$1000/Month Flipping iPhones With a Free Robot

📝 Ethan Ashi, a CS student in Spain, built a desktop bot to monitor Facebook Marketplace and alert him when particular items (eg. iPhones) were listed for sale.

He writes…

I finished a workout, checked my phone, and had 3 solid iPhone [listing] alerts waiting for me.

Over the next few days I bought all three, cleaned them up, resold them, and ended up making about €690 profit after fees.

Ethan’s bot also monitors two other marketplaces simultaneously: Wallapop and Vinted.

He’d seen Discord groups charging hefty monthly fees for similar tools, and figured he could build his own 💪

Then he open-sourced it – MIT licensed, runs locally, no paywall.

It is not really an iPhone bot. It is more like a listing monitor with rules.

You set a watchlist (item + max price + location), the bot polls all three marketplaces, grades each new listing A–F, and pings Discord on every Grade A or B deal.

Ethan averages 4–7 flips a month for €600–900 monthly profit – mostly while he’s busy doing other things 🤑

Vinted support covers 23 countries (US included). Discord users are already running it for Pokémon cards, shoes, consoles, even cars.

Pick a niche you actually know and let the bot hunt for you 🤖

As we’ve seen before, marketplace flipping can be very lucrative…

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