The most you can pay and still hit your profit target — the number that stops you overpaying.
Calculate profit before you buy.
Snap an item. FlipLens analyzes the product, estimates its resale value from real eBay listings, calculates your potential profit, and tells you whether it's worth buying.
Photo tips for better results
- Photograph the whole item, filling most of the frame
- Include the brand tag, label, or model number as a second photo
- Use good lighting and avoid blur — a readable label changes everything
- Capture any damage so the condition estimate is realistic
Photo tips for better results
- Fill the frame with one shelf. Close enough to read labels is the single biggest factor
- One shelf beats a whole unit; a whole unit beats an aisle. Narrower is better
- Avoid catching shoppers and staff in shot; only goods laid out for sale count
- Good light matters more here than for a single item
- Works best on distinct objects — a rail of similar clothing is hard to separate
Ranked by estimated resale value. Tap any item for the full profit breakdown.
Comparable prices pulled live from eBay, never invented. When data is thin, FlipLens says so.
One clear signal, with the reasons and the risks spelled out so you can judge it yourself.
What's worth a closer look
Top finds
Ranked by estimated resale value from live eBay listings — not by profit, because FlipLens doesn't know what these cost. Tap one for the full breakdown.
Each find shows the search it was priced from. Brand names are read from the photo and can be wrong at a distance — tap ✎ to correct a search, or × to drop a find.
Also spotted
Worth less than the top finds, listed in no particular order.
Spotted but not priced
FlipLens saw these but couldn't find enough comparable listings to say what they're worth. It won't guess — but a better search often finds the market.
Missed something?
The scan finds a few things worth a second look, not everything on the shelf. Add anything it skipped and FlipLens will price it the same way.
Nothing to rank
FlipLens reads what's visible in one photo. Check anything it flags in person before buying.
Analyzing…
Identification
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Possible condition observations
AI observations from the photo — possible, not confirmed. Verify in person.
Profit breakdown
Fee defaults are published standard rates and are fully editable. Changing any field recalculates instantly.
Why FlipLens says this
Risks
Market evidence
Active listings
Sold comps NOT CONNECTED
Other marketplaces
Sold vs. listed NOT CONNECTED
Verify before buying
List it for sale
FlipLens writes the listing from your scan — title, description, condition and photos.
Or copy it into another app
Log this flip
Save it to your history and record what you decided.
FlipLens estimates resale value and profitability using available market information and AI analysis. Actual sale prices, fees, shipping costs and demand may vary.
My Flips
Every scan you've saved, on this device.
Dashboard
This month
Best flip
Recent flips
Totals are based on the flips you saved and their estimated figures — not confirmed sales.
How FlipLens works
Four steps, about fifteen seconds, while you're standing in the aisle.
- 01
Snap
Photograph the item — and its label if the model number matters. Photos are compressed on your device before upload.
- 02
Identify
A vision model reads the photo for brand, model, variant and visible condition, and tells you how confident it is. You can correct it.
- 03
Price
FlipLens pulls comparable live eBay listings, trims outliers, and builds a resale range using robust statistics — not a single cherry-picked price.
- 04
Decide
It calculates fees, shipping, profit, ROI and your maximum buy price, then gives a Flip Score and a BUY / MAYBE / PASS with the reasoning shown.
What FlipLens will not do
- Invent sold prices. Confirmed sold data needs eBay's Marketplace Insights API, which isn't connected — so it's labelled unavailable rather than estimated.
- Claim certainty it doesn't have. Low-confidence identifications and thin comp data are labelled as such.
- Guess a model number that isn't legible in your photo.
Pricing
Your next flip could pay for a year of it.