Miss my Mazdawg Mazda B2600i ext cab that I played with back in the day. Lowered it to hit every rock and bump on these New England roads like a smart kid, did lights, roll pan, and changed the front end over to Toyota 4x4 for couple extra inches in width and to be able to run the 4 Runner bumper and valance. Ended up taking the 2.6l out and stuck a junkyard 305, 96 crx seats, 4 infinity perfect 10s in the back, did all the fabric work door panels and dash myself, was a fun build over many years just messing with it alittle here and there. Would love to pick up another Mazda Extended Cab and do it all over again. ✌🏻💚🙏🏻
8:48 love your rant and your 1000% correct learned this very quick when i went full time reselling in 98' even back then they did not care about the seller ebay first buyer second seller third that is how it always was and always will be
Slow sales for me but ive decided to start adding higher value faster seller items. And it's working. My average sales are running 35ish per item. Which last year was a whopping 15😂. So overall I'm doing alright.
Your perspective was a bit bleak but accurate. I tried to think of a senario that would cause eBay to value sellers more. Possibly a mass exodus of sellers? But that would just drive the cost of listings up due to scarcity and lack of competition. Ebay would make more money in fees. Only the success of an alternate selling platform would make eBay treat us better, but they still wouldn't care about us.
they dont care about sellers leaving, the economy itself sucking is a boon to their new sellers signing up. they dont care if you've been selling for 20 years on ebay or 20 days, despite paying it lip service at ebay open just to make it look like they care. they dont.
@@onefootflipper Yep. It's a good thing that he has a following on whatnot, otherwise he probably would've been stuck on the platform. I'm glad that sellers have other options these days.
@@zachariah7114 I actually feel like whatnot is a trap for popular social media sellers. They start doing it and get incredible returns at first as their viewers are excited to interact with and buy things from their favorite youtube people. However, almost no one is interested in watching whatnot based content on youtube, and many of the fans will just watch the whatnot stream instead of the youtube videos. Thus over time the monthly views of these sellers will tank, not just drop a little, I am talking an 80 percent long term drop in monthly views that I have seen on multiple channels that went to a whatnot focus. So with their youtube income vanishing they double down on whatnot harder, however eventually people stop paying over market for their items and now they are locked into an intense schedule full of evening shows and they have lost all the freedom that reselling originally gave them.
I'd be very careful with those tapes. Shed Flips sold a lot of tapes like that and eBay pulled it for copyright reasons (probably a troll who watched the video reported them). A real shame, those tapes should go for a good price, the right person will absolutely love to have those recordings if they are rare off-air or concert recordings.
@@theaussienurseflipper.8113 Some American sellers do it too. On the US site you can sometimes get away with it, but not always, almost random as to whether they get pulled or not.
Not a bad idea. I am just personally leery about having items pulled since no one knows how items you can have taken down in a given time before they take action against your account. I just had one pulled last week, total BS, probably an item they don't allow for political reasons (which actually scare me more than copyright takedowns.)
Good video Paige. Gravity stinks sometimes. The falling laundry basket syndrome. Thanks for the haul info. 🤓👍🏻
Yeah, George is a WalMart brand. Blippi is a childrens show. He's no Fred Rogers.
Miss my Mazdawg Mazda B2600i ext cab that I played with back in the day. Lowered it to hit every rock and bump on these New England roads like a smart kid, did lights, roll pan, and changed the front end over to Toyota 4x4 for couple extra inches in width and to be able to run the 4 Runner bumper and valance. Ended up taking the 2.6l out and stuck a junkyard 305, 96 crx seats, 4 infinity perfect 10s in the back, did all the fabric work door panels and dash myself, was a fun build over many years just messing with it alittle here and there. Would love to pick up another Mazda Extended Cab and do it all over again. ✌🏻💚🙏🏻
I am going much, much milder this time. Not going to do anything that would require repainting the truck.
8:48 love your rant and your 1000% correct learned this very quick when i went full time reselling in 98' even back then they did not care about the seller ebay first buyer second seller third that is how it always was and always will be
"Get only sales by accident" - love it!
Yep, either they accidentally price something right or someone accidentally buys their item without seeing if someone else has a better price.
An idea for a future video. Why does eBay like sellers to have a lot of negative feedbacks?
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Good video Paige. The ebay buyers vs sellers was an eye awakening truth. Good for us resellers to understand the occasional Karen. #onefootflipper
Slow sales for me but ive decided to start adding higher value faster seller items. And it's working. My average sales are running 35ish per item. Which last year was a whopping 15😂. So overall I'm doing alright.
good content, enjoyed
Glad you enjoyed
Your perspective was a bit bleak but accurate. I tried to think of a senario that would cause eBay to value sellers more. Possibly a mass exodus of sellers? But that would just drive the cost of listings up due to scarcity and lack of competition. Ebay would make more money in fees. Only the success of an alternate selling platform would make eBay treat us better, but they still wouldn't care about us.
And that mass exodus driving prices up would just bring more new sellers in.
they dont care about sellers leaving, the economy itself sucking is a boon to their new sellers signing up. they dont care if you've been selling for 20 years on ebay or 20 days, despite paying it lip service at ebay open just to make it look like they care. they dont.
We had the same topic today pretty much.
I will need to go check that out.
Hey Paige,
Thanks for another interesting video.
Question: Who buys all those old phones? Collectors? Preppers? ETs? 👽👾🤖👻
I think it is a collectors, people making vintage rooms, and studio theatre people.
Lots of prop companies buy things like that. Had a few buy vintage phones over the years.
10:00 They lost Philly Phlipper this week, and he probably sold over $100k per year on the platform. smh 🙄
I believe he said his most recent 90 day was only around $9000, he had already shifted pretty hard to whatnot.
@@onefootflipper Yep. It's a good thing that he has a following on whatnot, otherwise he probably would've been stuck on the platform. I'm glad that sellers have other options these days.
@@onefootflipper well I wonder why he shifted away from ebay. Could it be they pushed him in that direction?
@@zachariah7114 I actually feel like whatnot is a trap for popular social media sellers. They start doing it and get incredible returns at first as their viewers are excited to interact with and buy things from their favorite youtube people. However, almost no one is interested in watching whatnot based content on youtube, and many of the fans will just watch the whatnot stream instead of the youtube videos. Thus over time the monthly views of these sellers will tank, not just drop a little, I am talking an 80 percent long term drop in monthly views that I have seen on multiple channels that went to a whatnot focus. So with their youtube income vanishing they double down on whatnot harder, however eventually people stop paying over market for their items and now they are locked into an intense schedule full of evening shows and they have lost all the freedom that reselling originally gave them.
Awesome video
I'd be very careful with those tapes. Shed Flips sold a lot of tapes like that and eBay pulled it for copyright reasons (probably a troll who watched the video reported them). A real shame, those tapes should go for a good price, the right person will absolutely love to have those recordings if they are rare off-air or concert recordings.
If that happens I put them on a shelf and a 6 months later I sell them without showing the labels.
@johnathin0061892 He could list them on his secondary card account for less risk.
@@theaussienurseflipper.8113 Some American sellers do it too. On the US site you can sometimes get away with it, but not always, almost random as to whether they get pulled or not.
Not a bad idea. I am just personally leery about having items pulled since no one knows how items you can have taken down in a given time before they take action against your account. I just had one pulled last week, total BS, probably an item they don't allow for political reasons (which actually scare me more than copyright takedowns.)
Ebay has been nothing but good to me.
famous last words
You're singin' to the quire, brother - eBay sucks.
I wish there was an actual equivalent option.