🚀 I Used to Be a One-Man eBay Operation. Now I Compete Like a 4-Person Team.

Klaus Jørgensen

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Hey everyone,

If you're reading this and you're new to AI but have some solid eBay experience under your belt, this post is for you.

Let me paint you a picture of what my workflow looked like just a few years ago:

Spending 20-30 minutes per listing, carefully writing titles and descriptions
Googling technical specs for items I barely understood
Losing international sales because I couldn't respond confidently in German, French, or Spanish
Watching competitors with bigger teams outpace me in listing volume
Feeling maxed out at maybe 10-15 quality listings per day

Fast forward to today (December 2025):

I'm creating listings at 3-4x the speed while simultaneously moving upmarket to higher-value items. The quality? Better than ever. The scale? Over 80,000 (19,200 without ebaymag duplicates) active listings managed by one person (me).

What Actually Changed?

One word: AI.

But not the way most people think.

I'm not talking about letting ChatGPT spit out generic descriptions. I'm talking about using AI like an exoskeleton—a cognitive enhancement that multiplies every skill you already have by 100x.

Here's what this looks like in practice:

🔧 Technical Expertise on Demand. I was a marine engineer—I knew ships and every technical aspect of huge container vessels, not every industrial PLC or frequency converter in detail. Now when a customer asks a detailed technical question about a Siemens module or a Murrelektronik transformer? I know the basics, but AI helps me answer like I've been specializing in that equipment for decades.

🌍 Language Barriers? Gone. I'm responding to German buyers in perfect German. French customers in French. Spanish inquiries in Spanish. These are deals I would have completely missed 2-3 years ago. The language barrier that cost me thousands in lost sales? Eliminated.

⚡ Listing Speed That Feels Like Cheating. What used to take 20-30 minutes now takes 5-7 minutes and often faster depending on the item —and the quality is better. SEO-optimized titles, compelling descriptions, accurate technical specs, all while maintaining my voice and expertise.

🎯 Competing Above My Weight Class. I'm a one-person operation competing with buyers bigger than me.

Is It Perfect? Hell No.

AI makes mistakes. I make mistakes too—probably more mistakes than a well-prompted AI, if I'm being honest.

The difference is: I've learned to work WITH it, not against it.

Think of it like this: You wouldn't reject a forklift because it can't think for itself. You learn to operate it, and suddenly you're moving pallets that would've broken your back manually.

AI is the same thing—just for your brain instead of your muscles.

The Bottom Line

If you're an experienced eBay seller still doing everything manually, you're essentially choosing to compete with one hand tied behind your back.

Your competitors aren't waiting. They're already using these tools.

The sellers crushing it in 2026 won't be the ones with the most experience—they'll be the ones who multiplied their experience with AI. /Klaus

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