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Listing Monster graphic asking how many listings you should post a day, showing the formula 60 divided by 8 equals 7.5 an hour, with side hustle (2 to 8 a day) and full-time (10 to 25 plus a day) benchmarks

How Many Listings Should You Post a Day?

Most resellers ask this the wrong way round. "How many listings should you post a day" isn't a single number you can copy from a forum thread, it's 2 inputs multiplied together: ...

Billy Burridge
Billy BurridgeListing ยท 5 min read
Illustration of the Listing Monster mascot next to a checklist of the 5 bottlenecks stopping resellers from scaling: listing time, crosslisting, stale listings, backlog, and profit visibility.

How to Scale Your Reselling Business Without Spending More Time Listing

For many resellers trying to grow, the problem isn't finding more stock. It's processing the stock they've already bought. If you're trying to work out how to scale your reselling ...

Billy Burridge
Billy BurridgeListing ยท 5 min read
Illustration of the Listing Monster mascot holding a phone beside a listing draft checklist with item specifics, category and price research marked complete, and description flagged as still needing manual review, next to the headline asking whether eBay sellers need AI for listings

Do eBay Sellers Need AI for Listings? An Honest Answer From a Reseller

Do eBay Sellers Need AI for Listings? An Honest Answer From a Reseller Not always, and not for the reason most "AI listing tool" articles claim. Once you're consistently listing ...

Billy Burridge
Billy BurridgeListing ยท 4 min read
Shoe Photos That Sell graphic showing a 6-step shoe photo checklist (front, side, back, sole, tag, flaws) for Depop and Vinted, with the Listing Monster mascot

How to Photograph Shoes for Depop and Vinted

How to Photograph Shoes for Depop and Vinted The quickest way to photograph shoes for Depop and Vinted is the same repeatable sequence every time: front, side profile, back or ...

Billy Burridge
Billy BurridgeListing ยท 4 min read
Listing Monster mascot next to a stopwatch surrounded by listing task icons, illustrating time lost to manual listing

The Hidden Costs of Manual Listing

The hidden costs of manual listing rarely show up as a single number. They're spread across the hours it eats every week, the fee assumptions that don't hold once you're trading ...

Billy Burridge
Billy BurridgeListing ยท 4 min read
Pile of unlisted reselling stock illustrating a reseller listing backlog

The Reseller Listing Backlog Mistake That Cost Me 2,000 Items

A reseller listing backlog forms when you buy stock faster than you can list it. It happens because sourcing feels productive and listing feels like admin, so buying keeps ...

Billy Burridge
Billy BurridgeListing ยท 4 min read
ListingMonster mascot with a weekly listing rhythm card showing Monday, Wednesday and Friday highlighted for Vinted listing sessions

How Often Should You List on Vinted? The Real Answer for New Resellers

Short answer: For most new Vinted resellers, 2 to 3 listing sessions a week is enough. Vinted confirms that listing age and listing frequency are both parameters its systems use, ...

Billy Burridge
Billy BurridgeListing ยท 4 min read
Blog hero titled "The Words That Get Your eBay Listings Removed," contrasting a removed listing using a trademarked term with a compliant generic alternative, with the ListingMonster mascot.

eBay Prohibited Words: The Terms That Get Your Listings Removed

eBay does not publish one single "banned words list." Listings get pulled through a mix of automated filters and manual policy enforcement, and the trigger is almost always one of ...

India Neckel
India NeckelListing ยท 6 min read
Listing Monster mascot batching reselling tasks: photography, listing, packing and scheduling grouped together

Task Batching for Resellers: How to List More Items in Less Time

Task batching for resellers means grouping similar jobs together and doing them in one sitting, rather than switching between sourcing, photography, listing and packing all day. ...

Billy Burridge
Billy BurridgeListing ยท 4 min read
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