An item sitting in a Lithuanian garage priced at €15 is often bought in Germany or the UK for €60. The difference is not the item — it is the number of people looking for it. Locally, a dozen. Internationally, a few thousand.
This lesson answers the first question everyone asks: can I actually do this?
What you really need to start
The list is shorter than you think:
- An item somebody wants. It does not have to be new or expensive.
- A phone with a camera. No studio — a window and a plain wall.
- A bank account. An ordinary personal one.
- Patience for the first month. The first sale rarely happens on day one.
What you do not need: a company, a warehouse, fluent English, an eBay account, or any experience with customs paperwork. That is the part the platform takes over.
What the whole path looks like
- Photograph the item — 5–8 photos, daylight.
- Add it to Parduota.com — from scratch, or by pasting a link from an existing rrr.lt or skelbiu.lt ad.
- The listing is prepared for a foreign market — title, description and category shaped the way an international buyer expects them.
- The listing goes out to international marketplaces — eBay, Allegro.
- Somebody buys it. You get a notification with the buyer's address.
- You pack and ship — the shipping label is prepared for you.
- The money arrives in your account.
Your part is steps 1, 5 and 6. Everything else is the technical layer that stops most people from ever starting.
What it costs
Cross-border selling has three layers of cost, and it is worth understanding them now, because they decide the price you will set in the next lesson:
| Cost | What it is | When you pay |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplace fee | eBay / Allegro percentage of the sale | Only when it sells |
| Payment fee | For moving the money | Only when it sells |
| Shipping | Courier or post | On sale, often paid by the buyer |
| Publishing the listing | Parduota.com points | When you list |
The important part: most of the cost only appears once something sells. An unsold listing costs almost nothing.
Always check current marketplace fees on the marketplaces themselves — they change and they differ by category.
Three mistakes that stop beginners
"I'll wait until I have a lot of items." Don't. One listing taken all the way through teaches you more than twenty planned ones.
"My English isn't good enough." The buyer is not reading an essay. They need the maker, the model, the condition and the measurements — four words and three numbers.
"What if there's a customs problem?" Shipments inside the European Union need no customs declaration at all. Lesson four explains what happens outside the EU.
What to do now
Do not pick your best item. Pick the simplest one — something you would not mind losing if the first attempt went badly.
Then try building a listing without registering: open the simulator, upload a photo or paste an rrr.lt link, and see how your item would look to a foreign buyer. You only need an account when you want to keep the listing.
The next lesson covers which items actually sell and how to set a price that leaves you a profit.
