When you’re a brand new seller on eBay, the website takes some precautions to make sure you’re not there to scam a bunch of people out of their hard earned money and then disappear into the ether.

In my first 7 days on the platform I made about $56 in profit. But eBay holds those funds until they can confirm delivery, and not just when the tracking updates as delivered. When the customer confirms delivery, so those funds from between the 21-28th of January didn’t end up in my bank account until the 12th of February.

You are also limited to the amount of things you can list, I have recently learned that is apparently to deter drop shippers, so if I remember correctly in my first two weeks I only had 70 free listings per month. But that increased to 250 pretty quickly.

The Next thing I learned very quickly was, if you’re researching what you should sell an item for, the active listings don’t mean dick. eBay has a fun feature that you can actually filter for sold items. You need to be looking at what the item actually sold for, not what people are trying to sell it for.

That first week was rather eye opening. I always thought I knew how eBay worked, I’ve grown up with it and watched it evolve. I fucking remember when it first launched. But the shit that actually goes on “behind the scenes” as a seller was like a whole new world to me.
I Couldn’t wait for week 2.