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  Ryan (@sonofguinness) reported 4 minutes ago

  @darrenrovell Idk why eBay lets a buyer with no feedback bid on high priced items. You know you aren't getting payment and will have to relist it. The hype dies down or something happens and now you're out a ton of $ because eBay refuses to have any requirements for buyers.

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  Nikki Darling (@AnarchoDarling) reported 4 minutes ago

  For years I’ve been selling and buying on FB Marketplace. I’ll sell my kids lightly used clothes and use the money to buy the next size up. It was meager, but a good hustle while it lasted. I’ve saved our family so much money by doing this. Now the Meta algo is so bad that I’ll post 20 ads of dirt cheap bundles with pro photos and not a single view for weeks. I’ll have one day a month where my phone blows up with “Is this available?” messages and one sale. I shipped my first Marketplace order yesterday and now I’m waiting to find out if I’ll be scammed with a chargeback or refund request. So I decided to log into my 24 year old eBay account where I’ve sold about 200 random things over the years. Nope! They gave me a sales limit of $10 a month. I asked for a customer service human to call me back a few hours ago. Still no call. 10 years ago I did really well selling my handmade jewelry on Etsy until Chinese scammers starting replicating my designs. Now Etsy is overflowing with scammers and Temu junk. I rarely post my original designs online anymore for fear of them being reproduced. I’m convinced there’s an agenda to shut down little side hustles. I’m tired of spending so much time researching ways to trick the algorithm while AI slop gets millions of clicks.

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  CMO333 (@Hellaorganics) reported 5 minutes ago

  @thecachecole I mean several have sold down at 4300 on eBay after fees and taxes you are only taking home like 3. I’m at the private market price

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  EverydayReseller (@EverydayResell) reported 6 minutes ago

  Day 196 Total sales: $374.99 eBay earnings: $180.35 Buy cost (COG): $37.40 Net profit: $142.95 ROI: 382% Not every day goes exactly as planned. Today included a cancellation on a higher dollar order before it shipped, but that's part of the business. The good news is I still have the inventory & can sell it again. The biggest takeaway after nearly 200 days is that consistency beats perfection. A canceled order doesn't erase the work you've put in. A slow day doesn't define your business. And one good day doesn't mean you can take your foot off the gas. The focus remains the same Keep listing. Refresh older inventory. Adjust stale pricing. Source quality products. Let the numbers compound over time. Every profitable day, even the imperfect ones, moves the business forward. On to Day 197. 📦💪

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  INSOMNIAC (@insomniac988) reported 9 minutes ago

  OP17 has not even officially launched and the Luffy Gold SP is already seeing completed sales on ebay highest: $5k mean: about $3.9k lowest: $3.1k most sales happened on the 20th and i can't determine the price sold for 2 listings (accepted best offer) will the price of this card fly from here or do you expect it to cool down after launch?

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  Buns&Coffee (@schang76) reported 10 minutes ago

  @CEOAdam He is calling out $Ebay for being a corrupt accomplice in price gouging scalping crimes. All Ebay cares about is making their fees aka kickbacks. @ryancohen will fix that and bring business ethics back to these marketplaces. Blacklist those Stubs members!

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  BEFORE THE POP (@beforethepop) reported 12 minutes ago

  THE 90s ARE NEXT. The market has spent decades deciding what matters in vintage pop culture. Now it is paying serious money for the cards it has canonised. A 1966 Topps Batman #1 PSA 9 sold for US$131,250 in December. There is no PSA 10. A 1977 Topps Luke Skywalker #1 PSA 10 sold for US$687,500 in May. Seven months earlier, the record was $268,400. These aren't obscure cards being dragged upwards by a hot market. Batman and Star Wars are two of the largest entertainment properties ever created, and collectors have had decades to decide what their early cardboard means. The 50s, 60s and 70s have had their time to become vintage. I think the 90s are next. And the more time I spend digging through the decade, the more obvious the setup looks. The 1990s may have been the greatest decade for character IP ever. You had Mario and Zelda becoming global institutions. Sonic arrived. Pokémon arrived. Toy Story arrived. Resident Evil, Tomb Raider and South Park arrived. Final Fantasy VII changed what a videogame could look and feel like. Street Fighter became a cultural phenomenon. The Simpsons went from a new animated show to one of the defining franchises on television. Thirty years later, look at what survived. Mario is bigger than ever. Pokémon is Pokémon. Sonic is selling movie tickets. Zelda is still one of Nintendo's crown jewels. Resident Evil is still releasing major games. Final Fantasy VII is still important enough to support an entire blockbuster remake project. Toy Story is still being watched by children whose parents watched the original. The Simpsons and South Park apparently intend to outlive all of us. That's an extraordinary hit rate. And the cards were made at exactly the right time. The 90s landed just before collecting became industrialised. There was no mature grading economy. No population reports. No breakers opening cases for numbered parallels. No army of collectors immediately sleeving every card of a major character because it might be worth something in thirty years. A lot of this stuff was treated exactly as intended: as kids' stuff. Japanese vending cards came out of machines. Stickers got stuck to things. Magazine inserts were removed or thrown away with the magazine. Foils went into binders. Cards went into pockets, school bags and bedroom drawers. Nobody was carefully preserving a 1995 Toy Story foil because Woody might eventually need a rookie card. Nobody was thinking about the gem rate on a 1996 Bandai Final Fantasy VII prism. Nobody was buying Japanese Zelda cards and calculating future PSA populations. They were just cards. That gives the decade something modern collectibles can never manufacture after the fact: natural scarcity created before anyone thought scarcity mattered. Then there is the buyer. 1996 is thirty years ago, which feels rude but is useful. The kid who was ten when Pokémon arrived is 40. The teenager who played Final Fantasy VII in 1997 is now somewhere around 40, probably with a mortgage and the financial capacity to make significantly worse decisions on eBay. The generation that grew up with these characters is entering the same part of life where collectors before them started paying serious money to recover pieces of their childhood. Except the underlying franchises never really went away. That is what makes the 90s so interesting to me. The nostalgia is arriving at the same time as the IP is still commercially relevant. And Pokémon has already shown us how far this can go. Pokémon was born in 1996. Its earliest CoroCoro material now sits right at the beginning of one of the largest collectible franchises on earth. Then there is Pikachu Illustrator, created for CoroCoro contests in 1998. This year, the only PSA 10 sold for US$16.492 million. The most expensive trading card ever sold at auction. A 90s character card now sits above Mickey Mantle, Honus Wagner and every other piece of cardboard ever sold publicly at auction. So the idea that the 1990s are somehow too recent to produce serious grails is already dead. Pokémon got there first. I don't think it will be alone. We've spent the last few weeks digging through the rest of the decade and the depth is ridiculous. 1993 Sonic prisms. 1995 Toy Story. 1996 Final Fantasy VII Carddass. 1998 South Park. 1999 Ocarina of Time. Early Resident Evil. Tomb Raider. Street Fighter. The Simpsons. Different countries. Different formats. Different manufacturers. Vending cards, foils, prisms, stickers, lenticulars, magazine issues, cheap American wax. But the same broad setup keeps appearing: enormous IP, childhood-era cardboard and far less high-grade supply than you would expect from franchises this big. The Simpsons already feels like the market beginning to look backwards. Collectors are increasingly treating the 1990 Topps cards and stickers as first-year character material rather than some forgotten junk-wax non-sport set. Pokémon is already fully mature. The rest is earlier. That is why I keep coming back to the 90s. Earlier vintage has already had decades of attention. Batman collectors know the Batman card. Star Wars collectors know the Luke. Disney and comic collectors have spent generations establishing their important early pieces. Modern collectibles have the opposite problem. Everyone knows they're collectibles before the box is even opened. The good cards are identified immediately, sleeved immediately, graded immediately and often hoarded immediately. The 90s sit right between those two worlds. Old enough to have been genuinely used and lost. Recent enough to contain some of the largest IP still operating today. Thirty years of nostalgia. A huge generation of collectors moving into serious earning years. And cardboard produced before people realised they should be protecting it. You could almost design the perfect future vintage market around those conditions. Except we don't have to. It already happened. Batman had fifty-plus years for its cardboard to become canon. Star Wars has had nearly fifty. Pokémon has shown what can happen when a 90s property reaches the same level of collectible maturity. Now look at the class sitting behind it. Mario. Sonic. Link. Cloud. Tifa. Aerith. Resident Evil. Lara Croft. Woody and Buzz. The Simpsons. South Park. Street Fighter. Some of the most recognisable characters of the last thirty years, attached to cards produced before anyone had a reason to treat them like future financial assets. I think the market eventually does what it has always done with culturally important things. It looks backwards. It decides what mattered. Then it pays for the best surviving examples. The 50s had their turn. The 60s had their turn. The 70s are going absolutely ******* nuts right now. Pokémon has already broken the door down for the 90s. The rest of the decade is only a matter of time.

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  brokeboycards (@brokeboycardz) reported 12 minutes ago

  @MK5Cards I’m wondering when they’re gonna open back up, it’s kind of a bummer. I’ve had issues getting distribution as well, I’m basically **** out of luck for getting anything retail value. I’ve gotta buy in bulk from other eBay distributors and see if I can manage to make money on it is basically how it’s going to work for the next year or so. Nobody will sell or distribute to anyone unless you have an actual store front. I can’t afford to buy a brick and mortar storefront right now, who can afford that kind of overhead lol.

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  ZZ11 (@Zim11R) reported 15 minutes ago

  The ebay app takes 10 seconds to load any page. Ebay won't help or fix there app. Delete your ebay apps. #broken @eBay

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  Wesley A Zietlow (@3rdZof4) reported 17 minutes ago

  R other ppl experiencing a huge problem lately with @eBay standard shipping and @USPS as a seller and a buyer!? i have bought multiple cards that say delivered yet nothing arrives, and sold many cards with no scans that they were delivered!?loss of $ and no card! @CardPurchaser

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  Mystory Collector (@MyStoryCollect) reported 19 minutes ago

  @ValueAddedRS eBay's PWE tracking has caused more problems than it solves. That they are having to implement after-the-fact protections (e.g., what happens when a refund is issued for a shipment that is actually later delivered) is a wrongly placed band-aid, and hammers home the point that their PWE tracking sucks. It's cool that they're offering a program that requires 1k orders for a seller to qualify, but the problem relies mostly on the buyer side of things ("my package is 'lost' [due to eBay's shoddy tracking system], I demand a refund [or you'll get negative feedback]")...as the seller issues a refund to preserve their own feedback rating. If eBay is truly going to handle refund requests (at what cost?!) then that mitigates things for the seller, but it's just another band-aid to "fix" a tracking system which only tracks sporadically, if at all.

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  ZeroTolerance (@Gloria_Bravo) reported 20 minutes ago

  They didn't!Held me for near3 hours in a bot chat and human agents that never responded other than keeping me bouncing from one agent to another without even checking the issue. I will go ahead and CANCEL my account and go back to @eBay !! @eBay has the most AMAZING service

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  Sergey (@BasedDoggyDoc) reported 21 minutes ago

  @_bismack_ Going through all that trouble to save some money on Pokémon cards is so bizarre. If these people expended half this much energy at their day jobs they'd be millionaires lol. I get this a lot on fb marketplace but somehow have avoided it on ebay.

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  Regis' Cartoons (@RegisCartoons) reported 21 minutes ago

  My sister nearly got us in trouble with our ISP provider because she dabbled in piracy a few times. I would rather buy the media on eBay for $5, than to risk myself on some random unknown torrent site.

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  SotMons (@sotmons13th) reported 23 minutes ago

  @mitWorte Get onto ebay and find a broken one for parts or a replacement door. Never know your luck