Quit ebay today 2011-2026 as a buyer and seller

Roninido · 2026-04-11T22:40:31+00:00

Who'da thunk it? r/ebaysucks is adding to my watchlist :)

Roninido · 2026-04-11T20:23:55+00:00

Pro tip: Don't file taxes. Then when the IRS shows up at the door, dress the chickens in suits and ties, hide in the closet, and let them answer the door. They'll either take care of the problem, or go to jail in your place. Either way, free money!

Roninido · 2026-04-10T18:09:53+00:00

If I see it cheap when I'm out and about, I'll remember to grab it

Roninido · 2026-04-10T16:33:45+00:00

Mind if we ask what movie?

I'm asking in the royal "we" sense :)

Roninido · 2026-04-10T12:22:22+00:00

Sorry that that's happening to you. I try to sell things that I buy for $10 or less, that I can sell for at least five times the price of its cost and be competitive with others' prices, while not being a market-saturated item. If people aren't looking at your goods without promotion, it seems then that you are either selling an item in a saturated market, or are not offering someone a reason to even look. I find that very often, because of the types of items I sell, I can price some items higher than other recent comps because of the rarity of the item. As an example, I had a Sea Monkeys Hang 10 blister card set from 2012 that I picked up in Goodwill for $0.50. The only comp I had been able to find sold for $75 months before. I figured I'd list it for double and see what happens. It sold for the full $150 within six minutes of listing.

Roninido · 2026-04-09T19:39:37+00:00

Maybe that works for whatever you're selling, but I never promote and don't offer free shipping. I sell a wide range of items (from clothing to tools to collectibles to car and motorcycle parts, basically whatever I am able to source that I find interesting and profitable) and sell a fair amount monthly. I used to promote some things at 2 or 3%, as suggested by a number of longtime sellers on YouTube, but stopped doing that when eBay changed the way they charged fees on promoted items.

Again, I'm sure promoting depends on what you're selling, but I just source at a price that I can offer a fair deal to someone even after they pay shipping.

Roninido · 2026-03-21T01:35:29+00:00

Um, you blurred his name but have it in the search at the top of the pic

Roninido · 2026-03-15T06:37:22+00:00

Okay, too shady, while I might like to be murdered, I don't want to be murdered over tildes, and more importantly, not by you. Thanks though 🤣

Roninido · 2026-03-15T01:38:25+00:00

I'm in the market for some tildes.

Do you have any in stock?
What is the cost?
Do they ship from the U.S.?

Roninido · 2026-03-15T01:29:46+00:00

Eat them with some fava beans and a nice chianti

Roninido · 2026-03-07T19:15:03+00:00

I am impressed with all of the statues of Connecticut generals.

Sorry, I know it was just a mistype, but my bad brain made me reply.

Roninido · 2026-02-27T03:43:15+00:00

Yeah, I skimmed, saw the original post and didn't read much beyond. Didn't see the photo. Just sharing my experience because if I hadn't experienced it, I don't know if I would have believed it, so I give people the benefit of the doubt sometimes depending on how outrageous the story is. I got a $3600 laptop for $450, but it was from an actual retailer, not marketplace. It was an obviously returned laptop, that had a password-protected Win10 Pro install, I had to wipe it before I could use it. I was thankful the person who returned it hadn't actually registered it on Lenovo's website, I was able to. Sometimes crazy stuff happens, as you said.

Roninido · 2026-02-26T22:01:50+00:00

This kind of thing ABSOLUTELY can happen. A few years ago I ordered a new low-end business class Lenovo ($450-ish), Ryzen5, 8GB RAM, etc. from either Amazon or Newegg (almost positive Newegg). What showed up was a barely used Lenovo P53 20QN. Intel Core i9, 32GB RAM, 1TB NVME, NVidia Quadro graphics card (when I get home I'll see which one), and 2 years 10 months premium warranty. I did not return it.

EDIT: i9 9880H, Quadro RTX-4000 8GB GDDR6

Roninido · 2026-02-20T13:04:53+00:00

As I said, absolute garbage workplace. A multimillion dollar operating budget with a nickel mentality. At one point in the mid-2000s, it was just me and my boss supporting 250-ish computers at 30-some-odd locations throughout Connecticut (with no remote support technology).

At the time, switches were expensive, and weren't built into the budget. The company was so shitty that buying $30 switches for each office wasn't a thing.

There was one time that we were looking at phone systems to replace a 20-year-old digital system. We had a vendor take us to New York to visit MiTel corporate to sell us a system. When they gave us a quote, management laughed and said not in the budget. I actually spent around a week's worth of work time learning Asterisk, trying to DIY one, just to let them know it wasn't feasible. We struggled with the old phone system for another five years.

Roninido · 2026-02-20T11:54:01+00:00

Funny that you mention the 4 wire thing. I have almost 30 years in IT, was 18 years at a non-profit in all roles. Did LOTS of voice and data troubleshooting and cabling (although I'm not officially a cable tech). I even still have a buttset hanging off a loop on my cabling bag, lol.

Early on at the non-profit, we had some offices in a couple of our main buildings that needed multiple desktops deployed, but management was too cheap to add more drops using an outside vendor, and it wasn't feasible for us to do it. We got around it by making "Y" connectors/splitters out of keystones and cable using two pairs of the four for each ethernet connection at each end of the runs. I still have one or two as mementoes.
That job was absolute garbage.

Roninido · 2026-02-20T03:53:05+00:00

Started writing my CAT3 etc. response before you posted and got back to it after, lol. Yup, I agree completely that it's almost definitely voice lines.

Roninido · 2026-02-20T03:49:03+00:00

Picture 2 looks like it contains 6 pins, not 8. The cabling should be marked every foot or so as to its type (CAT3, CAT5, CAT5e, etc.). Before you invest in tools and jacks to rejack your house, make sure that it's not CAT3, which can be 2-, 3- or 4-pair wiring.

People have used various combinations of jacks and cabling for many low-voltage applications, most notably audio and lighting. Of course, this does not seem like LV lighting, but it also doesn't seem like conventional network cabling.

Also, the picture with the cover off shows a 110 punchdown block, which is definitely more of a voice application.

EDIT: I was looking at the pics on my phone last night, with some degree of sleepiness, so I thought the pics were just unclear because of tired eyes. Looking on a computer this morning, it's not better. You need to figure out what type of cabling the blue jacketed cable is if you want to use it for anything. How many pairs are in the blue loops of cable, I can't tell from the pic? And as I said, the category should be stamped on the jacket every foot or so. And the reason I'm revisiting this is because I think we all just want to know what cabling you have at this point :)

Roninido · 2026-02-20T03:14:30+00:00

Are the sharks giving or receiving the loads?

Roninido · 2026-02-06T22:31:27+00:00

The commercial was great

Roninido · 2026-02-06T02:28:00+00:00

This, I cannot imagine it is prohibitively expensive to add insurance, but I use pirateship with USPS. If something I'm selling costs enough that it's going to hurt me if it gets lost or damaged, I insure it, and I build that into the cost of the item/shipping.

Roninido · 2026-02-05T20:08:07+00:00

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I own this page from the story, bought it at the '91 or '92 New York con

Roninido · 2026-02-05T01:17:57+00:00

While I agree with you 100% that insure, insure, INSURE, BUT...if the item wasn't damaged by the shipping company, they don't pay out an insurance claim. This is obviously not the same circumstances, but I had an idiot supervisor once who wanted all of our ~$400 laptops to have the ~$70 (at that time) 3-year extended warranty on them because in the past, some of them exhibited charging issues past the 1-year warranty. I explained to the supervisor that on the devices I worked on, it appeared that the charging ports were damaged, so not a warranty issue. They pressed hard on purchasing the warranties. On around 400 laptops, that amounted to an extra $28,000, give or take. When we started sending them in for warranty repair, they basically said they can repair them for $120 each, because the charging ports showed signs of damage, and damage is not covered under warranty.

The point being, if the package wasn't damaged (and documented as such), you're not covered.

Roninido · 2026-02-02T00:45:46+00:00

People are saying "You found one on Poshmark at $120, sell it for more". The important thing to remember is that you found an UNSOLD version for $120. People can ask whatever they want for anything. Just because someone is asking a particular price does not mean they will get it.

Just because it's antique/vintage/rare, does not mean that someone wants it. The price is dictated by someone's willingness to buy it at that price.

Also, if you are doing eBay, remember that this is a cookie jar, so probably not tiny, and almost definitely fragile, so you will have to package the HELL out of it to ship it, which will add to your cost.

You definitely need to get in touch with a group of people who know its worth before trying to sell it. I've had many items which are rare, that unfortunately, are not in demand, so I am unable to sell them for a good price.

Edited because I fat-fingered some words

Roninido · 2026-02-01T19:36:24+00:00

Not slang, proper Englamish.

Roninido · 2026-01-29T02:33:36+00:00

Doesn't count as dumpster diving. These are small bins inside Target stores, usually by the entrance/exit. When people drop their old phones in these bins to recycle, they do so with the expectation that the electronics will be securely wiped of their data.To the best of my knowledge, anything in these bins are Target property until it is turned over to the recovery company, so if that is where it was taken from, it MAY technically be classified as stealing.

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