Why are resellers looked down upon? | Selling

quadcitypickers · 2026-05-16T21:58:09.563000Z

I was reading a Facebook post where someone found something at a discount store for like $5 that was selling on eBay for $45+shipping and got like 4 of them, and so many of the comments were very ugly. Like 95% of them. What surprised me was the amount of people who think a discount store buys things at full price and sells them at a discount to help people out. That's now how that works and a business that did that outside of actual charity work (this was a Dollar General type store) would soon go out of business. The lack of basic business 101 was astounding. Apparently eBay resellers just can walk into a store and buy stuff and stick it in some kind of Star Trek-esque type of machine that spits out cash, because apparently resellers are "lazy scum who are too lazy to work a real job". I found many of the comments incredibly insulting. I have health issues that prevent me from working a "real job" as about 3-4 days a month I have extreme unexplainable exhaustion and muscle pain that no doctor has been able to find the cause of, on top of numerous pinched nerves in my neck. Not too many jobs allow you to be sick that much and forcing myself to work on those days makes recovery 100 times worse. Apparently listing upwards of 25 items a day, taking over 100 photos and cropping/editing them, boxing up sometimes 50 orders in a week (449 in the last 90 days by my count), and all the work that goes into sourcing including driving, hunting around estate and garage sales, as well as providing customer service, etc isn't "actual labor". This is a full time job for me and I do it all on my own. To clarify, these weren't some hot new item that could be considered "scalping", it was old stock marked down.

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