RESELLING — INTERMEDIATE · THE LIQUIDATION PROTOCOL + PLATFORM-FIT CHECKLIST
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1. THE ONE QUESTION (anything over 90 days)
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"If this item were handed to me today, for nothing, would I choose to list
it at this price, on this platform, and hold it until a date I'd write
down tonight?"
What you paid gets no vote — it's gone in every version of the future.

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2. THE PROTOCOL — one rule per band, carried out in the Sunday block
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0-30 days ........ Nothing. Let it work. Floor holds.
31-60 days ....... REFRESH (if fresh comps still support it): new first
                   photo, sharper title, item details filled; price may step
                   toward the floor. Comps don't support it? Go straight to
                   the over-90 decision.
                   WHEN: the Sunday it crosses 31.
61-90 days ....... OFFER AND STEP: send an offer to watchers if eligible;
                   mark down to the floor. The floor is the bottom.
                   WHEN: the Sunday it crosses 61.
Over 90 days ..... DECIDE: re-check comps (eBay Product Research reaches
                   further back than the 90-day sold filter), ask the one
                   question, pick an exit, write its exit date. The floor is
                   no longer the test.
                   WHEN: the Sunday it crosses 90; exit within 30 days.
Exit date passed,
or over 180 ...... OUT: lot it, sell it locally for cash, or donate it.
                   By the next Saturday route (overrides the 30-day window).

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3. THE FOUR EXITS
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[ ] MOVE IT  — heavy/bulky/fragile to local pickup. End the eBay listing THE
               SAME DAY. One-way exit for one old item. Not cross-listing.
[ ] LOT IT   — 3-6 stragglers of a kind, one listing, one postage, priced at
               what you'd rather have than the items.
[ ] PRICE IT TO GO — one final price, supported by fresh comps and set to sell
               within 30 days, exit date beside it. Not the start of a slide.
[ ] DONATE IT — box, drop, mark it donated on the sheet. Broken or unsafe?
               Dispose. Recalled? Follow the recall notice; never sell it
               unless the notice says it may be resold after the remedy.
               Tax treatment: ask whoever does your taxes; your job is the
               record.
Seasons are dates, not hopes: a seasonal item's exit can be the end of its
season — once.

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4. SLOW BY DESIGN — the strict exception (all three, written on the row)
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[ ] Evidence of how often it sells
    (e.g. "5 sold in the last year, all above $60")
[ ] The expected net, from the floor card
[ ] A review date no more than 90 days away
CAP (this book's control): slow-by-design stock stays under 10% of committed.
Over the cap -> review that night; the weakest exemption goes back to its band.

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5. EVERY EXIT MOVES A NUMBER
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Cost leaves COMMITTED. Cash back goes in the pot.
Cash back > cost -> profit -> tax line / draw / retained.
Cash back < cost -> the difference is a loss -> it comes out of CAPITAL.
Donated: the whole cost leaves committed AND capital.
Liquidation log: date · item · band · exit · cost · cash back.

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6. PLATFORM FIT — three questions (add ONE platform, or none)
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[ ] BUYERS THERE?  For each of 3 representative items: at least 3 genuine
    sales of the same kind in roughly the last 90 days, with the middle price
    at or above your floor ON THAT PLATFORM. 2 of 3 items = pass.
    No visible sold history = UNVERIFIED = fail.
[ ] MONEY WORKS?   Rebuild the floor card with that platform's fee.
[ ] FITS THE WEEK? Lists from your skeleton in minutes; your shipping
    windows meet its handling rules.
"None" is a real result: your base platform is the right one.

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7. CROSS-LISTING WITHOUT SELLING ANYTHING TWICE
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[ ] One inventory: the SHEET is the truth. New column: WHERE (E / M / E+M).
[ ] Delisting rule: SOLD ANYWHERE MEANS ENDED EVERYWHERE — FIRST.
    Before replying, before printing a label: end the other listing,
    mark the row sold.
[ ] Sale notifications ON for both apps. Sweep every E+M row at every
    shipping window.
[ ] Oversold anyway? End any live listing, cancel with the TRUE reason,
    refund promptly, apologise plainly, log it. (On eBay an out-of-stock
    cancellation is a transaction defect — take it; never game it.)
[ ] Pilot rule: 10 items, newest bands, same list price, each platform's
    floor on the row.
[ ] Reading rule, written BEFORE the first sale: a threshold and a date
    four weeks out. (Book example: keep if >= 2 of 10 sell at/above floor
    with no oversell.)

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8. THE FOUR-WEEK AUDIT — six items, evidence beside each
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[ ] 1 Four consecutive weeks logged — dated lines, every field filled
[ ] 2 A chosen category — dated, demand check under it
[ ] 3 The routine ran — sourcing + listing blocks; shipping windows run
      whenever there were orders (or "no orders")
[ ] 4 Sell-through recorded — cohort count updated weekly, in counts
[ ] 5 An aging report — dated, banded, reconciling to committed
[ ] 6 At least one liquidation action — in the liquidation log
Fillable hole -> fix it from records, write "added at audit" + the date.
Unfillable hole (a block didn't run, nothing can rebuild it) -> write one
line saying which step stalled and why; the four weeks restart.
Two verdicts, kept apart: COMPLETION (proven / not yet) and PERFORMANCE
(positive net after fees? falling over-90 share?).

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