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  big z (@zectrillionaire) reported 5 minutes ago

  Low-liquidity markets always interested me in a way that extremely liquid markets didn't. Wym I can push the price up or down in the short term, that's awesome This is one of the reasons that TCG markets always interested me. You're telling me if I buy this slab, and it's the cheapest one available, I can set the new price, higher? And be instantly up?(Atleast unrealized) There's actually a lot of opportunity to make money fast in lower liquidity markets, with less risk IMO, if you're lower-size (sub 100 million). It's also kind of safer too in a way, if price drops, I can just push it back up, and be back at break even or even higher. You just have to be patient. During Covid I did this experiment with WoW TCG sealed booster boxes, and unironically became one of the biggest whales in sealed WoW TCG. There's several products from that game, where on eBay, I literally am the market, if someone wants it they gotta pay what I say. The loot cards are still redeemable btw. It's fun, and teaches you a lot about how markets work.

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  Liesa 🍊🇺🇸 (@liesagonzalez74) reported 7 minutes ago

  @gregcello We had this and the gold castle. I got rid of both and the pirate ship when my kids got older. There was a huge protest and I had to hunt both down on ebay. Now my grandkids play with them when they come over.

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  Shoebox_Stadium (@ShoeboxStadium) reported 8 minutes ago

  Was trying to put some cards up for sale on eBay today, but the option to set flat price shipping was gone. Anyone else have this issue?

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  🐝The Honey Hive 🐝 (@TheHoneyHiveDC) reported 9 minutes ago

  OUTRAGE! Charles Spencer Wrote About His Own Sister Someone fetch the smelling salts. Apparently Charles Spencer has committed an unforgivable offense. He wrote a book about his sister, Diana. Yes, that Diana. And judging by some of the outrage, you would think he had broken into Althorp at midnight, dug up the family silver and sold it on eBay. I have no problem with it. Charles Spencer was Diana’s brother. He knew her before the tiaras, photographers, documentaries, biographies, podcasts and armies of strangers began explaining what Diana thought, felt, wanted and would supposedly think about absolutely everything happening in 2026. If anyone has standing to write “Diana, My Sister,” I’m going to suggest her actual brother qualifies. Naturally, the accusations have begun: He’s exploiting her! He’s making money from Diana! He should let her rest! Please. An entire industry has been making money from Diana for nearly thirty years. Biographers, broadcasters, documentary makers, royal commentators and people with YouTube channels have built small civilizations around discussing her. But suddenly her brother writes a book and everyone discovers ethical publishing. Also, Charles Spencer is an author. Authors write books. Publishers sell them. This is generally how publishing works, unless we have entered a brave new literary economy where authors distribute manuscripts outside Tesco in return for compliments and Nectar points. Will Spencer be biased? Of course. She was his sister. His memories are his memories. Other people may remember events differently. Readers can compare accounts, disagree with him and decide for themselves. It’s called reading. And at least Spencer isn’t claiming his wife is Diana 2.0. No announcements that she has inherited Diana’s humanitarian halo, fashion mantle, tragic destiny, public adoration and possibly her favorite handbag. He married a woman. He did not launch The People’s Princess: The Sequel. So perhaps everyone can put the pearls back around their necks. Nobody has to buy the book. Nobody has to agree with it. But Charles Spencer knew Diana when she was simply his sister, long before the rest of the world claimed ownership of her memory. That perspective is worth hearing. After decades of strangers explaining Diana to the Spencer family, I think we can survive one Spencer explaining Diana to us. It’s a book, people. Get over it.

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  Bill (@BillNeilso) reported 9 minutes ago

  @hirdy1888 @vintedUK That’s grim I bought trainers for myself a fortnight past and didn’t like them on Stuck them on Vinted and they took the advert down saying they were counterfeit. Had to sell them on EBay. Shambles Hirdy Turns out it’s checked by AI that clearly doesn’t work.

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  Cardboard Connection (@sportscards) reported 10 minutes ago

  So my company is made over 100 million in sales In the past decade for eBay Using the eBay Partnership Network their affiliate marketing program. I would think that nine figures would buy at least a little feedback maybe a phone call notes an explanation maybe even some perks considering the magnitude... Instead my commissions were cut by over 2/3, everything is limited I was never entered into any programs and literally am losing my company without an explanation and Trying to save my business, the most recent compliance request came in about the entirety of my Facebook and X accounts. Keep in mind both of these accounts have roughly 70,000 followers between the two and I've never had an issue in a decade with these accounts except for the occasional request for an appliance update and I was trying links for one of their new programs. There's no way to call anyone there there's no way to get an explanation and now I've had to let go all of my employees just to keep the company alive until yesterday... Went from 4M organic users visiting my site, to this. Coincidently, 2 days after I asked for an explanation why my commission were basically eradicated. Play something along these two social media platforms that I haven't touched in a month since the last compliance Only reason enough to shut me down after 16 years with ebay. IS ANYONE ELSE EXPERIENCING THIS??? They told me i was being used as a test pilot which is why my rates were below the GLOBAL STANDARD RATE CARD. And to wrap it up stay informed me of my suspension after over a decade of business by writing an email to me with the wrong name. I don't know who Ryan is... HELP

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  Torx 🐆⛽ (@Spottyroo) reported 11 minutes ago

  @JDubb1953 Yeah I thought about it but none of the vehicles I need are in any yards local and they want too much for used junk. Sucks because the new parts are either ridiculously cheap and questionable, or expensive. Like a power steering pump for this… $98 new for a Chinese something junk. Or $500 for a new mopar one. No other options. I could ebay one but still issues there. Or the alternator I need, $180 because I don’t have a core and that’s a questionable reman. Only new one is chinese junk. Ebay wants more than $100 for a used one anyway that looks like it lived underwater. So I end up spending $1K less and have to figure out how I’m running cables and hoses across everything…. Nah it’s worth not dealing with it.

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  Vet 420 (@WeedVet) reported 12 minutes ago

  @Pittsburgh1Pete 1oz has been doing just fine with 1 card, I also add a Pc of heavy paper stock so I’m right at that 1 oz but haven’t had a problem…. eBay standard .78 per envelope….

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  Paul Lenkeit (@plenkeit2) reported 13 minutes ago

  @KellyCards The comments are insanely split down the middle here. I one thousand percent figured this card was worth wayyyy more than 60 bucks after reading this post lol I get that what the guy did was a little unusual, and certainly not good practice - but genuiely, why wouldnt you at least wait to see how the card showed up before going to ebay support???

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  ***** Kaperki (@carjdun) reported 14 minutes ago

  @SecretService They robbed me by blackmailing because of 2 stolen phones we purchased from eBay without our knowledge And blackmailed me that if I don’t give the money on my bank account , they will shut down our business , and Scott Windish opened my car glove box and took 3k cash and took my phone on the way to Wells Fargo and we waited at the Wells Fargo teller line 10 min and teller wrote a 39.000 dollars cashiers check under SECRET SERVICE and after they took me to STARBUCKS and made me sign paperworks…

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  Dom Cardboard (@DomCardboard) reported 15 minutes ago

  @SweetTradeCards @mjmike2323 @TwinsJake What? I'm asking.... guy seems to have solid feedback on Ebay. This model is new to me, just curious how it works on a non-scam level. Boils down to a $10 raffle ticket vs. ordering directly from Topps. Just seems gimmicky, that's all

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  D. Hathaway (@businessdhhrd) reported 20 minutes ago

  👀 5 copies of the Ditto Expo Promo have sold on my eBay since I posted this copy on X yesterday. The average sale price across those 5 copies was $437.40 per card. On X, I’m offering near-mint copies for $350 each — no tax + free shipping. 🔥 I’ll consider discounts on multiple copies. 💰 THE LITTLE GUY WON’T BE AVAILABLE FOREVER. 🐐 Started with roughly 1,200–1,500 copies… I’m down to about 150 copies left. 🥹🥹🥹

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  kurkosdr (@kurkosdr) reported 21 minutes ago

  @james_droog @lauriewired A similar thing almost happened to me on eBay when I bid on an okay-but-not-great vintage laptop with Nvidia 3D Vision: "set max bid to €600 so I won't have to monitor the auction", but someone matched me and (fortunately) outbid me! (they backed away after, but not my problem)

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  NKP1993 (@nkp1993) reported 22 minutes ago

  I broke down and bought a copy of The Potential Daleks. This boxset was clearly a big seller because it's hard to find for cheap. If you look on ebay it's already going for $200+! Luckily I found mine at @alienentertain, but it was still $85. Good grief! Could be worse I suppose.

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  Wo Jake (Archived) (@woj4ke) reported 23 minutes ago

  How to get 70% discounts on Hotels: Hotel Employee Discounts places like Marriott have this search up ‘Marriott MMP’ and you’ll go down the rabbit hole, reddit can tell you who sells this (or ebay) copy/pasted.

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  rabbit (@miniloprabbit) reported 24 minutes ago

  @Gamers4LMedia @DarkIxion Wait on eBay curry’s they sell it for £500-650. Brand new the box is just broken.

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  Aces ⚔️ Eights⚖️🇺🇸 (@EMTP3764) reported 25 minutes ago

  @SheboggyBlues EBAY remains buyer beware and the fees and taxes have ruined the collector market. China counterfeits still a big problem

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  Marvin Phillips (Illudium X Games) (@Kairho71) reported 26 minutes ago

  @DungeonNoir So, go on Ebay and buy the original Dark Sun. Problem solved.

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  EverydayReseller (@EverydayResell) reported 27 minutes ago

  Day 194 Total sales: $599.00 eBay earnings: $102.82 Buy cost (COG): $15.54 Net profit: $87.28 ROI: 562% Today was definitely an unusual one. On paper, it looks like a slow day, but the story is a little different. 3 higher dollar orders were canceled before they shipped, which meant they hit today's numbers even though I still have the inventory ready to sell again. That's one thing I've learned about reselling, not every low profit day is a bad day. Sometimes it's returns. Sometimes it's cancellations. Sometimes it's just timing. The important part is that those items are still sitting on my shelf, ready to be sold to the next buyer. You can't control cancellations, but you can control how quickly you relist, how consistently you source, & whether you keep moving forward. Tomorrow is another opportunity, & those canceled items are already back in inventory waiting for their next sale. That's just part of the business. On to Day 195. 📦💪

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  Bandido (@BluestripBlue) reported 27 minutes ago

  @brian_2o3 @gamestop I think it’s the other way around. I think he bought cheap broken consoles on eBay and got a higher value through GameStop credit

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  🔴™️⚪️ (@TMath_Ayyy) reported 36 minutes ago

  About to do my first stack sale or attempt it. #TradeMarkedTakes This will end at 10pm. After that everything that doesnt sell will go to ebay auction. Im going to sticker all of these at last sale or under. Some of them i may bump down as the day goes along. 5.99 Shipping. If you buy 2, shipped free. If you buy 3, 10% off. Should be listing around 1:30 Pm Central and End 10 PM Central.

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  Ken Tremendous (@tremendous_ken) reported 39 minutes ago

  @relhimself @BarnHockey Wash it down with a Surge you bought on eBay.

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  🇺🇸 Shall Not Be Infringed 🇺🇸 (@keeperOfRad) reported 40 minutes ago

  @collins11_m @libsoftiktok I get in trouble if I dont pay taxes on my $601 eBay sale and these ******** defraud massive amounts of money and nothing happens. Unreal

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  Doyoudrewtoo (@Werdnah815) reported 42 minutes ago

  @SpawnWaveMedia Keep in mind this is asking prices but only become real eBay sales if people give in to them. But people will probably give in to them :/ Or people will tag the sales and attack to take them down since preorders are being scrutinized more lately

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  gangan out now! 🇭🇹 (@johnnyspliffs) reported 44 minutes ago

  @sodjthe3rd @vinted @eBay Vinted good but the lack of human interaction in the team running it is so bad even the bbc making articles about them EBay might look outdated but if u have an issue you can get a human who will hold ur hands they good luck with that on Vinted they’ll basically have a bot fucku

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  kaz ♿︎🌻 | ot6 (@loserkaz) reported 45 minutes ago

  @thelastdryad yea <///3 i have some merch from ebay shipping from japan rn so i gotta wait until i can buy more lmao but i want everything i see which is a problem lmao

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  david payne (@garbage2010) reported 47 minutes ago

  @TrevRetro eBay and Amazon are terrible for that now. Search for Google pixel 10 phone case. Sponsored result. "iPhone 12 case"

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  kungfuflu (@forgottenwildc) reported 59 minutes ago

  This Christmas, Santa May Ask ChatGPT First For years, online sellers have obsessed over the same questions: How do I rank higher on eBay? How do I get onto the first page of Google? Should I buy Facebook ads? Is my title good enough for Amazon? This Christmas, there may be another question worth adding to the list: What happens when the customer asks ChatGPT what to buy? That isn't some distant prediction anymore. OpenAI is rapidly expanding advertising inside ChatGPT while simultaneously building a much larger product-discovery system around shopping.[1][2] And the timing couldn't be much more interesting. We are heading directly into the 2026 Christmas shopping season. For small online sellers, this could be the first holiday season when AI begins moving from a novelty people experiment with to a genuine shopping gateway. CHRISTMAS SHOPPING HAS ALWAYS BEEN A SEARCH PROBLEM Think about how people actually shop for Christmas presents. They frequently don't know exactly what they want. They know something like: I need a Christmas present for my 12-year-old nephew who likes trains and history, and I want to spend less than $40. Traditional search doesn't handle that particularly elegantly. You search. You change the search. You open six tabs. You read a couple of terrible "Top 10 Gifts" articles written mostly to collect affiliate commissions. You go back to Google. You eventually end up on Amazon, eBay, Etsy, Walmart or somewhere else. ChatGPT potentially collapses much of that process into a conversation. A customer can say: "My husband collects railroad memorabilia, particularly Pennsylvania Railroad items from the 1930s through the 1960s. Find me something unusual for Christmas under $75." That's not really a search query. That's a customer describing what he wants to a salesperson. And that's precisely why conversational AI could become extraordinarily important to sellers. OpenAI says hundreds of millions of people already use ChatGPT to find, understand and compare products.[3] Now the commerce infrastructure is being built around that behavior. AND HERE COME THE ADS OpenAI began testing advertisements in ChatGPT earlier this year for users on its Free and Go plans.[4] Since then, the program has expanded substantially. Businesses can now purchase advertising through major agency and technology partners, and OpenAI has begun rolling out a self-service Ads Manager designed to allow businesses—including small and medium-sized businesses—to create their own campaigns.[1] That is a much bigger development than it first sounds. Self-service advertising is what transformed Google and Facebook advertising from something primarily purchased by large companies into something the neighborhood furniture store, eBay seller, Shopify merchant or guy selling Christmas ornaments out of his basement could potentially use. OpenAI is also introducing cost-per-click advertising. Meaning advertisers can increasingly pay when someone actually clicks rather than simply paying because an advertisement appeared.[1] Sound familiar? We're watching some of the basic machinery of a new advertising ecosystem being assembled in real time. BUT CHATGPT ADS HAVE ONE VERY IMPORTANT DIFFERENCE Google traditionally starts with keywords. ChatGPT starts with a conversation. That distinction could become enormous. Imagine somebody saying: "I need an inexpensive gift for my dad. He's 70, loves old tractors, hates electronics and already owns everything." That conversation contains substantially more information about purchasing intent than somebody typing: gift for dad into Google. OpenAI explicitly describes its advertising opportunity around these moments when users are exploring choices, comparing products and deciding what to do next.[5] That's the important part for retailers. The advertisement isn't necessarily trying to interrupt someone while they're watching a cat video. It can appear while the person is actively saying: Help me decide what to buy. That's about as high-intent as advertising gets. CHRISTMAS COULD ACCELERATE THIS FAST Holiday shopping is almost the perfect application for AI shopping assistants. People have: Budgets. Deadlines. Recipient ages. Hobbies. Sizes. Favorite colors. Collections. Shipping constraints. People they don't understand particularly well but are nevertheless obligated to buy presents for. In other words, millions of complicated shopping problems. And complicated shopping problems are exactly where conversational AI becomes useful. OpenAI has already developed a dedicated Shopping Research experience designed to help people compare products, weigh tradeoffs and narrow purchases through conversation.[3] The company previously made expanded Shopping Research usage available specifically during the holiday period. That tells you something about where OpenAI thinks this product fits. Christmas isn't a side use case. It may eventually become one of the biggest demonstrations of what AI-assisted shopping can do. THIS MATTERS EVEN IF YOU NEVER BUY AN AD Here's where things get especially interesting for small sellers. Advertising is only half of the story. OpenAI is simultaneously creating an organic product-discovery system. These are two different things. ChatGPT's normal shopping results are not supposed to be determined by advertisers. OpenAI says product recommendations are selected independently based on relevance and other product information, while advertisements are clearly separated from those results.[6] That means sellers potentially have two different paths into the customer's shopping conversation. Paid advertising. And organic product discovery. That should sound very familiar to anyone who remembers the early days of Google. AND SHOPIFY AND ETSY SELLERS ALREADY HAVE A HEAD START This is where the story becomes immediately relevant rather than theoretical. OpenAI says Shopify product data is already integrated into ChatGPT through Shopify Catalog.[2] Its merchant documentation says Shopify and Etsy catalogs are already integrated, meaning individual sellers on those platforms don't have to separately apply merely to get their catalogs into the underlying product ecosystem.[7] That does not mean every product will suddenly appear whenever somebody asks ChatGPT for something remotely related. Far from it. Relevance still matters. Product information still matters. Price matters. Availability matters. Images matter. Reviews can matter. And the quality of the product data itself matters. But the plumbing is increasingly there. That's a huge difference from saying: "Maybe someday ChatGPT will become a shopping engine." We're beyond that stage. YOUR PRODUCT DATA MAY BECOME YOUR NEW SEO This is one of the biggest lessons sellers should take into Christmas 2026. For twenty years, merchants optimized webpages for search engines. Keywords. Titles. Descriptions. Categories. Structured data. Links. Now we're beginning to optimize products for AI understanding. OpenAI specifically tells merchants that richer product feeds can improve how completely and accurately products appear when users are comparing options.[7] That means sloppy listings could become even more expensive. Imagine two sellers carrying essentially the same item. Seller A has: One mediocre photograph. A vague title. No dimensions. No detailed description. Missing attributes. Questionable inventory information. Seller B has: Clear photographs. Accurate dimensions. Brand. Model. Material. Condition. Color. Intended use. Current price. Accurate inventory. Detailed descriptive information. Which product is easier for an AI to confidently recommend when somebody asks a complicated question? Probably not difficult to guess. Good listing data is becoming machine-readable salesmanship. THE WEIRD STUFF MAY ACTUALLY BENEFIT This may become especially interesting for Etsy sellers, eBay sellers, antique dealers and specialty merchants. Amazon is fantastic when the customer knows exactly what commodity product they need. But AI shopping becomes particularly valuable when the customer doesn't know exactly what product exists. Consider: Vintage advertising. Railroad memorabilia. Obscure replacement parts. Collectibles. Unusual clothing. Rare books. Decorations. Antiques. Oddball Christmas gifts. Those products have historically been difficult to discover because customers don't necessarily know the correct words to search. AI can potentially bridge that gap. A customer doesn't need to know that something is called a 1950s embossed tin lithograph advertising sign. He can simply say: "Find me something authentic from an old American gas station that would look good in my father's garage." Now the AI translates the customer's idea into the marketplace's vocabulary. That could be enormously powerful for the long tail of ecommerce. THIS IS WHY EBAY SHOULD BE PAYING VERY CLOSE ATTENTION Few companies possess a stranger catalog than eBay. That's normally one of eBay's weaknesses. Cataloging 300 nearly identical USB cables is easy. Cataloging a 1947 railroad timetable, a discontinued automotive switch and somebody's grandmother's ceramic Christmas tree is considerably harder. But AI changes the equation. The stranger the inventory becomes, the more valuable natural-language understanding potentially becomes. And that could make marketplaces containing enormous amounts of unique inventory more useful rather than less useful. The question becomes whether those marketplaces can expose enough structured information for AI systems to properly understand what sellers actually have. This Christmas may give us some of the first meaningful clues. THERE'S ANOTHER BIG CHANGE: THE CUSTOMER MAY STILL COME TO YOUR STORE OpenAI has also adjusted its commerce strategy in an important way. Rather than trying to force every transaction to happen inside ChatGPT, OpenAI says it is prioritizing product discovery while allowing merchants to retain their own checkout experiences.[7] That's important for retailers. The merchant can potentially receive the customer rather than surrendering the entire customer relationship to the AI platform. Reuters recently reported that retailers are actively trying to capture growing AI-shopping traffic while keeping transactions and customer relationships on their own websites.[8] And there is early evidence that AI-referred shoppers can be unusually valuable. Reuters cited Adobe Analytics research indicating revenue per visit from generative-AI referrals was 41% higher than traditional channels.[8] That's still an emerging channel and shouldn't be treated as a guarantee of future performance. But it's enough to make retailers pay attention. CHRISTMAS 2026 PROBABLY WON'T KILL GOOGLE Before everyone rewrites their entire advertising budget tomorrow morning: No, ChatGPT is probably not replacing Google, Amazon, eBay or Facebook this Christmas. Consumer habits don't change that quickly. But that's not really the interesting question. The interesting question is whether a measurable percentage of Christmas-product discovery moves into AI conversations this year. Because once that happens, sellers have another acquisition channel. And new acquisition channels can start surprisingly small. Google Shopping once looked small. Facebook advertising once looked experimental. Mobile commerce once looked optional. Sellers who remember those transitions know how this usually works. First people laugh. Then a few merchants experiment. Then somebody figures out how to make money. Then everyone suddenly becomes an expert. WHAT SMALL SELLERS SHOULD DO BEFORE BLACK FRIDAY Nobody needs to panic. But online sellers should probably begin thinking about AI visibility before holiday buying really accelerates. Make your product titles descriptive rather than cute. Fill in useful attributes. Use clear photographs. Describe who the item is for. Explain unusual features. Keep pricing and inventory accurate. Make shipping information understandable. Think about how a human being would describe the product they want rather than merely which keyword they might type. And if OpenAI's self-service advertising becomes broadly accessible to smaller merchants, watch the economics carefully. Don't buy advertising merely because it says "AI" on the box. Test it. Measure clicks. Measure conversion. Measure average order value. Measure customer-acquisition cost. The winners will probably be the merchants who treat this as another channel rather than another religion. CHRISTMAS SHOPPING MAY BE BECOMING A CONVERSATION The biggest change isn't really advertising. It's the interface. For thirty years, online shopping has largely required customers to learn how computers want them to search. Use the right keywords. Choose the correct category. Select the filters. Try another query. AI reverses that relationship. The customer simply explains what he wants. The computer figures out the shopping. That's why ChatGPT advertising matters. Not because OpenAI invented another place to stick a banner advertisement. We've had quite enough of those. It matters because the advertisement and the product can appear inside a conversation where the customer has already explained: Who they're buying for. What that person likes. How much they're willing to spend. When they need it. And what kind of product they're trying to find. We have never really had an advertising medium quite like that before. So somewhere between Black Friday and Christmas Eve this year, a customer may sit down at his computer and type: "I have absolutely no idea what to buy my wife for Christmas. Help." And ChatGPT may increasingly answer that question with actual products. For online sellers, that's not just an interesting AI feature. That's a new storefront. And Christmas 2026 may be the season when we begin finding out how valuable the address is. Footnotes [1] OpenAI, New ways to buy ChatGPT ads, May 5, 2026. OpenAI announced beta self-service Ads Manager access, additional advertising partners, CPC bidding, conversion measurement and broader availability intended to include businesses ranging from SMBs to global brands. [2] OpenAI, Powering Product Discovery in ChatGPT, March 24, 2026. OpenAI expanded shopping through the Agentic Commerce Protocol and said Shopify product data is integrated through Shopify Catalog, alongside integrations from major retailers. [3] OpenAI, Introducing shopping research in ChatGPT. OpenAI says hundreds of millions of people use ChatGPT to research and compare products and describes Shopping Research as a conversational system designed for more complicated purchase decisions. [4] OpenAI, Our approach to advertising and expanding access to ChatGPT, January 16, 2026, and OpenAI Help Center, Ads in ChatGPT. OpenAI began U.S. advertising tests on February 9 for Free and Go users; paid Plus, Pro and Business users do not see those ads. [5] OpenAI Ads, Advertise in ChatGPT. OpenAI describes ChatGPT advertising as reaching customers while they are exploring alternatives, comparing products and making decisions inside conversations. [6] OpenAI Help Center, Shopping with ChatGPT Search. OpenAI states that ordinary shopping product results are selected independently and are not advertisements; advertisements are displayed separately from ChatGPT's answers and shopping recommendations. [7] OpenAI, Power product discovery in ChatGPT. OpenAI says richer merchant feeds can improve product coverage and accuracy, Shopify and Etsy catalogs are already integrated, and OpenAI is emphasizing merchant-owned checkout rather than requiring purchases to occur within ChatGPT. [8] Reuters, Retailers tap AI shopping traffic but fight to keep customer data, August 7, 2026. Reuters reports retailers are increasingly optimizing for ChatGPT and Gemini referrals while seeking to retain checkout and customer relationships; the report cites Adobe Analytics data showing substantially higher revenue per visit from generative-AI referrals than traditional channels.

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  ChooseTruth (@1_True_0_False) reported 1 hour ago

  @BasedTorba eBay sales are down, Estate Sale sales are down, Low end used cars are up. All lower middle class indicators of trouble. 1 year ago used cars were cheap cheap and reselling was booming.

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  Zazzy Xandrax (@ZazzyXandrax) reported 1 hour ago

  @lazudeepbluesea I did this before and at least where I am you can for $3 each, the problem is that each location is only given a few at once so they don't have a full set and don't know if they will get them all. Best bet is just ebay type place.