I Let an AI Agent Browse Auction Sites While I Slept — Here's What It Found One thing I hear a lot: "How do you keep up with all the auction sites without spending hours every day?" Here's exactly what I've been running this week. I set up an AI agent that browses Troostwijk, Surplex, Klaravik, and NetBid every morning, filters for my core brands and product types, scores each lot, and sends me a ranked report before I've had my first coffee. This is what yesterday's report looked like: The top find: a 430-lot industrial electrical auction in Zonhoven, Belgium (Troostwijk A1-43714). One company's entire inventory going under the hammer — 60 Siemens lots, 62 ABB lots, 14 Schneider lots, plus sensors, contactors, relays, and cables. Lots starting from €50. The agent flagged this as 10/10 and it closes Friday. I would have missed this entirely if I was browsing manually. Other standouts from the same report: - 50x Siemens SIMATIC ET200 I/O modules (Surplex, Netherlands) — starting price €10. Zero bids at time of scan. These sell for €15–40 each on eBay. - 2 lots of 5x Danfoss VLT FC-302 frequency converters (Surplex, Netherlands) — €100 start per lot, no bids. FC-302s go for €150–400+ each depending on spec. - Siemens S7 CPU + I/O modules lot (Surplex, Germany) — €100 start, complete set including power supply. CPU alone sells for €200–500+ on eBay. - Batch of Siemens + Allen-Bradley PLC modules (Troostwijk, Belgium) — already 12 bids at €210. Demand confirmed. The agent also found a Danish pallet box of electrical components on Klaravik in Vejen — 0 DKK start, no reserve, Danish pickup. Low risk, low cost. 10 ranked lots. Total browsing time for me: 4 minutes. The scoring logic is built around my actual inventory — Siemens, Omron, SICK, ABB, Danfoss, Allen-Bradley, Festo — and prioritizes bulk lots over single items. Every lot in the report includes current bid, closing time, location, and a direct link. This isn't theory. That Troostwijk Belgium auction is real, it closes in two days, and I'd never have found it without the agent running overnight.

Many beginners start eBay dropshipping with excitement but make some common mistakes that slow their growth. 1️⃣ Sourcing from the wrong platform – Slow shipping, poor quality, or unreliable suppliers can lead to cancellations and unhappy customers. 2️⃣ Not understanding eBay policies – Many new sellers ignore eBay rules, which can cause account warnings or suspension. 3️⃣ Scaling too fast on a new account – New accounts should grow slowly. Sudden high sales can trigger account reviews. 4️⃣ Poor product research – Listing random products without checking demand, competition, and profit margins. 5️⃣ Ignoring customer service – Slow replies and poor handling of returns can hurt your seller metrics. 💡 Avoid these mistakes early to build a stable and profitable eBay store. If anyone needs help, feel free to ask me. I’d be happy to help.

One thing members keep asking me is: "Klaus, how do you actually use AI in your day-to-day business?" Here's a real example from this week. I had 3 boxes of mixed electrical equipment — industrial plugs, fuses, cable fittings, lighting — stuff I picked up from a lot. Before AI, writing ads for Facebook Marketplace for each of those would take me 10-15 minutes per item. Looking up the right product names, writing Danish copy, figuring out a fair price range. It adds up fast when you're running 80,000+ listings on ebay too. Here's what my workflow looks like now: 1. I photograph each lot and drop the images into a dedicated OneDrive folder. One subfolder per item. 2. I open Perplexity Computer and say: "Go to my OneDrive folder, find the DBA and Facebook subfolder, and write a title, ad copy, and price suggestion for each lot — end every ad with my standard pickup address and PostNord shipping line." I leave the Perplexity Computer to do the task, and I do other stuff while it works. 3. The AI looks at the images, identifies the products (brand names, specs, quantities), writes the Danish ad copy, and suggests realistic price ranges based on what's in the photos. 4. I review, copy-paste, done. What came out this week: - A mixed electrical lot (OSRAM, Philips, OBO, Thorsman) → fully written ad in Danish, price suggestion 200–300 kr. - ~20 red CEE industrial plugs (400V, 3-phase) → identified correctly from photos, priced 250–400 kr. - Diazed 63A fuses + WAGO connectors → spotted the brand names on the packaging and wrote a technically accurate ad. The AI doesn't just write generic fluff. It reads the images closely enough to name the specific products, mention quantities, and flag that items are used vs. new-old-stock. That's the part that used to eat my time. /Klaus KLJ Trading

If you ship a lot of parcels, you know the pain.Every time you need a rate, you open a giant PDF, scroll, zoom, search… and lose 2–3 minutes on something that should take 5 seconds. I solved that with ONE shortcut and a simple prompt. The prompt I use I keep this as a keyboard shortcut and reuse it every time: “Use the PDF I’ve uploaded called ‘postnord pakkepriser 2026’. Find the price for a parcel to this country for a parcel with this weight: [COUNTRY], max [WEIGHT].” Then I just change country and weight. Example: “Use the PDF I’ve uploaded called ‘postnord pakkepriser 2026’. Find the price for a parcel to this country for a parcel with this weight: Netherlands, max 0.5 kg.” In a couple of seconds, I get the exact prices for Service Point, Home and Parcel, pulled directly from the PDF – no manual searching, no scrolling through tables.​ Why this is powerful - You stop “looking” in PDFs and start asking them questions.​ - With voice mode, you literally talk to your shipping price list. - You get consistent, structured answers you can paste straight into eBay, your SOPs, or messages to buyers.​ How I use it day-to-day - While listing or sending offers, I quickly check if my shipping price still makes sense. - When a buyer asks “Can you ship to X and what does it cost?”, I ask the PDF in voice mode and reply within seconds.​ - I don’t have to remember anything – the PDF and the model do the work. If you’re using AI for your ecom / eBay reselling workflows and still opening PDFs manually, this is an easy 10x quality-of-life upgrade. Set up the shortcut once, attach your shipping PDF in Perplexity Spaces, enable voice – and your “Postal service assistant” is ready.

How I’m Planning to Automate eBay Listings with n8n + Clawdbot I’ve been selling on eBay for years, and like many resellers I’m hitting a ceiling: creating listings takes too much time. Photos, titles, descriptions, item specifics, pricing, and then actually clicking everything into eBay. It all adds up. I just saw the hype about Clawdbot and it got me hooked - is this the missing piece I have been dreaming about for years??? So I’m working on a setup where **n8n** and **Clawdbot** handle 80–90% of the listing work for me, starting from nothing but product photos. ### The core idea - I take 4–6 photos per item and drop them into a folder. - Each item gets its own subfolder (e.g. `01_Siemens_PLC`, `02_Omron_Sensor` etc.). - A workflow detects those folders, sends the images to Clawdbot, and Clawdbot: - Understands what the product is. - Does price research via eBay APIs. - Writes title, description, item specifics, and price. - Calls an automation that creates an **eBay draft listing** with the right images and data. - I only log into eBay to do a quick sanity check and hit “List”. ### Why n8n + Clawdbot together? - **Clawdbot** is the “brain”: - It can see and understand images. - It can call tools/APIs (through MCP) to talk to eBay, upload photos, and fetch pricing data. - It’s good at turning messy real‑world input (a handful of item photos) into clean, structured listing data. - **n8n** is the “orchestrator”: - It watches the folders where I drop my photos. - It batches files per item (one folder = one listing). - It exposes eBay API actions (like “create listing draft”) as tools that Clawdbot can call. - It logs everything (folder → draft ID → title → price) so I have a clear audit trail. Clawdbot focuses on understanding and decision‑making; n8n focuses on reliable, repeatable execution. ### What the workflow looks like (high level) 1. **Photo input** - I shoot 4–6 pictures of an item. - I move them into a dedicated folder: - Example: `eBayDrafts/2026-02-01/01_Siemens_PLC/`