 You used to be able to get things pretty cheap when you go to the clearance aisles at various stores and so on But there's a new trend happening that's taking away good deals from ordinary people Hey there NJ group 22.com today. We're talking about something. I like to call them eBay flippers but I guess you can call this a public service announcement and my whole Point if you don't feel like watching the rest of this video is that if you see something good on a clearance Isle at any major store and it's something you can use and you'd be happy to save money Don't wait till the price goes down like buy it Okay, the price goes down. You can probably get a price adjustment later But the chance is that if you see something like and you don't buy it's going to be gone very quickly Why? because there's somebody I like I mean I guess they're I call them eBay flippers or or You know fulfillment by Amazon FBA People that are out all out there trying to make a few extra bucks from low priced things Deals on items consumer goods mostly. I call them bottom skimmers because they're literally like for someone like me I'm not an eBay or I don't flip things. I saw something And I didn't buy it and it was like a half the price that it normally was and I'm like I changed my mind I went back the next day to buy it and it was gone like some the whole aisle was like half empty compared to the day before at Walmart because somebody Thought they can get something cheap and instantly flip it and double their money or close to double their money and These were actually sockets these Stanley sockets. They were they were really good actually they were a metric Which is I need for my tool collection I have plenty of SAE sizes But I don't have metric and a lot of the products I have these days use metric and it had the whole range I should have bought them. They were 30 bucks. I even though the price said 45 and they were normally like $60 I should have picked them up But so what I did was I went on on eBay to see and there was hundreds of these these Stanley sockets all selling for about the Same price because they're eBay flippers all over the entire country who probably saw the same deal I did they they go there daily or they know when When Walmart puts out new items or when what day of the week that the I think it's every week or two The price goes down another 10 to 20 to 30 percent And they put a new yellow sticker on the things and they know they get there They get there at 8 a.m. And they buy everything that went down in price They also have these apps Brick seek and there's all these different apps that you can or websites you can use to track Products and it's become very automated, but eBay flippers are very interesting. Oh, by the way, I did get this box of Gillette razors And it was four blades a handle and a tub of shaving cream There was only five bucks it probably saved me now 75% it buying those things three things separately Probably would have cost 20 bucks And I went online to see if anybody was selling these things and you know none had sold in the last year So a lot of these people are running into trouble. I'll explain right now This new trend now everybody thinks because you'll see some like fast-talking guy on tick-tock or Instagram or Pinterest talking about how all you can make easy money buy it cheap and sell it higher Yes, that concept used to work very well because you were the only one buying cheap and selling on You know eBay or Amazon, you know a little bit less than you can get it normally now Everybody thinks they can sell Things for the same price as that you can get them at the store I would never buy from eBay unless I know I'm getting it for 50% or or more off I got by my cell phones for for ten cents on the dollar. It was a thousand bucks new I get it for a hundred bucks. I will never buy anything on eBay That's not profoundly cheaper and anybody buying anything on eBay that they can get or used to be able to get at Walmart for The same price is is a smoke and crack So what I think is what's happening here is that all these people think you know the concept is very good on paper You can indeed buy and sell on eBay But this trend has been going on for a long time and there's professionals out there that do this for a living making hefty six-figure salary, but they they they know what they're doing and Anybody getting into the game in 2020 and beyond is in for a rude awakening Because unless you put in seven days a week and you're working 18 to 20 hours a day on posting your stuff And you probably need a staff and a warehouse to keep your things Organized that's why a lot of people are liking of FBA funded Fulfillment by Amazon's because they don't have to do any of the shipping they pay a higher fee I think it's up upwards of 30% or more, but they don't have to handle the logistics Which is which is nice, but their stuff may never sell and may sit in Amazon warehouse collecting dust for a year But anyway, anybody getting into it now is is it's like I like into a pyramid scheme The people who get into a pyramid scheme early usually the ones that make out and the further longer you wait and the bigger The pyramid gets the less chance you have of being successful and people today now are I mean I can understand doing it if you can find ten things a month and flip money Bay for a modest profit like some people Can make an extra grand a month which is nice because it could be recreational pocket money help them or maybe even help them with their bills but At this point if you're planning on replacing your life with becoming an eBay flipper Unless you have a niche going to Walmart and trying to flip those things you have a huge Competition field out there now. There's people out there There's I don't know how many thousands of Walmart's there are but there's people that go to every single solitary one Run home and put that stuff on eBay all trying to sell. I mean, I guess one Good tip is if you want if you can do this successfully daily and buy things and have the money to buy things Flip them at a lower price than everybody else if everybody's selling these $30 sockets for $58 96 Which is what Walmart was selling them for sell them for 45 make five bucks profit I guess after shipping an eBay fees see at that point you to put an hour worth of work in for five dollars is You're you're you're pushing your luck. Don't do it. Just buy the things That you might need and so on so I I'm not happy with how these eBay flippers are kind of taking away my good deals And at the same time it's it's no fun even flipping things on eBay anymore Unless you have high ticket items with a lot of profit and you are buying even buying from China By the way, the profitable drop drop ship stores all these people are claiming profitable drop shipping stores again The market is way too saturated. You're not I Don't know if you do it right and you're perfect and on all All levels you might be able to make a decent living But the the field is too crowded and and the other big guys like Amazon are getting bigger And I think you got to figure out a better way to make make some money I mean I designed something that nobody's done design Anyway, I've rambled on and on here But just like I said bottom line if you see something you like and it's a good deal Pick it up. 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