The TRUTH About Our Full Time Ebay Business
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- Let's go over this weekend's ebay sales and talk real numbers, actual profits, and my honest opinion about our business.
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I think that Mose, the goods inspector, needs a raise! One added treat per day!
He is the Goodest Boy!
And a stuffed toy 🧸
I'm enjoying this format of video, the transparency is really appreciated.
I think it's nice you take off Sunday from making videos. Thankx for your hard work.
Something to consider for shoe racks...I did this for curing soaps as I needed shelves close together, and it works well. Buy 2 sets of metal shelves, assemble with all the shelves on one frame...will give you all the shoe shelving you will need, leaving inventory visible and accesdible.
I really like this idea! But, I want the thinner "shoe" sized shelves?
What carol seems to be saying is that you pick the spacing yourself when you assemble the shelf so you can assemble it so it has shoe size spacing on one shelf unit. Think 8 shelves on one unit instead of 4 shelves with bigger space on 2 shelf units.
There are also several online retailers like U-Line that allow you to buy the rods and shelves in whatever configuration you want so you can customize exactly what you need without needing to have extra parts from the pre-packaged boxes. I haven't done a price comparison to see if they're cheaper that way, but it's something to look into at least.
I absolutely respect you more for being honest about the different streams of income you have. Thank you so much Josh! God has blessed your integrity 😇
Man, I've totally binged watched your videos over the last week. I've tried watching other re-sellers, but I always come back to you. You and your wife are just really likable people and that shines through in your videos. Keep up the good work!
Exactly. There's no big hustle or BS here.
This is a great video!!! So honest and transparent. Its good for people to realise how much work reselling can be. Keep it real!
Nice to see that you're keeping it fresh and realizing you need to take a short minute for you so you can come back fresh and keep showing your passion for your two loves. Shoes.....looks like shelves that were bolted held. I would rethink the plastic bins for your shoes especially since you wash a lot of them. They need air to be bone dry and air to circulate or you'll be battling unwanted mold again inside the new bins.
Your wife seems really nice its great that you are on the journey together its very rare to find these days my wife is also like my best friend its nice to see
I love that resellers mention that an item may take months to sell. I think some people think it is all instant.
Great video yet again, Josh and Haley. It''s refreshing to watch someone who is really honest and open ... there's a lot of, quite frankly, BS in the UA-cam world. I've worked for"the man may years, and I have also run my own business ... people who haven't had that experience don't realize that working for yourself means you have a boss, still (meaning)... you ... and that boss can be really tough, especially if the bank account is low and deadlines aren't being met. But in the end, it's Saul Goodman. Keep selling away ....
We love you Josh! The reason we love you is your passion and transparency. Family comes first and that's what makes you, you. We don't need all the fancy edits... although they are cool. Keep doing what you're doing and we will follow
I dont believe you would have as many freedoms in time as your making it seem without this UA-cam chanel...Most of your income probably comes from this channel
It's not coming from his Ebay sales if those are his 90 day totals.
I do the same (on a much smaller scale) it is a ton of work, and definitely when you work a full time job! You nailed it, but whatever you're doing, it's working, you are crushing it! Congratulations on everything. And nice sales and nice info. And yes I am DEFINITELY going with metal Racks. Maybe homemade 2x4 Racks, but definitely not plastic, never again!
Thank you so much. I just found you last week and really enjoy your style. One of the things I love most is that you always tell people that you appreciate them!! I am getting started, no video, yet, but loving the hunt! I learned a lot from this video, thanks again.
I love that you show how you store your items. Thats something I wish more resellers that are also youtubers would do. I have a similar set up but need a better way to store my shoes personally. Thanks for showing that!
Yes Yes I’m
Basically everyone shows how they store their inventory
@@jdogg133tbxl8 I guess the people I was don't.
Every single one shows their inventory/storage, I'm confused
Good Information.
Really like these videos. Here since 8k subs, the journey has been amazing.
Thank you!
After watching your videos the last week I decided to start reselling again on eBay. I’m 10 months away from having a steady retirement income so I’m just going to do it for extra cash and the thrill of the hunt. I’m up in Pickens county, SC. You should visit the Pickens Flea Market one Wednesday if you haven’t already. It’s usually pretty good. I’m 61 and have been going there since I was about 12. Going in the morning as matter of fact. They only open on Wednesday. Maybe one day I’ll share with you how 20 years ago I was pulling in $30,000 a month on eBay. It’s a long but fascinating story.😁 Thanks for motivating me to get back at it.
I’d be pretty unhappy if I ordered a game console and it showed up in a padded envelope. You should charge shipping and put it in a flat rate box. Cheers.
Solution for the shoe scenario: Y'all leave the house, ask Mose to clean up a bit. Come back later - problem solved. On a serious note, I sell quite a bit of 👞 , just use tubs and label them in the listing with which tub. Sometimes a pain, but they never fall off the wall. 😀
The other good reason to just move old stuff with minimal profit is for feedbacks. Feedbacks are worth something in my opinion.
I really enjoy your UA-cam channel and your reselling information. Thanks for the great advice.
100% good advice. You're better off making sales and moving items than would have taken you another month or two sitting in your garage to make those 5 extra bucks
I appreciate you so much. Reselling is not something I’ve done formally for a consistent income but I’m always selling something on fbmp. And I’ll probably never have a YT channel lol but your transparency is very helpful. We are making an out of state move next month and my opportunity for shopping thrift stores will increase exponentially (were we live now is too rural). So I feel like I’ll be taking your lessons and applying them sooner than later! You’re my favorite YTer! ❤️ btw Hi Hayley and Mose!!!!!
This is the exact reason why you have done so well on UA-cam. We love your transparency. Thank you for all the videos.
The sweater de-piller AKA Fabric Shaver works great for removing the sock "balls" in sneakers. Saw on another resellers show but can't recall which one.
Blessings
I feel like you should get a photo of Mulder and Scully to tape to your X file.😂
Agreed! I was thinking the same
😂😂I was thinking the same
Yes!
I found some X-Files Action Figures you could use. Lol
I had those same shoe racks. They are horrible. I feel your pain!!!I also tried different methods to keep mine standing upright but nothing worked. The fabric the shoes sit on is really flimsy and rips easily too.
Aww, love your Golden. Bet he sniffs out great bargains!
Those small items like the power adapters can be a blessing when sales of other items are slow and like you said, they don't take long to process. My wife loves when I buy the random boxes of stuff from local auctions because you never know you will find. I bought a random box of cable and stuff last week for $5 and in it was a vintage pair of high end headphones that, if working, can bring in over $100.
$4 can of all purpose PVC/abs/cpvc glue with just a touch on each joint, then secured to the wall will do it brother. Give it a try before you go $300-400 in. Great content as always.
As someone who sells on Etsy part-time, thanks for the transparency about income. I hope to one day sell full-time (when I "retire"), but until then, we are going to grow the business as much as possible.
Goods inspector lol, nice
My dog is the packaging supervisor 📦
Great video! 👍🏻😁 Love the honesty and clear breakdown in profits.
LOVELY, ENJOY YOUR VIDEOS. SUPER INSPIRING
I love your attitude. Great job and great videos!
Lets be real, your eBay business is not allowing your life changes, its UA-cam! Let be transparent.
I thought that was pretty evident here lol. As I've said like 500 times, we make way more from UA-cam than ebay.
Glad to see a new video up keep them coming bro
Hey man good video thanks! The bead stuff on shoes I use a "fabric shaver" pretty cheap works great takes only a second might be able to get more or sell faster without that fuzz. Available on amazon. Great for shirts etc. Also!
I also enjoy selling shoes. Just the satisfaction of turning a dirty pair of shoes into a shiny pair of $$ is just great. I got that from you Josh. I've pretty much bought every Hoka I found, no matter the condition. lol. I hope to reach your level of UA-cam and Reselling some day soon.
Once again a great video. I love your honesty and the willingness to share your life. I love how you are also talking about your church life as well. Not enough people talk about that and really put God first.
Thays why I sale at the flea market once a week and usually pull over $1000 every week and my profits are about 80% sale once a week only because I do have a full time job.the only time I use ebay is when an item is very high priced other than that I don't use it.
Time to build some shelves! I would think a 1x 8 or a 2x8 for each shelf would work? You could do custom heights so you have spots where bigger boots could fit well.
Keep it up u guys! Thanks for being real!
Love all your videos
Excellent video ... breakin’ it down on the REAL REAL!! We ❤️ our Triple Thrift boys!! 😎✌🏼
No BS, you should really put together an online tutorial on eBay selling and thrifting for an additional side hustle. You present info very straight forward in a way thats easy to follow and come across very genuine. Rare qualities. I have no idea how one goes about doing that but it seems more and more you tubers I follow have online course videos available for purchase.
My whole channel is an online tutorial lol. I get it though, create a consolidation of information in an easy to consume package
I was thinking the same. You have a real talent and confidence in front of the camera. You are also 100% genuine and super easy to relate to. I’m not a reseller, I just love reseller content. You and Ryan Roots are my faves.
eBay and consumer buying dynamics is an ever changing environment. If he wrote a book, it would be seen as a money play on top of his online tutorial of how to sell on eBay.
@@HairyTornado you da man
Love your vibe! Keep it up y'all. How have you been shooting lately?
***Solution for your sneaker dilemma & keeping with Supporting Local Business - maybe look into a Local Carpenter, Woodworker or Craftsperson, etc. to build exactly what you envision. Helps reduce our consumption of plastics. Also chances are a Carpenter will have scrap wood laying around too
Hey Harry. Love your videos. watch all of them and am subscribed.
You said you could list an item in 30 to 45 seconds. Really???
Make a video showing you taking an item, cleaning it, comping it, shooting it, figuring out shipping, and listing it in less than a minute. Good luck.
Hope you do this. Keep up the great work.
I list on the computer so sell similar, add pics, done. It isn't that easy for every item but for this small little charger, it is.
Can you make a video on your photos for products and how you make your ebay listings?
Video content request, if you haven't already done one and I just haven't found it yet.... Show how you clean up all those shoes for re-sale, with the different materials and such, ie; leather vs fabric. Thinking about starting to sell the shoes I find, but worried about ruining them trying to clean up for resale. Or is it as simple as just throwing them in a washer and dryer? I noticed you had them out back in the sun drying so I'm guessing you don't use the dryer. Thanks, love all the videos you do and find them very helpful.
Good job on the clean up on the clubs Haley. That did not look like tke same one's.
Thank you for being so transparent. Love reselling as a hobby during retirement, use my net profit money for vacations. There would be no way I can make a living in California on just reselling. It's a good wake up call for many people who think they can do this and have all the free time the world to play, it's a real job. Thanks again Josh for keeping it real. Another good video for the average guy.
Will you please do a video all about golf clubs for beginners?
I’m sooo happy you’re living the Dream, Josh ✅💥🇺🇸
Love your videos. I have learned so much! I just started my reselling biz 2 months ago. How do you decide which items get free shipping?
It doesn't really matter. If they have free shipping, I just add the average cost to ship that item to the price. To do this you would need to know what the average cost to ship that item would be, which would probably require some decent level of experience in shipping that item.
You answered many questions I had.
Honestly. I can just watch videos of selling and packing stuff. 😂🤓
Great video...appreciate using real numbers. I'm thinking of doing reselling a little on the side. Well, I'm unemployed right now so I don't know if that counts as "doing it on the side" if it's the only thing I do. lol. Thanks!
Great video! My main source of income is eBay, youtube is just for fun for now since I'm not monetized, my "side" income is investing in the stock market and real estate. It is a LOT to do all that and have a family especially with two little girls but that's why we do what we do so we can spend time with those we love when we want and how we want.
Great video and explanation. I had a retail side business at one point selling through eBay, website, at swap meets and industry events. It is a lot of work and was tough at an average 25% margin. It’s important for people to understand you don’t start your own business to have more free time. Quite the opposite
Bingo. And then there's the issue of your place ending up turning into a cluttered mess with all your inventory and only so much space to put it all, which is what I see here. For myself it's starting to drive me nuts and I've got a much smaller operation than this guy. All the problems going on continually on the ebay site not to mention in the pandemic world (pre covid 60% of my sales were to international markets, now its around 10%) that cause significant lost business. My accountants eyes popping out of her head while telling me every year at tax time "it astounds me how much ebay charges in fees"....these are some of my least favorite full time reseller things. Bottom line: rose colored glasses aside, this can be a very challenging gig to keep running folks!
Great video Josh - love the “real” talk.
I want to do this in the worst way, especially after selling some things just from around the house that was collecting dust. I just can't rationalize the "process" in my head. The only two flea markets near me are pretty much just antiques (just brown stuff as my wife calls it) and they'er only open a few months out of the year. Every thrift store and the like is an hour away at best. I work part time just for the medical/dental insurance ( my son and I are type 1 diabetics) but I do have three other streams of income coming into the house on a regular basis... I just don't have the 3 to 5 hours a day, or every few days to drive to stores and go shopping for items to flip. Oh well, where there's a will there's a way. Your videos are certainly motivational. Thank you!
Nice weekend
30 things wow
Hey man try those husky open front stacking bins from home Depot. I use them for my shoes and they're amazing for storage. You have to stack the shoes, but if you're going with bins anyways you might like these. 31.5 x 17 x 14.5 stacking storage bins by husky. 100lbs per bin! Keep up the hustle man! Love the vids 🤙
Do you have an inventory system for your hard goods? Clothing is easy but I'm needing help with storing hard goods after listing. Thank you! Hello from Texas BTW!
Kudos HT! People think this business is easy. It is not!!! People get hypnotized with paradise palm trees photo, but don't want the whole map to get there! There are pitfalls, setbacks, Mansoon storms as well.
Great Video I never thought about that I'm a NewBe and I want to jump in the pond. What App are you using to check prices of items and sale history. Thanks
I enjoy all the work you do and how you share it with us. It is very cool. 2 things. one Would you consider doing a part 2 of this and show us the youtube side of what the money is like? two have you ever looked into all these get rich things the youtube ads are tossing at you? They say you can make thousands and maybe millions if you watch their training and follow their steps? Just curious if all that is for real. What you do here is real and very informative. Thanks
You should never do UA-cam just for the money. If you make good videos that inspire, educate, entertain and add value to people's lives, the money will follow.
@@HairyTornado Agreed but are you saying no you will not considering doing an income review of your youtube side? Which is cool I feel and many might agree that to see a true account of that would be eye opening, but it is completely cool if that is one thing you do not wish to review. On my other question I would really love to know if the youtube ads, the get rich quick ones, really work. Do you know of anybody personally who has had success with those GRQ schemes. If you don't wish to answer that no problem, I am just curious about those deals and their legitimacy. Thanks for taking the time to read my terribly long comments.
@@oldskooldivergent2553 the UA-cam ads are pretty much all get rich quick schemes and I would avoid them. We do not want to discuss the UA-cam revenue but it isn't hard to figure out. We make about $12 for every 1000 views. You can check social blade to see how many views we get.
@@HairyTornado awesome brother thanks for the Reply again. I am just looking for ways to boost my income from home. I use to be a serious buyer/reseller many years ago when Ebay was sort of new like around 2004/2007. I guess I was a forefather of flea market and yard sale shopping. I called it yard shopping. i made a couple hundred extra bucks per month, nothing substantial but it gave us money for my wife and I to go out and eat for a change or spend something on just for us. Thanks again
@Hairy Tornado --- Is it safe to assume that you and Hailey gross more from You Tube ads, sponsorships, and AMZ affiliate sales than you net from Ebay sales? Sure sounds like it.
By far.
Since the vast majority of your income is from UA-cam, aren't you more a part-time reseller? I heard a full-time reseller say there are resellers who also do UA-cam, and then there are UA-camrs who also resell. I see you as the latter. Would you still be reselling if it wasn't the subject of your You Tube channel? Could you support yourselves reselling if your UA-cam channel hadn't taken off as well as it has? I'm happy for you that you're UA-cam channel is doing so well, I just don't view you as a full-time reseller as a result.
Interesting. I just watched Hustle at Home Mom and she showed her 2019/2020 eBay sales and it was almost the same..80k for a year. She considers herself part time with two kids and one due any minute. She feels 45k yr is great for part time compared to a previous job. No mention of her UA-cam/Amazon sales.
He literally addresses every question snd concern your wrote in this video
I watch her too, and she is doing very well working part-time. She doesn't have near as many subscribers, so I imagine her UA-cam income is a lot less than Josh makes.
Yes and no. In the title of this video he refers to his "full-time EBay business". He doesn't have a full-time EBay business. He has said before that most of his income comes from UA-cam. In the comments here he said their EBay income is only 15%-20% of their total income. He has a great UA-cam channel. I watch it and enjoy it, but he is a UA-camr who resells on the side, not the other way around. Perhaps you're the same? I don't know as I don't watch your channel as much.
Your question is answered in this video at the 20:20 mark.
Great video , as always. You're such an inspiration. Love how Mose got promoted from cleaning the house to goods inspector. 😁🤣
I feel like the infomercial voice over when I see yalls shoe shelves : "There's got to be a better way!" :)
You guys are killing it! Keep it up and rep that Palmetto State!
Yeah, Uber is a great complementary fall back. I consistently bank between 3k $ 4k monthly doing 20 to 25 hours a week. Cruise around bumping tunes while $$ drops into the bank.
it still better then working for company
So cool you're both working together on this now! You're right sometimes things aren't as valuable as you though when you buy it or it just doesn't sell as fast as you thought so knowing when to accept a reasonable offer is important
Well done video and good information,could you show how you ship golf clubs
Appreciate the transparency and all the gems your drop in these videos!
I have 3 of the same shoe racks... do you mallet them together?
Could be the humidity?
"Beads" it's called "Pilling"
Best to go with metal shelving for the amount of weight your putting on those shelves with your shoes. Walmart had one with 6 tiers for $133.
My boyfriend does ebay- How do you know what bins your items are in? A...B...C? I'd really like to help him get organized. lol
Custom sku feature on ebay. Just type what bin the item is in when you list it
Thank you so much for your openness on what your life of UA-cam and reselling is all
About in Australia I don’t think it would work full time as we don’t have the population as you do in America. 👍👍👍
No it wouldn't, not enough in house customer base and obscene shipping rates everywhere outside of the country. I'm in North America and I've never bought anything from Oz for that reason. The geographical distance is the killer. I have Oz customers but the shipping rates are obscene for what I sell, I'm amazed I even get customers from there.
Must be nice to walk into a Goodwill, Habitat for Humanity, Salvation Army, community thrift stores, and privately owned thrift stores and find good items good enough for resale. In NC most of the items these entities sell are near retail prices, busted, broke, missing parts or electric cords, filthy, and scratched beyond repair. Many sellers in these places have gotten on to using Ebay to value the items they have or are donated to them, so they have a full time person in the back that actually researches the value of donated items BEFORE they price it, leaving very little meat on the bone for resellers. Coupled with the free shipping debacle where customers won’t even look at your item unless they see free shipping has cut into seller’s profits. In another 3-5 years it won’t be worth reselling anymore, plus the competition is extreme compared to just 5 years ago. I do it as a part time for fun gig only, if you’re counting on it for full time financial support, it may be working now, but it’s a sinking ship IMHO. But this guy has it down pat! He may survive this and be one of the last men standing in the resell business.
Plus I never pay for boxes, plenty of free ones on Facebook Marketplace or behind Family Dollar, Dollar General, or Dollar Tree stores, not to mention asking the employee at your grocery store for boxes.
Hi, your videos motivate me to became a reseller! I was just wondering when you list stuff do you just list it on eBay? And if so how long do they sit for before getting sold?
Watching this as an expat in Vietnam. There's no market for second hand here because everything new is so cheap from China. And the shoes are dead after a year so the second hand market is pretty much non existent.
I've been toying with the idea of free shipping for my items, to get them sold quicker. Do you recommend?
Ordered from American Bubble Boy and wow! So much quality bubble wrap for a great price 👍🏻 Thanks for sharing!
Lets go Hairy Tornado 🌪🌪🌪
Ummmm…..why do we sell so many shoes….Because it makes us money! Why do we sell the little electronics ….. Because it makes us money! If you saw a dollar lying on the street would you step over it…No! And if you said yes, and leave it for me to pick up Thank You! Some people must not have heard you say selling all of these things has allowed you and your wife to quit your jobs and work from home. Love you, keep up the great work!
Living off 1000 a month right now , 3000-5000 sounds like I would live so amazing 😂
Shoe catastrophe?!?!?! I could show you a shoe catastrophe. I just moved into my FIRST storage unit and the first stuff that went in was 17 of those 18+ gallon totes FULL of shoes that NEED TO BE LISTED!!! UGH. I have a problem.
I'm recently retired and resell full time so it's kinda like cheating. My pension acts as a safety net but I'm still at it like 6 days a week. It's just the mystery of you never know what you're gonna find!
I live on about $750 a month.. I am single, no kids, and live in an apartment with 2 people. If I had my own place I imagine my expenses would be around $1500 a month or less. So what that means for me right now is that I only need $750 profit from my reselling to keep going which isn't too bad. I have probably been into it for about 2 months now, starting from scratch, building inventory and such and I probably average around $20 profit a day with around 250 current listings. So that is pretty close to my sustainable rate. I hope I can continue doing it for a long time.
I myself am a Top Rated Ebay Seller but at the moment, I just sell to fund my sports card collection spending and or to have disposable income. I have so much retro video games from being a collector that I don't have time to list it all because I have a full time job. I moved on from that hobby but still have a ton of complete in box and loose NES, SNES, Genesis, TurboGrafx 16 and more to sell off little by little, including many rare and uncommon games. I also have many rare hip hop CDs from mostly the 90s to sell off as well. The good thing is, if I lose my job or quit, I could sell full time and be ok for awhile so that's good to know 😁
You just opened a new can of worms, just how hard is that to learn to make videos and is that good money into it i will pay to learn how to video, i still love you and admire ❤
You are an awesome person!!!
I'm the same way... I HATE doing the same thing over and over. I get burnt out. So I understand the benefit of being able to switch focus back and forth from youtube to re-selling.
I'm getting ready to launch a reselling business with my sister. Massive thank you for all the entertainment and inspiration contained in your videos.
Keep up the good work
I bought metal shoe racks from Amazon and they've never collapsed. And I keep them full because you taught me how to make money selling shoes. 😁
I appreciate you too. I bought some shelving from Ikea and Home Depot, they each hold hundreds of pounds per shelf. Each one cost about $70 but I figured its a start up expense. Got so tired of shelves collapsing all the time ☺️
the shipping is killing me. I found a toy at target that i bought for $12.97. Weighs 2 pounds'. Someone SOLD it on eBay new condition $2.50 FREE SHIPPING!!! That's two dollars and fifty cents.