The FASTEST Way to List Stuff on eBay!

[@sitengoqueso]

For the white backdrop I use a wide white roll-up blind. Super convenient to use when you dont have a specific photo station. Also really appreciate what you guys do for the community it helps a lot.

[@livingmydreams69]

I've been a reseller for dozens of years, but I can always learn something new and you are so calm, thorough and a great teacher! I enjoy watching you and your wife. You have a fantastic bond! ♥️

[@rgc1600]

I watch your videos and almost forget that you're talking to a lot of people, and not just me. Your videos are extremely helpful, and I'm very appreciative of all I've learned thanks to you.

[@dallenwebster8347]

Great video! I recently tried a new method of listing where I complete the bulk of the listing on my desktop and save the listing in a draft, then move to my phone to quickly take all the pictures. Not sure how many people do it this way, but it's really helped boost my productivity!

[@theresamod9017]

Nice to know someone else is slow, smiles.. ...I have not started listing yet as I am still researching the how too. ...thanks for your how to videos. ...Theresa

[@braxleighsplace]

Thanks for all the info. I just do eBay on the side and it takes me FOREVER to complete a listing. I appreciate all the great tips in this video & for making me feel better about my super slow listing speeds, lol.

[@Heatherreseller]

Thanks! I had no idea you could tap screen and swipe up to make brighter! Saved me 10sec lol

[@Whatmakesyouflip]

Me either haha I just commented the same thing

[@palmettocards2099]

Same here my mind is blown

[@deb7518]

An Excellent tutorial for beginning listers! Also great advice for productivity and focus to avoid becoming overwhelmed. I don't know if I'll ever become a reseller, but can use many of these pointers to tackle the mountain of stuff left from my mom's passing. So great of you to take the time to share this with others!

[@BillBurfordMrBillPoker]

Thank you for your awesome videos and these tips. I save the time of transferring my pictures from my phone to my computer by doing the listings on the computer and saving them as a draft. I then complete the listing from my phone by adding the pictures. Works for me and saves me time!

[@lindapearson9860]

I do the exact same thing!

[@crosenblum]

I work for a ebay store, I do work as Photographer, Tech, Returns and Customer Service. We use something called Kyozou to manage all our inventory, and listings. Our biggest struggle these days is Item Specifics, having endlessly to add unavailable information into our listings, to get the listings approved. I love these kinds of videos, because I always want to learn more. Thank you.

[@prosperousutensil8178]

IRL prepwork is part of the listing process, especially for shoes, and a place where most people get bogged down. Leaving those steps out of the video glosses over how long it actually takes to list shoes. I've been cleaning thrift store marker prices off shoes today with goo gone, and it adds to the time it takes to get shoes listed FR

[@RALLIROOTS]

if you're spending too much time prepping and cleaning products you're buying wrong. Time is money, prep should be minimal, profits over projects.

[@chrishernandez7193]

Literally watched your video for the first time last night, and before I did I was actually thinking to myself “How can I make extra income?” So I thought, “ hey, what about selling on eBay?” And When I watched your video I gained confidence to just go for it. I listened to what you said about selling things that I don’t want and just threw them up there to see what happens. Only have 3 items so far, but hey it’s a start. I’m also a vintage toy collector and I’ve chosen that to be what I want to sell. I actually pre ordered some figures, about $300 worth to see if I can make a profit by flipping them, have to spend to make money. Thank you for giving me confidence. I wish all of you luck that are just beginning. Don’t give up!!!

[@keanru17]

I didn’t know you could adjust the brightness like that! Thanks!

[@JMidwest1999]

Who decides whether to charge shipping and how much to charge? (When they make up the listing, do they decide that also)? If charging shipping, is the amount set or is it going to be calculated by the buyer. If no shipping is charged, is the shipping cost rolled into the listing price of the item? Thanks.

[@representing50plus]

good question

[@boogerhooks]

On Ebay seller decides whether to charge shipping or use a fixed price. Ebay charges you the same final value fees on shipping and item anyway. If you charge for shipping you can choose set price or calculated shipping.

[@robertjay1179]

I’ve been selling on eBay since 1998. I’ve learned more in this video than the entire time listing. Wow!

[@TBW208]

"An old iPhone X" LOL

[@RALLIROOTS]

I mean...it is a couple years old, that's old for an iphone lol

[@Jameson11ink]

@@RALLIROOTS over here on my new iPhone 6

[@TBW208]

@@Jameson11ink lol

[@mzzzol]

@@TBW208 Mine is iPhone 7 and I love it takes great pics.

[@OldJoeBlows]

Lol. That made me laugh too!

[@LAURAFISS1]

Appreciate this info. I am enjoying your videos. Glad to run across this one. As one who is just getting their feet wet, its overwhelming. When I expressed interest to start an ebay store with others (family), I am now catching static as to why I haven't started yet.😳 An attempt to gain as much knowledge as necessary before I hit the "GO" button is hard for others to grasp. Thanks for all the info...great content for someone like me.

[@Ukssm33]

Such an amazing video. We have been selling for a little over a year now, and we picked up so many tips from this video. Keep up the great work. You all are amazing!!!

[@Thetravelingmoes]

Ok everyone's concentrated on the video, I'm checking out that t-shirt. I likey. Great info. I started this process of putting small lots together, using banker boxes. When I empty one it goes to the top and I work on the next. I like the thought of someone else doing the listing with me only having to take pictures but not sure I'm willing to pay someone else 2 bucks a listing, but maybe someday. Thank you💜

[@ian12324]

This video couldn't of come at a better time, i've got a large box full of boots i've got to clean, photograph and list, i've just kept walking past it for a few days, but this video has inspired me to get started and get on with it.

[@myhuynh9881]

Hi, this might be a silly question, Donwe have to wash the used shoe before selling it ? Thanks

[@venicebrain3390]

Excellent! Such fantastic advice. These aren't just reseller skills but life skills as well.

[@QuietMindful]

I know it’s weird and unusual, but here are my feelings regarding shoes: I hate listing them soo much! To the point that I can only list 2-3 pairs at a time because I’m fed up. But I love cleaning them and making them look like new and I love packing them because I use shrink wrap and special shoe boxes and it’s like a Christmas wrapping session every time lol so yeah the listing is what I have no passion for.

[@matthewmamparo484]

You should make tiktoks of you packing your items!

[@joellekaut6524]

Show us!

[@Ms.MD7]

So many people don't understand that time really is the most valuable resource we have. You guys get the best tips. Btw that camera feature where you swipe up and down for the brightness, is that solely on iPhones?

[@RALLIROOTS]

I’m not sure, I’ve only used iPhones. Try it on an android and let me know :)

[@pjmartin6690]

Great Video... How do you remove a permanent marker off the bottom of porcelain and other items??? Thanks!

[@davidknowlton3182]

Thanks for the info with the brightness with the phone! Y’all are amazing!

[@ugottabejokinright]

This is a great video with soooo many helpful tips!! This has given me the drive to dive into my "death pile", because I'd lost my momentum & drive because listing was so daunting (and nice to hear you even say that it is daunting & time-consuming.) I have ADHD & easy to get discouraged when things get tough or you need a boost, so this video gave me a positive push to get things going again. Thank you so so much & I have subscribed to your channel!😁

[@joan92763]

Hey Ryan thanks for another great video. How do you advise sellhound what to charge for shipping shoes and boots? Do you use the USPS shoebox for shipping?

[@merrieterry4787]

Great video! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and breaking it down on how to spend your time more wisely and more beneficial options if you are short on time! I’m new to online selling and I am feeling more encouraged after watching these videos! Very much appreciated!

[@olddosgeek]

Thanks for the video here is something that may help both of us and more. No one is doing ebay videos on how to do the description. Such as font color alinement so forth.

[@life_with_pita]

Thank you for this video Ryan. These are great tips for people starting to resell on any platform. Listing on eBay is so overwhelming for me especially now with all the required item specifics.

[@kimfrommn7162]

Ryan, excellent! You are a great teacher/explainer! Appreciated very much! Kim from MN 😊

[@aw1091]

The idea of listing on ebay was so daunting for me. This was such a helpful tip. Thank you so much😊.

[@dudejrryan]

Thanks. Learned some good things...especially using the Square setting when taking pics, did not know that

[@michaeldelisieux5252]

Newbie here! There isn't enough words to thank you guys for the information shared! Cheers!

[@Arizona_lilly]

Ingot buns and bags and this new year i was trying to go tops. Swesters. Drrsses. Shoes tske 1 category at a day... Yes indint like the umbrella lights the box were best to me. The umbrella still works if u have nothing at all. But box for sure step up

[@paulabross8808]

Thanks for all the tips!! I’m new! I love to source. Getting the sell hound app will be fantastic use of my time!!

[@reneehenrichs4538]

Great Advice! I'm still super slow at listing, but I keep plugging away at it. Definitely helps to make smaller piles if you have a huge death pile. I do my majority of sourcing in the summer at garage sales, so by this time of year my inventory is overwhelming, but it sure is nice to have all of that stuff by the middle of winter when sourcing is limited.

[@troymattingly3071]

Although, I am primarily using my phone. I agree that desktop is much better. I poured coffee in my laptop and found out, the hard way. Great video, Ryan!

[@rowenaphilbeck1919]

Thanks for the advice. I do one thing at a time right now. I have no computer at home and that is what I have to get soon before December. I did purchase a printer. I'm sure that will make it alot easier to do pictures all at once. That is my plan. Thanks for how to make things faster in listing.

[@EstebanNina]

You're right, if we can focus on the business rather than focusing on working in the business, we can grow faster (from the book "E-Myth Revisited"). SellHound is a great tool to use. But, we have a few people locally to photograph our items, we then take those photos and have a few people (in the Philippines) draft them for us on inkFrog. We just review & launch the listings at that point. We currently have 5,000 item listed in our store and the goal is to have double by the end of the year.

[@RALLIROOTS]

Nice!! You guys are always crushing it, the only reason we don't use inkfrog is because they load the listings with unneeded HTML, well they did when we used them ;) probably don't anymore.

[@artjr.bagdasarov4941]

This is video is full of high quality information. Thank you

[@davehconner]

I did not know you could adjust the image brightness on an iPhone. That is useful information. Thanks!

[@sidehop]

Great to know about Sellhound! Time is money so I was wondering how people list them as efficiently as possible. Will sub. Thanks 👍

[@aniamunoz1959]

Can I ask how do you transfer to your computer or laptop? Not very techy ? Thank you love watching your journey

[@kellyflickinger7629]

Thanks for all the helpful hints!

[@grey7153]

thanks for the tip about the brightness on iPhone! didn't know you could do that!

[@Indyshalo]

Is there any other service that will list for you like sellhound? I have tons of hard goods in my death pile that I need to list.

[@venuscruz6075]

How do you ship your shoes, boxes only or what

[@cynthiawilsonlmt4321]

I am a new seller and I get hung up on the shipping. How do you handle shipping if the third party app does the listing? Do they also suggest shipping?

[@rosyrose9827]

Hi Ryan. I'm a very new eBay seller (no experience but, following your tips and tricks, thank you for sharing) :-) When you mentioned eBay & taking 4 photos, does that apply to all things we will sell, or just shoes ?

[@RALLIROOTS]

All items :)

[@rosyrose9827]

Thank you Ryan :-)

[@marciemadmac6237]

New to your you tube and was wondering if when using Sellhound for clothes do you send them pictures of a ruler for inseam, pit to pit etc and do you tell them things you want in all your listings such as condition, notification of them being sourced, return policy etc. I can tell I'm going down a big rabbit hole watching you. Thanks for the info

[@KimCrossesBorders]

How many listings would you say it would be worth it for sellhound? I currently have 300 and I feel like I am drowning because I have another 100 items to list

[@ryanwrage4878]

I just tape two white poster boards together and use the top of my deep freezer in my garage for a photo booth. Sometimes simpler is better!

[@RALLIROOTS]

I like it!

[@dominiqueendeavors]

Thanks for the tap the screen for brightness tip. I use my iPhone to take my photos 💕

[@picklikeapro6952]

Thank you for the square mode tip. I’ve listed thousands of things and always have an issue with scaling them right in a square. And I’ve always had an iPhone so I clearly haven’t been paying attention 🤣.

[@Kayrosee1221]

Do you have a recommendation for a desktop? We have always used macs, however Mac isn’t compatible with some things like the zebra laser printer.

[@sdvlt]

On starting a business that you wish to grow and don't need the profits to get by with...obviously you would make an inventory of what was purchased and how much it was bought...lets say you purchased 100 items at a dollar each..and you sold one item at lets say 20 dollars..would you replace only one dollar and call the rest profit? or would you put back all the 20 dollars to replace the cost of the items not yet sold? How do you actually calculate the growth of your business?as if you do pay back all the inventory..you can never say it's all paid for as you always need to keep buying...confused ,,,,would much appreciate your advice.

[@RALLIROOTS]

Yeah, we run our business on net cash flow in and out, so let’s say this month we spend $40k on inventory and expenses and the business brings in $30k, that’s a $10,000 net loss. If the business spends $40k and we bring in $50k that’s a $10,000 gross profit(pre-tax)

[@okkrom]

How do they get a title from only pictures? Don'y you have to give sellhound some basic info? Or a comp at least?

[@naenae5287]

I sell jewelry. How would Sellhound get conditions, size, etc in order to list the item?

[@finderskeepershaul7231]

I don't see the LED Panel light on your Amazon product list. Do you have a link for it? Thanks! Love watching ya'll!!!

[@kimmurphy6864]

If it’s faster to list on a desk top, and an iPhone takes good pics, how do you get your pics from your iPhone to the desk top? I have an iPhone 6 and it doesn’t have a SD card. Thx for all your help 😃

[@caligrl]

We use mac computers, so we can just air drop them.

[@FreewayFlippers]

One of our goals for 2021 is to list FASTER! We aren't quite there where we want to pay for a service like Sellhound. But, we will be soon and it makes sense. Time is money...

[@markv595959]

Hello great video. With Sellhound how does it get the information such as material, fabric etc? Thank you

[@jjohnston1]

Thank you for your info. I always learn from you guys. Every video I get something. I will keep watching always. Jim

[@misslinda1490]

Does sell hound figure out how much freight to charge? Or do they only do free freight?? Freight has always stopped me. I don't know how to figure it out other than pre-boxing every item. HELP. Thanks.

[@mr.mcclendon9630]

any insight on the table you hang the background from is it just some 2 x 4's

[@clarathordiss3663]

Just started trying to make some extra income on ebay and finding these videos so helpful. Thank you!

[@edomictin1997]

Great Informative Video as always. Can you use Ring light instead of box light? Thanks

[@RALLIROOTS]

Yes, absolutely

[@thriftyshopper5815]

this is a question I've had since I started that I think I'm doing wrong.......I take pics of one item at at time (which I will change to doing several pics at a time of different items) but after I take a pic, I need to package it because I do calculated shipping and so I find a box and get it packaged, weigh it, measure it and then I can list it. Weight and dim's are required to list an item. what am I doing wrong?

[@victoriapakala2679]

Thanks for the deep dive on sellhound....have been debating on switching to using them so we can spend more time growing our biz

[@aleasah]

I started using them awhile back when they first announced them here. Their customer service is on point. I started with the small plan but the next day realized we had enough items to list in those categories to get the biggest package so I asked if I could upgrade to that package with the same discount and they did with no problem! I highly suggest saving the money and getting the biggest package the RALLIROOTS25 code. It's worth it with the math, it comes out to less than $2 per item. And, I usually only change 1 thing per listing so they do a pretty good job. Honestly though, don't give them any specialized items. Example, I gave them a vintage GratefulDead T and they listed at $80. I had Ryan consult with me on that shirt and he agreed it is worth way more than that. It sold for $250!! (Thanks Ryan! 😍) So always check the pricing and send them more generic stuff. 👍

[@Whatmakesyouflip]

Dang didn't know you could adjust the brightness like that awesome thanks

[@lorigriffin8708]

Thank you for all your great helpful tips.

[@annVacchiano1209]

Soo i have a nippon vintage vase...if I list it and it sells quickly how do I ship it the fastest way possible ?..shoes would be less stressful

[@highplainsthrifter8389]

Thrift stores here are starting to use paint pen on shoe soles. Any tips to remove these markings?

[@RALLIROOTS]

Goo gone is usually pretty solid

[@mshowell3710]

More great intelligent Help...Thanks! The common sense tips & tricks & validation & encouragement r Really Appreciated! 💛

[@ottothorsen]

Wow, sellbound sounds brilliant. For higher priced items that will work great. Def looking into this!

[@amywentzel4214]

I am fairly new at having a store...but I found I can create the listing on my desktop and submit it without pictures. Then go to my phone and click in the draft and add the photos from my phone. This saves a ton of time transferring photos from my phone to the computer.

[@RALLIROOTS]

For sure! That’s a way to do it as well, just backwards.

[@jochildress5003]

This is just what I needed! Thank you.

[@justinsuperbike6407]

I have one recommendation for some of your viewers. You have way more experience than we do so correct me if I’m wrong. We have found that loading pictures from our phones is faster than loading to our computer. So the way we do it is we create a listing and maybe start a few things in the listing like the title for sure. We then save the listing and then reopen it in our mobile app and then add the pictures to the listing from the phone. Save listing again and reopen on the computer. All the photos are in the listing. The reason that we found this was better was because loading pictures to a slow computer or a slow Internet was a timely process. Loading directly to our phone then saving that listing and then returning to the computer was fastest for us. If you have a better way I’d love to know because I can only get maybe 15!items listed a day LOL

[@fredtaylor630]

Very helpful, practical. Thanks Ralli for all you do!

[@wreckitralph4714]

I'm one of those guys that doesn't use white background I post my stuff in the basement on my wooden desk and I like that background. And when I am buying stuff I usually do buy from people that don't use the white back cause it seems more like a real person.

[@RALLIROOTS]

That’s great :) but it 100% hurts your rankings if you don’t use a white background. Up to you.

[@wreckitralph4714]

I seem to be doing pretty good enough I mean I am a smaller seller I only have around 300 things on ebay.

[@RALLIROOTS]

@@wreckitralph4714 Not saying you wont sell anything just letting you know the facts of SEO...you're welcome to list how you want :) but it's my duty to let you know the facts

[@thriftyshopper5815]

I'm a fairly new re-seller. How does sellhound know if you want to do an auction or BIN? I have a ton of items to list. I'm one person and don't have time to source and list. This could be a God send for me.

[@thriftyshopper5815]

and how do they know the price of the item?

[@brandenarnett7162]

Excellent advice on how to grow and expand as well

[@imdanhoward]

thanks for this tip. I'm going to look into SH because that's the process I do not enjoy

[@cecilholdway9177]

Those phone camera tips are gonna be really useful, it's the small things that help save time

[@brettlott570]

Great video again ROOTS!! Glad to hear someone else doesn't like the umbrella lights. My pictures always had shadows

[@barbararamos5824]

Hey 👋 where did you get that white poster board white background? I have a white muslim sheet but hate the wrinkles! Thanks in advance

[@barbararamos5824]

@@robs5579 the white poster board from dollar store is not that big, i have that too :)

[@barbararamos5824]

Which the one from dollar store is great for smaller items but not big ones

[@barbararamos5824]

@@robs5579 he did, i could have sworn i looked there already but then i was like let me check again and ah ha low and behold its there! So anyways thanks for making me double check 🤣

[@matosborn4]

@RALLI ROOTS Is there a benefit to taking the pictures before you do the listings? I usually take my box of items and do the listing on the computer first then add pictures and post from my phone. If there is some sort of benefit id like to know what it is to help myself out. lol

[@RALLIROOTS]

Same same :)

[@fabiGBOtown]

How do I set up international shipping? My offer was from Europe. Man, I hate being new to something

[@theraglady2060]

Hi where can I find the sellhound app and is it just for the US, or can it be used in the uk? 🤗🤗

[@SellHound]

Hi there! We are currently only operating in the US but thank you so much for your interest 🥰we hope we can offer our service overseas someday!

[@derrickbosler9704]

Do you need a computer to sell on ebay i want to try it off my iphone

[@RichD746]

"An old iPhone 10" LOL

[@tgangstar]

Is their a sell hound in the uk

[@jeffdorris5321]

Nice work Ralli Roots. 😎⭐👍

[@johnvedder7941]

Thanks a bunch for all the content. I Aloha from here in Hawaii!

[@craigrandall5138]

I hope more people aren’t distracted by producing listings for SEO; eBay is really very simple. It’s about having the right inventory and enough volume and patience to sell good things over time. The emphasis on all of these other systems is useless if you don’t have category expertise and know how to find valuable items to sell.

[@RALLIROOTS]

Well yes...but once you have the very basics down SEO is super important bud.

[@successwithjays]

how does sell hound charge you? Sorry if you specified that. I'm also a new subscriber. Great vids bro. Thank you!

[@1968Underdog]

Thank You! This was very motivating and thought provoking.