If you’ve been around for very long, you’d know that I have a serious problem with thermal printers. Mainly, I don’t have space to put them all. Since I started selling full-time on eBay (and chronicling my experience and reviewing items here) I’ve purchased 7 thermal printers for personal use (and more to resell). Why …
Over the past year, I’ve seen hundreds of complaints that reselling has slowed down. People who used to make a full-time living selling on Poshmark are scrambling to diversify or increase their inventory just to get by. However, it’s not all about where you sell or how much stuff you have listed. If you’re not …
If you go to a thrift store at opening time in my area you’ll find a 30-person line, mostly made up of retirees. How early they get there I don’t know but I do know that some of them literally run through the thrift store and it’s pretty empty by the time I get there …
It seems that I can’t drive around town these days without seeing a new thrift store pop up. They all have strange names that don’t actually tell anyone what they sell. So what is a thrift store? And why do they all look junky? A thrift store is a store that sells used goods including …
It seems that going thrifting today is all the rage. I see dozen of hashtags on Instagram about people who are ready to “go thrifting” or just heading out in “thrifted” clothes. So what is all the hype about? What does it even mean to go thrifting? Going thrifting means going shopping for secondhand items …
OfferUp is a legit place to connect with people buying and selling products. But it is also possible to get scammed because its popularity has made it a magnet for scammers. But with appropriate precautions, you can dodge the negatives of this platform and get good deals. In the past couple of years that I’ve …
If you resell authentic luxury items, like Gucci bags, you have to play the procurer, marketer, salesman, and fulfillment manager. And as if that isn’t enough, you also need to be an excellent authenticator. Because returns and chargebacks can ruin your payment acceptance privileges. And if your products are proven fake on a merchant platform, …
Let’s face it, anytime you create a luxury brand you’re also creating a super hot secondary market for your brand’s pre-owned items. Such is the case for Louis Vuitton. In fact, more pre-owned Louis Vuitton items sell every year than new bags. However, purchasing a used Louis Vuitton bag is rife with potential pitfalls. The …
If you’ve never walked into a Chanel store it can be a depressing experience. Believe it or not, there is more than the price that’s a downer. Chanel takes some of the most extreme business practices in the industry to ensure that their product is scarce. This scarcity, in turn, allows them to create urgency …
You can find unbelievable treasures discarded as trash by people while dumpster diving. It lends credence to the saying that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. But do you really need to dive 365 days a year to get lucky? It turns out there are specific days when your odds of striking gold are …