Thank you, I was the subscriber who purchased the light meter and it was fantastic to see my product go from picking to packaging to shipping. Thank you for the product, I’ll be looking out for some more great buys in the future!

@NicHills

5 жыл бұрын

Thankyou so much for supporting both the channel and our business :)

Don’t you just love that eBay Cha-Ching sound.

@Alex-hn3lc

5 жыл бұрын

Yep lol

@torranmhor

4 жыл бұрын

Sneeky smile when cha ching goes at work..... everyone looks......

@AmeeraG242

2 жыл бұрын

Omgsh yes

I tried to become a seller a few years ago, I had some lovely items from a wholesaler but I really struggled to get them noticed and at the time there were charges for listing so there was no way it was going to work. It seemed like eBay were favouring big sellers and their items were always at the top

I like your inventory system. You obviously organize things according to color or to smells.. floor matts below desk, dragons on shelf. game controllers under bag of crisps..

the reason why you sell the scrooge dvd's is because is an GCSE subject in english, and everyone wants to revise for it.

many thanks for all your help. feeling excited. went to charity shops today and found loads of lego !!!

@steve4095

5 жыл бұрын

Goodluck

Some ideas of things to sell on eBay: 1. Vintage wrestling VHS 2. Books 3. Clothing 4. Electronics (Old vhs players do great) 5. Collectible cards (Pokémon, Yugioh, Magic, etc) 6. Sports collectibles 7. War memorabilia 8. Glassware (Rae Dunn is hot right now)

@le7tfeet

5 жыл бұрын

While some of this advice is nice, such things like clothes, collectable cards, etc are not worth it. It takes a full time reseller of just those specific things to make it work and even then its a lot of work and needs a fair investment up front

This is elite level reselling for sure

Going Full-Time is my goal for me and my family! Awesome video!

This is satisfying to watch, keep making these types of videos, its like watching a treasure hunt or something

its the going to the post office part I can never be bothered with lol

You take care of your products so nicely. My utmost respect to you. It’s very easy for resellers selling lots to just shove items in giffy bags with no protection.

Brilliant video Nic. I like your system for remembering what is in each parcel before you put the label on. Sending love to you both. xxxx

My god. The mastery level of that tape gun is just amazing. I would be bleeding out if i did it that fast 😩

I am so glad I came across your video.. it's neat to see your shop and how you go about doing all what you do. Thanks for sharing

Good packing video, I enjoyed everything I watch. 👍👍👍💙💚❤️🤗

I could watch this for hours! Never found a Dutch channel like this, so I am a big fan of you guys!

@hawradatoo6272

5 жыл бұрын

Elien Frericks are they Dutch?

@MiaCadwallader

5 жыл бұрын

Hawra Datoo - no there British 😂😂

@hawradatoo6272

5 жыл бұрын

MakeupByMia I know but why did she call them Dutch?

Nic, I bet you’re a wizard at packing Christmas presents! Skills!

Have you ever sold an item, gone to pick it and then can’t find it anywhere?!?

@xLouisexox3

5 жыл бұрын

Chris Kane I've thought that too. Also if there's certain organisation to everything in the room

@chrisb15151

5 жыл бұрын

I’ve managed to not find an item only twice, so far 😀

@paulbrindley3414

5 жыл бұрын

I have sold a item and when I come to look for it I realised that I had already sold it 🤣 . Tip !! If you ever do the same contact the buyer and tell them it is faulty or broken depending what it is .. then ask them if they would like a full refund or you can pick something else from my eBay shop . Odds on they will want a refund so then when they reply you refund them and press buyer asked for refund and case closed . No bad feedback 👍

@NicHills

5 жыл бұрын

Yes but thankfully it is rare :)

@thesinwi

5 жыл бұрын

Constantly I need a system

You know you made it in life as a EBay reseller when you have your own office, boxes, all packing material and a Royal Mail account with all printing equipment! I’m not on your level yet but you inspire me to become a better saleman and to hopefully one day be in a position where I can do it full time and as a career 🤝✅

Was enjoying ur packaging process....little detox for me ☺

Tiny time saver: write up all your jiffy bags & poly bags at once, then fill them up. Thanks for all your work & tips!

@kymperfumediva6004

4 жыл бұрын

Great video 👍👍just ordered some sticky off!

Love order picking orders

Ooh, blast from the past, not seen city link products since working there. Nice.

Just finished the video, love it i find it all very fascinating, i must admit I'm giving great thought about having a go at selling myself (as a little experiment) as Ive never sold anything online before. I've watched so many of your videos, karin's and others too whom i would never have found had it not been for 'Tesco tape' video the other month. Thanks Nic for sharing what you do. 👍😊

@dennisgrant4266

5 жыл бұрын

ebay gets 200 of every 1,000 you sell. plus paypal gets a little

Leave the sharpie lid off to save valuable seconds...

I use shoe boxes for most small parcels. Just go in to most shoe shops and thay will give you as many as you want.

@FriendlyGhostFriend

5 жыл бұрын

Work in a shoe shop. Can confirm. If you ask nicely we'll give you as many as you like :)

I love when you pick and ship your items

I enjoy watching the packing too!!!! Right after you packed the back pack, I sold one!!!! Strange hey!!!!

I really like this style of video. It makes it very clear the scale of sales you need to be making each day to make a living.

Hi Nic first time watching your video and enjoying your work, better than 9-5. Freedom!!👍😃

That was brilliant!! Look at you hanging up your scissors ha ha

@NicHills

5 жыл бұрын

That never lasts!

Glad I’m not the only one who refuses boxes. This is goals I get excited when I have 10 packages

I was working for city link when we went bust on Christmas day I used them city packs all the time wish I took loads before leaving

Was really interesting seeing how you handle and package your orders I'm really interested to see how you purchase your shipping labels in click & drop as I tried it once but did it wrong and ended up paying more but willing to give it another try. Would love to see more videos like this :)

Watching the wrapping and packing is like ASMR!! I just started going to car boot sales after selling my own junk so now I'm trying to sell others 😅

The reason Scrooge is probably selling well at the moment may be because of GCSEs, for some people you have to learn the Scrooge text and the dvds help people understand the plot etc. :)

@NicHills

5 жыл бұрын

Yes! that makes sense!

Bit rough with the Megadrive plug and plays 😂, be steady on those things, collectors like our stuff handled carefully 👍

So pleased I found you guys. I've just started put on Ebay and your a real encouragement!

Great varied of stuff going out well done. Nice footage from go pro.

I'm amazed that you can put a cassette tape or CD in a bubble mailer and still have it arrive in one piece. In the US most mail workers throw mail like they're frisbees.

Could you do a video where you show how you work out postage costs etc please.

Packing skills 10 out of 10 👍🏻

It sure is a pleasure to watch (& listen) to you. Much success to you.

Great video, love seeing how others package :)

I would have put a couple of layers of bubble wrap around the madonna tape, those old plastic tape cases can crack or break quite easily. Just another layer or two so that it still fits through the large letter.

Great way to recycle those old City Link mailing bags, real winner

@NicHills

5 жыл бұрын

Yes I love using those, at least they get used before being thrown away...

There is something strangely satisfying watching packaging videos ha

Would love a little mini warehouse like this 😜 Didn't realise ebay were still going with the introduction of facebook marketplace

go pro on head good plan mate and wife used to do this real sell till they went there way they were in there way all the time

in regards to packing the two dragon figurines, try using some cut off closing end flaps of a box, to separate items for shipping in a larger box, then fill with bubble wrap, just a suggestion, great video

Great video - can’t wait to leave the 9 to 5 and become a fully fledged reseller 😁

If i was shipping things out everyday, i would work with my current employer for packing material. they receive a bags and bags of popcorn on weekly basis. and bubble wrap

"Moroccan Pot Basket" 😂 😂

Great video. Wow that was fast.

It would be awesome if you could put a running total of how much total you made as the video goes on, or at least at the end. Thanks!

I do enough of this why am I sitting here watching LOL

With the head mounted go pro, you have to be careful you don't nut anything in frustration when you can't find an item.

Awesome video but would be more better to show screenshots of the listing on each item you pulled. Someone also suggested this on Garage Flips channel and his videos are fun to watch as well.

@NicHills

5 жыл бұрын

Yes that would be a good idea, but I struggle to film and edit these videos around the day-job so adding in pictures of completed items would be a stretch too far for me at the moment.... Yes Lonnie's channel is great, he is a good friend of ours :)

Im surprised you don't wrap and secure the cd`s, cassettes, etc. There is a high possibility those items can arrive damaged or broken into pieces. Taking the extra time to wrap and secure your packages can greatly increase the buyers experience and in return you'll have happier customers with higher stars and less likely to receive negative feedback. Im also a seller on Ebay for many years and I learned the hard way. It seems to me that you've gotten so use to your shipping process, that you lack the experience of good selling ethics by rushing the process. All I can do is wish you the best of luck! Cheers

@NicHills

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your concern, but I have never had an issue using bubble mailers, we have sold many thousands of media items and maintained an almost perfect feedback rating for about 20 years. Certain things like PS1 games and Dreamcast games I protect more, but CDs and tapes ship just fine in a mailer.

A nice varied selection of stuff going out 👍

Perhaps, it’s just me. I used to sell a lot of things quickly before the recession. Things I acquired for sale and things I wasn’t using. The recession came and I could barely sell things, even when listed globally. Recession “gone”, no recovery. I’ve had to throw in the towel and dispose of, donate or return things. It’s as if people barely want things, even if it were to say free with free shipping. In addition to that, I find that, at least for me, I’d really have to live in a large enough place that has a separate space to hold all of this stuff. Otherwise, you’re living in a persistently hoarded situation that you never escape and the justification is that it’s all going to sell one day - even if it doesn’t and you keep adding to it. That it becomes a safety hazard. I do admit I’m impatient in selling as, my early experience was so good. But, I just can’t keep living like this. I’m not a store that can hold onto things forever, feeling “Oh yeah. One fine day, that’s going to sell.”

Love watching packing vids! Thanks Nic x

New sub here. Really enjoying your channel and all the bits you share. Anyone ever say you sound a little like bear Grylls? 😁

Hey could you possibly link your eBay store in the description box or something? Would love to check it out

What you need is one of those little tape dispensers, I think Tesco's were selling some recently... oh hang on a moment somebody bought up all the stock hahaha

Hi Nic , when would you use recorded delivery and why/why not? Cheers

Nice. I have started reselling. At a carboot I managed to get a power ranger bundle for £5 and am looking at about 30 any day now so I thought that wasn’t a bad pick up lol.

Great video, I was subscribed to your channel awhile ago and for some reason KZread unsubscribed me and i just found your new video and thought to click on it and i seen i was NOT subscribed! LOL weird but oh well, i am back haha. Thanks for sharing another great video.

How much of your day is used up at the post office? That part of the job would drive me crazy! I only sell now and again but find the PO part the most frustrating and time consuming. Great videos .... keep them coming !

I been on eBay since 07 and through all that time I only made $800 and. Still wondering what the heck am I doing wrong . I try looking for the same item I'm selling and try to use a little from that and make it cheaper with free shipping and still nothing

@miguelalves7333

5 жыл бұрын

It depends what you sell..some items have more demand than others. I am not a seller but in almost 10 years of using ebay i always managed to sell quite easily unwanted items. Sometimes i make a decent profit sometimes i don't.

Selling on eBay is just way to expensive, fees fees fees !!.

@andreahills74

5 жыл бұрын

It would be the higher if you had a high street shop though... rates, rent, running costs and admin etc... Ebay offer an alternative but also need to make money themselves otherwise the platform wouldn't be able to exist. Having run a business on the high street we're happy to pay much less in costs to have exposure on one of the world's largest marketplaces.

@jonnyhost3795

5 жыл бұрын

@@andreahills74 Well there is that and guess for a resale business it makes sense, for the individual the fees seriously cut into your profit.

@grantham-sut

5 жыл бұрын

@@jonnyhost3795 I sell on ebay, my average fees are 7.25% of the sale, I can live with that as a marketing cost

@jonnyhost3795

5 жыл бұрын

@@grantham-sut Well you are lucky. Listing fee, eBay 10% final value fee, PayPal 3.4 % and 20p charge and then you've got postage on top and then you've scammers. I sell very little on it now and use Facebook, is much easier.

Hi guys, where do you get the ebay boxes please? Love your channel ❤

when organising office boss told me to just pop the huge roll of bubble wrap in a corner, . 6 hours it took

where do you buy ur stock to resell? great video liked and subscribed! im planning on going down the same route and becoming a reseller!

Brilliant, love watching.

Thank you!

What's your eBay seller name would love to see what your selling

@LtRaziel

5 жыл бұрын

the-hills-are-alive just search for some of the items in the sold listings for the price he says, plus they are Nick and Andrea Hills, so that's them.

@DJRandolf12

5 жыл бұрын

Hello thank you very much for that message back

@jessetaylor4687

5 жыл бұрын

Mine is webtrade-it if anybody cares.

Loved this one. Wish I had your setup

Great video Nic like these sales and packaging videos 👍

@NicHills

5 жыл бұрын

Great thanks :)

I'm really clueless how you manage the high postage and EBay + Paypal commission fees!

@miguelalves7333

5 жыл бұрын

And on the top of that packaging costs too. Bags , buble wrap , boxes , tape , paper and so on. And also the losses too , bad buyers wanting to return stuff for free , scammers and lost parcels.

@AZ-ze5xb

5 жыл бұрын

@@miguelalves7333 Yes however those could be managed easily if you are imaginative and resourceful but those fees and postage I have no clue someone said large scale business account users cheat when the volumes are high that's how they bring it down. I think I saw a video on KZread.

iv never ever had anything turn up in a ebay box yet i buy from ebay all the tome

Love the top view video

Love these go pro videos!!!

@NicHills

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks :)

Hey NIc , just thought I’d let you know, I sold the Hero Quest With all the expansion packs, I mentioned the other day I got £315 from a fiver. 😀😀

@NicHills

5 жыл бұрын

Holy cow!!

Hello. You are very organized with your staff, I'm from Algeria I try to sell my stuff on Facebook In this epidemic of Corona. I would like to be on eBay, I'm following your video. I love Car Boots in the UK and Charity shops. Thank you.

Brilliant job must be really fun wish I could do it.

@easymedia7988

5 жыл бұрын

What's stopping you..

@footballpredictions2836

3 жыл бұрын

@@easymedia7988 COVID

What’s your eBay store called buddy I wanna check it out? Thanks

Really legend you are always want to this be own boss best to do big fan from Lancashire

The Scrooge dvd will have sold because kids are doing GCSEs at the moment and A Christmas Carol is a set text.

@NicHills

5 жыл бұрын

Ahhh that makes sense!

Nic i think you didn't tape the bottom of the box on the pot. Around 19:00 👍

@elmoplays2093

5 жыл бұрын

It looks that way but it's the way it's edited, just before he turns it over you can see the tape on it

Hi. I love your videos. I was wondering where you get those ebay boxes from for posting? Thanks

finding boxes to mail in is a hassle

@a1sausey398

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah it is, but it's awesome when you already have the right size box to ship.

@MobileDecay

3 жыл бұрын

Usps delivers them in bulk to your house for free with the mail if you sign up to their website.

I would love to make a living doing this. Any good tips?

Do you two follow Steve and Steph the Resell Killers? Your names sound familiar. I love them two and love to watch them

Standard I phone charger tapped together!!! Lol

power strip on the pile of boxes is a fire waiting to happen.

hi nick, liking your video's, how do you do your del labels , do you print them off or write them out, also do you mind me asking where you buy tour postage equipment,

Sticky off. I need that!

@NicHills

5 жыл бұрын

Sticky Off/Labels Remover Liquid (this stuff is awesome!) - amzn.to/2l8ICg1

Super fast packing love it

@NicHills

5 жыл бұрын

Been doing it so long !!