there's really not much you can do except for only do buy it now and require immediate payment. i think sometimes sending an invoice or message can help if the person honestly just forgot or it slipped their mind but i think there's plenty of buyers who aren't too concerned about paying in a prompt matter. ive had people who buy from me and then after me messaging them say oh I get paid next friday is it okay if i pay you then? how annoying yeah id love to sit around with an item packed for another week waiting for you to maybe pay. i run into this quite a bit.

in my experience most stuff online in relation to police auctions is either a scam, selling you free publicly available info, or selling individual pies and too hgih priced.

i go to the actual chicago police dept auction a few times a year as well as the us marshals auction. its actually facilitiated by one of the storage auctioneers in my area ace auctioneers for anyone else in the area.

basically here's how it works, auction starts at 10, you can show up at 8 they have merch on the tables you can view. most stuff you just walk by, jewelry you have to wait in line, get a ticket and they pass around big plastic sleeves full of like maybe 20 pieces in a plastic case you buy the whole lot.you can inspect items.

when auction starts normally first hour or two is nothing but bicycles, if your into bikes you'll be in heaven, if not bring something to keep yourself occupied for 2 hours lol.

rest of the auction prices  are kinda wierd. lost of stuff goes for retail prices which is crazy to me but some good deals. i got a good deal on a projector a few years back. it was like an $800 projector i got for like $200. totally random stuff though basicaly anything which was seized or found and known to be stolen but coudln't find origional owner is auctionsed so sum stuff is new in box other stuff is like golf clubs out of some guys garage.

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textbooks are easy to sell and pretty good money,  only caveat is they have to be recent textbooks. once a book is a year or two old there's a new version. thats the racket about the textbook industyr they basically add a few pictures or a diff preface and all the sudden its a new edition where pages aren't the same on everything. i used to buy old versions of textbooks when i was in college. its basically the same textbook but because they add a few pics and a new preface teh pages dont match up so when the teacher tells you to read pages 63-80 my book may be 69-91or something like tht

Not only can you do research on your own category and competitors but say your just randomly thinking I wish I knew hwat some hot selling categories were and products were. I attached one screenshot with a color codes guide such as what are hot selling categories. I saw guitars was one so dug deeper into subcategories and looks like effects pedals are hot as well. You can then dig futher into effects pedals and see what models.

You can also do "hot" research and see what the most common searched terms and items on ebay would be. I attached some screenshots showing you guys this stuff. Probably not worth it for the casual ebay seller but if you sell alot of your storage goods on ebay or even if your looking to supplement your storage auction stuff and try to buy stuff wholesale and resell to supplement your ebay store or ebay biz you can figure out what those products are as well.

Just use Escrow.com. Makes it simple and protects both buyer and seller. Fee is based on the amount of the sale.  Should cost you about $40 on a $1200 transaction.

thanks for the tip. yeah ive heard of that site before as ive had some customers inquire me about paying that way. ill have to check that out. i was gonna do flippa but there there's fees without even necessarily haveing a successful sale. they advertise they offer some listings as low as $6, however ive tried multiple times and selling diff sites both new and old and it always seems to be at least $29 so escrow looks like a better option

hope you don't mind me chiming in with a few tips. awesome pictures. not only great quality but you have plenty of pictures and pictures speak for themselves. honestly id rather see lotsof pictures than a long description but i notice your descriptions are very short. you should add to them. not only for buyers,its good for buyers but more so for the ebay search algorithm. your description, what you say, and the length of it determine how well you rank in searches and  your hurting yourself by having short desciptions.