EBAY PREVIS

RitualAds · Previs slate · July 2026

Things.
People.
Love.

MOTORS & PARTS LIVE AUCTIONS PRE-LOVED FASHION SELLERS :30
Road epic · Motors:30 previs film

Parts & restoration

The Long Way Home

A 1974 café racer is one carburetor away from running. This is the odyssey of that one small part crossing the planet.

The film
A machinist's bench at dawn, a courier in neon rain, a cargo hold, a desert mail route. At dusk a rider pushes his almost-whole bike toward a tiny lit garage. The part clicks in. The headlight blooms.
What it does
Shoots the unglamorous heart of the business, parts and fitment, like myth. Every restorer who has waited on one component feels personally seen.
Two-hander comedy:30 previs film

Collectors & expertise

Fluent

Two strangers at a wedding discover they both speak an impossibly niche language: 1990s selvedge denim.

The film
Small talk dies. A jacket cuff turns back. "Is that a union special?" The wedding blurs into bokeh while two people become instantly, joyfully fluent. The bouquet flies past unnoticed.
What it does
Positions the marketplace as a country where your obsession is a native tongue. Warmth and comedy in the same breath, endlessly variable by category.
Broadcast satire · Live:30 previs film

Live auctions

The Final Lot

The last forty seconds of a live auction for a ceramic garden gnome, produced like a championship final. Nobody winks.

The film
Commentary desk, tally lights, arena haze. "You don't chase the gnome. The gnome chooses you." A silent win, confetti on the lot, and two commentators genuinely moved.
What it does
Makes live shopping feel like sport, because to the bidder it is. The gravity is sincere, which is the joke and the brand claim at once.
Nocturne romance:30 previs film

The search

3:04 AM

A saved-search alert arrives in the middle of the night and is received like a love letter.

The film
One chime. The phone glow rises like a candle. Disbelief, then a private smile, then bare feet to a shelf where a collection waits with one deliberate gap. Dawn finds her still smiling.
What it does
Takes the least romantic object in modern life, a notification, and gives it the full language of romance. Every collector knows this exact feeling.
Split-screen heart · Sellers:30 previs film

Selling

The Emptying

A father clears his garage on the left half of the screen. On the right, the lives each object lands in.

The film
A red bicycle passes through the center seam into a daughter's first ride. A turntable lands in a teenager's bedroom. A fishing rod finds a pier. The garage empties; the world fills.
What it does
Reframes selling as the opposite of losing. Most households now count resale in the family budget; this gives that fact a heart.
Mockumentary:30 previs film

Expertise

The Authority

A prestige profile of the world's leading authority on antique padlocks. She is nine.

The film
Steepled fingers, blazer over unicorn tee. "People assume I'm a hobbyist. I have never hobbied." She appraises a lock without touching it, closes the deal, swivels away. "You're welcome."
What it does
Comedy of pure competence. On this platform expertise is the currency and the store is infinite, so a third-grader can out-expert the world.
Fashion film · Pre-loved:30 previs film

Fashion resale

Provenance

A thrifted thirty-year-old jacket gets the couture finale it always deserved, staged in a laundromat at 2AM.

The film
The fluorescents drop, one spotlight ignites the aisle, and the patrons become the front row. She walks it like Paris. The old man with the detergent gives the critic's nod.
What it does
Aims squarely at the fashion resale wave. Second-hand presented not as compromise but as debut, with the audience the brand actually has.
Genre homage · Refurbished:30 previs film

Certified refurbished

It Lives

A refurbished laptop returns to life in a 1931 monster-picture laboratory, and everyone is delighted.

The film
Storm light, goggles, one screw seated like a heart valve. The screen flares, the techs recoil in joy, and the machine ships out in a padded kraft box, alive.
What it does
Moves refurbished from "risky discount" to "resurrection." Horror grammar, warm ending, instantly ownable across every tech category.
The wild one:30 previs film

Every purchase, ever

The Opening

Thirty seconds inside the box. One unbroken shot, no words, told from the point of view of the thing being wanted.

The film
Kraft darkness and muffled footsteps. The tape splits in one long stroke, light knifes in, the flaps open like a sky, and a face leans in wearing Christmas-morning awe. Lift. Whiteout.
What it does
Breaks every rule the slate keeps and owns the one beat every single buyer knows with their hands. The most shareable film here, and the cheapest to shoot.