One of the two negative feedbacks (out of over 1,000 transactions) I got on ebay was from reselling a still new-in-box item that I bought from meh.
Turns out the item wasn’t functional and the buyer left negative feedback before contacting me. I would have happily refunded the $25 or so to avoid the negative.
(ICAWW - The other negative was over 20 years ago, I shipped someone the wrong item and they also left a quick negative before contacting me.)
@Comedian
I’ve had an order or two from meh where an item arrived broken or not working and if my intention was to turn around and sell it I would have never known unless I opened and tested. But I’ve also had that happen with Amazon too. That guy was an asshole for leaving you a negative review without contacting you first. Did you look at his record to see if that’s something he does?
@DLPanther Ugh, resellers have kind of ruined thrift stores - they come in and grab all the good stuff and put it on Ebay. So a lot of thrift stores have in turn raised their prices.
@DLPanther@Kyeh@PooltoyWolf the worst offender being goodwill itself. Any donations of significant value (like legos and nice jewelry) never even hit the shop floor, instead going straight to goodwill’s own auction site. And that’s not even getting into some of the other criticism people have of the way the store distributes proceeds between actual charity and “executive overhead.”
I’ve always considered buying deals (from consumer sites) to sell to others at a profit to be one of those things like: not returning a shopping cart, or pulling into a parking spot head first when you can see someone is about to try backing in, cutting someone off in traffic to save 5 seconds, not holding the door for someone.
It’s being rude and inconsiderate to other people to give yourself only a marginal gain.
Not only is this likely to result in loses long term (The products are on meh for a reason, so they didn’t make it on traditional markets)
It would long term cause the IRK problem (instant sell out) on everything. Which in turn would destroy Meh, because it would be peopled entirely by resellers, who would find firsthand why the products didn’t make it in the first place.
(Besides, the margins for time/effort are likely awful even if you had modest success, better to just pick up an extra shift or few hours)
If you are serious about doing this much, the first thing you should do is get a mehmbership. That shipping will eat you up.
Don’t really see meh as a reliable source for products that can be resold on eBay etc effectively. Amazon would be out due to the limited inventory you can generate. Not sure you could even get listings for items that you hold in such low inventory.
Don’t do this.
Garage sale but not online. But who hasn’t sold a bunch of shit you’ve collected in your house no mater what website it’s from.
I’ve been buying cookies here in bulk and trading them for favors at work. I’d buy them by the pallet if I could.
Hmmmm. Not a bad idea. Thanks!
I buy too many treats from here and Amazon. Then I pass them out to friends and give away a lot to the nearby Food Bank.
Do you mean stuff from IRKs or buy stuff specifically for reselling it?
Not that I do either, I’m just curious… 
@Lynnerizer Some people do - that’s why they limit you to 3 on most items.
One of the two negative feedbacks (out of over 1,000 transactions) I got on ebay was from reselling a still new-in-box item that I bought from meh.
Turns out the item wasn’t functional and the buyer left negative feedback before contacting me. I would have happily refunded the $25 or so to avoid the negative.
(ICAWW - The other negative was over 20 years ago, I shipped someone the wrong item and they also left a quick negative before contacting me.)
@Comedian
I’ve had an order or two from meh where an item arrived broken or not working and if my intention was to turn around and sell it I would have never known unless I opened and tested. But I’ve also had that happen with Amazon too. That guy was an asshole for leaving you a negative review without contacting you first. Did you look at his record to see if that’s something he does?
By “resell” you mean “throw in the Goodwill bag for someone else to deal with” right?
@DLPanther Ugh, resellers have kind of ruined thrift stores - they come in and grab all the good stuff and put it on Ebay. So a lot of thrift stores have in turn raised their prices.
@DLPanther @Kyeh I could not possibly agree more. Resellers trawling thrift stores deserve a special circle in hell.
@DLPanther @Kyeh I rarely even bother to go to my local Goodwill stores anymore, on account that used t-shirts are $5.99. Not worth it at all when shirt.woot has enough promos that puts them under $10. Current one is this:
https://forums.woot.com/t/prime-exclusive-buy-more-save-more-shirts-june-24-june-26-2024/1708985/
@DLPanther @narfcake Wow, that really is a good sale!
@DLPanther @Kyeh Not as good as this before they caught the “oops, it wasn’t supposed to work like that.”
https://forums.woot.com/t/19-shirts-are-9-june-12-june-15-2024/1690937/8
@DLPanther @narfcake Awww.
@DLPanther @Kyeh @PooltoyWolf the worst offender being goodwill itself. Any donations of significant value (like legos and nice jewelry) never even hit the shop floor, instead going straight to goodwill’s own auction site. And that’s not even getting into some of the other criticism people have of the way the store distributes proceeds between actual charity and “executive overhead.”
I’ve always considered buying deals (from consumer sites) to sell to others at a profit to be one of those things like: not returning a shopping cart, or pulling into a parking spot head first when you can see someone is about to try backing in, cutting someone off in traffic to save 5 seconds, not holding the door for someone.
It’s being rude and inconsiderate to other people to give yourself only a marginal gain.
@OnionSoup I tend to agree.
Not only is this likely to result in loses long term (The products are on meh for a reason, so they didn’t make it on traditional markets)
It would long term cause the IRK problem (instant sell out) on everything. Which in turn would destroy Meh, because it would be peopled entirely by resellers, who would find firsthand why the products didn’t make it in the first place.
(Besides, the margins for time/effort are likely awful even if you had modest success, better to just pick up an extra shift or few hours)
@Shingro But that’s why Meh limits the sales to 3, usually.
If you are serious about doing this much, the first thing you should do is get a mehmbership. That shipping will eat you up.
Don’t really see meh as a reliable source for products that can be resold on eBay etc effectively. Amazon would be out due to the limited inventory you can generate. Not sure you could even get listings for items that you hold in such low inventory.
There were folks in the past doing such – aka runners. And they got knocked down.
https://meh.com/forum/topics/circuit-breaker-and-fighting-runners
@narfcake Ah, that’s why that post got resurfaced. Blast from the past.
I’ve got a black IRK bag for sale on craigslist and facebook, but no takers
I found three more! and even some creepy yet classy severed hands earrings! Priceless, but I’m thinking they’re worth a Jackson
Did we ever find out what happened to @koolhandjoe? Does he still work for meh?
@Star2236 He is now working elsewhere. I have no other information.
@werehatrack
Okay, thanks.