A regular slot makes Lives easier to find — but it isn't for everyone. What do you think?
We run a relaxed group Zoom every Thursday afternoon in October. Help pick the order.
The shared room for planning the Portsmouth eBay Business Seller Meetup on Thursday 8 October, 12:00–16:00 at the Holiday Inn Portsmouth. Tasks, the run of show, the promo kit, the slides and a shared brainstorm all liv…
Buyers increasingly want pre-owned and repairable. When do you fix something before selling, and when do you list it honestly as for parts? Where's the line for you? #trending #repair
eBay has been rolling out AI card scanning and a price guide for trading cards. If you've tried it on your stock, how close were the prices to what things actually sold for? #trending #aiprojects
Fashion and collectables lead on eBay Live, but tech sellers are joining. What have you seen sell well live — cameras, consoles, gadgets, tools? And what never gets a bid? #trending #ebaylive
Bundle and mystery-box reveals are everywhere on social right now. Have you bought job lots of tech to resell? Share what was in it, what you paid and what it made — the maths is the interesting bit. #trending #sourcing
Let's build a map of the car boots, auctions and charity shops that are good for tech, cameras and retro — starting around Portsmouth and Hampshire ahead of the seller meet on 8 October. Post: • Name and town • Day and …
If you've done your first eBay Live show — or you're about to — this is the thread for honest numbers. Worth sharing: • How many lots you planned and how many you got through • Peak viewers and when they dropped off • W…
Every seller has one. Share yours — and, more usefully, the one detail in your listing or packing that helped you win the case or avoid it altogether. To get us started, the things that come up again and again: • A phot…
A running thread for what retro consoles and games are actually selling for in the UK. Post in this format so the numbers stay useful: • Item and condition (boxed? tested? leads included?) • Sold price and date • Auctio…
1. Search the exact model on eBay and tick "Sold items". 2. Filter to the last 90 days and the same condition. 3. Ignore listings that include extras yours doesn't have (or lack ones yours does). 4. Note three numbers: …
Three things buyers ask about before they bid on a lens — learn to tell them apart with a torch. DUST Small specks inside the lens. Almost every older lens has some. Usually doesn't affect photos. Mention "light interna…
Switches turn up at car boots all the time — here's how to avoid buying trouble. • Ask to power it on. No power? Price it as for parts, not "probably just flat". • Look at the screen in daylight: dead pixels, scratches,…
A film camera that "should work" sells for half of one that's been tested. Here's a ten-minute check before you list. SHUTTER • Fire it at every speed with the back open, pointing at a light. Slow speeds should sound cl…
WHAT IT IS eBay lets you add one short video to a listing: .mp4 or .mov, up to 150MB and up to one minute long. It appears after the first photo on the item page. eBay Live, the livestream selling format, keeps growing:…
WHAT IT IS "Agentic commerce" means AI assistants that search, compare and sometimes buy for a shopper. OpenAI, Google and others are building shopping into their chatbots. eBay is building its own: a conversational sho…
WHAT IT IS eBay publishes an official open-source tool called the eBay API MCP server (npm package @ebay/npm-public-api-mcp, on eBay's own GitHub). MCP is a standard way to plug an AI assistant, such as a desktop chat a…
WHAT IT IS eBay's trading card price guide came to the UK on 1 September 2026. In the latest eBay app, go to My eBay, then Shortcuts, then Scan cards, and photograph the front of a card. eBay's image recognition tries t…
WHAT IT IS eBay's Product Research tool (formerly Terapeak) is free in Seller Hub and shows up to three years of eBay sold prices, sell-through and postage trends. A general chat AI is good at a different job: turning a…
WHAT IT IS AI photo tools can cut the background out of a product shot, swap in a clean white or studio backdrop, and sort out lighting in batches. eBay has its own free version in the app. Background removal has been t…
WHAT IT IS Since August 2025 eBay has had an opt-in AI assistant inside Messages, shown as an "eBay.ai" toggle, for sellers in the UK and US. When a buyer asks a routine question ("Does it come with the charger?", "When…
WHAT IT IS Magical Listing is eBay's own AI listing tool. You photograph an item and it drafts the title, category, item specifics, a suggested price and postage. There is a single-item version in the eBay app and, for …
Running a business means turning up on the days you don't feel like it. Living with bipolar makes some of those days a lot harder. A good routine with AI in it doesn't ask you to be at your best every day — it's built f…
Every AI tool in this community follows one principle: AI assists, people decide. Here's why, and how to use the same guardrails in your own selling. HOW AI GETS THINGS WRONG Knowing the patterns makes them easy to catc…
You're at a stall with an armful of maybes and two minutes before someone else picks them up. AI on your phone can turn "no idea" into "worth a closer look" — if you use it as a lead, not a verdict. WHAT TO DO IN THE MO…
Live selling is intense: you're describing, pricing and chatting at the same time as keeping the show moving. AI can take real weight off, before and after. During the show it needs a firm hand. BEFORE THE SHOW • Run-sh…
Buyer messages come in at the worst times, and some days even "is this still available?" feels like a lot. AI is genuinely good at drafting replies. The rule that keeps you safe is simple: AI drafts, you send. WHAT TO H…
Here's a quiet way AI can hurt a good seller: you write "shutter sticks at slow speeds" in your notes, the AI writes a lovely description, and the fault isn't in it. Nobody meant to hide anything. The buyer still opens …
Ask an AI "what's this worth?" with nothing else and it will give you a number. The number will sound reasonable. It may be invented. Pricing is the area where AI needs the most help from real data. START FROM REAL PRIC…