About us
# Welcome to The Dallas eBaybes & eMales
Selling online is easier when you are not doing it alone.
The Dallas eBaybes & eMales is the original eBay sellers’ Meetup group, founded on January 4, 2002, by Stephanie Inge, a longtime eBay seller, adjunct ecommerce professor, coach, speaker, and community builder.
What started as an eBay seller group has grown into a friendly, practical community for online sellers across today’s most popular platforms, including eBay, Etsy, Poshmark, Mercari, Facebook Marketplace, Whatnot, and more.
Whether you are brand new, part-time, full-time, restarting after a break, or just curious about selling online, you are welcome here.
## What’s in it for you?
When you join The Dallas eBaybes & eMales, you are joining a community of sellers who understand the real challenges of e-commerce.
You will find help with:
- Creating stronger listings that attract buyers
- Writing better titles, descriptions, and item specifics
- Pricing items with more confidence
- Taking better photos
- Understanding shipping, packing, returns, and customer service
- Learning what is working now on eBay and other marketplaces
- Using AI and online tools to save time and improve your business
- Getting motivated when your inventory, stale listings, or death pile feel overwhelming
- Connecting with other local sellers who “get it”
This is not a stiff networking group. It is not a boring lecture club. It is not a room full of people pretending they have it all figured out.
It is a warm, welcoming, seller-focused community where we share ideas, ask questions, talk through problems, celebrate wins, and help each other keep moving forward.
## We are not a one-trick pony
Although we began as an eBay group, ecommerce has changed dramatically over the past two decades, and so have we.
Our meeting topics may include:
- eBay
- Etsy
- Poshmark
- Mercari
- Facebook Marketplace
- Whatnot
- Online selling tools
- AI for resellers
- Product research
- Listing optimization
- Social media marketing
- Small business tips
- Sourcing, shipping, photography, pricing, and more
If it helps online sellers work smarter, sell better, or stay inspired, it is fair game.
## Who should join?
This group is for you if:
- You want to start selling online but do not know where to begin
- You already sell and want better results
- You are tired of trying to figure everything out alone
- You have stale listings that need a fresh strategy
- You love thrifting, sourcing, vintage, collectibles, fashion, or treasure hunting
- You want to learn from experienced sellers in a friendly setting
- You need encouragement, accountability, and practical ideas
- You enjoy being around positive, helpful, entrepreneurial people
Newbies are always welcome. Experienced sellers are always appreciated. Everyone brings something valuable to the table.
## What to expect
Check our Meetup calendar and RSVP for upcoming events. Some meetings are hands-on learning sessions. Some are open-topic Q&A. Some are casual networking dinners where we talk shop, share tips, and enjoy good conversation.
You can also join us on Facebook for ongoing discussion, announcements, questions, sourcing help, and community support between meetings.
Our members are warm, inviting, knowledgeable, and generous with what they have learned. You do not have to have a perfect business, a giant store, or years of experience to belong here.
Just bring your questions, your curiosity, your seller stories, and your willingness to learn.
## Why community matters
The “power of groups” has always been at the heart of The Dallas eBaybes & eMales.
For more than two decades, this group has helped sellers make connections, gain confidence, solve problems, discover new opportunities, and stay motivated through the constant changes of online selling.
Selling online can be exciting, profitable, frustrating, confusing, and lonely — sometimes all in the same week.
That is exactly why this group exists.
You do not have to do this by yourself.
## Join us
If you are ready to learn more, sell smarter, meet new friends, and be part of a supportive ecommerce community, we would love to welcome you.
RSVP for an upcoming Meetup, join the Facebook group, and come grow with us.
Welcome to The Dallas eBaybes & eMales — where online sellers connect, learn, laugh, and keep moving forward.
Upcoming events
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Claude Unleashed: Source Faster, Buy Smarter, Outsell the Competition
Improving, 5445 Legacy Dr #100, Plano, TX, USClaude Unleashed: Source Faster, Buy Smarter, Outsell the Competition will feature Dallas-based eBay seller Bob Buckman, known on eBay as bluepepsiblue. Bob brings more than 40 years of experience in supply chain and operations leadership and now runs his own consulting firm, Aquila Point Advisory. A West Point graduate, he has built a career around making complicated systems work faster, smarter, and more efficiently. Now he is applying that same expertise to reselling by using Claude as an AI-powered sourcing partner to uncover better inventory in far less time.
During this practical session, Bob will demonstrate his repeatable five-step process for researching inventory on auction and liquidation sites, evaluating comparable sales, calculating a maximum bid, and knowing when to walk away. You'll see how a listing can be turned into a data-driven buying decision in minutes, learn why a roughly $20 monthly AI subscription can quickly pay for itself, and hear how Bob turned a $12 find into a $180 sale.
📄Attendees will also receive a copy-and-paste sourcing prompt and a one-page reference card they can use immediately in their own reselling business.
# 🎯TAKEAWAYS
- How to put AI (Claude) to work as a real sourcing partner — not just a chatbot
- A repeatable 5-step loop for finding profitable inventory on auction and liquidation sites
- How to turn a listing into a comp-based max-bid decision in minutes — and when to walk away
- The real math on cost: why about $20 a month is less than a dollar a day (Bob turned a $12 find into a $180 sale)
- A copy-paste sourcing prompt and a one-page reference card to take home
ABOUT OUR PRESENTER - Bob Buckman is a Dallas-based eBay seller (bluepepsiblue) and a 40-year supply chain and operations leader who now runs his own consulting firm, Aquila Point Advisory. A West Point graduate, he's spent his career making complex operations run faster and smarter — and lately he's turned that same lens on his own reselling, using AI to source better inventory in a fraction of the time. On August 24th, he'll show exactly how he does it.
DATE/TIME: August 24th, 2026 - 06:30 - 9:00 PM Central Time (US & Canada)
COST: $20/year (covers meetings/classes, Meetup subscription fees, and pizza). Payable via Venmo , Paypal, or cash.
LOCATION: Improving Enterprises, 5445 Legacy Dr #100, Plano, TX (tall, white building at intersection of Legacy & Hedgecox).
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https://www.facebook.com/groups/ebayhelp/See you there!
Steph Inge
stephintexas@gmail.com17 attendees
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