inkfrog is what myself and most of my bigger competitors use

You put your phone number on CL? That's a bold move!

Personally I think it's smart to put your number on cl. People will email offers and say they want stuff all day through email and not show up, however someone who is going to pick up the phone is a much more serious buyer. You cut out 90% of the bs dealing over phone and not email. Many people completely take away the option of contacting via email and only post a phone number. Also, if you dont want to give out your personal number download one of those free text call apps they give you a fake number you can take or receive calls on or take or rec texts on

What makes you feel you can dictate what htey sell their item for?

Ebay really isn't that hard of work. I sell 300 plus items a month on ebay on average. During busy times I can sometimes do over 30 packages a day, never takes me more than an hour.

Personally I prefer ebay over Craigslist, people buy and I shop, occasionally I have to answer a stupid question about shipping or about an item. I think Craigslist is a lot more work than ebay. It takes me 1 minute to pack someones order and ship for ebay and I can do it on my schedule. Craigslist however I wind up going back and forth with people trying to find a common meeting time, inevidably people show up an hour late leaving me waiting or don't show up at all. Half the time it costs me gas money driving to meet them. People low ball onc raigslist.  I would take ebay over craigslist any day in terms of time and work required.

If you don't like someone's price move on and look at someone else to buy from or make them an offer in line with what you want it for.

Garage sales in my area kinda suck, its all cookie cutter homes that been around 10 years or less and all mostly younger couples with kids, not that there can't be good finds but not as likely to find an old cartoon lucnh box or thermos or anything really cool and old. Gotta go to more established areas near me for that type of stuf

I think it all depends on what your avenue to resell stuff is. I know some people try to buy stuff on ebay and resell it on ebay. Yeah you can occasionally get good deals or a steal, however since ebay, especially auctions, kind of determines market price basically whatever you buy it for is going to be around the same as whatever you can sell it for unless someone maybe does a 1 day auction, starts it really low with no reserve and you really get a steal. Even if you get a good deal your looking at 10%-13% in ebay and Paypal fees so not a ton of room to make money.

As some others on here have said though, if you have avenues to move stuff off ebay or even better out of the country where you can bigger premiums it could be a way to make some money. Sounds like a lot of work though. I occasionally see people buying from me attempting to resell on ebay but most lose money

most auctions ive been to say upfront as well as on the websites and stuff no pics no video. not sure why you'd wanna take pics of a random unit anyway. i thoguht this post was gonna be about pic tips for ebay or cl listings when i opened it

i had a successsful craigslist sell. girl responded to my ad and came to buy a flat screen tv. cool girl, very pretty, of course i tried to strike up a convo. she wound up sstaying for a beer and to smoke a  , started joking about crazy people on craigslist, then convo turned to casual encounter section. wound up making a sale and getting a  cant beat that. going to grab drinks with her this weekend again lol