How This eBay Seller Went From Zero to $250K in Just Three Months

Hey Victor, I’ve been meaning to write you for quite some time, and have finally found a moment to do so.

Before I go any further, I’d like to express my deepest gratitude and thanks for sharing your knowledge and wisdom, for your extremely user friendly platform, and for being so proactive in helping the E-Bay community aspire to grow with your stories and tips.

I’d like to quickly (well I hope it’s quick) share my story with you and how you guys have helped us immensely, and maybe ask a few questions in the end. Our company is a consumer electronics wholesaler based in New York and in business about 2 years.

We noticed many of our wholesale clients are retailing both on Amazon and E-bay and after two years with almost $6 million in sales last year we decided to give online retail a shot.

Our main product line is Apple electronics (phones, computers, laptops, ipads, accessories, etc.) and we began on Ebay about six months ago.
After about 10 sales we were suspended and reviewed, asked for invoices, and well you know how that goes.

We passed the review and continued to sell and about a month later were suspended again, with probably less than $5000 in total sales at the time.
We gave up, threw in the towel and continued to wholesale making a significantly smaller margin.

I ran across your blog and website about 3 months ago and read every single thing you shared. I was shocked that someone with such a level of success was willing to publicly share and help so many people. I came to the realization that if someone (yourself) was willing to share so much knowledge, there has to be enough of the pie to go around for everyone.

I registered for CrazyLister and literally went bananas with creating list templates. In only 1 month we were able to do about $20K in sales by utilizing your tips on titles, detailed images, and beautiful listings.
After that month, we were once again paused to selling and went under another review. I submitted a 47 page PDF documents with tax returns, invoices, pictures of our inventory, etc, and we were given a $100K , 2000 item a month privilege to sell.
In just 2 months after the last review we’ve grown to over 1600 items sold and over $100K in total sales on E-bay.

I know this is lengthy, but I really wanted to express how thankful I am for everything you’ve done and for your blog and your wisdom. I guess if I had to give feedback on what I’d love to see on Crazy Lister, It would be a template to build an E-Bay Store (ours looks completely eh at the moment).

To finish, I have just a few questions that I’d love your feedback on. I remember you doing a post about how your listing was removed because of a picture that was Copyrighted and to get to the top again you guys literally broke even or lost money to regain the #1 spot. We were selling apple headphones (earpods) and took a similar strategy. We were making either 30 cents or breaking even (sometimes even losing money) in order to sell a lot and get our listing to the top.
Finally it made it to the #5 or 6 spot on the first page with over 500 units sold in a few weeks. It happened to us, VERO stepped in and claimed our goods were either fake or we were infringing on copyright. They removed 6 of our accessories listings. We lost that spot and now only have a few accessories listings left. Would you recommend reposting them? Do we give it some time? E-Bay says apple is very stringent and it was them who stepped in… Not sure how VERO works but I’d love to hear your input on this. Anyways, sorry for the ramble and thanks again for your time and effort.

If you’d like to share our story on your blog feel free to do so. Thanks again and we hope to hear from you!
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Best Regards,
Dennis Glazov