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  Chris Top Fur (@christopfur11) reported 18 seconds ago

  @CardsMax Should have to pay immediately IMO. If there is an issue with paying within 24 hours the buyer should reach out and let the seller know. When I used to sell on eBay, and most items were pretty low end after about 24 hours my success rate of being paid was like 10%.

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  Jake Friedel (@zebular0) reported 25 seconds ago

  @TheRealXShadesX Well you see, eBay and BTC went up, which we hold.... So we went down because, yeah.

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  MostlyVV (@MostlyVV) reported 2 minutes ago

  @lja_xx @DodgeDJohnson Happens to many people. It is a common scam on ebay going back since the start. People buy a broken camera for example, buy a new working one, then return the broken one in its place and ebay and paypal side with the buyer. It is recommend to take photos of the product.

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  Polsia (@polsia) reported 3 minutes ago

  Solo marketplace arbitrage operators are getting vaporized by Amazon and eBay's 2026 rules. Built Margent to fix that — an AI-ops console where every buy, listing, and reprice passes through a supervised review queue. Audited. Logged. Policy-safe.

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  OatsCards (@aouterieyo) reported 10 minutes ago

  @ThePackAddict97 The only issue I have with eBay comps is best offer accepted price doesn’t show, in which case I just use 130point. Anyone paying for comps is a bird brain, though.

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  Chris Tran (@ChrisTranGG) reported 17 minutes ago

  Apple's best-selling AI product this year is a $599 box with no GPU in the name. Here's what happened. OpenClaw shows up in November, runs AI agents on your own machine instead of renting them from the cloud, and picks up 323,000 GitHub stars. People do the math on their cloud bill. Then they go buy a Mac mini. And I mean all of them. By early April Apple had quietly pulled the 32GB and 64GB mini configs off the store. The 128GB and 256GB Mac Studios went with them. Whatever was left came with a 16 to 18 week wait. The $599 base model sold out for the first time in its entire life, and Tim Cook had to sit on an earnings call and tell analysts it might stay that way for months. Six weeks. That's how long it took to clear out the top of the lineup. Then eBay did what eBay does. Base minis listing at $715, $800, $979. Markups running $116 to $380 over retail, scalpers pushing toward double. For a desktop computer previously best known as the one your dad bought. The numbers underneath are the part that got me: • Q1: 6.2M Macs shipped, up from 5.7M • Q2: 6.7M, +10.1% year over year • The rest of the PC market that same quarter: down about 4-5% • Mac revenue: $8.4B, +6% Apple doesn't break Mac mini out separately, so nobody can tell you the exact unit count. But that's roughly a million extra Macs in six months, into a market that was actively shrinking. You don't really need the exact number. Why a mini, though? Because an RTX 5090 runs $1,800 and stops at 32GB of VRAM. A Mac mini goes to 64GB of unified memory. A Studio goes to 512GB. So a 30B model is comfortable on the little box, 70B is fine at 64GB, and 100B runs on an M4 Ultra. The scarce thing in AI quietly stopped being compute and became memory you can actually afford. Apple spent three years getting dunked on for having no AI story. Then an open-source project they had nothing to do with made their least glamorous product sell out worldwide. Best AI marketing campaign of the year, and Apple didn't run it.

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  Kenett (@UrbanMurals) reported 17 minutes ago

  eBay — 1995 Pierre Omidyar did something even more fascinating. He created AuctionWeb as essentially a side project. One of the first things sold was a broken laser pointer. Someone actually bought it.

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  JussCallMeBo (@2White4AFlyGuy) reported 20 minutes ago

  My garage is a nerds *********... Anyone interested? Shoot me the right number and I'd let it all go. The only problem is I dunno what that number is till I hear it lol. I'll drive the whole lot out of state if need be. The next couple weeks I'll be going through it and pricing everything. I'm sure there's some unicorns in there. Once I have all that done we will be setting up an Ebay page in my father in laws name to sell it all unless someone scoops it up before all that. I can't even fathom how much he spent on all this... @Wizards_DnD @Wizards

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  CHRISTOPHER D. BRAND (AUTHOR) (@CHRISDBRAND) reported 26 minutes ago

  @93rdmin @Gav_Griffiths The obsession with ebay and online selling was getting crazy. Shops were already run very short, and they started asking people to list 6-8 items per day on Gumtree and all this crap. Just shotgun approach. Management no real ideas about retail or how to fix core problems.

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  blaksony (@blaksony) reported 26 minutes ago

  @LibOrNormal One problem might be that the kids parents put them up to it in order to get an autograph they can sell on eBay.

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  Brian (@SPhillycards) reported 27 minutes ago

  @CardsEnzo I lived and died by the eBay $0.99 7day auction even in the down market. But in the last ~12 months, the norm is sales well below comps, even on liquid cards / hot players. I’m all BIN OBO these days.

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  Danny (@DubzSportsCards) reported 31 minutes ago

  @ScottyUncle I’m torn, Unc! The listing was final sale, no returns. Accurately described and I know it will pass eBay authentication no problem. I just don’t want the headache of them siding with the buyer somehow after the fact.

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  Goatbeardz (@GoatBeardzDD) reported 33 minutes ago

  People think Ryan Cohen has been doing a media tour. He hasn't. Every single interview has been filed with the SEC as a Form 425. That's not just PR. That's an official solicitation document targeting eBay's shareholders. And eBay's shareholder base is almost entirely institutional. So every time Cohen sat down on camera and said: "My circle of competence is e-commerce." "eBay is similar to Chewy." "Physical retail was learning on the job." "eBay is under earning." He was delivering a pitch to institutions, on the record, filed with the SEC. And the pitch is simple: I've proven twice that my marketplace model generates real margin without extraction. Chewy took Amazon's pet market share. $GME posted 17% operating margins on Power Packs. Both receipts are public. Now give me eBay and let me do it at scale.

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  Cash Flow Files (@CashFlowFiles) reported 34 minutes ago

  A 21-year-old student needed money for college. So he created one of the dumbest-sounding businesses imaginable: He sold pixels on a website for $1 each. 5 months later, he had made $1,037,100. Here’s how: In 2005, Alex Tew was worried about taking on student debt. He had no big audience. No investors. No revolutionary technology. He just had an idea: Create a webpage with 1,000,000 pixels. Sell every pixel for $1. Businesses could buy blocks of pixels, put their logo on them, and link back to their website. Simple math: 1,000,000 pixels × $1 = $1,000,000 The problem? Nobody knew the site existed. So Alex convinced friends and family to buy the first few blocks. After the site made its first $1,000, he pushed the story to the press. That changed everything. The weirdness of the idea became the marketing. People weren’t just buying ad space anymore. They were buying a piece of an internet experiment everyone was talking about. More press created more traffic. More traffic made the ad space more valuable. More advertisers created an even crazier-looking homepage. Which created even more press. It became a loop. By the end, 999,000 pixels were sold. Instead of selling the final 1,000 for $1 each, Alex auctioned them on eBay. Winning bid: $38,100. Total gross revenue: $1,037,100. (Wikipedia) The lesson isn’t “go sell pixels.” That opportunity worked because it was novel. The lesson is better: Sometimes the product isn’t what makes the money. The story around the product creates the distribution. And distribution can turn something almost worthless… into something people fight to buy.

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  Max Fifth Avenue (@Plastic40) reported 35 minutes ago

  I just bought some button down shirts from eBay.