compass Marketing Research
Fieldwork
Sago
Medscape
Sermo
Impact Network
InCrowd Answers
Brand Institute

>>55820750
Nice, i'll check those out. I use UserTesting and normally make $200 a month off that, have you had much luck there?

>>55820574
eBay itself suggests those numbers to me. I have seen 9.8% several times, but never double digits. But yeah I don't pick anything over 6%, I just slide it down to around there if they suggest over. I've been happy with it. I have so much fucking stuff to sell too so I'd rather have more volume than minimal fees.

>>55820777
How long did it take to get $200? If it's less than $50 per hour, I won't bother with it lol

>>55820787
That's from testing websites and stuff across the month, and usually about one 1 on 1 interview in there as well. Each one pays $10, then the interviews are $30 for 30 minutes and $60 for 60 minutes, but they're usually even shorter than that.

>>55820661
I shut my store down. You'd have to sell so many items a day and have an inventory of at least 5k items for sale to quit your day job. Listing and finding the right price is very time consuming. You can't rely on ebay's bot pricing or recommended promo percentages. Then you're packing, shipping shit which also takes time. Next thing you know, half your day is already spent plus you're open 24/7 so you have to constantly answer questions, deal with returns, prep for shipping, even when you're just trying to chill. I've heard youtubers hiring help but they ended up laying people off because nobody is going to list shit for you for $8/hr all day anymore lol

My store has been dead since March.
Definitely a recession. People dont have the spare funds to buy video games from me like before. Combined with summer slowdown and its dead.

God news is this is flushing out all the retards who thought it was easy money. I’ve noticed a rapid race to the bottom on so many niches. People desperately trying to unload and never look back. Gonna suck up the marketshare for some of my items once it picks up

>>55818618
>>55818742

Are you using a mass API lister to list from Amazon to Ebay? You can likely get tools that speed up the process and avoid their flags.

I'm interested in how this works though getting arbitrage from Amazon to Ebay sounds hilarious and hard to understand how there is even a profit available to be made.

How do I evade ebay permaban?

>>55822181
just don’t sell on eBay

>>55822183
Then where can I sell? Meetups are not an option

>>55822167
Yeah it's called AutoDS. It's a bit janky and i've had to get support to unfuck it a few times but it still saves me plenty of time.
I try to profit about $7 an item. The thinking is that you find 7 or 8 items that sell once a day and you're making a considerable profit, but then other people find those items and dropship them too.

>>55818167
can i buy aardvark pussy on ebay?

>>55822205
>Yeah it's called AutoDS.

Ill check it out thanks. There are other services you can add on top as well like automated daily item repricing to stay competitive.

How many items did you have listed to get to $10,000 sales and 2,000 profit? How long did it take as well?

How are you deciding on what to buy exactly? What tools do you use to identify the arbitrage?

The idea of having Amazon do the heavy lifting and all I have to do is do research, list items, and deal with customers sounds awesome.

>>55822205
>AutoDS

So what is flagging you then if you are using a non API lister? AutoDS looks insanely helpful

>>55822260
I have about 300 items listed. I'd have more but the last 4 months i've put pretty much all my time and effort into airdrop farming. Try to list up at least 5 a day. I've been doing this since November last year.
>How are you deciding on what to buy exactly? What tools do you use to identify the arbitrage?
Find other dropshippers on eBay by finding ones with >1000 reviews and see what's selling for them. If you can find one that has 10+ sales and its listed on Amazon for cheaper, that's a dropshipper. Then you copy that item at a slightly lower price or find a similar item. I don't use any tools to identify the arbitrage, it's simply a matter of what it's listed for on Amazon versus what competitors on eBay are listing it at.
>So what is flagging you then if you are using a non API lister? AutoDS looks insanely helpful
They haven't told me specifically what's violating their terms of service so it's hard to say.

>>55822291
>They haven't told me specifically what's violating their terms of service so it's hard to say.

Do they allude to drop shipping at all or they give pretty much nothing? Also you probably already do this but if you don't you should apply for the Amazon credit card that gives 5% cash back on your Amazon purchases. You can just rotate cards once your rewards are capped but you could probably net another 3-5% annually just from that.

You could also hypothetically buy Amazon gift cards at discount in bulk to buy your inventory. I think its another 2-3% on the gift card discounts if you buy $500 worth.

Credit cards sometimes stack with gift cards as well.

>>55822319
>Activity on your account didn't follow our Third-party fulfilment policy. Third-party fulfilment must not be confusing or misleading to buyers and must protect buyer’s personal data.
That's what they said but they didn't say what items didn't follow the policy. I'd gotten away with using Amazon tracking numbers for a long time but I imagine that's what it is. I'll have to start using Track Taco to obfuscate them.
The Amazon card isn't offered here in Australia otherwise i'd 100% be on it.
If it's a cash flow thing you're worried about you can use Zip directly through Amazon, or what I do is do Afterpay with Amazon gift cards, that way I only pay a quarter of the amount of the item upfront and when I get the money for the sale 2 or 3 days later I use it to pay off the card and pocket the rest.

>>55818167
>customer service

I wish I was not such an aggressive person because I could make a lot of money on ebay but I will not be able to prevent myself from calling people faggots that should kill themselves

>>55818167
When I worked at university IT a few years ago in college I would take the CPU's out of old PC's we managed that were being decommissioned and taken to surplus for wholesale auctions and would sell them on ebay and buy ETH. This was back in 2019, mostly I7 4790s, got like $200 - $250 each. Even grabbed a Radeon video card that I knew had been unaccounted for and sold for $400 in the GPU crisis.

>selling $1000 drum sampler
>no one buying because I have refunds not accepted.
>turn on refunds, someone buys it
>send to buyer
>buyer tries it for a couple days and starts a return
>return reason "Item was perfect, i just didnt like it"
yeah i think im done with ebay. should have never turned on returns but no one will buy it with returns off. lots so much time and money.

>>55820836
pretty much this. unless you are selling the same product over and over and have it extremely streamlined with listing and shipping, its a complete waste of time. I been selling vintage items past couple months and sometimes it would take me an hour to pack a more breakable item, then take the time to drive to ship it, etc etc...huge waste of time.

>>55818167
ebay has been dead
easier to just join a discord and skip all the bullshit

>>55824510
people think they can do this shit everywhere because of amazon
thank bezos

Do you need to promote listings if you have high user feedback? My listings seem to rank high despite not buying ads. Also some of my listings rank on Google