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Behind the Counter What 40000 Orders Taught Us About What UK Buyers Actually Want — Beyond Just the Product After more than 40,000 orders across eBay UK and OnBuy, one thing has become clear at Maibo: the product is only half of what the buyer is actually buying. The other half is the experience around […]
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Buyer Education The Refurbished Electronics Question: When It’s a Genuine Bargain — And When the Grade Is Hiding a Trap Refurbished electronics can cut 30-50% off the price of a new device — or leave the buyer with a tired product and no meaningful recourse. The difference isn’t luck. It comes down to who refurbished […]
Industry Insider 7 Things UK Dropshippers Get Wrong in 2026 — From the VAT Trap to the Supplier Mistake That Ends Accounts Maibo has supplied UK dropshippers for 20 years — watching the same avoidable mistakes end businesses that could have worked. The failures are rarely about product choice. They are about VAT rules that […]
Industry Insider Why the £5 Wired Earphone Is Gone from UK Marketplaces in 2026 — And What Actually Made It Impossible Five years ago, a £5 wired earphone on eBay UK was normal. In 2026 it has effectively disappeared from any legitimate seller. The reason is not that manufacturing costs rose — they fell. It […]
Industry Insider The Day AI Started Doing UK Buyers’ Shopping for Them — What Changed on eBay, Amazon and Beyond 41% of consumers have already used AI platforms for product discovery. 56% of UK AI users now use it daily. The way UK buyers find products on Amazon, eBay, OnBuy and ASOS has changed structurally […]
eBay Guide AI-Generated eBay Listings: What 18 Years of Selling Taught Me About When They Help — And When They Hurt AI listing tools are now the default starting point for thousands of eBay sellers. They work — but not the way the marketing implies. Here’s what AI does well, where it fails consistently, and […]
Amazon Guide What Actually Happens to Returned Headphones at Amazon — And What It Means for the Next Buyer Amazon processes between 1.2 and 1.5 billion returned packages every year. A meaningful portion of them end up back on the site — repackaged, regraded, and sold to the next buyer. Here’s how that pipeline actually […]
Industry Insider Alibaba Shows You Traders. Shenzhen Shows You the Factory. After 20 years of sourcing consumer electronics from China, I still use Alibaba — but for a fraction of what I once did. Here’s what changed, and what most sourcing guides won’t tell you about the difference between a screen and a factory floor. […]
eBay Guide eBay’s “Free Returns” Badge: What It Covers, What It Doesn’t, and What Nobody Explains The “Free Returns” badge on an eBay listing sounds like a promise. It isn’t — at least not the one most buyers think they’re getting. Here’s what it actually means, when it applies, and when you’re on your own. […]
Insider What a 20-Year eBay Seller Looks for Before Listing Any Product Most eBay sellers list first and think later. The listing goes live, impressions are low, conversion is zero, and two weeks in they’re adjusting the price hoping that’s the problem. It rarely is. Here’s the process that happens before a single listing goes […]
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