After selling full-time on eBay, Mercari, and Poshmark for more than 5 years there are only a handful of tools I feel like I can’t do without. Sure, you can bootstrap a reselling business. You don’t need a camera, mannequin, or thermal printer. However, as you try to grow and scale your eBay hustle you’ll …
About a year ago I hit a wall when it came to my eBay reselling business. I had bought thousands of items from thrift stores, perused yard sales until my eyes bled, and even bought a dozen pallets from liquidation.com. One day I was sifting through other people’s eBay sales on Instagram and saw someone …
Since getting married 7 years ago my wife and I have moved 4 times and shipped over 4,000 packages. What do those things have in common? Tape, lots and lots of packing tape. During that time we’ve purchased at least a dozen different types of packing tape. We’ve tried heavy-duty packing tape, clear packing tape, …
There’s nothing quite like the sinking feeling of getting banned or suspended on a selling platform that you rely on. Judging by the number of questions we get on the topic, getting suspended indefinitely on Mercari is becoming more and more common. If you’re here, odds are you’ve already received that email and you’re wondering …
Whether you’re looking for a thermal label printer for your home business or 30 label printers for your fulfillment warehouse the LP 2844 is one that comes up again and again. It is a standby machine that, despite its continued prevalence, has been discontinued by Zebra for almost 10 years! The business world doesn’t seem …
If you’ve been selling on Mercari for very long you’ll know that their shipping is about as convenient as it gets. You sell an item, they send you a label, you print it off and send the item. Easy. However, the way that Mercari shipping works means that, if you don’t have a label printer, …
Years ago, people made a full-time living with Craiglist. They would buy underpriced items from their local Craigslist and sell them on eBay or to pawn shops. When Craigslist no longer had the right buy/seller ratio to support that, resellers moved on to thrift stores. Craigslist was then dominated by personals ads, pawnshops, and car …
In the “Golden Days” of eBay, times were amazing for both buyers and sellers. Just ask anyone who remembers them. Buyers found amazing deals and sellers made tons of money because there weren’t as many buyers. The part that no one remembers is the incredible number of scams that existed on eBay. There were fake …
If you’re shopping on Mercari, you’re probably the type of person who is smart with your money. But what if you could make a thrifty thing even thriftier by usein a Mercari coupon? Well, there’s good news and bad news. The good news is that there is a coupons that will save you $10 off …
I always hated haul videos. I’d like to pretend the I was disgusted by the overt consumerism but, the truth is, I never enjoyed watching people unbox a bunch of bags or clothes worth more money than the entire Christmas for my family. Then I discovered thrift store hauls and my life changed. Well, not …