Most sellers don’t realize this, but the hours you spend marketing, posting, following up, and managing DMs are hours you are not spending on your actual business. You are the product team, the sales team, the marketing department, and the customer service rep. All at once and all for free.

And even when it works (even when a buyer finds you, messages you, and agrees to buy), there's still the trust problem. They've been burnt before. You've been burnt before. Everyone in this market has a story about a deal that went wrong. So buyers hesitate. They negotiate aggressively because they don't fully believe the price. They ghost after you've already set the item aside for them.

You built something real. It deserves better than this.