
$1,437 profit on 5 hours of work this week from 10 flips, looking to pay recurring commission to anyone who can help me grow the Pro version
$1,437 net profit on 5 hours of actual work this week, 10 items sold, all of them found by the free bot I built and open-sourced a few months back.
Quick context on me, I'm 20, computer engineering student currently study abroad. The bot watches Facebook Marketplace, Wallapop, Vinted, and Mercari at the same time and pings my Discord the second a listing matches my filters. The repo is here, free and open source, https://github.com/ethanashi/fbm-sniper-community
The 5 hours roughly broke down to 90 minutes of messaging sellers, 2 hours of pickups, and the rest of the time was packing and shipping. The bot is doing the searching, all I'm really doing is closing.
This week's sold listings, all in GBP since I'm running on eBay UK right now,
- MBP 16" M3 Pro, bought £1,250, sold £1,549, +£299
- MBP 14" M2 Pro, bought £780, sold £999, +£219
- MBP 14" M4, bought £720, sold £899, +£179
- iPad Pro 12.9" M2, bought £480, sold £625, +£145
- AirPods Max Silver, bought £240, sold £329, +£89
- Apple Watch S10, bought £255, sold £329, +£74
- Dell Inspiron 15, bought £120, sold £179, +£59
- Akai MPC Studio, bought £40, sold £74.99, +£35
- PS5 DualSense Camo, bought £25, sold £49.50, +£24.50
- PS5 DualSense White, bought £20, sold £39.99, +£20
After eBay fees and shipping that nets out to roughly $1,437 USD.
The playbook that's been working,
- Speed is the entire edge here, and I cannot overstate it. The bot pings my phone the second a listing goes up, I reply within 60 seconds with the exact same message every time,
"Hi, still available, I can pay today."Most of these flips were locked in before the listing was 10 minutes old. You aren't competing on price in this game, you're competing on response time, and a script that runs while you sleep beats a human refreshing the app every couple minutes. - Apple gear has been the bread and butter for me, and Macbooks in particular. Three Macbook Pros this week alone did £697 in combined profit. The mispricing on Macbooks is the cleanest I've seen anywhere, because the average seller prices based on what they paid two years ago, not what eBay sold comps actually say the market will pay today. The M2 Pro at £780 was a guy upgrading to an M4 who just wanted his old machine gone the same day, and the bot caught the listing about 3 minutes after it went live.
- The filter recipe I keep recommending to anyone who asks. You pick the specific model you want, set a max price around 60-65% of eBay sold comps for that exact spec, and exclude these words in the listing text, "icloud, locked, cracked, parts, for repair, read description." That exclude list alone cuts about 80% of the time-wasting pings before they ever hit your phone.
- The smaller flips are still worth chasing because the marginal time cost is basically zero. Those two PS5 controllers and the MPC pad together did £79.50 in profit on items I would've completely ignored if I was searching manually. When the bot is doing the discovery, you don't have to be selective about size, you just have to be selective about margin.
Now the actual reason I'm posting,
I'm looking to bring on a few people to help me grow the Pro version of the bot. The free version stays free and open source, that's not changing. The Pro version is the hosted plug-and-play one for people who don't want to self-host or write their own filter configs. What I'm offering is recurring commission for every subscriber you bring in, paid out monthly for as long as that subscriber stays active. If you have a flipping audience on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, or even a decent following in a relevant Discord, I genuinely want to work with you and the deal is generous. Drop me a DM here or hit the Discord and message me directly, https://discord.gg/dWWaSxuxdU
Repo again so it's easy to find, https://github.com/ethanashi/fbm-sniper-community
Happy to answer anything about the filter setup, why Macbooks print so consistently, the affiliate split, the bot itself, or anything else. AMA in the comments.