Thearchivebooks wrote:
...Out of the budget for the scrapper. You will never find a deal you can make money on here, or anywhere that is associated with ebay.
True. And absolutely correct. As I pointed out earlier your competition on eBay is refurb sellers. Who will take the time to fix and test stuff. Then flip them at half retail or more. So a $2 scrap iPad is going to pull $200-500+ for a refurb
I will make a counter point to my earlier post and yours. There are two places where you can kill it on eBay. Pathetically bad misspellings and live auctions.
With bad spelling the search will never pick them up. So 100 routrerss will not get flagged by most people for a buy. Searching bulk categories by ending soonest you can occasionally score big. This is an unknown issue though. Not a secret. So there’s still some competition.
With live options you have a ton of hoops to jump through for any good sellers. Perfect feedback. A high enough rating. A specific payment method on file. Some even require third party escrow!
BUT:!
If you can get in your in a plush elite setting!
Many I’ve done have had 2 minute lots or shorter. Bidding is fast, and you get tied up on settling your wins with immediate payment rules so you miss the next handful of lots.
I’ve scored real well with these. My best was 250 mixed untested feature and smart phones. I won for $15. Vast majority wound up working once they were charged up or batterie were swapped. A single Nokia candy bar covered my auction price. The rest was pure profits. Much of that went to boardsort since it was easier to scrap them over tracking down batteries.
The down side is good auctions are rare and very hard to prequalify for. As i said don’t be surprised if escrow is required. Not surprising when the next auction after the phones, that I missed, was for 50 NeXT computers! Sold for 5 digits but I don’t remember the exact price.