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  EverydayReseller (@EverydayResell) reported 2 minutes ago

  Day 125 Total sales: $320.98 Buy cost: $30.07 eBay earnings: $190.04 Refunds: $70.50 (Address issue, purchased again) Net profit: $159.97 ROI: 531% 3 item day. Another solid day. Nothing crazy. No home runs. Just a few good items sold to a few good buyers. The longer I do this, the more I realize that success in reselling isn't about hitting homeruns every day. It's about consistently sourcing good inventory at the right price, listing it, and letting the singles add up. One item becomes two. Two become five. Five become hundreds over time. Day after day, the process compounds. Most people overestimate what one day can do and underestimate what 125 days of consistency can do. Keep sourcing. Keep listing. Keep learning. The results take care of themselves. Still building. #Reselling #BuildInPublic

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  Quinn ☘️ (@N0limitQuinn) reported 3 minutes ago

  They closed ******** down she using eBay

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  XDG🐉 (@xdgjp) reported 6 minutes ago

  The Trajectory of Elon Musk: A Modern Industrial Miracle The Man Who Turned Dreams into Industries and Reached the Threshold of Becoming the First Trillionaire in Human History - 3 Chapter 5: X .com and PayPal: Putting Money on the Internet After Zip2, Musk turned his attention to finance. He believed that the internet would change not only the flow of information, but also the flow of money. Banking, remittances, payments, securities, and person-to-person transactions could all become faster, cheaper, and more convenient online. This led him to found X .com. The name also seems, in retrospect, like a precursor to his later renaming of Twitter as X. For Musk, “X” represented an unknown variable, a symbol that could become anything, and a broader concept for integrating the future infrastructure of finance, communications, and society. X .com later merged with Confinity and evolved into PayPal. PayPal spread rapidly, especially in online marketplaces such as eBay. It addressed the fear of sending money to strangers, the anxiety of sharing card information, and the inconvenience of online payments. PayPal provided a system that solved these problems at once. Payments are the bloodstream of the economy. When that bloodstream moved onto the internet, the speed of commerce changed. In 2002, eBay acquired PayPal for approximately $1.5 billion. Through this sale, Musk obtained even greater capital. For an ordinary entrepreneur, this might have been the point at which the next step was wealth preservation. He might have become a venture investor. He might have diversified into real estate or public equities. He could have chosen to live as a safe and extremely wealthy man. Musk chose the opposite path. Chapter 6: The Turning Point After the Sale of PayPal After the sale of PayPal, Musk had two paths before him. One was to preserve his wealth as a successful young millionaire. The other was to risk nearly everything on enormous dreams that almost no one yet seriously believed in. He chose the latter. That choice is the greatest dividing line between Elon Musk and many other successful people. He was not the type of person who became cautious because he had succeeded. He was the type of person who, because he had succeeded, wagered his success on the next impossibility. The problems he was looking at were not short-term profit opportunities. Earth’s energy problem. Dependence on fossil fuels. The risk of humanity being confined to a single planet. The high cost of space transportation. The danger of artificial intelligence. Urban traffic congestion. The separation between the human brain and computers. His businesses may appear unrelated, but in reality they are connected by one broad vision. Tesla exists for sustainable energy and transportation. SpaceX exists to make humanity a multiplanetary species. Starlink exists as a global communications network and a revenue source for space development. X exists to integrate information, finance, and social communication. xAI exists to secure leadership in the age of artificial intelligence. Neuralink exists to change the relationship between humans and AI. The Boring Company exists to move urban transportation underground. All of them are attempts to build the infrastructure of the future. Chapter 7: The Birth of SpaceX: The Rationality Behind the Madness of Mars In 2002, Musk founded Space Exploration Technologies, known as SpaceX. His motivation was not simply that he wanted to build rockets. He believed that for humanity to survive over the long term, it needed a foothold beyond Earth. A massive asteroid, nuclear war, climate crisis, pandemic, or AI risk could destroy civilization. If even one of these threats ended civilization, the story of humanity would end. Therefore, humanity needed to build a self-sustaining city on Mars. That was his logic. Many people laughed. A private citizen was starting a rocket company. A startup was challenging a space industry dominated by NASA and enormous defense contractors. And its ultimate goal was the colonization of Mars. At the time, this sounded absurd. But Musk saw rockets not as mythology, but as a cost structure. The greatest reason rockets are expensive is that they are disposable. If airplanes were discarded after every flight, airfares would be astronomical. Therefore, rockets should also be made reusable. The logic was simple. The execution was extremely difficult. SpaceX began with Falcon 1. Start with a small rocket, and if it succeeds, scale up. But the early launches failed repeatedly. A rocket explodes over the smallest mistake. Software can be fixed and restarted. Rockets are different. When a launch fails, the vehicle, the fuel, the payload, and investor confidence all disappear at once. Still, SpaceX continued. With each failure, it collected data, revised the design, and moved on to the next launch. Chapter 8: His Encounter with Tesla: Making Electric Cars Anything but Boring In 2004, Musk made a major investment in Tesla Motors. Tesla had been founded by Martin Eberhard, Marc Tarpenning, and others with the aim of building electric vehicles. At the time, the image of electric vehicles was poor. Slow. Expensive. Short range. Uninspired design. A special car for a small group of environmentally conscious consumers. Musk disliked this assumption. His goal was not to create an “eco-car” that people drove out of sacrifice, but rather a fast, beautiful, desirable electric vehicle. The Tesla Roadster symbolized that idea. It showed that an electric vehicle could be fast and enjoyable as a sports car. The strategy was to prove the technology first at the high end, then expand through the Model S, Model X, and Model 3. It was a strategy that moved from luxury vehicles toward mass-market vehicles. Here again, Musk was not merely an environmental activist. He did not simply say, “Let us do something good.” He believed that if people created products others genuinely wanted, society would change as a result. People are not moved by lectures. They are moved by things that are fast, convenient, and beautiful. That was the core of Tesla’s strategy.

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  sean thomas knox (@thomasknox) reported 7 minutes ago

  @JohnLoony That looks close to the real deal. But for pure authenticity you want the Chinese language only edition from the mid 60s. Took me an hour (in Shanghai 2nd hand bookstore) to track one down. EBay might have

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  katexbt.hl (@katexbt) reported 15 minutes ago

  just spoke with a guy who automated dropshipping from japan to worldwide auto-listing rare high ticket items from mercari but on ebay he just copies entire listings from @mercari_jp (japanese ebay) onto ebay using selenium + claude opus 4.7 as Buy It Now charges 200% across the board for every single item + shipping made like $70k last month with barely 3% failure rates most common issue? item was sold in japan to someone else and bot didn't query on time and didn't shelf the ebay listing and someone bought it on ebay and he wasnt able to fulfill just does a big apology and offers some coupon for future purchase discount scrapes, uploads, translates everything + adds his own caveats/verbiage to protect himself in case those 3% end up hitting him literally does all possible categories you could think of meanwhile we're still in crypto lol

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  UbeTaroEater (@UEater83288) reported 16 minutes ago

  @Furu_Bartuc @powerpacks @eBay Or it could be nothing and the stock is flat to down

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  🅱️ete oaks (@b0newalljackson) reported 20 minutes ago

  @_GrandExchange_ @kingbtc i got on ebay and paypal in 01 and boa gave me trouble with that so by the time i got into crypto they stopped bothering me. i hear horror stories about them but knock on wood never had any issues with either them or cb

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  RossyBearr (@RossyBearr) reported 20 minutes ago

  @FirstLightTCG Ebay are terrible for this, I sold a charizard promo, person claimed a crease provided no photo evidence and got a full refund

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  Daniel Southam (@Lister_of_smeg) reported 26 minutes ago

  @eBay @eBay @AskeBay Banned for doing absolutely nothing. Haven't bought or sold anything in years, but got permanently suspended. Help links are broken and customer service just spammed me with copy-paste robot responses. Stay away - avoid them. dont use. #eBay #eBaySpam

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  AIWill (@Brandon_Will_) reported 27 minutes ago

  @eBay fix your payouts I have Internet connection! No problem creating my shipping label to send but can’t cash my money out?

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  ⚡️𝚃𝙷𝙸𝙽𝙺 𝙰𝙱𝙾𝚄𝚃 𝙸𝚃⚡️ (@thinkabouditt) reported 35 minutes ago

  @RWToronto @mallen20243 @McFaul If someone had a trillion dollars just sitting in a bank account, yes that would be an eye bleeding ridiculous amount of money that they would never be able to use. It would be unconscionable in some sense. Elon does not have a trillion dollars though. In 2002 when Paypal was sold to ebay, he made $180 million after paying about 35% in taxes on the income. Those getting the payout now could try to do what Elon did. He invested $100 million to start SpaceX and $70 million into Tesla. Now 24 years later after insurmountable odds those companies are theoretically worth trillions and his share of those companies are worth over a trillion. But if he tried to sell all his shares, the value of them would collapse along with everyone's pension and retirement fund as the market can not absorb it and he would have to pay a tremendous amount of taxes and then he would no longer have any control over Tesla or SpaceX. His percent control hasn't changed much over the years, it's just theoretically worth more on paper. He probably has millions in his bank account, not billions. And he uses the capital he has to build new companies or innovations like Neuralink or xAI. All of these benefit us. All of his companies are benefitting us. We will be able to have cheap robotaxis providing transport everywhere, making commutes easier, cheaper and safer while reducing carbon emissions. Lives will be saved from reduced accidents and pollution. Starlink is already on many planes transforming our flying experience and productivity while connecting people in remote areas that traditionally had little access, equalizing opportunities across the world. His Neuralink is helping dozens of paralyzed people to be able to interact with and control a computer or prosthetic. His Optimus robots will transform factories, homes and businesses. XAI will make work faster and easier, solve problems, develop applications. His investments have all provided tremendous benefit to us and the future benefit is a magnitude greater.

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  VikingGunnar (@Gunnar101lvdk) reported 37 minutes ago

  @klarque_clint its only been a week and people are selling rare sprites on ebay, this is a terrible mind set to have

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  Jim McPherson (@JamesMcPherson) reported 38 minutes ago

  If you haven’t jumped on the BC-250 band wagon yet, stop scrolling. If you are handy, these boards can do everything from run an AI to PS5 level gaming to being an overkill home server. I’m currently building one to replace a Raspberry Pi 5 for Home Assistant after seeing a Pi for $300 at Micro Center. (!!!). There is a huge community around these boards getting larger daily. They have 16GB of GDDR6, DP out, Ethernet, M.2 NVME, and I bought 7 of them for $150 each. Half the price of an equivalent Pi. I’m printing a case for each of mine to house the required power supply and power switch and plan to give some of them away as either fully local AI’s running Gemma 4, or Steam Machines playing every game on Steam at great quality. I really expect prices to go up as they get more popular so check them out on eBay.

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  EF Comix (@11975MHz) reported 38 minutes ago

  @_zomg I wouldn't pay THAT much for a broken AES. Unless you can fix it and resell it over on Ebay.

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  Japreet 🇮🇳🇬🇧 (@Japreet_kah) reported 38 minutes ago

  @EyelandAes One of these "phone shops" bought a £750 camera from me and returned me an identical broken camera on ebay. There is NOTHING I can do about it.