Rob and Melissa Stephenson, from Flea Market Flipper, talk about eBay Open 2025.
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Speaking at eBay Open2025!! Good or Bad experience?
Rob: What's up pro flippers? On today's episode, we are talking about eBay open and our recent experience being there and being able to speak on stage.
Rob: Alright, so today we are recapping eBay open 2025. Excited that we gotta go, participate in the open , got to meet some cool people, some cool eBay employees, some cool sellers.
It was a lot of fun.
Melissa: Yeah, this was our very first eBay open. We just got back, depending on when you're listening to this, it just happened last week. So we want to kind of talk about like our impression of eBay. We got to speak at eBay,, so like that experience and then kind of some of the key things they announced.
So we're gonna dive into that today, and I want to say, we've never been. So our main experience we've, probably a lot of sellers out there, our main experience with eBay has been with customer service. Like we, there's not many other departments we've been in contact with. So if that's your only ever experience with a company, it's usually could be iffy.
It could be not the best.
Rob: Because eBay, just like a lot of companies outsource a lot of their customer service and it's over in the Philippines or it's in another country, for the customer service. So, that was the only impression we've ever had of eBay. We've never gone to the open, we've never really interacted with any of the North America employees of eBay.
But guess what? There were a lot of their employees from the home office from North America, that were at eBay Open. I mean, I'm probably talking a couple hundred of employees.
Melissa: Yes, there were definitely a couple hundred. Yeah.
Rob: And they were amazing. We had so much fun getting to interact with them. A lot of the employees had been working for eBay for anywhere, 5, 10, 15 years they have been with eBay. So a lot of different employees and our overall impression a really, really, really solid great company.
Melissa: Yeah. And they, you can tell a lot about a company too. Like if you, we've been to lots of conferences and you can tell when they like skimp out on stuff and like they're trying, you know, to save money in certain places. But eBay really went all out. They didn't, they really invested, which kind of shows you the health of the company is in good health, which is what you wanna see. You want them to be a healthy company so they can support us as sellers.
And it really came off that, I mean, the CEO was up there the first night, and he really, he surprised me. He really cares about his sellers and he was talking to lots of people. We didn't actually try to talk to him, but, he, yeah, I was, I had a very good impression of him, and where eBay is going and all of the employees were all really amazing to talk to.
They were very friendly and very helpful. So yeah, it was an overall good experience. Oh, and I wanted to say they didn't skimp because they, even that first night he announced, oh, we're gonna give everybody who's here a $300 gift eBay gift card. So that was the cost of a ticket, for one. So he just basically gave everybody their ticket back.
So they didn't make money on ticket sales 'cause they just gave everybody $300 to use. I mean, granted it's on eBay, so they'll make their their cut, which is good. Which is cool. But they gave everybody a $30 card to use at the store. So, I mean, we both bought like sweatshirts and yep. Paid barely anything for them. So.
Rob: But even before that, right off the bat, when they reached out and asked us to speak. They covered, they covered our airfare. They covered actually, what's it called? Booking the airfare. Yeah. They covered the hotel. They did all that on top of it and it was pretty sweet. When we got to the hotel, they actually upgraded our room, I believe because we were speakers.
They upgraded and gave us this huge suite. Huge. Which was amazing. But we had such a great time. So, our overall experience of the conference, just even, eBay, knowing more about eBay on the backend. eBay, their employees, their intertwines of, the, just the North America employees. It was amazing.
We had so much fun and really gotta meet some cool people.
Melissa: Yeah, they definitely spent a lot of money on this event and they wanted, you know, a lot of sellers there. And I feel like, like they, like I said before, they did care about their sellers. 'cause sometimes you wonder, like, and you hear, we got to talk to a lot of resellers too.
That was really cool to talk to people in all different niches and, and hear their stories. So, which was really cool. We made some cool connections and with eBay, with other resellers. And it was a lot of fun. I was saying something, I lost my train of thought. About the company. I don't remember, but our overall impression was a very good impression.
And we made some contacts with them and I think it's, yeah, it's a, it's a good thing overall.
Rob: Absolutely.
Melissa: And we got to speak and we've spoken on stage a couple times with our mastermind. They've never paid for our hotel, so it was pretty cool that we got to speak and they paid for our hotel.
Rob: That was really, really cool.
And that really shows a lot about a company as well, their overall health of the company, when they're willing to do that with multiple, they had, they had quite a few speakers, resellers that were actually there speaking. So.
Melissa: Oh, and one thing that surprised me that I did not even know about is the amount of grants that they give out to sellers.
So they brought some people on stage and talked to them at the end. These grants, they have what's called the yeah, up and running grants program, I think. But they give out $10,000 to people who are trying to get more inventory.
Rob: 50 people. Yeah. At $10,000, 50 people. Yeah. I think they do that every year.
Melissa: Every year. Which was, and so they talked to the people who've received it in the past, and they awarded somebody, they try to trick people and tell them it's something, and then they give them the money, which is kind of fun. So they have one couple up there, telling their story with what they, they support a nonprofit and then they ended up giving them a grant of $10,000.
So it was really cool to see.
Rob: Live on stage. It's pretty cool. Yeah. So.
Melissa: I mean, that's a pretty cool program. I knew nothing. I didn't even know.
Rob: We didn't know, we didn't know anything about it.
Melissa: Yeah, that they did that. So, the format was that they had like a big room for some of the things and then they had breakout rooms for workshops and that's what we did.
We got to, we had to do our presentation twice. So, which was, you know, it was fun. I'm glad that we got to do it. We got to do it again. We thought the first day was the best though.
Rob: Yeah. If you follow us on social, we'll be doing plugs from some of our presentations, some of the eBay event, probably for the next, I don't know, week or two. Yeah.
Melissa: I actually just posted it on YouTube. Our full, the full thing, the full video of the first of the first day, because I think the first day was better than the second day. Awesome. So we have both, we ended up hiring a videographer to come and follow us and take some videos and stuff. So it was a lot of fun.
It was fun. So what did you think about speaking?
Rob: So speaking was great. Melissa and I, if you don't know, we're not, the most comfortable on stage. We've spoken, probably a handful of times now, maybe five times on stage, in front of audiences. And I think the largest one was a thousand or over a thousand.
This one,
Melissa: that was our first one, was the largest one too.
Rob: It was,
and this one, probably three, 400 people, in the room for this, this one. So it was still big, but a lot of fun. We had a lot of fun, I felt more comfortable on stage, Melissa, the same thing. I feel like
Melissa: it was the first, the first minute I kind of went, uh, I stuttered a second, but then after that we were good.
It threw her off.
Rob: She didn't have the clicker when we got on stage and she didn't know where it was. So it kind of threw her for a loop the first time. But she recovered really quickly. Did amazing. We both, I felt like we, yeah, it's hard. Not when you know what you're talking about, and this has been my life for almost 30 years now of, in eBay doing transactions, refunds or whether it's damaged items, whatever it is, it's, we've navigated so much in the last three decades.
It's not a lot that people can ask you. That was the other really, really, yeah, interesting part about this whole process. And eBay trusts us a lot to be able to do this, but we gave a presentation and then they opened mic for 15 minutes and,
Melissa: and they did livestream to open mic and you're like, oh, what?
Anything could happen.
Rob: Anybody can ask any question they want. There's nothing holding anybody back. So that also just shows when you have people on stage that are not, and I'm not scared of anything with what we do,
Melissa: like answering a flipping question.
Rob: No. Anything you ask, I've probably dealt with it.
One of our members has dealt with it. So we've walked one way or another through almost any situation that you could ever have, so it's one of those things that, but when you do let some people do q and a, you don't know what questions are being asked and you don't know, maybe the presenter doesn't know how to respond or doesn't respond the right way.
So eBay had a lot of faith in the, the presenters to be able to give presenters 15 minutes to do q and a on the presentation that they gave. So.
Melissa: Yeah, we got to watch a couple of the other presenters. They all did amazing too, and fun. And it was fun to watch to, to see them, you know, share their things.
And it, yeah, it was cool that we got to speak together too, because some of them, they had paired up to like people who've never spoken together, which can be hard to do. Like we've learned. We obviously do the podcast so we, that helps out too. But we've, you know, learned how to communicate and talk and when the other one's not.
Yeah. So it's just, it is something to learn. So.
Rob: Not talking over each other. Yeah. I mean, that's a big thing, but it's a learned skill
Melissa: and jumping in to help when you need to.
Rob: Yeah, and Melissa and I have been doing it for a while now, so we know how to read each other, but when you put two resellers on stage that don't have any, don't have a lot of experience speaking on stage, but then don't even have a.
It can be hard, but it all turned out good. They did, they turned out really, really well. But I'm just saying they overcame a lot to be able to do stuff like that for all the presentation to really turn out really cool. So.
Melissa: Yeah, I was gonna say on the second day since Rob was feeling more comfortable, so like the first day, you know, you're, you're, you get, get the little nerves and you get up there and then you start rolling and it's all good.
So the second day he's like, I'm gonna open up with a story and throw everybody off. And it's the story we've told it on the podcast before. So I'm gonna open it up with a story of me getting arrested for an eBay item.
Rob: This would've been amazing and I thought about it today and I didn't tell Melissa this.
I'm gonna, I'm gonna write a book and this is the opening story for the book that I'm going to write and look for it. It's coming soon. I am going to write a book with my opening story about how I got arrested for an eBay sale , that I went through eBay's, their website, and I took a, yeah. And we won't go into it.
Melissa: No, you can tell it real quick. We were able to tell it in like 90 seconds, so. Oh, you go into it real quick.
Rob: So took a transaction. We sold something, a $2,000 sale on eBay, I should say
Melissa: back when they, we, back when they took checks. This was before me. Yes.
Rob: This is before PayPal. This is when eBay, in the early days.
Yeah. When you still took checks or cashier's checks. I sold a outboard engine. I think it was $2,000, $1,997, somewhere in that $2,000 range, I got a cashier's check deposited into my bank account once I got it. My bank account held it for seven days, cleared the check, and then I actually shipped the item out and then, I think it was three days later, they came back and said, hey, by the way, this was a fraudulent check.
There's no funds. We're pulling the funds back outta your account. Now I was pissed after they cleared that $2,000 check. I actually wrote other checks out within that three day period. And I wasn't sure exactly all the checks that I wrote out, but I was so pissed. I was calling the bank, fighting with the bank managers, all that stuff, saying like, you can't do it, you guys.
I lost this money. This is ridiculous. So I was so totally upset. At the same time, all this is going on, this is was the timeframe that I moved out of my parents' house, into my own house. So my mail did not get forwarded, I didn't get calls from, and if you don't know this. Nobody from the DMV, I wrote a check for both of my car renewal tags.
The DMV doesn't call you and say, hey, by the way, you bounced a $300 check. But a month or two later at my door, I'm sitting down watching TV and I get a knock at the door and I look out the window and it's a cop car. And I'm like, oh crap. What's going on? And something's going on in the neighborhood. So I open up the door, walk out on my front porch, and the cop's like, who you Robert Stephenson?
Yes. I'm Robert Stephenson. And, I, he said, hey, we have a warrant for your arrest. And I was like, whoa. What? A warrant for my arrest. What did I do? And the cop said, yeah, you wrote a bad check. It looks like a $300 check. And I was like, $300. I got cash in the house. I'll go, I'll go get and I'll give it to you right now.
And he is like, yeah, no, no, it's way past that. So they ended up arresting me. The problem was I came out, I had a dog in the house, my dog, and not even aggressive dog, but he was barking. When anybody knocks on the door. I come out to the door, I shut the door and they said, yeah, you can't go back in the house.
I came out in board shorts, no shoes, no shirt, just board shorts. And the cop said, yeah, we gotta take you to jail like this. And, they handcuffed me there. Four cop cars in my little neighborhood. I mean in my little city, where I lived, four cop cars in front of my house. they handcuffed me, threw me in the back of the car.
As I'm driving to jail, the cop's like, man, you sound like a really cool guy. This, this, this sucks that this happened to you. So anyways, I spent a night in jail over that eBay sale. And it sucked really, really bad, but it was pretty crazy. So.
Melissa: But that would've, you wanted to open with that story and that would've thrown me off so bad.
Rob: Melissa did not want me to do it, and I thought, man, how captivating would the audience be if they could hear this story on eBay sale.
Melissa: And you overcame it. You still sold on eBay after that? I did. I mean, I feel like that would throw anybody down. Yeah.
Rob: And it wasn't, it wasn't eBay's fault. No it wasn't.
Yeah. So don't get me wrong, this is, they just hosted the sale. Yeah. The guy, you know, sent me a bad check and all that kind of stuff, so it wasn't, but
Melissa: it's your bank's fault for clearing it.
Rob: It was absolutely my bank's fault. And that's what I got really, really upset with is my bank clearing the check, holding it.
It wasn't like they cleared it that day, holding it for seven days and then saying, hey, this is a good check. We're releasing the funds. And then, oh, by the way, three days later, just kidding. Sorry, it was not a good check. We're taking all the funds back and your checks are gonna bounce that you wrote checks for.
So anyways, crazy story. Melissa wanted me to bring it in here. She would not let me do it on stage. I wanted to do it on stage, but that's okay.
Melissa: This is a fun story 'cause we ended up telling that to a couple people and we told the videographer, he's like, you should totally do it. Totally start. I'm like, no, eBay might never invite us back.
Rob: So if you ever get my book, that is gonna be the opening story to my book. You already know the opening story and then we'll go from there. So anyways, all right.
Melissa: All right, let's, as we digress. Let's go to some of the stuff they announced. Updates.
Rob: Let's talk about updates that eBay did.
Melissa: So, let's see. Some things that they announced was the AI assistant for messaging.
So we were there on, we didn't get to sit in on all the things 'cause like the second day we were getting ready for our, our spiel. So we didn't go, and watch it. But we were there the first day and the last day. So the AI assistant in messaging, so basically somebody sends you a message , and you can, the, you, the AI agent will make a response.
They will not send it right away. Like you have to still review it to send it. So it's gonna be like items or questions that are very generic or questions about the item that are probably in the description. That's kind of what they want to help you out with these.
Rob: Save your time.
Melissa: Redundant questions.
Yeah. That it's like, go read the description. Yeah. So basically like AI's like, oh, here, here's the answer. Instead of being like go read the description and being, you know, rude. So, so that is the goal with that. And so I don't know how good it's gonna be. We haven't tried it out yet, so , so yeah.
Rob: It's just meant to save, save you time.
Yeah. On replying back to people. And for us, we don't do volume, so it's, it's not a huge ordeal for us, but , volume sellers for sure, they get hundreds of questions that are, hey, does this shirt have a pocket in it? Yeah. You know, a dress shirt, look, the pictures with a pocket and it's right clearly in the picture.
And people will still ask questions like that. That's where the AI will come in and say, yes, the shirt has a pocket in it or you know, yeah, please double check the pictures and that, that kind of stuff. So.
Melissa: Somebody in our group posted that, they've had like one out of three have been great, good responses. Good. So, I mean, you still have to review it and you, it doesn't automatically send, which is good. Always. Yeah. So always review anything AI that you do in your descriptions and anything. Don't ever just publish it.
Rob: We've all had access for a while for AI on a descriptions. You still don't want to just hit, hey, create the, the description and then go with it.
You want to change it. You wanna make sure that they didn't over promise. So absolutely. It's gonna be the same thing with these. It's just trying to make our life a little bit easier and quicker for volume sellers. Yeah.
Melissa: Offers and messaging. So now, instead of just like going back and forth in messaging, then going and accepting the offer, you can do all that inside the message.
So we don't accept offers. So it doesn't, I mean, you, everything's in the message anyway. Yeah. But if you did do accept offers, and it'll just tie everything together in the message so you don't have to go back and forth.
Rob: So we've always had the, you get one offer for somebody who asks you a question, and that's right underneath the top.
When you go in there, it says, send an offer. You get that one time. We don't list our listings with offers that we'll accept offers. I don't like to do that. That's a whole other topic for another day. But for us, we always just click send an offer and it would send it into the messages, aspect of it. Now if you accept offers in your listings already, already, like Melissa said, that's, that will just put everything into the comments. One message on your message. Yeah. One message that you're going back and forth, rather than jumping back out to the listing, sending the offer, and then coming back and talking about it.
Yeah. It's all integrated inside of that. So that's really, really cool. Yeah.
Melissa: Especially if you're a high volume seller that could be save some time, which would be nice. Yes. So, I thought this one was really cool. They announced that the first night, tracking your cost of goods, so now in your listing you go to list an item, you can also put the cost of goods of the item, which it won't show to the buyer.
Like it won't say, yeah, they paid this for it. But if for your own records, like you can -for your books- look at the end of the month and see, okay, this is what I had invested in my business and this, you know, and at the end of the year for your books and you know, like what you started out with and you can see clearly the fees and all that.
So that's very helpful and it's just kind of an extra reminder to keep track. 'cause sometimes you get stuff for free or you get stuff at a flea market and you might forget to check it. It's not a transaction, so you might forget. So this is, it should be helpful.
Rob: Absolutely. It should be cool.
Melissa: The inventory mapping, I didn't really dive into very much.
We don't do volume again, so that is kind of not that. Although you did lose a small item the other day, so that would've been helpful. It's supposed to take your SKUs and like help you map out where they are in your warehouse and that, so if you are a high volume seller, it could be something that could definitely help and systematize your
Rob: yeah.
Sold two smalls, actually three smalls. While we were gone. One of them, I found. Three smalls. Yeah. Within the last couple weeks that we've been traveling. One, the first one that I sold. I couldn't find it. So I ended issuing a refund. And this is a $200 sale, but, for a small item , it's actually a toy, it was a Lego set.
A Lego set.
Melissa: And you found it.
Rob: That's the worst part about the whole thing. No, it's good. So I issued a refund, then sold two other smalls, $200 a piece, $197 or whatever they are, $189. I think both of those. One of them, I ended up finding, the other one I couldn't find, so I issued another refund. While I was looking for those two other ones that I sold, I found the first one that I did a refund for. So yes, I'm very, very unorganized when it comes to smalls. Smalls. I put them so this could help you put in bins somewhere, and I just don't know where they are now. I can't lose an oven. When I list an oven, I put it in the shop and it's not that hard to lose that or a cooktop.
Very, very easy to find when that's done. So smalls and I are not on the same page. Yes. So anyways, that is, it really good thing. Yes. For people to be able to organize, to keep for more volume. For me, it still won't work because I,
Melissa: it still would be helpful if you actually did it though.
Rob: But Yeah, for sure.
But we, but it's cool. It's a cool update for sure.
Melissa: A seller item not receive protection. So if the seller doesn't receive the, like it gets lost somewhere in USPS, yeah, or UPS, FedEx, eBay's gonna cover it, which is cool.
Rob: Which this doesn't really affect like us or our people our community, because for everything we've always preached is you're, you're doing insurance, insurance.
So no matter.
Melissa: Yeah. But this would be helpful. You don't have to go through the hoops to get insurance.
Rob: Maybe if they'll refund it immediately.
Melissa: If they refund it, then you don't have to go and try to fight with FedEx or fight with USPS you know, like, and that's, that's a pain in the butt to try to get ahold of somebody.
So that could be very helpful.
Rob: Yeah. They did say that it has to create the label through eBay. Yes.
Melissa: So not PirateShip.
Rob: For us, we can't insure when we have anything that sells over a thousand dollars. eBay will not let us buy insurance for over a thousand dollars. They'll only insure for $999, which kind of stinks that, where we have to go out to PirateShip to create that label.
But we're still insured. It's just like Melissa said, maybe more hoops we'll have to jump through. I think the ship insurance is what PirateShip use, but if they lose the item, no matter what we're covered under, we pay for insurance, always pay for insurance. So it'll be covered under that. But this could be for, but it is pretty cool for,
Melissa: yeah, for anything smaller and anything when.
Rob: eBay says they do this. Typically all you have to do is show that it was shipped, even if it's lost, and they'll refund you immediately of that.
Melissa: Well, you don't, can't say immediately, you don't know how fast it'll be.
Rob: You know, it's usually, typically once you show that it was shipped and you have tracking, and it's not your fault and it's taking time.
Yeah. Typically, eBay, will I step in and give you the, the refund.
Melissa: This is one of the coolest ones, I think is the automated feedback, so.
This is really cool.
Rob: I think that, and you have to have a certain condition. So in September they're rolling out with automated feedback. So if you, put a tracking number in, you have a, a real tracking number, the item's delivered on time, there's no issues with the item, the buyer hasn't said anything, they're gonna automatically give you positive feedback, which is cool.
So that's one of the biggest struggles with sellers who start out on eBay seller, they want feedback. And a lot of people don't leave feedback like myself unless somebody asks me to do it. So, that's one of those, no, they won't have to ask you anymore. No, that's it.
So they'll just automatically do it. If you do have a problem, like Melissa said, I think eBay will either remove, if somebody does leave later feedback, they'll, they'll remove what they left proceeds.
Melissa: eBay's feedback, which
Rob: is still cool though because if nobody says anything, that's typically what happens to almost all my sales and everything that I buy.
Nobody leaves feedback just because people are busy. Yeah. And nobody asks me to do it or I don't ask them to do it. So now eBay will step in and leave you positive feedback as long as there are no bad things that happen and as long as the buyer did not leave any feedback.
Melissa: Yeah. And, so there will be a difference though on like if a seller were to click on your name and look at your feedback, you'll be able to tell what is automated and what is, oh, they'll make a difference.
What sellers, which is cool. It'll be just kind of a generic and it'll probably have a different ,
Rob: automated or not. It's just showing feedback and your rating's going up a hundred percent once you're getting that positive, eBay's not gonna leave you negative feedback. They're gonna leave you the positive feedback.
So that's really, really cool. Yeah, that's a great, I think that is a great feature for sure.
Melissa: Yeah, so that was the main ones that, that we saw that was. Sweet. That was pretty cool. So, and there was another one, open banking for getting financing that I wrote down. But that one, I mean it's, if you're trying to get financing, I mean, I would apply for the grant.
The grant is something that's not financing. Absolutely. You could, if you were trying to grow your business, they were really, 50 people a year get the grant. I mean, you can apply for that. That is pretty cool.
Rob: That is awesome. Really, really awesome that they're doing that. $500,000 a year. They're giving away to people to open their businesses or start their businesses or scale their businesses.
Really, really cool. That's a real cool feature that they're doing. Yeah.
Melissa: So overall our impression was great. We had a great time. We met some cool people. We will definitely be back if we did not have, like if they didn't ask us to speak. A funny thing about that is they even emailed your , your eBay, not through messages they emailed you and you don't use that email very much.
No. So you don't, and you don't check that email. So you, he never saw it. And then the guy actually, called us and said, Hey, you wanna come speak at eBay? Which is cool, which is cool that they did that. So.
Rob: But we gotta meet some really, really cool people. We're gonna get a little bit more plugged in with eBay now that we were at the open.
Yeah. We're gonna have some local representation that we're gonna actually start doing, reaching out to some contacts that we made, which is really, really cool. It's really, like I said. Like Melissa said too, this seems like a, an amazing company. We've never been this far into the company to see how it was running and the employees and,
Melissa: and they're still not perfect.
They're like, we're not saying, I mean, every company has their issues and they're, you're still gonna have, like, there's still going be stuff that happens. Yeah. And you're not gonna like about them. But our overall impression of the company was a good one. And we will go back to open. Like, we really enjoyed it.
It really seemed like they, for the employees, they wanted the employees to talk to all the sellers. They wanted them to see, like, what are the struggles? What are you, and they took it down. They had a QR code on our badge and like, what, what can we do better? What is working, what is not? And like they put feedback.
So like they'd scan your badge, they'd write it in. So it goes to a spreadsheet that goes to the team to analyze later, like what it is that the sellers want. So that was, I thought that was pretty cool. So. Yeah.
Rob: If you did not go, you need to go next year. Yes. As long as they do it again.
Which I'm surprised they didn't do like pre tickets for the next year. I know they should, but it was really cool.
Melissa: Hopefully they do it again live because it was, yeah, we were, we'll go again. Yeah.
Rob: One of the other things that really stood out for us, and we've been to, we go to conferences all the time. We love conferences, digital marketing conferences.
We go to FinCon, we go to a lot of different conferences. But one thing that did stand out as well. They provided a lot of meals. Yeah. And Vegas is very, that's where the conference was very expensive, to eat in Vegas. And they provided a lot of the breakfasts, a lot of the lunches. Yeah. Almost all of them.
The last, the last celebration dinner, they rented out a whole huge restaurant or club even. Yeah. It was like three stories. It was amazing in everything. It was, yeah. It, they spent a lot of money on food and that really showed a lot that they care about their sellers and they were really trying to do right.
Which is awesome. So we definitely enjoyed it. Recommend it. It was amazing. Next time, don't miss it. Go to eBay open 2026. As long as they do it, we'll
Melissa: be there and we'll be there. I will, I wanted to add one last thing. It was, and if nothing, I mean, there was still a lot of stuff that we, that happened, but if nothing else, I mean, it motivated you to come back and really start selling more.
Start selling more so like, I mean, we, you love to do it, but that's, sometimes you get overwhelmed. The listing part is the overwhelming part for probably almost everybody, is getting stuff listed and you're like, all right, I'm gotta get some stuff listed. Let's go. So.
Rob: Look right behind us. We have two cooktops that I got on the last trip with the RV and they're still not listed.
But we've had so much stuff going on, so Yeah.
Melissa: But that's life. It is. There's always so much stuff going on. It is.
Rob: So I just have to make it at a point to, to get the stuff listed. Yeah, super excited, which is gonna happen. Super excited.
Melissa: So we're excited.
Rob: So but hopefully you enjoyed this. Hopefully you got some great updates on what's going on with eBay.
We had an, an amazing time. Thank you, eBay, for having us having, inviting us to speak and is just a great, great experience, overall. Amazing experience.
Melissa: Yeah. And if you are listening to this, we are back with the podcast. We're super excited to be back. Kids are back in school, kids are back in.
School. And we have a lot of different topics we want to discuss. So, and if you have anything you want us to talk about, reach out, at our email at rob@fleamarketflipper.com or connect with us on Instagram. That's probably our favorite place to connect is Instagram. Yeah, it's just fun to, to share with some of our, our journeys of what we're doing. So.
Rob: You guys are amazing. Have an amazing day and we'll catch you on the next episode.