When Kirstie (my wife) and I were still in college we didn’t party or drink. We just didn’t have time for it! In addition to being a full-time Physiology and Developmental Biology student, I was working 40-50 hours a week managing a boy’s home and Kirstie was double majoring in English and Ballroom (which is …
The comic book is one of the hardest things to judge when looking for valuable resale items. Sure, we all know to grab vintage Marvel or Star Wars comics but what about the weird stuff that’s worth big money? Well, until recently I hadn’t put in the time to really understand which comic books are …
Mystery boxes have always been exciting to me. The excitement of something choosing random (possibly extremely valuable) items and mailing them to me is just about the same as discovering a treasure chest. Or a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get. I was super excited a month ago to learn …
The first time I went to the Goodwill Outlet I was over the moon. The idea of paying $.99 per pound for anything I could find sounded simply too good to be true. I scratched my way to the front of dozens of bins and soon filled my cart. Unfortunately, I only had 60lbs of …
When I first got into thrifting to resell everyone else was intent on selling books on Amazon FBA. This meant that competition was fierce in the book section but there were tons of opportunities at the Goodwill Bins and the clothing sections of thrift stores. Now, thanks to Instagram and TikTok influencers posting their clothing …
This past week I had a blast from the past when my 8-year-old nephew sidled up to me at a family dinner to show me a small album of pokemon cards. He can’t afford to buy any of his own so most of his cards were dregs that he had gotten from his friends at …
Generally speaking, the price that something sells for is a combination of two factors: how much it cost when new, and how hard it is to get. Now, if you have a pair of cowboy boots in your closet (or more…) you’ll know that they were pretty easy to get. In fact, it’s easy to …
When most people start selling on eBay they just hope to make a few bucks flipping thrift store items or maybe turn $100 into $1,000. I was different. I started an eBay store intending to build a real business. I wanted to source products at scale, list thousands of items, and be making thousands of …
Despite selling on eBay for nearly 10 years we’ve always had a habit of avoiding jewelry. We were put off by stories of scams, incorrectly identifying jewelry and the costs of buying it in the first place. However, we recently bought a huge lot (20 lbs…) of unsorted jewelry from Goodwill Bluebox on a whim …
For some reason, when we tell people that we sell on eBay (especially if we include the word “vintage”) they always respond, “Oh, like vinyl records and stuff? I have an Elvis record that I’m sure is worth a bunch of money….” Well….we do sell “records and stuff” but I hate to tell you that …