johnwickdog
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Alright give me your email and well get into contact
[Journey] Get Rich or Die Trying! My LONG Journey from $0 to $10,000,000/yr on Ebay
- Thread starter PandaDaddy
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greenhatworld
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- Apr 25, 2016
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What is FBO?
PandaDaddy
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- Oct 30, 2018
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Fulfillment by others, that usually is just a fancy term for someone who store products in an oversea warehouse and shipping them directly from the warehouse.
johnwickdog
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- Dec 26, 2024
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Hey, i hope you are all enjoying your new year! I just have a few more questions:
1) Would you reccomend hidemyacc or another antidetect browser?
2) On these antidetect browsers do you use windows or android?
3) On the antidetect do you use only 1 browser or multiple browsers?
4) In terms of proxies, would you recomend residential, data center, enterprise, ISP proxy or mobile proxies? These are all offered from iproyal
Ranksoldier
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- Feb 15, 2024
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Respect for sharing your journey so transparently. Managing 200+ accounts sounds like a nightmare—how do you keep track of everything without losing your mind?
PandaDaddy
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You will need 3 employees and a very detailed google spreadsheet.
when you ask the buyer to return the item, you are hoping that they never do, and then the case will close in your favor without you refunding the money. If they do return, we will just issue refund, we don't care whether they returned the item or that we have received or not. Since the product cost is insignificant.
1. The best one is thunderbird, unfortunately, the are only available in China. I used to use morelogin, they can handle the basics.
2. You can use just a browser based on window environment.
3. You need 1 browser per ebay account.
4. residential and mobile proxies if they are clean.
ayushsomani
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Been following this thread since the beginning and want to share my thoughts:
What makes this journey impressive isn't just the numbers - it's your systematic approach and willingness to adapt. You started with dropshipping, recognized the risks, and evolved to an FBO model. That kind of flexibility is rare.
Your transparency about the challenges (account bans, startup costs, managing VAs) has been super valuable. Most "success stories" only show the wins, but you've documented both successes and setbacks.
One question: Have you considered developing relationships with manufacturers directly? Seems like at your current scale, cutting out middlemen could boost those margins even further.
Either way, thanks for consistently sharing real insights rather than fluff. This thread is gold for anyone serious about e-commerce.
What makes this journey impressive isn't just the numbers - it's your systematic approach and willingness to adapt. You started with dropshipping, recognized the risks, and evolved to an FBO model. That kind of flexibility is rare.
Your transparency about the challenges (account bans, startup costs, managing VAs) has been super valuable. Most "success stories" only show the wins, but you've documented both successes and setbacks.
One question: Have you considered developing relationships with manufacturers directly? Seems like at your current scale, cutting out middlemen could boost those margins even further.
Either way, thanks for consistently sharing real insights rather than fluff. This thread is gold for anyone serious about e-commerce.
Do you mind telling why you used this font? Every time I see an update on your side I wonder about this remark but never asked.@PandaDaddy Nice to see other people who play in big stakes too.
Good luck, +1 point for the font in the excel because I know why you use that
PandaDaddy
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Yes, I have purchased a small factory that is related to my most profitable niche and thus cut out the middle man in the beginning of 2024. This dramatically raise my profit margin from decent ~38% to almost ~50%.
This is a weird Chinese-English font. We used it because allegedly, people that are not using the chinese wps program cannot replicate the front because it is not in a traditional excel font library, though I never confirmed this.
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I remember seeing this post when I was browsing BHW back few years ago and you're still going strong, you're a legend, hope you're healthy and that this journey has progressed good!
PandaDaddy
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This is my 2024 year end summary.
Our gross revenue for the year is $3,048,642.25, and our net profit comes out to be $1,434,309, roughly 47%. The profit margin experienced a huge jump because I bought a small factory in early 2024 related to my main niche that cut out the middle man.
On top of that, I have spent day and night to maximize efficiency, reducing labor cost, shipping cost, ebay cost, and the end result is a big bump on profitability.
I have started this thread 2, or 3 years ago, and now I am 1/3 of my goal. This is largely due to ebay's trigger happy, ban likely policy. If they ban 50% less accounts, I probably would have reached 10 mil per year by now.
In 2024, I have focused on other alternative method on how to reduce bans, I went to ebay headquarters in san jose, and then to an ebay office in seattle where they say the trust team works from, and then to poweseller convention, but I see nothing that will help me to reduce the number of bans. At a certain point, I decided to give up on alternative methods and refocus to just having huge ebay farm.
Moving forward, my 2025 new year resolution is to reach the $5,000,000 mark in 2025. But our 2025 did not start great from sales volume standpoint, but you never know with this business, just when you think the sky is falling, you will see a sales graph that looks like a giant middle finger or some other body part
I included some random active accounts.
Our gross revenue for the year is $3,048,642.25, and our net profit comes out to be $1,434,309, roughly 47%. The profit margin experienced a huge jump because I bought a small factory in early 2024 related to my main niche that cut out the middle man.
On top of that, I have spent day and night to maximize efficiency, reducing labor cost, shipping cost, ebay cost, and the end result is a big bump on profitability.
I have started this thread 2, or 3 years ago, and now I am 1/3 of my goal. This is largely due to ebay's trigger happy, ban likely policy. If they ban 50% less accounts, I probably would have reached 10 mil per year by now.
In 2024, I have focused on other alternative method on how to reduce bans, I went to ebay headquarters in san jose, and then to an ebay office in seattle where they say the trust team works from, and then to poweseller convention, but I see nothing that will help me to reduce the number of bans. At a certain point, I decided to give up on alternative methods and refocus to just having huge ebay farm.
Moving forward, my 2025 new year resolution is to reach the $5,000,000 mark in 2025. But our 2025 did not start great from sales volume standpoint, but you never know with this business, just when you think the sky is falling, you will see a sales graph that looks like a giant middle finger or some other body part
I included some random active accounts.
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Regarding the ssn when creating an account, do you mean I can still use my own with my previously banned status? Say it’s 121-22-3456, you mean I can use 3456 to create new accounts? I thought you mentioned to add someone else as a member to my llc, then use 4 digit of their ssn. Could you please clarify this for me? Also, you mentioned using other people’s info—do you mean people you know of? Like fam and friends? Or is there a way to get this info? I read someone asking about buying one. Is that even a thing? Never knew you could do that but I wouldn’t be surprised with all the back doors and ways to get things done these days.
Trycia Walsh
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- May 3, 2024
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Cool. Bets of luck with your journey!
PandaDaddy
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If you are only using yourself's SSN, you will need to do this slowly, I notice that ebay does place restriction on how frequenly the same info can be used, but I don't know the same time frame.
You should never buy info, because these are stolen info, so law is one thing, and these info are abused to death and likely blacklisted. You can use your freind/relative's info with their permission. or pay someone to use theirs, you will be surprised on how many people are willing to rent out their personal info for affordable cost.
Totally agreed. I wouldn’t have gone for this without full transparency regarding sources. Ethical concerns would put a full stop before any legal issues even come into play.
What would be the “affordable” cost I should consider and how to even find someone who’s willing to let me use theirs?
Can a foreign resident with an ITIN be added as a member or manager of your company? And that ITIN be used instead of the 4 digit ssn?
