Welcome back to I’m Gonna Pack It. This is the most relaxed Monday we’ve had in a while — 27 orders sitting on the shelf, two-day handling means nothing has to ship today, and Candice already told me nothing’s going to need a resize. Nothing weird. Nothing difficult. I’m cracking into the last of the three-pack bubble wrap and burning through tape — but the orders themselves are easy.

Which is good, because we’ve got two stories on the table that are bigger than any of the packs.

The big news — Shedflips.com is live, and we tried List Perfectly

[1:48] So first — we finally launched our own Shopify store. shedflips.com is up. It’s mostly set up; a few things still to dial in, but it’s live. We’ve been threatening to do it forever and we finally did.

We don’t know yet exactly how we’re going to use it. The honest answer is we’re going to figure it out. The magnets — like Kimberly’s Shed Flips magnet I just packed up there — are the obvious one: we sold a bunch of them on eBay and paid eBay fees on every one when we could’ve just been selling them direct. Same story for private deals when somebody messages us off-platform asking if we’ll sell them something. Now there’s a clean spot to drop those.

The bigger idea we’re still kicking around: list new inventory at shedflips.com first, give it a week as a head start for viewers, and then crosslist everywhere else. Probably 20% of what we sell goes to viewers anyway — varies by season, lower in the summer when the garage-sale-haul stuff is pouring in. We haven’t fully worked out the workflow. Your mileage may vary, and ours might too while we figure this out.

We also tried List Perfectly for the first time this week. It’s a good tool. I’m not 100% sure yet if it fits our workflow, but we’ll keep playing with it.

”What if GameStop actually buys eBay?”

[8:22] The other thing I can’t stop chewing on is the rumor that GameStop wants to buy eBay. The CEO over there is the founder of Chewy. eBay’s stock spiked overnight when the news got out. Speculation right now — but my read is that GameStop leaked it on purpose, because that is not a vote of confidence for the current eBay leadership. It almost reads like a hostile takeover designed to shake the people running eBay loose from inside.

Here’s what’s wild: as much of our income as we pull from eBay, you’d think I’d be nervous about a buyer at the door. I’m not. The scary thing to me is letting the current leadership keep going. You open up the eBay homepage right now and it’s walls and walls of live selling. Candice was comping something the other day and got through five active listings before getting pushed into a row of lives. They are aggressively trying to drag us into a feature you have to be approved to even use. It’s a joke.

Candice and I half-joked about every reseller on eBay pooling money to buy it credit-union style. That would be a vote of confidence we’d want.

If the news is out, it’s happening. We might be in for some scary times. We’ll see.

The $50 salad fork — the lot we paid $20 for

[46:51] ICM Lauffer Italy Boca salad fork — $50 on eBay. Look how small it is. It’s a kid-fork-sized, vintage MOD design that we are absolutely not putting in a bubble mailer.

The story behind this one: we got the whole Lauffer flatware set on early access — about 30 pieces of it for probably $20 total. I couldn’t find a comp because it’s that rare. But here’s the rule that hasn’t let me down: when something is vintage MOD flatware and there’s no comp data on it, it’s going to be big money. The pieces don’t sell fast — Candice said it best, this might be the best buy we’ve ever had — but when they move, they move at numbers like this.

Funniest part of the backstory: I almost didn’t pull these off the shelf. They sat for six months. Candice was actually in Japan when I first looked one up, started messaging her “look at this”, and she was probably looking at way cooler stuff in real time and politely going yeah, great. I was hyped. Turns out I had reason to be.

173 motor oil cans — $25 → $100 in four days

[42:14] Lot of 173 LION motor oil cans — bought for $25, sold the whole lot on eBay for $100 in four days.

The seller had them priced individually at 25¢ a can. I asked “how much for all?” and tried to estimate the count — I am, by my own admission, bad at estimating, and I’ve said so on YouTube plenty of times. I guessed maybe 80. Candice was watching and said I think he thought you were lowballing on purpose — fair, that’s how it would’ve looked. The seller actually started counting them, gave up, and called it 120ish. The actual count when we got home? 173. So we ended up around 15¢ a can, lotted them, and sold them within four days — about $50 net after fees. Twenty minutes of total effort.

I’m happy with that return.

The $10 World’s Fair box that paid us back 10x

[33:00] 27-piece 1984 New Orleans World’s Fair keychain lot — going out today. New Orleans is technically the World’s Exposition of 1984, but everybody calls it the World’s Fair, so we list it that way too — that’s how people search.

This pack belongs to a story I keep telling: we bought a single $10 box of mostly-new-with-tag World’s Fair stuff at a sale, and it has paid us back many times over already. The headliners were two Mongon mermaid brooch keys by Pin Me — sold them for around $80 each in 2024. That alone covered the box 16 times over, and we’ve sold a string of smaller lots out of the same buy since. World’s Fair stuff isn’t usually high-dollar; this one box was the exception, and the exception keeps paying.

The packs in between

The day’s other packs were the “everything sellers” rhythm — wildly different categories, one shelf:

• [1:00] Pop Mart Mega Space Molly Peach 2016 + Kimberly’s Shed Flips magnet kicked off the day.
• [14:30] Lot of 16 crankbait fishing lures — $25 paid, $54 sold.
• [24:30] Stetson 3X beaver brown cowboy hat — sized into a 14×14×10. The right box for a hat is its own little decision tree.
• [41:14] Pop Mart Pajama Party Nyota Lazy Kitten phone chain — going out to Lulling, Louisiana, which is a fun one to see come up local.
• [48:30] Levi’s 517 boot cut 42×30 — with Lucchese boot-sock dust covers I forgot we had.
• [51:41] Vintage Brisco platform heels — Poshmark.

A couple of recurring micro-debates also came up: Candice and I argued (again) about whether trash-bag-wrapping the US Army joggers counts as a real packing technique [28:41], and I had to put the dry-shampoo cosmetics multi-pack onto the aerosol-hazmat label workflow [39:19] — that one always slows the rhythm down.

The takeaway

A chill Monday is the right backdrop for the kind of conversation we had today. Two-day handling means I don’t have to rush packs, the orders are easy, and the brain has room to chew on bigger questions — who’s running eBay next year, and where do we sell things that don’t fit any one platform’s box?

We don’t have answers to either yet. We’ve got a Shopify store, a List Perfectly trial, and a stack of vintage MOD flatware that may outlast all of it. Thanks for hanging out with us. See y’all soon.