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One thing mentioned about the cables: Do you have to create entries online under your FBA account for every item you ship, or can they figure that out for you? I have tons of cables and other things I'd like to sell that is in good condition, but me spending hours upon hours looking up every model of cable / cheap item I have isn't worth my time.

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I haven't done it personally, but I did intern under FBA and so I saw a lot of the procedures and code that implements it.

I'm fairly sure you need to figure out the ASIN for each item you want to sell, and label the product accordingly.

Yup I thought so. I think that might be too much work for me to make it worthwhile... :]

It's fairly easy if you can find that product in amazon db, or have a barcode

The items I have that barcodes I'm not worried about, it is the rats nest of cables that I have really no idea what type they are that I'd like to offload and make .50c just to get them out of my hair and not feel bad about throwing them away.

Find a local hackerspace. They'll probably take them and re-use them or dispose/sell them for you.

My company has sold a large amount of recovered cables (including terminated and non terminated cat-3/5/6) to an e-waste company for scrap. If you have more than a pound of cables, this might be an attractive option.

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