My First Day As A Full Time eBay Reseller! - So Far So Good!
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- čas přidán 3. 08. 2023
- I've decided to take on eBay full time. This is a day in the life video of a brand new full time seller!
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#bargains #retrogaming #retro #retrogames #gaming #ebay #ebayreseller #reselling #cex #carbootsale #carboothaul #carboot #ps1 #psp #ps4 #videogamehunting #fulltimereseller - Hry
have been a full time dealer now for 12+ years, one mistake everybody does is to cherry pick the listing of high value items first and shortly you end up with a load of lower priced items awaiting, best to just pick a box and do it no matter what unless your waiting for other items to bundle them together, also concentrate upon the business not the youtube content as the most successful ebay sellers dont do you tube as they are onto the selling and listing more
Thanks for the tips!
Proper Advice there
This! Brilliant comment! We’ve been selling on eBay since 2010, done very few videos most reels on tiktok. More for our own amusement than anything 😅
Social media definitely takes a back seat when serious selling!
Crazy how HairyTornado makes more off CZcams than he does EBay!
Keep doing the CZcams it will help grow your business. I mean the guy telling you not to focus on it is watching you
Good luck. You seem to be off to a good start. Remember to factor in the eBay selling fees, as most youtubers skim over that and they are a big chunk of expense.
Great community here in the comments! So good to see! All the best to everyone around the world on their collecting / seller journeys 🙏🏽 🇦🇺
Wishing you all the best Tom! Just picked up a sealed Xbox 360 Kinect for $150 here in Australia from Facebook Market Place. Hoping to start my seller page on eBay soon and just came across you starting up, super helpful video. Will be following the journey!
Good luck with the adventure Tom.
I wish you all the best on your new venture!
Wish you every success in your new venture. I look forward to seeing you progress the business.
Thank you so much!
Going to look forward to this. Been watching for a while now and always been interested in a gaming focused full time ebayer to watch. I do it myself so will be interesting to compare ideas
Thanks for watching! Glad your enjoying the content!
Hi Tom, Firstly all the very best to you and your new venture, it will be a rollercoaster but hang on in there. I've subbed and look forward to seeing your journey. My advice is consistency, list it as you get it and although YT is fun eBay is what's earning you the money at the moment. Good luck buddy!
Thanks for the sub and the support!
Congrats on going full time! The shed looks ace 👍Can wait for you next video 🤩
Cheers bro! Thanks for watching!
Great video, im a new subscriber love the shed & working area top notch, good luck with going full time, I did during covid and havent looked back, best choice ever for me, all the best mate
Thanks for the sub! Much appreciated!
All the best on your new venture geez! Stay blessed
☝🏼❤️🤜🏼
Thank you!
I'm new to you (if you can call it that) CZcams recommend you and I subbed. I've been part time re-selling for over 10 years, whilst working full-time and having 2 kids. It's a grind, but thrilling to head to a carboot early doors on the weekend. I never tape the sides of my boxes 😂 my eBay name is the same as my CZcams name. Good luck in your new venture.
I use an iPad to photograph and list items on eBay Doesn’t take much room. Great video Good luck with your new venture
Love the shed you build looks well made, nice work g8 video man
Thank you so much!
Just subscribed and am looking forward to following you on your journey. I have always wanted to do eBay full time but it never pans out. I wish you all the luck.
Thanks for the sub! And thanks for the support!
Loved the video mate would like to see more of these as you progress sure more content to come
Thanks! Glad you liked it. I'll defo be making more!
Interesting video.
Ive just given my job up. Wasnt the intention to do full time reselling just yet.
But will now jump right in.
Ive learnt a lot from watching everyones videos.
So keep putting them out.
Just subscribed
Thanks for the sub! Good luck with it! Hope it goes well for you!
I could have watched this video for hours. Found it really entertaining. More stuff like this please!!!!
Thanks! Many more to come!
Great vid - just discovered ur channel and have binge watch your other vids. I’m new to reselling as a side line and hope to do gaming stuff and your channel caught my eye. Not really sure what I’m doing so hope to learn lots from channels such as your. Best wishes going full time and will follow your journey
Thanks for watching! Hopefully my vids can help you! I hope it goes well for you too!
Goodluck with it. This video just popped up, ive subscribed. I make about as much as my fulltime job reselling, id like to quit my job like you but cant bring myself to lose that much money. looking forward to the updates!!
Thank you!
Good luck Tom! Hope it goes well for you. 👍
Thank you!
Amazing work on the shed Tom. Good luck with the new business.
Would be cool to see your own games collection at some point.
Thanks! Yes a video on my collection is coming soon! Hopefully next week!
Good luck buddy, wishing you all the very best for the future 👍🏻🍺
Thanks!
Good luck bro gonna be following your journey! Ive just started part time literally yesterday and gonna start listing monday. 🙂
Thanks for watching! Hope it goes well for you!
Awesome set up and good luck on thr new venture bro 👍
Thank you!
Good luck Tom! Just subbed to yours, interested to see how it goes for you as I’m looking to go full time with it too. Love that you were a chippy as I was too before I gave it up for an office job!
Thanks for the sub! And thanks for watching! I
Nice set up mate. Great shed too, you're clearly a talented chippy too. Hope it goes well.
Thanks bro! Means a lot!
recommended by the CZcams algorithm. Good video and look forward to following you in your journey.
Thanks for watching!
Good luck mate! you got this!
Thanks!
Nice video man, always impressed when people take the plunge full time I'm still on the fence plodding a long part time. For the Chromebook I wouldn't use all that CEX credit for it, I got mine off market place for £50 just an Acer CP311 was the model. Nothing fancy just made sure it had a USB for my printer and it's been spot on. I tend to use my CEX credit just to buy retro games that are CIB and they move super fast and easy listings. Start banking them drafts as well, I know you've got loads of stock now but whilst you've got the motivation better to have a draft bank of 100 listings scheduled out for the next 10 days just to remove that pressure. Good luck man looking forward to the progress 😊
Cheers for the tips! To be honest i think i can get a Chromebook from CEX for about £60 I'd only need to trade in 2x ps4 controllers that cost me £1 each to buy it! And then the rest I can spend on retro games aha
@@TOMS_TAT If it's only £60 may as well do that, you made it sound like you were spending £300 on one in the video and we all know how CEX charge crazy extra for that "2 year warranty" haha. You've inspired me to go make friends with my local tip now gonna head down tomorrow with a case of beers see if I can befriend someone haha
@@eddster yea you can get chromebooks really cheap. The rest of the vouchers I'll just save up for other stuff.
And it's unlikely to turn up and get a tip contact unless you already know them personally. They might think your from the council or something. Lots of tips dont allow the employees to take stuff. Which is silly as it will only end up in a land fill.
Good luck with the full time enjoying your videos
Thank you!
Wishing you all the best mate👍👍
Thank you!
Hey I'm not a full time reseller myself. Full time job and part time seller. But with more listings I'm at 300 active listings . With doing sell similar when something may not sell within the month it helps with my daily listings. Or if not able to find much decent stock. So can in theory do 10 listings a day. 5 fresh ones created and 5 sell similar . If that makes sense.
2020-2021-2022 For me seemed fine and then onto 2023 and the cost of living came along and it became a home of the dealers/stealers and moaners who want it all for next to nothing!
Might be worth labelling the boxes and then putting that box number/letter on the eBay listing. So you know exactly where to look once it’s sold
Great idea thanks!
Good luck in your new job Tom
Thank you!
Good luck in your new venture bud 🎉
Thanks you!
amazing vid, you should setup a clothes bar ontop of them chest of draws for clothes
Good idea, but I dont really do clothes tbh. I was going to set up a testing station there with a T.V and 1 of each different console so i can test games and controllers etc.
awesome work mate 🔥
Thanks 🔥
Really nice set up! 👍
Thanks!
Tom, You have everything but the kitchen sink...ohhhh, you have that too haha..Shed looks amazing..Best of luck in your new full time career :=)
Aha thanks!
I've plumbed drainage pipes in the shed as I was going to fit the sink in there for washing/cleaning stuff. Still might do that tbh.
Get your SKU system up on a spreadsheet. I recently sold a ladies top and didn’t have the SKU number recorded on the listing. But I had put the date. All I did was go onto the spreadsheet. Search for the date it was listed. And lucky I recovered the SKU number on the spreadsheet. Otherwise shipping would have been delayed.
I use so much tape and tape the edges never had a parcel turn up bad so good practice to do 😁👍
Yea, I always do too. I'm a bit OCD about it. It annoys me when I buy something and the packaging is crap so I always try to make sure I do a good job of it even if it means using more materials.
@@TOMS_TAT Ha ha my missus laughs but my ebay feedback says it all with many comments on my great packaging. I look forward to following the journey and good luck also love the car boot vids 😊👍
@@MellowVR24762 Much appreciated mate! Thanks for watching!
New subscriber here wishing you all best mate. Good luck 👍
Thank you! Much appreciated!
Been selling on eBay for 12 years
Once you have your niche it’ll get a lot better
I sell around 10 items daily
All in about £100 profit a day
For me this works fine
Like you just work in my shed 👍
What do you sell ?
Quality letss gooo 🤑
Keep it up!
Shed and the set up looks mint. Very tidy. Good luck. New sub from me
Thanks for the sub!
Good luck. Been full time since eBay started really.
Don’t panic and undersell the items.
Recognise those boxes. What part of the country you from.?
Bedfordshire
Hi. 2 questions from a newbie seller. How do you decide what goes free postage and what doesn’t? How do you do your labels? Cheers
Just add the postage cost to the listing price and offer free postage 😂
Just come across your channel good luck just subbed so hope it goes strength to strength for you buddy
Thanks!
Good luck! I went self employed last year as a gardener with a bit of reselling on the side and now reselling is probably 80% of my income, with a few gardening jobs a week to give me a bit extra if needed
Definitely label boxes and SKU items. I didn't for the first year and it took forever to pick items out and I temporarily lost many times. Do it right from the start and you'll thank yourself later!
Yea I've learned that from other youtubers about the sku system. Defo best to do it from the start.
@@TOMS_TAT have you got a label printer? I waited way too long to get mine (got mine last month) and it has been the absolute best purchase I've made. Monday mornings when I'm packing 50 orders, it saves SO much time. I used to cut and stick labels from A4 paper, huge mistake!
You'll pick up loads as you go, so you'll probably do thing completely differently in 6 months time
@@ipodgooroo I dont have one yet but i do plan on getting one. whats the best one to use?
I was going to get a label printer but then Royal Mail introduced the qr code option to show at the post office and then they print it out so I'm not going to bother now. Heavy or large parcels gets picked up and they bring the label. You have a great set up already and I agree that you need a good sku system from the start. I'm always reorganising my boxes so I don't put a sku in the listing. I have dry wipe labels on each box with the contents written on it so I just wipe it off when its sold. That parcel you wrapped I would have cut down in the corners and refolded using a ruler to bend the sides over. You wouldn't need to add as much filler and takes up less space in your bag. I don't drive so the smaller the parcel the better for me. I get all my boxes from various shops, I use the card board trays that most tinned food come on to send books and small items I just put one over the other and the put it in a mailing bag. Pot noodle trays are great for filler and protection I use loads of them!!!!!!!!!! Good Luck!!!!!!!!!
@@TOMS_TAT
@@Sabbath666uk Great tip on folding the boxes over! Thank you!
Just found your channel. Good luck. I think you're going to do well.
Thanks so much! Appreciate it!
Cheers best wishes!
Nice video and best of luck with reselling full time. Are you going to consider Amazon FBA? I see many resellers make the majority of their income through FBA
What's FBA?
Great content
Thanks!
Hi Tom i'm new to your channel but watching with great interest, with the CEX stuff, how are you making money if you are only trading in for vouchers? Because I assume you have to spend these vouchers at CEX.
When I started the channel I just did it for a hobby. I would use the vouchers to buy games I wanted for my collection. But now I do full time reselling most of it goes on ebay. However I do still trade some stuff into cex as they give more then I could get on ebay. Once I've built up some vouchers I can then buy a ps5 for instance, then sell that to get the vouchers worth in cash.
Make the 5 items a day a minimum - if you are doing this full time get as much on as you can when you can i.e not packing or sourcing - good luck - just subscribed
Yea will do! Thanks!
Matey, are you London based? Would love to get you to do some carpentry for my flat. I need storage space and I feel like this video was a god send. Please hit me back with a comment reply. Love that unit that you did, the one that didn’t end up going to the customer.
Nah i'm no where near London.
@@TOMS_TAT ahh, got ya! Can’t believe you built that shed! Looks amazing. Oh well, glad I found this page and I like what you’re doing with this eBay reselling stuff. Can’t wait for next showing!
What size is your shed Tom? I'm currently looking at a 10x7 as that is the maximum size I can have in my current garden.
8 x 15 ft
I have a Couple of questions, if you wouldn’t mind answering…..
1 - How long does it take before you can start listing more than 10 items a month on eBay? I had a list of things to sell a year or so ago & I was only able to do 10 items a month I think it was.
2 - you show the items under the desk that are “not for eBay”/car boot stuff or stuff you thought would do well but hasn’t. Is there a particular item you thought would do well that hasn’t? & is there items you came across randomly that did well surprisingly & now you always pick them up when you see them?
I’m seriously considering giving it another go (selling on eBay).
I've never heard of anyone only being able to list 10 items a month?
@@TOMS_TAT yeah, I had about 15/20 of the old WWF wrestling figures & just kept listing them. Got to number 10 & received an email to say I had reached my listing limit for that month.
@@MarcoAyrHmm I've never had that happen to me. Maybe it's because you have a personal account not a business one?
Wishing you all the best on the new venture, I started my eBay shop last November. Can I asked you what size is your shed and how much did it cost thanks bearsue1
Thanks! It's 3x5 meters. Cost about 5k in materials.
Oh nice full time!!
Yea man! Hopefully I can get more vids out now! I managed to film and edit this vid in one day as well as doing a full days work in the shed! So defo aiming for at least 2 vids a week now.
Just so your aware, when you show the offers on your phone you can sometimes see the buyers id in the video, that might cause problems later.
What sort of problems?
@@TOMS_TAT Just people harrasing your buyers, you know how the internet can go sometimes. Only takes that 1 person, the more subs you get the higher chance someone will want to hurt you. Maybe I just don't have faith everyone will behave.
Just subscribed. Good luck. You look like a talented carpenter….. do you have a contact at the tip? How do you source items there ?
Thank you! Yes I have a contact.
Where is the best place to buy in bulk. Mailing bags, Jiffy bags, bubble wrap etc ? Thank you 😊
I'm not sure tbh I need to find that out myself too.
Good video 👍🏻👍🏻
Thanks!
How many items do you have listed on ebay? Hope it goes well for ya 👍🏻 nice shed that to 👌🏽
So far not many. Today I'll be listing lots more stuff.
Its not rly about listing as much as possible. I done it in past woth poor result. Now i list 10 every single day and it make huge change before i sold like 1 2 per daynoe i sold like 5 7 and make £120 minimum every single day.
Jesus i wish my tip was like that man 😂
Every tip has this amount of stuff going through them. It's just hard to get someone that will get you the stuff.
Do you just put the item in a box/bag, put a label, and put in in any mail box to send out? How or where do you put the package to send it?
No I drop them off at my local Evri drop off point.
How do you save items from the tip? Do you get permission?
Hi Tom great vid as a joiner myself self employed also and part time reseller how have you gone about changing your tax status or keeping records if that makes sense I’m interested in doing it but imagine it to be a nightmare with the tax man
I'm still just a self employed sole trader. my accountant said i just need to keep records of everything im buying and he will do all the books for me when the time comes.
@@TOMS_TAT great thanks I might just make the leap myself, Lego is my thing it can be quite lucrative
@@jonodunn2592 best of luck with it if you do!
@@TOMS_TAT thanks mate
be careful with vintage lego - some pieces can go for good money individually. I'd have sold the boards individually, common bricks as a joblot (perhaps by colour or type) and done my research on anything more unique (plenty of lego groups on facebook) it can be time consuming but good profit in the long run,
Hi, where did you bought the plastic boxes with closin lid?
Trade point / B&Q
Would you say it's better money to give up a monthly paid job to sell FT on ebay? Years ago back in 2008 a neighbour of mine did just that and he said he made 3 times more money 😮
Depends if you can make it work or not. I was earning very good money as a carpenter £250 - £300 per day but it's hard to have work booked in for every single day. Theres always going to be random TAT to sell.. I' know i'm probably going to earn less doing this to start with but i will hopefully be able to succeed in this and make good money.
that's the tidiest your shed will ever be
lol
Do you ever sell funko pops just wondering if you sell them fast
No I've never really bought or sold any as I know nothing about them
All the best I hope it goes well. If not I would like a shed like yours. So u have a buyer if you can build me one. Regards.
How do you know how much to charge for postage? I used to sell online but it's all changed since I did it.
You can check on packlink based on the weight of the item.
@TOMS_TAT Thanks for your reply. Best wishes.
How do you get so much from the tip? Do you know someone there or just hang around all day!?
I know someone
hard to believe people are throwing so much into the bin!
I know! People are crazy!
How do you ship through eBay / weigh items to find the best shipping price ???
Click on "print postage label", then click on the packlink logo to use other courier services.
Just to say mate that PS3 game saw 3 that fetches quite a bit on eBay, 👍🏻
Yea i know. You wont belive how much I paid for that entire bag of games!
I got my copy from the charity shop 5 for a pound German bloke bought it on eBay happy days nice profit
You need to be careful when selling car parts, people will buy them and harvest parts from them or exchange them for damaged ones
Thanks for the heads up!
That happens with more then just car parts
@@SecretOfMonkeyIsland784 Yes I sold a friend's engagement ring, with diamond, it got returned, wasn't the same ring, I didn't have a leg to stand on
@@BVking509 that's terrible! 😞
@@BVking509 Other tricks people will do is not accepting a parcel if they change their mind on buying something (Even when you have no returns offered), without tracking its very hard to prove and as a seller you look bad as it looks like a delivery failure.
goodluck man can you drop your ebay shop will take a look
www.ebay.co.uk/usr/toms_tat
The trouble i have with eBay is its not so great for selling large heavy items as postage prices are expensive and boxing is difficult for odd shaped items. How do you get round this problem?. Never keen on 'Buyer collects' as dont like dealing with customers face to face and the problems they give you.
What postage do you use? Royal mail is expensive for large items yes but Evri or parcel force or yodel are much cheaper.
@@TOMS_TAT I use Royal Mail post office for most items. Evri i have used in the past but items like speakers for eg are just cost a fortune to post and try and find a box large enough to hold a sub, not easy.
@@SecretOfMonkeyIsland784 Yea Royal Mail is no good for large parcels. you can post most large items pretty easy with Parcelforce or evri. Go on interparcel.com it's like gocompare.com but for posting stuff aha. find you the cheapest ones.
How do you get so much stuff from the tip
It's not what you know it's who you know.
I'd Change your Ebay Store name as I Don't Think Pushing your items as Tat To the buying public is the best move
I think my feedback score speaks for itself.
don't Get carried away with only 82 seller feedback in the last year . Just a suggestion you wouldn't name A takeaway Freddies Food poisoning .@@TOMS_TAT
Where's your racking from?
Trade point
jeeeeesus wepttttttttttt
Cheers for getting me into reselling mate! And thanks for the share.
@@TOMS_TAT you should’ve been doing this many years ago. Plenty to offer
Looking forward to watching what channel does 🤘🏼🤘🏼
@@RickyResells Cheers mate! Plenty more content coming!
Honest point. I think it's a terrible name for a YT Channel and I hope your shop isn't of a similar name. Nothing personal and good luck for the future.
I think it's great.
While I admire the hustle and the business venture motive, I can't help but think the name "TOMS TAT" (unless it's just for your CZcams account) is really unappealing because when I read it I automatically assume you're selling by definition anything that looks cheap, is of low quality, or in bad condition. In reality you're not doing that but the name makes you think it. I would suggest thinking up something more unique, perhaps Tom's Thrifty Treasures or Tom's Trinket Trove or Toms Treasures.
Absolutely no hate here, just giving some input that could prove constructive and helpful!
A few people have said that. And it us my ebay name too. However I've never even looked at someone's ebay name before buying something. And even if I saw one with the word tat in it that wouldn't stop be buying. I think my 2000+ positive feedback speaks for itself.
@@TOMS_TAT Like you say, your 2028 / 100% positive feedback speaks for your service and not your site name so fair enough! Your site is good, it's really well presented. Keep it up!
Instead of declining offers make a counter offer
Yea i normally do. But the same guy offered me £30 3 times which i counter offered. he kept offering the same amount so i declined.
@@TOMS_TAT fair play then mate there’s plenty of messers on eBay
Pmsl literally even copying nik hills hand gestures
Don't buy a chrome book, they are awful. You'd be better with something second hand rather than a chrome book
Already got one. It is a bit crazy lol
Great video to the see the set up your doing. Looks like you got a good plan. Just added insta
Thanks! Yes this little shed should do me nicely! Loving it so far!