I stopped working earlier this year, and was planning on selling a lot of things laying around the house to get by until my next job. I have thousands of dollars worth of stuff listed online. My sales on Ebay are completely terrible.

If I do auctions starting at a dirt cheap below-average price that barely covers shipping, no one bids until a snipe at the last minute for the starting price. If I do BINs pricing them at the average sale price determined by completed listings, nothing sells. I've sold online for a long time and have great feedback, so it's frustrating and somewhat of a mystery. I know people are buying because I see all of the things selling in completed listings.

They just aren't buying my stuff unless it's at a deep discount or the item is the last one available online for a reasonable price. If there's three at the same price, buyers will buy the other ones first before they buy mine. I'm like the seller that everyone expects a bargain from. No one ever overpays for my stuff like I see them doing for other sellers. Also, for the less than 10% of my stuff that sells, the buyers are now usually not paying until I have to open a case against them to receive the money.

My Amazon sales are a lot worse than past years too. I've run up my credit card balance the past couple months because I'm buying things and hoping that the stuff laying around my house will sell, but then it hardly ever does sell. The only things that sell are things that friends give me to sell online.