u/HappyAshi

Honest upfront: this isn’t 100% passive.

It’s automated discovery + manual close. You set filters once, the bot runs forever, and you get pinged when a deal hits. The “work” is replying “Hi, still available, I can pay today” and printing a shipping label. Realistically 3-5 hours per week of actual touching the keyboard. Closer to passive than most things tagged passive on this sub.

The setup:

I built a free open-source bot that watches Facebook Marketplace, Wallapop, Vinted, and Mercari at the same time and pings your Discord when a listing matches your filter set. Posted it on Reddit 2 weeks ago with 0 Discord members. Today: 700+ members and $18,000+ in confirmed flip profit tracked across the community. Real number is higher because heavy users don’t post every deal.

Free, open source, runs on your own machine. No subscription required for the base version.

Repo: https://github.com/ethanashi/fbm-sniper-community

What members have pulled in the last few days:

•	iPhone 15 Pro Max: bought $220, sold $297 → +$77  
•	iPhone 16 Pro Max: bought £420, flipping for £600 → +£180  
•	Apple Watch: bought $47, sold same day for $175 → +$128  
•	iPhone 15 Pro Max: bought $100, eBay sold comps at $400+  
•	MacBook Air M4: bought €600, flipping for €850-900 → +€250-300  
•	Plenty more in the screenshot

Why this works as semi-passive income:

The bottleneck for most flipping is finding deals. You have to constantly refresh listings, check multiple platforms, react fast enough to beat other buyers. That’s the active part. It eats hours per day if you’re serious about it.

This bot collapses that work into a notification. You’re not searching, you’re just responding to alerts. The deal finding is fully automated. Your involvement is reduced to: read alert, send template message, print label, drop at post office.

The economics:

if you set 5-10 filters across the 4 platforms, you’ll get 5-20 quality hits per week. Realistic conversion is 1-3 actual flips per week at $50-200 profit each. That’s $200-800/week for about 3-5 hours of actual work. Hourly rate works out to around $50-150/hr depending on volume.

Why Vinted specifically:

Most flipping bots focus on Facebook Marketplace because it has the most listings. But FB also has the most competition. Vinted is positioned as a clothes app, so people list phones, watches, and consoles on it not realizing the market value. Sellers don’t know what they have. Pricing is off-market. Way less competition for the same listings. Members running on Vinted are doing 2-3x the volume of members running on FB.

Selling side is also more passive on Vinted because it has built-in escrow and shipping. Print the label, drop at post office, money releases when buyer confirms. No meetups, no cash handoffs, no flaky buyers.

What I’m working on next:

A car flipping version. Same automated discovery, applied to a higher-ticket vertical. Runs online instead of locally so you can use it from your phone at auctions, scans FB Marketplace and Craigslist simultaneously, pulls real-time pricing comps, decodes VINs with full options and trim breakdown, automatically flags rebuilt and salvage titles, calculates true wholesale value and max buy price, AI scores the listing photos for body, interior, tire, and engine condition, and suggests negotiation angles based on what it spots wrong with the car.

Got 5 real car flippers in the Discord helping me test it. If anyone here flips cars and wants to mess with it when it’s ready, drop a comment.

Repo again: https://github.com/ethanashi/fbm-sniper-community

Happy to answer questions about the setup, the filters, the realistic time investment, why Vinted, the math at different volume levels, whatever.

Here’s proof before yall get on me lol: https://imgur.com/a/tGR0P7T (sub doesn’t allow images in the post).

Quick rundown of what happened:

Two weeks ago I open-sourced a Facebook Marketplace sniper bot I’d been using personally and posted it on Reddit. The bot watches Facebook Marketplace, Wallapop, Vinted, and Mercari at the same time and pings your Discord when a listing matches your filters. Started the Discord at 0 members.

Today: 700+ members, $18,000+ in confirmed collective flip profit. Real number is higher because full-time users don’t post every deal. There’s a free open-source version and a paid Pro tier that funds the infra and the next builds.

I’m 20, computer engineering student, studying abroad in Madrid. Wanted to share the actual lessons from going from 0 to this in 14 days because most of the takeaways weren’t what I expected.

Lesson 1: Ship the version you’re embarrassed by.

I sat on this bot for 3 months before posting it. Kept telling myself I needed to add one more feature, fix one more edge case, polish one more part of the README. None of that mattered. The version I eventually posted had bugs in it. Users found them in the first 6 hours. They also told me exactly which ones to fix first, which I would have spent weeks guessing about on my own. The feedback loop you get from real users in 24 hours is worth more than 3 months of solo polishing. If I’d shipped in month one, I’d be 8 weeks further along than I am right now. The cost of waiting is way higher than the cost of looking unfinished.

Lesson 2: Your first 100 users will tell you what your product actually is.

I built this thinking I was making a Facebook Marketplace bot. Within the first week, users were running it on Vinted way more than FB and finding better deals doing it. I had built Vinted support as an afterthought. It turned out to be the killer feature. I had to update my own pitch to match what users were actually doing with it. The product I think I built is rarely the product that works. If your earliest users are gravitating toward a feature you considered secondary, that’s the signal. Pivot the marketing, double down on that feature, and let the original “main” feature fade if it has to.

Lesson 3: Community work is the actual job after launch.

The product was 80% built when I posted. The 14 days since have been almost zero coding and almost entirely community management. Answering Discord questions, writing Reddit replies, helping users debug their setups, handling edge cases I never anticipated. I spent more hours on customer success in 2 weeks than I did building the thing in 2 months. Founders who think they can ship and then go back to building the next feature are wrong. The community is the work now. The good news is this is also where the real product insights come from, the ones you’d never get from your own head, so the time isn’t wasted, it’s just a different kind of building.

What I’m building next:

Started on a car flipping version. Same core idea applied to a higher-ticket vertical. Runs online instead of locally so it works on your phone at auctions, scans FB Marketplace and Craigslist, pulls real-time pricing comps, decodes VINs with full options and trim breakdown, flags rebuilt and salvage titles automatically, calculates true wholesale value and max buy price, AI scores the listing photos for body/interior/tire/engine condition, and suggests negotiation angles based on what it finds wrong with the car.

Got 5 real car flippers in the Discord helping me test it right now. If you flip cars and want to mess with it when it’s ready, drop a comment.

Repo for the original tool (free, MIT licensed): https://github.com/ethanashi/fbm-sniper-community

Happy to answer anything about the build, the launch, the community side, pricing decisions, the next product, whatever.

I posted it on Reddit about 2 weeks ago with 0 Discord members. The community is now at 700+ people, and we’ve tracked $18,000+ in confirmed flip profit from posted wins. The real number is probably higher since most full-time flippers do not post every deal they close.

It is free, open source, and runs on your own machine.

Repo:
https://github.com/ethanashi/fbm-sniper-community

Some recent member wins:

-iPhone 15 Pro Max: bought $220, sold $297, +$77

i-Phone 16 Pro Max: bought £420, selling for £600, +£180

-Apple Watch: bought $47, sold same day for $175, +$128

-iPhone 15 Pro Max: bought $100, eBay sold comps are $400+

-MacBook Air M4: bought €600, selling for €850 to €900, +€250 to €300

One thing I’ve noticed: Vinted is still VERY underrated for this.

Most people default to Facebook Marketplace because it has the most listings, but it also has the most competition. Vinted still gets treated like a clothing app, so phones, watches, consoles, and random electronics sometimes get listed by people who just want the item gone.

For phones, the basic filter setup is pretty simple:

Search the model

Set max price around 60 to 70% of eBay sold comps

Require “unlocked”

Exclude “icloud,” “locked,” “cracked,” and “parts”

That cuts out a lot of the junk and leaves the listings worth messaging.

The buying part is mostly speed. When the alert hits, message something simple:

“Hi, is this still available? I can pay today.”

Good deals usually disappear fast. In my experience, 5 to 15 minutes can be the difference between getting it and watching someone else post the profit later.

Selling through Vinted is also straightforward since shipping and escrow are built in. Print the label, drop it off, and the money releases when the buyer confirms receipt. No meetup needed.

Realistic numbers from using it:

If you set up 5 to 10 filters across multiple platforms, you might get 5 to 20 alerts per week worth messaging. From there, 1 to 3 actual flips per week is realistic if you respond quickly. Profit per flip usually lands somewhere around $50 to $200.

That puts the side income range around $200 to $800 per week for a few hours of actual work. The bot handles the searching, but you still have to message, buy, ship, and sell.

I’m also working on a car flipping version now.

Same core idea, but for cars:

-Scans Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist

-Works online so you can use it from your phone at auctions

-Pulls pricing comps

-Decodes VINs with trim and options

-Flags rebuilt and salvage title issues

-Estimates wholesale value and max buy price

-Scores listing photos for body, interior, tires, and engine condition

-Suggests negotiation angles based on what it finds

I have 5 car flippers in the Discord helping test it. If anyone here flips cars and wants to try it when it is ready, drop a comment. I’d rather get feedback from people who actually know the space before I trust the bot near a suspiciously cheap Altima lmao

Quick context before the numbers:

I'm 20, computer engineering student, studying abroad in Madrid right now. Two weeks ago I open-sourced a Facebook Marketplace sniper bot I'd been using personally and posted it on Reddit. Started the Discord at 0. Today it's 700+ and we've tracked $18,000+ in confirmed flip profit collectively. Probably more, since some of the heaviest users are full-time and don't post every deal.

The bot itself: watches Facebook Marketplace, Wallapop, Vinted, and Mercari at the same time, pings your Discord the second a listing matches your filter set. Runs on your own machine. Free. Open source.

Repo first because that's what everyone asks: https://github.com/ethanashi/fbm-sniper-community

Some recent wins from the community:

• iPhone 15 Pro Max: bought $220, sold $297 → +$77
• iPhone 16 Pro Max: bought £420, flipping for £600 → +£180
• Apple Watch: bought $47, sold same day for $175 → +$128
• iPhone 15 Pro Max: copped for $100, eBay sold comps at $400+
• MacBook Air M4: bought €600, flipping for €850-900 → +€250-300
• Bunch more in the screenshot dawg, and in #best-flips in the discord lol

The three things that actually matter (skip the rest if you only read one part):

1. Vinted is where the money is right now. Not Facebook Marketplace. FB has the most listings, sure, but it also has the most competition. Vinted gets treated like a clothes app, so phones, watches, and consoles get listed there by people clearing drawers who have no idea what they have. The pricing is genuinely off-market because the sellers don't know the market.
2. Filters do the work. For phones: search the model, set max price at 60-70% of eBay sold-comp average, require "unlocked", exclude "icloud" / "locked" / "cracked" / "parts". One filter set, you're done. Everything that comes through is pre-qualified.
3. Speed is the entire edge. Good listings on Vinted die in 5-15 minutes. The bot exists for one reason: to make sure you're the first message in the seller's inbox. The actual message you send is "Hi, still available, I can pay today." That's it. That's the whole script.

What I'm working on now:

Started building a car flipping version. Different vertical, same idea. Quick rundown of what it does:

• Runs online, not local. Use it from your phone at the auction or in a parking lot.
• Scans Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist simultaneously.
• Pulls real-time eBay and market comps.
• Decodes VINs with full options and trim breakdown.
• Flags rebuilt titles and salvage history automatically.
• Calculates true wholesale value and your max buy price.
• AI scores the listing photos for body, interior, tire, and engine condition.
• Suggests negotiation angles based on what it spots wrong in the photos.

Got 5 real car flippers in the Discord helping test it out right now. If you flip cars and want to mess around with it when it's ready, drop a comment, it'll be completely free for yall to test.

AMA in the comments. The workflow, the filters, the code, the business side, why I think Vinted specifically is mispriced right now, whatever. I'll answer what I can.

2 weeks ago I posted my free open-source Facebook Marketplace sniper bot on Reddit with literally 0 Discord members. Today the community is at 700+ people and we've tracked over $18,000 in confirmed flip profit between us. Real number is probably way higher because I have full-time flippers using it who don't post every deal.

I'm a 20 year old computer engineering student. Built this because I kept losing good Marketplace deals to faster buyers while I was studying abroad in Madrid. It monitors Facebook Marketplace, Wallapop, Vinted, and Mercari simultaneously and pings your Discord when a listing matches your filters. Free, open source, runs on your own machine.

Some of my favorite deals from members the past few days (all real, all confirmed):

• iPhone 15 Pro Max bought $220, sold $297 ($77 in a few days)
• iPhone 16 Pro Max bought £420, will flip for £600 (£180 profit)
• Apple Watch bought $47, sold same day for $175 ($128 same-day flip)
• iPhone 15 Pro Max bought $100, eBay sold comps show $400+ for resale
• MacBook Air M4 bought €600, flipping for €850-900 (€250-300 profit)
• Much more I mean look at the pic lmao

The playbook is actually really simple:

Vinted is criminally underrated. Everyone defaults to Facebook Marketplace because it's biggest, but Vinted has way less competition for electronics. People list phones and watches on it because they think of it as a clothes app, so stuff gets posted by people clearing drawers who don't know what they have. Pricing is genuinely off-market.

Filter setup for phones: search the specific model, set max price at 60-70% of the eBay sold-comp average, require "unlocked", exclude "icloud", "locked", "cracked", "parts". That alone surfaces the deals.

Speed is everything. Good deals are gone in 5-15 minutes. The bot removes the part where you have to be scrolling at the exact right moment. Phone buzzes, message in 30 seconds, you win. Script is literally "Hi, still available, I can pay today".

Repo: https://github.com/ethanashi/fbm-sniper-community

Side thing I'm working on right now is a car flipping version. Same idea, different vertical. Runs online so it works on your phone, scans FB Marketplace and Craigslist, pulls real-time pricing comps, decodes VINs with full options/trim breakdown, flags rebuilt titles and salvage history, gives you a true wholesale value and max buy price, AI scores the photos for body/interior/tire/engine condition, and suggests negotiation angles based on what's wrong with the car. Only have like 5 actual car flippers in the Discord right now testing ideas with me so if anyone here flips cars and wants to mess with it when it's ready let me know 😄.

Happy to answer anything about the workflow, the filters, why Vinted is underrated, or whatever.

$2,704 in 30 days, almost entirely hands-off. I'm a CS student in Madrid and I built a tool that watches Facebook Marketplace, Wallapop, Vinted, and Mercari simultaneously. The second a listing matches my filters, my Discord pings. I message, buy, resell. Free open-source version is on GitHub, paid Pro version (7-day free trial, no card required upfront depending on Whop's flow) adds AI deal grading and automatic eBay sold-comp lookup so the alerts are genuinely vetted before you see them.

The Discord has 450 people on the free version. Last week they tracked $13,604 in collective flips.

I want to be honest upfront: this isn't fully passive. Nothing in resale is. But it's the closest I've gotten to passive on the sourcing side, because the manual scrolling for hours every day part is gone. The tool does that.

**What I flipped last month, from my couch:**

- 16 iPhones, about $120 profit each

- 3 MacBooks, about $150 each

- 1 free couch, sold for $180

- 2 Apple Watches, about $100 each

- 3 PS5s, about $130 each

All on Vinted, which has built-in escrow and shipping. I never met a seller in person and never drove anywhere.

**Honest breakdown of where the time actually goes:**

- Setting up filters: 1 hour total, one-time

- Responding to deal alerts: 30 seconds per alert

- Buying / paying / coordinating shipment: 5 minutes per flip

- Relisting on the resell side: 5 minutes per flip

- Customer messages on the resell side: 5 minutes per buyer

For 25 flips in a month, that's roughly 4-6 hours of actual work. $2,704 / 5 hours = $540/hr effective rate. That's about as close to passive as flipping gets.

**Free vs paid, since the sub allows me to talk about both:**

The free version (GitHub link below) does the marketplace monitoring and Discord alerts. You set the keywords and price ceilings yourself, you check the comps yourself, you decide if it's worth buying. Works great if you're willing to do the analysis yourself, which is what I did for most of the flips above.

The paid Pro version adds two things on top: AI grading that scores every listing A through F based on whether it's actually a profitable flip, and automatic eBay sold-comp lookup so you see real recent sale prices in the alert itself. So instead of getting pinged every time something matches your keywords (which is a lot), you only get pinged on the listings that have already been scored as A-grade with the math done. That's the genuinely-passive version. $30/mo or $149 lifetime through Whop, with a 7-day free trial so you can run it for a week and see what it surfaces before paying anything.

For someone doing the volume I did last month, the math is straightforward. Trial is free, $30 for the first month if you stay, $2,704 net. Doesn't really matter how you slice it.

**Why this works on Vinted specifically:**

Everyone defaults to Facebook Marketplace, so Vinted has way less competition. People list electronics on it because they think of it as a clothes app, and they don't research market price. Phones, watches, consoles get dumped on it cheap. The arbitrage is real and almost no one is automating against it.

Filter logic for phones: specific model in search, max price 60-70% of eBay sold-comp average, must include "unlocked," must avoid "icloud / locked / cracked / parts."

Speed wins. Good deals on Vinted vanish in 5-15 minutes. The tool removes the requirement to be scrolling at the exact right moment. Phone buzzes, you message, you win.

Free GitHub: https://github.com/ethanashi/fbm-sniper-community

Paid Pro (7-day free trial): https://whop.com/joined/fbmsniper/products/fbm-sniper-monthly/

Happy to answer questions about the workflow, the time investment, or why Vinted specifically is the underrated platform in resale right now.

$2,704 in 30 days. From my apartment, in Madrid, never left the house once. I'm a CS student and I built a tool because I kept losing every good Facebook Marketplace deal to faster buyers. The tool watches FB Marketplace, Wallapop, Vinted, and Mercari at the same time and pings my Discord whenever a listing matches my filters. Free, open source, runs on your own machine. 450 people are using it. Last week the community tracked $13,604 in flips collectively.

This is just my personal numbers from actually using it.

What I flipped:

- 16 iPhones (mostly 12s and 13s), about $120 profit each

- 3 MacBooks, about $150 each

- A couch someone gave away free, sold for $180

- 2 Apple Watches, about $100 each

- 3 PS5s, about $130 each

All sourced and sold through Vinted's built-in escrow and shipping. Never met a seller in person. Print label, drop at the post office, money lands when the buyer confirms.

The actual playbook:

Vinted is the move right now. Everyone running this kind of online income hustle defaults to Facebook Marketplace because it's the biggest, but Vinted has way less competition. People list electronics on it because they think of it as a clothes app, so phones, watches, and consoles end up posted by people clearing drawers who don't know what they have. The pricing is genuinely off-market.

Filter setup for phones: search the specific model, set max price at roughly 60-70% of the eBay sold-comp average for that model, require words like "unlocked," exclude words like "icloud," "locked," "cracked," "parts." That filter alone surfaces the underpriced listings and skips the junk.

Speed wins everything. Good deals on Vinted are gone in 5 to 15 minutes. The tool removes the part where you have to be scrolling at the right moment. Phone buzzes, you message in 30 seconds, you win the deal. "Hi, still available, I can pay today" is the entire script.

The free couch was an accident. Filter for "free" in my city, someone listed it, picked it up, sold it 4 days later. Easy $180.

The whole thing is online income in the truest sense. The work is setting filters once and answering messages. Everything else is automated.

Repo: https://github.com/ethanashi/fbm-sniper-community

Happy to answer anything about the workflow, the bot, or why Vinted specifically is the underrated platform.

$2,704 in one month. I never left my apartment. I'm a CS student studying abroad in Madrid and I got tired of losing every good Facebook Marketplace deal to someone faster than me, so I built a tool that watches FB Marketplace, Wallapop, Vinted, and Mercari at the same time and pings my Discord the second something matches my filters. Free, open source, runs locally. The Discord has 450 people on it now and last week we tracked $13,604 in collective flips.

This post isn't about them. It's about me actually using my own tool.

What I flipped this month, all sourced from Vinted, all sold on Vinted or Wallapop:

• 16 iPhones (mostly 12s and 13s), averaged ~$120 profit each
• 3 MacBooks (two Airs, one older Pro), ~$150 each
• A couch someone was giving away for free. Picked it up, sold it for $180
• 2 Apple Watches, ~$100 each
• 3 PS5s, ~$130 each

Total: $2,704. From my couch. Never met a single seller in person. Vinted handles shipping and payment escrow.

Exactly how I did it:

1. Vinted is criminally slept on for flipping. Everyone runs to Facebook Marketplace because it's bigger, but Vinted has way less competition and built-in buyer/seller protection. Sellers who don't know what they have list way under market because they're focused on clothes, not electronics. Tons of phones get listed by people clearing out drawers.

2. My filter setup for phones: search term "iPhone 13," max price 60-70% of average eBay sold-comp price, must include words like "unlocked" or "libre," must avoid "icloud," "locked," "cracked," "parts," "broken." Same template works for any phone model just swap the search term.

3. Speed is everything. When my Discord pings I'm messaging the seller within 30 seconds. The good deals are gone in 5-15 minutes on Vinted. If you're scrolling manually you've already lost.

4. The free couch was an accident. I had a filter set up for "free" in my city for fun and someone listed it. Picked up, cleaned, relisted with better photos. Took 4 days to sell.

5. PS5s during Christmas shopping season were the easiest flips of the year. People list them when they upgrade or get bored, and there's always someone shopping for one.

The whole thing runs on my laptop, my phone buzzes, I message, I buy. That's the whole workflow.

GitHub if you want to run it: https://github.com/ethanashi/fbm-sniper-community

Happy to answer anything about how I find deals, message templates I use, or how the bot works under the hood.

$2,704 in one month. I never left my apartment. I'm a CS student studying abroad in Madrid and I got tired of losing every good Facebook Marketplace deal to someone faster than me, so I built a tool that watches FB Marketplace, Wallapop, Vinted, and Mercari at the same time and pings my Discord the second something matches my filters. Free, open source, runs locally. The Discord has 450 people on it now and last week we tracked $13,604 in collective flips.

This post isn't about them. It's about me actually using my own tool.

What I flipped this month, all sourced from Vinted, all sold on Vinted or Wallapop:

• 16 iPhones (mostly 12s and 13s) — averaged ~$120 profit each
• 3 MacBooks (two Airs, one older Pro) — ~$150 each
• A couch someone was giving away for free — picked it up, sold it for $180
• 2 Apple Watches — ~$100 each
• 3 PS5s — ~$130 each

Total: $2,704. From my couch. Never met a single seller in person — Vinted handles shipping and payment escrow.

Exactly how I did it:

1. Vinted is criminally slept on for flipping. Everyone runs to Facebook Marketplace because it's bigger, but Vinted has way less competition and built-in buyer/seller protection. Sellers who don't know what they have list way under market because they're focused on clothes, not electronics. Tons of phones get listed by people clearing out drawers.

2. My filter setup for phones: search term "iPhone 13," max price 60-70% of average eBay sold-comp price, must include words like "unlocked" or "libre," must avoid "icloud," "locked," "cracked," "parts," "broken." Same template works for any phone model just swap the search term.

3. Speed is everything. When my Discord pings I'm messaging the seller within 30 seconds. The good deals are gone in 5-15 minutes on Vinted. If you're scrolling manually you've already lost.

4. The free couch was an accident. I had a filter set up for "free" in my city for fun and someone listed it. Picked up, cleaned, relisted with better photos. Took 4 days to sell.

5. PS5s during Christmas shopping season were the easiest flips of the year. People list them when they upgrade or get bored, and there's always someone shopping for one.

The whole thing runs on my laptop, my phone buzzes, I message, I buy. That's the whole workflow.

GitHub if you want to run it: https://github.com/ethanashi/fbm-sniper-community

Happy to answer anything about how I find deals, message templates I use, or how the bot works under the hood.

$13,604 in seven days. That's the total verified profit from members of the Discord who posted receipts and screenshots. 450 people are actively running this for free. That number was zero a few weeks ago.

I'm 20, CS student, studying abroad in Madrid. Built a tool out of frustration because I kept losing deals on Facebook Marketplace. It monitors Facebook Marketplace, Wallapop, Vinted, and now Mercari at the same time and fires a Discord alert the moment a listing hits your filters. Search terms, price ceiling, keywords you want excluded. Set it and walk away. Free, open source, runs locally, nothing gets sent anywhere.

The confirmed wins from one week:

• 35+ iPhones flipped
• 2 MacBooks
• 8 Apple Watches
• 3 iPads
• A Chevy Impala
• A huge stack of Pokemon booster boxes and loose packs Vintage
• basketball jerseys
• Designer sneakers
• TI calculators
• Power tools

$13,604 is just what I can actually verify from what people posted publicly. Real number across 450 users is almost certainly higher.

Just shipped v2.0.4. The big addition is Mercari, now fully supported with no cookies required and national search built in. Facebook also got rebuilt from scratch. Old setup used to require manually pasting cookies and digging up GraphQL variables which put a lot of people off. Gone. Bot auto-discovers everything it needs and falls back gracefully when it hits a wall. Individual listing photos now show up in alerts too instead of placeholder images.

Other developers have started submitting pull requests. People share configs in the server, troubleshoot together, post wins. That dynamic honestly surprised me more than anything else.

https://github.com/ethanashi/fbm-sniper-community

Happy to answer questions about the build, the stack, how the community grew, anything.

$13,604 in one week. That's the total verified profit posted by members in the Discord with real receipts and real screenshots. 450 people are using this for free right now and most wins never get posted publicly.

I built it because I kept losing deals on Facebook Marketplace. Good stuff was always already sold by the time I got there. So I made something that watches Facebook Marketplace, Wallapop, Vinted, and Mercari at the same time and pings you on Discord the instant a match comes in. You set your search terms, your price ceiling, your keyword filters, and let it run. Free, open source, lives entirely on your machine. Nothing gets sent anywhere.

The confirmed wins from one week:

• 30+ iPhones grabbed before anyone else could
• 2 MacBooks
• 8 Apple Watches
• 3 iPads
• A 2015 Chevy Impala
• A massive pile of Pokemon booster boxes and loose packs
• Vintage basketball jerseys
• Designer sneakers

$13,604 is just what I can actually verify. Most flips never get posted at all.

Biggest update yet just shipped. v2.0.4 adds Mercari as a fully supported platform with no cookies required and national search built in. Facebook also got rebuilt from scratch. No more manual cookie pasting, no more digging up doc_id values. The bot auto-discovers everything and handles fallbacks on its own. Cars now use the same auto-discovery path. Currency formatting is consistent across every platform. Listing photos finally show the actual item.

Other developers have started contributing code which I genuinely did not expect. People in the server share filter configs, post wins, help each other troubleshoot. That part has meant more to me than anything else.

https://github.com/ethanashi/fbm-sniper-community

$13,604 in verified flipping profits in seven days. Real receipts, real screenshots, all posted by real members in the Discord. 450 people are running this thing for free right now.

I'm a CS student studying abroad in Madrid. Got tired of losing deals on Facebook Marketplace so I built something to fix it. The tool watches Facebook Marketplace, Wallapop, Vinted, and now Mercari at the same time. The second something matches your search terms, price ceiling, and keyword filters, you get a Discord ping. You get there before anyone else does. Free, open source, runs entirely on your machine. No subscriptions, no accounts, no cloud.

The confirmed haul in one week:

• 30+ iPhones flipped
• 2 MacBooks
• 8 Apple Watches
• 3 iPads
• A 2015 Chevy Impala
• A bunch of Pokemon booster boxes and loose packs (lost count)
• Vintage basketball jerseys

And a lot more that kept rolling in. $13,604 is just what people actually posted publicly. The real number is almost certainly higher.

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