Downsizing is what started me, but like you it keeps me busy, and I enjoy the extra income it brings in. I'm also retired. I call myself a glorified hobbyist or or reseller.
2 reasons I do it, it gives me something productive to do on my days off, and its fun. Nearly every aspect is fun for me. Helps my FT job is logistics for a shipping company so I can usually answer a buyers weird demands on "why is this late???" when its not
Selling to me is worth it because it gives me something to do and helps with my social security income. Having arthritis and a bad back I would rather be busy with reselling instead of watching tv.
Thanks for the shoutout Kevin! I have no plans to quit reselling, I could easily go back to my old job and make more money then I do but this makes me happier. I can make my schedule and I have to just trust I’m going to build my business to be able to do extra things like highway sales or meetups. I can’t keep up with my work and my YT channel and that’s one reason we wanted to start our podcast.
You made me so proud when you said that you would probably just go to Raleigh! I’m in Raleigh and that made me feel good to know that the community sales here are good in your opinion.
Certainly things are changing, there's a whole lot going on in brand protection right now from a literal plethora of angles. I've been reading about it much of the weekend.
I make about $10 an hour reselling now. It was $30 an hour 2 years ago and I’ve been doing this for 7 years full time. I think it might be a lot better soon so I’m sticking with it.
Best items this week: set of 4 wheat pyrex mixing bowls, 2 Affliction shirts and a giant rare squishmallow. Coolest find of the week: a nice pair of Brooks shoes in my size.
Depends on where your at. Here in so. Call everybody is a reseller. Crazy lines just to resource. But not in Central CA. Or Northern Ca. Big difference. Also, there is a big difference between your region in the states. Mid west is different from the East Coast like Florida - North Carolina. It's great if you're retired. But the new to this game will be discouraged very quickly.
Enjoyed the video as always ... I used to pick/flip before getting my master's and started teaching (adjunct at community college). They didn't need me this semester, so I started back picking and flipping (also have a UA-cam).
Lost my career job last June due to increased mortgage rates. Reselling is paying most of my bills right now. I do look forward to someday in the future when I don’t have so much “stuff” but for now I’m enjoying and getting smarter all the time about what to buy to resell
I literally said “I wish I was a baller” the same time as you!🤣🤣 I’m proud to say I finally opened a separate bank account this week, thanks to the prodding from you and my accountant. Next is Reseller Genie, hanging around to see if I can score a free month at some point!! Say hi to BRM for me!
In spite of my slow comic sales (1-2 a week) I'm kinda enjoying this. I get to re-read books for one last time and relive great memories of collecting comics. I'm not even looking at the hours spent doing it...just out and out fun. Great vid, sir!
I got out because as the kids say, the math didn't math. OTOH I'm dealing with multiple disabilities and the medical and financial complications from same. But my heart is still a reseller/antique dealer and I still like to listen and help out where I can. I'm also a dyed in the wool hunter/gatherer , so while I don't resell on line any more I still pick for some antique dealers locally. Don't make much at it, but I do it for the joy.
Thank you for this video. I own a small business not related to reselling but I do rent a small warehouse, last year I lost my biggest client due to them moving out of town. What was a hobby, now has to ramp up to full time (reselling), which I believe is the hardest part because I am still learning what works and what doesn't. The mistakes get expensive and the time to get this reselling off the runway and into the air, is truly a time sponge. So that relates to lots of time and little to no profit. Thankfully, it is not a dire situation and gives me time to get it all organized and scale up to the size it needs to be. I had to reconfigure my warehouse which takes lots of time to be more reseller friendly. It is all the little things that we don't think about when watching a UA-camr talk about reselling. I am trying different ways to organize inventory, track inventory, track sales and to streamline it all. My most fun sale was found in a tiny corner of the thriftstore. It was vintage metal toy soldiers that were Medievel figures and Napoleonic. I tripled my money on those and know nothing about that stuff. The scary part is that they sold within 10 minutes of listing so I may have left money on the table, oh well, I am still happy about it. Watching your videos encourages me to pick up the pace and get it ramped up.
I really love the '127' sale. We live in California (your last territory) and get over that way about every 3 years or so. There are so many good areas ( especially. Ohio) for picking and filling up a truck & trailer for considerable higher resale in California. 😄
My husband doesn’t think it’s worth it because he thinks I’m to stupid to keep doing it. I have half a basement full of items that he wants GONE by October. Never mind the fact I do make money it’s not what he sees everyone else is making on these reselling sites.
He said a man worked 100 hrs + made only $900 + that’s bad. Well I just started again + most of that time was watching YT + eBay videos to learn ab shipping etc. So if $900 is bad, then I’m horrible bc I just started selling outta my house and listing, packing, etc., takes lots of time in the very beginning. Ugh.
@@valeriesantos8178 i find myself spending too much time like im an antique restorer. The money made is not worth it anymore. I used to sell outlet shoes and they required very little prep before shipping. With vintage items you have to restore, clean, store, pack like crazy, list all flaws. Way too much work and not enough pay. I might just stop.
The biggest problem I see with newbies and old timers like me we all tend to over price our products that we paid very little for, learning value is one thing and condition is everything with today’s buyers, but keep in mind everybody likes a deal just like you and me. Don’t be greedy with your pricing and at times cash flow is king versus net profits.
I only buy one day a week locally now, and save the rest of my chips for estate sales I'm personally cherry picking. My primary reason for this is that my local area is very saturated with pickers of all ages, and I end up spending more in gas than I do on finds. Also, the pickers for my thrift stores are not consistently stocking new finds often enough. I find less than 3 items per week in 5 thrift stores, so I quit going to nearly all of them. I went to one estate sale, and that inventory last me 6+ weeks......Thrift stores are a total waste of time in my area, outside if the BINS. As soon as I figured that out, my profits skyrocketed. Also, if you're ordering shipping supplies as a beginner, you're doing this wrong. Your shipping supplies should be coming from the Menards dumpster for free. Dollar stores, inside the store, has boxes galore too! Good ones. Why are you buying shipping supplies? If you're buying shipping supplies other than tape, PLEASE STOP. Unless you're big time, that's an enormous mistake. I'm sorry but it is. Your brain needs to function to make it as a reseller. Stop making it so hard on yourselves. Anyways, I digress. Great video. Thanks for the education. I love your channel.
I have to disagree. If you are selling on any online platform buy boxes, poly mailers ect. Take pride in what your selling and what it looks like when the buyer first sees the package. Shipping in dumpster dived used boxes look bad on the selling platform and every seller on it. Having the correct new box saves time by not having to drive to a dumpster and dig for a box or spend 5 minutes cutting down a dumpster box. Its the same as quiting going to the thrift stores to save money on fuel due to lack of finds.
@@ericgunter45 No it isn't. Must be nice to be married and have two incomes, like I'm sure you do. And I get QUALITY boxes from Dollar Tree, they aren't from dumpsters, they are from inside the store. Have your purchased anything from me? Then how do you know? You must polish that crystal ball every morning huh, while you live with half my living costs. Don't like it, go pay more somewhere else, I'll keep stacking my cash, and sell everything just the same without customers who nit pick over cardboard, like you. Derp. I WANT YOU TO BUY SOMEWHERE ELSE. I sell mostly tools, and I immediately block customers like you, because you're undesirable business, because you're an irrational spoiled boomer, and I don't want anything to do with people who think an item is inferior because of the cardboard it came in. That's completely absurd.
@@885Blackjack wasnt calling you out. Just disagreeing with you and giving my reasons as to why I feel that way. I actually agree with you about thrift stores as the ones around me are useless. The company that owns the goodwills around me sorts anything good and sells it online. Salvation army gets the junk goodwill wouldnt take and tapes ebay listings to the items. And dont get me started on the animal rescue thrift those people price things higher than everest. So breath, I wasnt trying to rile you up just disagreeing.
I have GBS so I use to livestream for a living. Now I’m starting to do this and I can bring my wife an kids with me hunting on the weekends. I stay home most the time cause I don’t want to risk getting sick with my disease. I don’t live off the government I try to do things myself. So for me this is worth it and I’m doing my best.
Miah is also my shipping person for our eBay store ! # Skyy World! I do think it is worth having an eBay business. But shipping is still very intimidating. We have been in it for 1 year now . Your videos keep me motivated! Thanks, Kevin. Miah loves the golf club cover ❤
Been reselling 35 years.for me its kind of like a drug addiction. I have withdrawals on rainy weekends and resort to watching yardsale videos to get my fix,lol.not the same but it satisfies me plus i often learn stuff on whats selling these days.its definitely an ever changing business and what sells today for good money might not sell at all next week.i will buy and sell until i physically can't anymore.such a rush.
Hey Kevin, I've really been enjoying your vids since I found your channel a couple years ago, and now I watch you Dave, Carey & Trash to cash regularly. I enjoy ALL the content- both serious and VERY not serious on TTC😆lol . I would love to start a channel but just haven't worked up enough courage to do it yet (sigh) .. I help support our household income by reselling- I absolutely love it- I've been reselling for years but just recently started back on ebay over the last year, and I have honestly learned so much from you! Just this past weekend I sold an antique cast iron doorstop by Virginia metalworks that I picked up at a local thrift for ONLY $2.00 and it sold it for $100 + ship so I was super happy to hear that "cha-ching" sound on my phone! 😊 As a Mom of 2 kids who's kids are close in age to yours, (10 & 12) I just love how you involve your kiddos and their roles in your channel. Cheers from South Carolina ✨ Happy reselling !✨
I have a wonderful trust worthy person who does my listing which is the part I hate and she is totally worth it as I am also an auctioneer and also organize Estate tag sales so she is very valuable to me so I can also do other things
There’s another opportunity cost. If part time, you are establishing a foundation of a business. A business that can be ramped up upon the loss of a full time job. Or a spouse or family member chips in full time. You don’t get that with a part time job on the side.
I’ve been on eBay for 25 years and I’ve never made my own store. I’ve only started to get more serious this past six months. Where do you get most of your inventory that you get in bulk? I’ve only just watched a couple of your videos so far but I just subscribed and I’m wondering where you get your inventory? I pretty much stick to Leftover estate sales where I get everything for free and my local thrift stores which there are many since I’m in the San Francisco Bay area. Any suggestions?
First off, you need to stop being so apologetic about viewer sales. You talked in this very video about how much time goes into doing social media. You earned those sales just the same as all the others. As far as social media, I probably could use social media to generate more sales just because I sell vintage ephemera, journals and scrapbooks and people who see these things in detail are more likely to buy them BUT I can't stand the video editing process. I enjoy sharing these items with people but I can't get through the editing and all that jazz. If I can ever get one of tech savvy kids to help me out maybe I'd try it, but not on my own.
Agreed, they put in the hard work to have viewers to begin with… it would be like saying, since Lexus, Dominos, Subway, or Walgreens or something like that put out commercials, anyone who sees a commercial and goes to buy something is a fake sale…
I live 20 miles north of Detroit in Sterling Heights, Michigan, a predominantly blue collar town. The best items I find are tools and car parts as everything here is driven by the auto industry. 20 miles north of here is an affluent area where the CEO's and auto execs live. This is my favorite area to pick because this is where the good stuff is.
I have thought about getting a booth myself but none of the local antique type stores dont seem to be able to draw the amount of traffic to make it worth while. Still tempting and if the right space happens to appear I might give it a shot
I am a retired teacher and have a one-person business. I have enough inventory to last me for the rest of my life, but I go to sales mostly for the exercise. Seldom do I find the kind of inventory that I sell or need for my store from yard and rummage sales, but I am always afraid I will miss something good. Oh, the boots I purchased from you are great. Thank you!
I love ebay when sales are great , but as ive scaled up i get soo many items taken down and account restricted, while my competitors have no issues selling the same items , i could literally copy their listing and mine will get taken down and their will stay up forever with 100s of viewers and 100+ sold .....well dude if mine is counterfiet so is the listing i copied , why do i have to see their listing selling away daily and i get restricted instead ....its total bs I still selling bx not everything is taken down and its easy money but geez, i wasted a TON of time making listings i will never be able to sell bc it was taken down by AI
I love your brutal honesty, always! Faith Flips on UA-cam, TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram. New to the whole social media thing but similarly, betting on my (& fam) future as well 💪🏻
lol it isnt worth it anymore. I wok e up at 5am got to an estate sale and it turns into just a garage sale. Sure I get $1 items that I xcan flip into $30 or $100 sometimes but not all the time and not in a large amount. I make more at my regular job, this is pathetic. Hell I made more money trading crypto in 3 days than I made all year at my desk job. Ive also had people scammers casing my ebay acount and more ebay scam transactions than ive had in 20 years. Doesnt help that ebay never takes the sellers side anymore.
I’ll go through the part of the hwy 127 sale goes through Cincy because it’s about 25 min from my house. But in tend to look for the larger community sales I can take $100-150 on a Saturday find a potential $600-700. In stuff
I work a full time job that pays double what minimum wage( NW Oregon) is and I enjoy the company I work for because they have great benefits so it pays the bills. I tried full time reselling before that job and I learned I enjoy reselling as a hobby. I like owning cool things( I owned a $900 pen that I made $100 on) even if it’s only temporary but it’s fun to go find odd rare things and find a end buyer for it those items. I sold $50k last year but only profited about $10k. I’m not in it for the money as I am in it for the hobby
I don't rely on any money from social media, I just have some fun with it. I try not to take up too much time doing it, but it is fun. I like having someone to share with, when people in my life might not care! 🤪🤪@ToyAddict
Reselling is my joy and hobby in life. When I was about 10 years old I found an ad in the back of my brother’s Boys Life magazine (1970)to sell all occasion greeting cards. I sold enough for a cassette tape recorder-it was my beginning and I have been a seller ever since. Cha-Ching is the best sound in my world 😊
I worked at a Fortune 500 company for 11 years, they sold, and my new boss was the nemesis of my old boss, and we were a team. Sooo within 2 months I was removed for a 5-minute discretion on my timecard. Uh 11 years. Nothing makes you feel more vulnerable than 11 years of your life erased like it was nothing. Yep, talk about not worth it. I NOW have control. Like you said - as long as this is increasing, I DONT CARE. I won't eat out - buy my clothes 2nd hand - cut back on entertainment - drive a lesser car. I'm more stable than I ever have been in my life working for people who don't have my best interests at heart. I NOW have taken that authority away from others. I've made a lot of money for other people, it's my time. It's worth it, believe me.
It is not work, if you enjoy what you do. I was told that many decades ago. There are some tedious parts of it all yes. But, it is still fun. Especially finding stuff you love to sell. I found a doll this week that was the same one from the 70s. Stuff that takes you back to your childhood. I love that! I think we'll keep it going here for awhile. Have a great week
I don't even pay attention to people who say "it's not worth it" I am my own boss, I work when I want. Enjoy what I do. Am I getting rich? No. That's not important to me, ebay pays the bills of which I don't have many.
Reselling has allowed me to buy a new car, buy a house with my wife, pay all my bills and have money left over to do what I want with. Plus, I work when I want, and I don't answer to anyone but myself. Not to mention I love it!
We don’t make enough to give ourselves a paycheck, but our reselling business has save us twice from getting a loan when our furnace and car broke down. Any extra money is worth it if it provides for your family!
I do it for fun and any net income we are using for an anniversary trip. I know I will never make enough to be full time, as I already have a self employment business, but this is fun. I hire my granddaughter from time to time to take pictures for listings. She’s 13 and a wonderful artist , so she has a great eye. I don’t mind paying her as she does a good job and enjoys it too. Thanks for the videos, the more the merrier. 😊
I have been reselling for 25 years but now I am retired from my "day job" living on a pension and Social Security. Don't really need to resell but do enjoy the extra "inventory" I pick up that can be useful to me until it sells. I do have to be careful as Social Security restricts earned income to about $22k until I'm 66 when I can earn about $56k. Tricky tricky.
I enjoy your down to earth take on things. And you’re a big family man. This is big reason i love watching you. It goes without saying you also seem like someone I can sit down and have a long talk about this stuff along with family, baseball, etc. I love reselling. I lost my job in October. I’ve not gotten reselling up to where I like it to be but the Lord sees us through. And does help a lot.
I sell on ebay because it is my only option for making any money. I am on Social Security and disabled so I continue. Is it worth it?, it has to be, its my only option. But the truth is I dont enjoy it and wish I did not have to. I will likely have to resell until my last day, as SSI is not enough to live on.
Kevin , you are cool guy! But what solidified it with me; first British Bulldogs tee, epic! Then, that tune; “I wish I was a little bit taller, I wish I was a baller!” 😂😂 80’s - 90’s best years and like myself 77 is the Best Year!
I had started reselling at the beginning of covid. And I was doing well. Making few mistakes here and there and then at some point I was still making mistakes, Learning of course, But making very few dollars. So I think it around the beginning of 2021 I stopped. And then around the end of 2021? Maybe October or so. I started again and been happy with reselling ever since. I just needed a break to recalibrate my thoughts on the whole process. But for me, the biggest game changer was finding Gemini comic book mailers and it made that process so much easier
Your content is excellent and you never run out of interesting things to talk about. You are meant to do video creation. It had to have huge positive impact on such great daily sales.
For me this will never be work. I used to (work) before I retired including being a restaurant manager,an industrial shop employee and a lineman for 25 years. Sometimes I tell myself I’d do reselling for free it brings me so much pleasure reliving my childhood. In my opinion you have to have the passion first before the desire for money.
No offense, but being a vintage toy collector for the last 40 years, resellers have wrecked collecting. Gone are the days of scoring finds on the cheap. My heart only goes out to you because you seem like a nice guy. These days i only deal with fellow collectors. Sorry, but its the truth
I have been "losing" money every month lately because i have been stocking up on inventory. Reason? My husband plans on retiring soon, so I've been taking advantage of amazing buys with a little extra cash. These are items that will be in demand and aren't trendy. So not being able to list everything right away is not an issue.
Reselling is so worth it to me, not just financially - getting out of debt and having extra "fun" money - but more so because it's time with my kids. Each of my kids trade off weeks going with me on Saturdays. We enjoy the time together, looking for stuff to sell, stuff for ourselves and then we have lunch. So I hardly consider those hours "work" like I have to make sure I make enough per hour due to all those sourcing hours.
I just love finding treasures, I love buying...and unfortunately I can't keep it all! So in order to keep doing what I find fun, I have to sell. I could spend the long hours I spend on "stuff" taking more hours at my part-time job, and make lots more money, but I don't want to. I'd do nothing but resell if I made enough money to do that, but I'm not there yet.
In regards to highway sales: It does not pay for me to do them. But a City Wide is great for me! I can find way more at the prices I like to pay for an item. Plus I usually don't have to pay for a room to spend the night. Where I live highway sales don't really happen. I have been to them, but I have to treat it more like a vacation rather than out doing my job.
I relocated to a very competitive area. That has me struggling to keep going. Have not thrifted until I clear my current inventory. But I’m looking forward to restocking where I enjoy the deals. Plan to keep reselling until I retire soon and continue afterwards to supplement income.
I just began adding shorts on youtube when a tree crashed through my ebay this week! I absolutely thought about quitting. I wondered if maybe God Himself was telling me to quit. But I love it too much! I took down all my listings and I'm reorganizing what was inside and deleting what was affected by the tornados. I can't quit!
I just do ebay. No channel and no desire to have one. Enjoy doing it and make enough to make it worth my while. Garage sale season starting here in SE Ohio and the Berlin Community sales in a couple weeks in Amish country.
I just like thrifting for myself and if I find something that doesn't work for me, but it may be a high ticket item, I will pick it up, because I can always find that one person who has been looking for that one item. So if I can resell that item for that person that has been looking high and low for an item. I love it.
I don't think the Highways are worth it to me and I have watched your videos from those sales. It seems like fun, but the numbers are not good enough to make it profitable. Would it make good content certainly.
Would it all still be worthwhile without the youtube channel and viewer sales? If you could only do reselling, without social media celebtrity and income, would you still do it?
Having some independence is worth it. Part time reseller. Stayed up till 1:00am taking pictures of clothes. Up at 6:30 to take kid to bus. It’s a grind. The pay per hour is low. The extra cash though without extra bosses is priceless. For most of us earning a $1 at a full time job is not worth it, and reselling is. It worth it. We do it anyways. Why? Because we hard working Americans, not leeches.
It’s interesting to hear people say it’s not worth it. I do not try very hard to resell. I will go to a couple thrift stores, hit a couple estates & a few yard sales every other week. I don’t do it to make a living I do it because I love to find treasures to resell or keep. I have 31 active and 39 items sold in 60 days with an average ASP of $105. Conservatively I may work 2 hrs a day MAX, which would be approximately $34 hr. 1/3 of those items were from my closet but hey it’s reselling right? I concentrate on high sell through items especially (electronics, collectibles etc) again, love the content and the subjects. 👍
A while back I got laid off from my Job and I had just started watching your videos a little prior to that. I have always been looking for a way to make money on my own and I definitely found this appealing. I started DoorDashing for fast money and bought 2 storage units at $10 a piece to start with for reselling (ebay, facebook marketplace). I found it to be the fastest and cheapest way to get some starting inventory. From there I would use profit from items sold to purchase more and more. Eventually it paid for everything. (Tape, Boxes, Bubble wrap, shelves, storage, personal finds, etc.) It took awhile but I built it all with only $20 invested. I am now back to my day job 5 days a week but I am not giving up on growing my business and my knowledge surrounding it all. I love doing it and it teaches you a lot about learning to work Independently. Sorry this got kinda lengthy but I wanted to say Thank You for all that you do and all the knowledge I have received from you. I truly appreciate it!
currently selling high volume 3k a month and im constantly negative on the books. I will lose money all this year. I only have 2000 liquid cash but do crazy sales, its snowballing into a room full of free inventory for the future however.
I'm doing this for two reasons, I am retired and it keeps me busy and I enjoy the extra income. I have met a lot of interesting people.
Downsizing is what started me, but like you it keeps me busy, and I enjoy the extra income it brings in. I'm also retired. I call myself a glorified hobbyist or or reseller.
Same!
I so agree with you I am retired I like a little extra money I like giving stuff away and I made some very interesting people along the way love it
Same! Downsized and selling off several family members estate stuff. I do it because I enjoy it. The extra money is just a bonus. ❤
2 reasons I do it, it gives me something productive to do on my days off, and its fun. Nearly every aspect is fun for me. Helps my FT job is logistics for a shipping company so I can usually answer a buyers weird demands on "why is this late???" when its not
Selling to me is worth it because it gives me something to do and helps with my social security income. Having arthritis and a bad back I would rather be busy with reselling instead of watching tv.
Thanks for the shoutout Kevin! I have no plans to quit reselling, I could easily go back to my old job and make more money then I do but this makes me happier. I can make my schedule and I have to just trust I’m going to build my business to be able to do extra things like highway sales or meetups. I can’t keep up with my work and my YT channel and that’s one reason we wanted to start our podcast.
You made me so proud when you said that you would probably just go to Raleigh! I’m in Raleigh and that made me feel good to know that the community sales here are good in your opinion.
Certainly things are changing, there's a whole lot going on in brand protection right now from a literal plethora of angles. I've been reading about it much of the weekend.
you may want to take a poll, but personally I just tune in to hear what you have to talk about, not so much about seeing what was sold. 😉
I'm a slow worker... How much I'm making per hour compared to the ease and freedom of reselling.. sometimes something's are worth more than money.
I make about $10 an hour reselling now. It was $30 an hour 2 years ago and I’ve been doing this for 7 years full time. I think it might be a lot better soon so I’m sticking with it.
I wish I had a girl that looked good, I would call her. You started it with the "I wish I was taller...."
Lol
Best items this week: set of 4 wheat pyrex mixing bowls, 2 Affliction shirts and a giant rare squishmallow. Coolest find of the week: a nice pair of Brooks shoes in my size.
Depends on where your at. Here in so. Call everybody is a reseller. Crazy lines just to resource. But not in Central CA. Or Northern Ca. Big difference. Also, there is a big difference between your region in the states. Mid west is different from the East Coast like Florida - North Carolina. It's great if you're retired. But the new to this game will be discouraged very quickly.
Enjoyed the video as always ... I used to pick/flip before getting my master's and started teaching (adjunct at community college). They didn't need me this semester, so I started back picking and flipping (also have a UA-cam).
Lost my career job last June due to increased mortgage rates. Reselling is paying most of my bills right now. I do look forward to someday in the future when I don’t have so much “stuff” but for now I’m enjoying and getting smarter all the time about what to buy to resell
I literally said “I wish I was a baller” the same time as you!🤣🤣
I’m proud to say I finally opened a separate bank account this week, thanks to the prodding from you and my accountant. Next is Reseller Genie, hanging around to see if I can score a free month at some point!!
Say hi to BRM for me!
lol. Hit me up in an email Courtney.
I just started with reseller genie middle of last year, so far I really like it and I dont use a third of what it can do.
In spite of my slow comic sales (1-2 a week) I'm kinda enjoying this. I get to re-read books for one last time and relive great memories of collecting comics. I'm not even looking at the hours spent doing it...just out and out fun. Great vid, sir!
I got out because as the kids say, the math didn't math. OTOH I'm dealing with multiple disabilities and the medical and financial complications from same. But my heart is still a reseller/antique dealer and I still like to listen and help out where I can. I'm also a dyed in the wool hunter/gatherer , so while I don't resell on line any more I still pick for some antique dealers locally. Don't make much at it, but I do it for the joy.
Been picking and reselling for over 50 years. Now that I’m retired it helps keep me busy, gets me out, brings in some cash and gives me joy.
Good morning Kevin and family 🎉🎉🎉
Thank you for this video. I own a small business not related to reselling but I do rent a small warehouse, last year I lost my biggest client due to them moving out of town. What was a hobby, now has to ramp up to full time (reselling), which I believe is the hardest part because I am still learning what works and what doesn't. The mistakes get expensive and the time to get this reselling off the runway and into the air, is truly a time sponge. So that relates to lots of time and little to no profit. Thankfully, it is not a dire situation and gives me time to get it all organized and scale up to the size it needs to be. I had to reconfigure my warehouse which takes lots of time to be more reseller friendly. It is all the little things that we don't think about when watching a UA-camr talk about reselling. I am trying different ways to organize inventory, track inventory, track sales and to streamline it all. My most fun sale was found in a tiny corner of the thriftstore. It was vintage metal toy soldiers that were Medievel figures and Napoleonic. I tripled my money on those and know nothing about that stuff. The scary part is that they sold within 10 minutes of listing so I may have left money on the table, oh well, I am still happy about it. Watching your videos encourages me to pick up the pace and get it ramped up.
I really love the '127' sale. We live in California (your last territory) and get over that way about every 3 years or so. There are so many good areas ( especially. Ohio) for picking and filling up a truck & trailer for considerable higher resale in California. 😄
My husband doesn’t think it’s worth it because he thinks I’m to stupid to keep doing it. I have half a basement full of items that he wants GONE by October. Never mind the fact I do make money it’s not what he sees everyone else is making on these reselling sites.
Your making money and profit, can’t be all the dumb, sounds like you’re doing great to me. Keep up the good work
He said a man worked 100 hrs + made only $900 + that’s bad. Well I just started again + most of that time was watching YT + eBay videos to learn ab shipping etc. So if $900 is bad, then I’m horrible bc I just started selling outta my house and listing, packing, etc., takes lots of time in the very beginning. Ugh.
@@valeriesantos8178 i find myself spending too much time like im an antique restorer. The money made is not worth it anymore. I used to sell outlet shoes and they required very little prep before shipping. With vintage items you have to restore, clean, store, pack like crazy, list all flaws. Way too much work and not enough pay. I might just stop.
The biggest problem I see with newbies and old timers like me we all tend to over price our products that we paid very little for, learning value is one thing and condition is everything with today’s buyers, but keep in mind everybody likes a deal just like you and me. Don’t be greedy with your pricing and at times cash flow is king versus net profits.
I only buy one day a week locally now, and save the rest of my chips for estate sales I'm personally cherry picking. My primary reason for this is that my local area is very saturated with pickers of all ages, and I end up spending more in gas than I do on finds. Also, the pickers for my thrift stores are not consistently stocking new finds often enough. I find less than 3 items per week in 5 thrift stores, so I quit going to nearly all of them. I went to one estate sale, and that inventory last me 6+ weeks......Thrift stores are a total waste of time in my area, outside if the BINS. As soon as I figured that out, my profits skyrocketed. Also, if you're ordering shipping supplies as a beginner, you're doing this wrong. Your shipping supplies should be coming from the Menards dumpster for free. Dollar stores, inside the store, has boxes galore too! Good ones. Why are you buying shipping supplies? If you're buying shipping supplies other than tape, PLEASE STOP. Unless you're big time, that's an enormous mistake. I'm sorry but it is. Your brain needs to function to make it as a reseller. Stop making it so hard on yourselves. Anyways, I digress. Great video. Thanks for the education. I love your channel.
What’s Mernard’s?
@@commonwealthflipper 😂♥️I think that’s a joke, but in case it isn’t, it’s a discount home improvement store like Lowe’s & Home Depot
I have to disagree. If you are selling on any online platform buy boxes, poly mailers ect. Take pride in what your selling and what it looks like when the buyer first sees the package. Shipping in dumpster dived used boxes look bad on the selling platform and every seller on it. Having the correct new box saves time by not having to drive to a dumpster and dig for a box or spend 5 minutes cutting down a dumpster box. Its the same as quiting going to the thrift stores to save money on fuel due to lack of finds.
@@ericgunter45 No it isn't. Must be nice to be married and have two incomes, like I'm sure you do. And I get QUALITY boxes from Dollar Tree, they aren't from dumpsters, they are from inside the store. Have your purchased anything from me? Then how do you know? You must polish that crystal ball every morning huh, while you live with half my living costs. Don't like it, go pay more somewhere else, I'll keep stacking my cash, and sell everything just the same without customers who nit pick over cardboard, like you. Derp. I WANT YOU TO BUY SOMEWHERE ELSE. I sell mostly tools, and I immediately block customers like you, because you're undesirable business, because you're an irrational spoiled boomer, and I don't want anything to do with people who think an item is inferior because of the cardboard it came in. That's completely absurd.
@@885Blackjack wasnt calling you out. Just disagreeing with you and giving my reasons as to why I feel that way. I actually agree with you about thrift stores as the ones around me are useless. The company that owns the goodwills around me sorts anything good and sells it online. Salvation army gets the junk goodwill wouldnt take and tapes ebay listings to the items. And dont get me started on the animal rescue thrift those people price things higher than everest. So breath, I wasnt trying to rile you up just disagreeing.
I have GBS so I use to livestream for a living. Now I’m starting to do this and I can bring my wife an kids with me hunting on the weekends. I stay home most the time cause I don’t want to risk getting sick with my disease. I don’t live off the government I try to do things myself. So for me this is worth it and I’m doing my best.
Great video, as always. I really appreciate the Skee-Lo reference at the beginning!! 😁
No, it is not worth it. So 50% of sellers need to quit, so the rest of us have enough to eat.
the only person I would ever consider having as an employee is my accountant and that is not an employee at all...
Miah is also my shipping person for our eBay store ! # Skyy World! I do think it is worth having an eBay business. But shipping is still very intimidating. We have been in it for 1 year now . Your videos keep me motivated! Thanks, Kevin. Miah loves the golf club cover ❤
Been reselling 35 years.for me its kind of like a drug addiction. I have withdrawals on rainy weekends and resort to watching yardsale videos to get my fix,lol.not the same but it satisfies me plus i often learn stuff on whats selling these days.its definitely an ever changing business and what sells today for good money might not sell at all next week.i will buy and sell until i physically can't anymore.such a rush.
Hey Kevin,
I've really been enjoying your vids since I found your channel a couple years ago, and now I watch you Dave, Carey & Trash to cash regularly. I enjoy ALL the content- both serious and VERY not serious on TTC😆lol . I would love to start a channel but just haven't worked up enough courage to do it yet (sigh) .. I help support our household income by reselling- I absolutely love it- I've been reselling for years but just recently started back on ebay over the last year, and I have honestly learned so much from you! Just this past weekend I sold an antique cast iron doorstop by Virginia metalworks that I picked up at a local thrift for ONLY $2.00 and it sold it for $100 + ship so I was super happy to hear that "cha-ching" sound on my phone! 😊
As a Mom of 2 kids who's kids are close in age to yours, (10 & 12) I just love how you involve your kiddos and their roles in your channel.
Cheers from South Carolina ✨ Happy reselling !✨
I have a wonderful trust worthy person who does my listing which is the part I hate and she is totally worth it as I am also an auctioneer and also organize Estate tag sales so she is very valuable to me so I can also do other things
There’s another opportunity cost. If part time, you are establishing a foundation of a business. A business that can be ramped up upon the loss of a full time job. Or a spouse or family member chips in full time. You don’t get that with a part time job on the side.
Kevin. Could you possibly show how you pack some of your odd size items.
I love Lonesome Dove movie, my favorite is Gone with the Wind 😊😊
I would like to hire an employee to help. Unfortunately it's very hard to find someone trustworthy in my area.
I love how you keep those rescuers 'down under' lol
Hi y'all 😁. You make me smile😊
I’ve been on eBay for 25 years and I’ve never made my own store. I’ve only started to get more serious this past six months. Where do you get most of your inventory that you get in bulk? I’ve only just watched a couple of your videos so far but I just subscribed and I’m wondering where you get your inventory? I pretty much stick to Leftover estate sales where I get everything for free and my local thrift stores which there are many since I’m in the San Francisco Bay area. Any suggestions?
there is no bulk its called picking. not taking in all trash that dont sell. trying to sell garbage will cost you time and opportunity cost.
First off, you need to stop being so apologetic about viewer sales. You talked in this very video about how much time goes into doing social media. You earned those sales just the same as all the others. As far as social media, I probably could use social media to generate more sales just because I sell vintage ephemera, journals and scrapbooks and people who see these things in detail are more likely to buy them BUT I can't stand the video editing process. I enjoy sharing these items with people but I can't get through the editing and all that jazz. If I can ever get one of tech savvy kids to help me out maybe I'd try it, but not on my own.
Agreed, they put in the hard work to have viewers to begin with… it would be like saying, since Lexus, Dominos, Subway, or Walgreens or something like that put out commercials, anyone who sees a commercial and goes to buy something is a fake sale…
I live 20 miles north of Detroit in Sterling Heights, Michigan, a predominantly blue collar town. The best items I find are tools and car parts as everything here is driven by the auto industry. 20 miles north of here is an affluent area where the CEO's and auto execs live. This is my favorite area to pick because this is where the good stuff is.
I live on the edge of that affluent area and enjoy estate sales that are nearby. I don't venture far, just a mile or 2.
You mentioned not having your booth anymore. I have been at it for a year and was considering a booth. Just wondering why you gave yours up. Thanks.
Time is better spent for me selling on online platforms.
I have thought about getting a booth myself but none of the local antique type stores dont seem to be able to draw the amount of traffic to make it worth while. Still tempting and if the right space happens to appear I might give it a shot
I am a retired teacher and have a one-person business. I have enough inventory to last me for the rest of my life, but I go to sales mostly for the exercise. Seldom do I find the kind of inventory that I sell or need for my store from yard and rummage sales, but I am always afraid I will miss something good. Oh, the boots I purchased from you are great. Thank you!
How long did it take you to get Monetized?
I love ebay when sales are great , but as ive scaled up i get soo many items taken down and account restricted, while my competitors have no issues selling the same items , i could literally copy their listing and mine will get taken down and their will stay up forever with 100s of viewers and 100+ sold .....well dude if mine is counterfiet so is the listing i copied , why do i have to see their listing selling away daily and i get restricted instead ....its total bs
I still selling bx not everything is taken down and its easy money but geez, i wasted a TON of time making listings i will never be able to sell bc it was taken down by AI
Sometimes, not always, but sometimes it is other sellers reporting your listing. Some people are trash
I love your brutal honesty, always!
Faith Flips on UA-cam, TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram. New to the whole social media thing but similarly, betting on my (& fam) future as well 💪🏻
lol it isnt worth it anymore. I wok e up at 5am got to an estate sale and it turns into just a garage sale. Sure I get $1 items that I xcan flip into $30 or $100 sometimes but not all the time and not in a large amount. I make more at my regular job, this is pathetic. Hell I made more money trading crypto in 3 days than I made all year at my desk job. Ive also had people scammers casing my ebay acount and more ebay scam transactions than ive had in 20 years. Doesnt help that ebay never takes the sellers side anymore.
I’ll go through the part of the hwy 127 sale goes through Cincy because it’s about 25 min from my house. But in tend to look for the larger community sales I can take $100-150 on a Saturday find a potential $600-700. In stuff
Absolutely worth it! Because I do it right baby!
Highways sales sometimes for over priced. I had a chance to go to one,and decided not too. Went to a community sale instead. Did good.
Accidentally hit thumbs down 😮 I changed it 😅. Full time selling is a passion ❤❤❤
Cute joke…..thanks for the video
I’m considering selling at swap meets.
Over 30 yrs at Flea Markets, I'm glad that's over. You want the money to come to you, don't chase the money, unless you like added grief.
Woo Pig Sooie!!! Lifelong Arkansan viewer!
Hilarious that UA-cam gives me an option to translate this comment to English lol
I work a full time job that pays double what minimum wage( NW Oregon) is and I enjoy the company I work for because they have great benefits so it pays the bills. I tried full time reselling before that job and I learned I enjoy reselling as a hobby. I like owning cool things( I owned a $900 pen that I made $100 on) even if it’s only temporary but it’s fun to go find odd rare things and find a end buyer for it those items. I sold $50k last year but only profited about $10k. I’m not in it for the money as I am in it for the hobby
no
@@johannadam8134 no to what?
You're still in my top 100 😉 lol.
Lol
I do the videos just for myself. So I can keep track of things. And I like to watch my own videos.
tysaflippinfool i dont make many videos at the moment because im busy reselling lol
I don't rely on any money from social media, I just have some fun with it. I try not to take up too much time doing it, but it is fun. I like having someone to share with, when people in my life might not care! 🤪🤪@ToyAddict
Reselling is my joy and hobby in life. When I was about 10 years old I found an ad in the back of my brother’s Boys Life magazine (1970)to sell all occasion greeting cards. I sold enough for a cassette tape recorder-it was my beginning and I have been a seller ever since. Cha-Ching is the best sound in my world 😊
I sold Olympia cards back in the day!
I worked at a Fortune 500 company for 11 years, they sold, and my new boss was the nemesis of my old boss, and we were a team. Sooo within 2 months I was removed for a 5-minute discretion on my timecard. Uh 11 years. Nothing makes you feel more vulnerable than 11 years of your life erased like it was nothing. Yep, talk about not worth it. I NOW have control. Like you said - as long as this is increasing, I DONT CARE. I won't eat out - buy my clothes 2nd hand - cut back on entertainment - drive a lesser car. I'm more stable than I ever have been in my life working for people who don't have my best interests at heart. I NOW have taken that authority away from others. I've made a lot of money for other people, it's my time. It's worth it, believe me.
It is not work, if you enjoy what you do. I was told that many decades ago. There are some tedious parts of it all yes. But, it is still fun. Especially finding stuff you love to sell. I found a doll this week that was the same one from the 70s. Stuff that takes you back to your childhood. I love that! I think we'll keep it going here for awhile. Have a great week
Bought a book for 1.00 sold today for 75
Nice
I had a similar experience, spent .25 for a book at an estate sale and sold it internationally for $60. I'm not even a book seller!
Love that
Excellent!
I beat you. Got a free book and sold for $400. It was a rare cookbook.
I don't even pay attention to people who say "it's not worth it"
I am my own boss, I work when I want. Enjoy what I do.
Am I getting rich? No. That's not important to me, ebay pays the bills of which I don't have many.
people with jobs will never get rich either 😊
exactly - if its worth it to you, it should be "worth it" to those around you. A true friend will support your endeavors no matter what!
@@gulfcoastsunset5879
AMEN
I think it would be awesome if eBay split the difference with the Mercari model. Lower the seller fees and add a fee to the buyer
Reselling has allowed me to buy a new car, buy a house with my wife, pay all my bills and have money left over to do what I want with. Plus, I work when I want, and I don't answer to anyone but myself. Not to mention I love it!
Hello what do you mainly sell?
We don’t make enough to give ourselves a paycheck, but our reselling business has save us twice from getting a loan when our furnace and car broke down. Any extra money is worth it if it provides for your family!
I don't make a lot but I enjoy finding things to resell. It gives me something to do where I'm at least making my money back plus a little extra 😉
I do it for fun and any net income we are using for an anniversary trip. I know I will never make enough to be full time, as I already have a self employment business, but this is fun. I hire my granddaughter from time to time to take pictures for listings. She’s 13 and a wonderful artist , so she has a great eye. I don’t mind paying her as she does a good job and enjoys it too. Thanks for the videos, the more the merrier. 😊
I recorded one UA-cam video and it wouldn't upload so i took that as God telling me not to do it and that was the end of my UA-cam career 😊
That "100 hours" will probably continue to pay for the next year or so too though, and it's easy to lose sight of that.
I don’t think teachers are paid enough for one, I think from watching your channel that you’re doing a great job.
i am that no longer i have kids in the school systems...it is scary what they teach the kids now...
I have been reselling for 25 years but now I am retired from my "day job" living on a pension and Social Security. Don't really need to resell but do enjoy the extra "inventory" I pick up that can be useful to me until it sells. I do have to be careful as Social Security restricts earned income to about $22k until I'm 66 when I can earn about $56k. Tricky tricky.
I enjoy your down to earth take on things. And you’re a big family man. This is big reason i love watching you. It goes without saying you also seem like someone I can sit down and have a long talk about this stuff along with family, baseball, etc. I love reselling. I lost my job in October. I’ve not gotten reselling up to where I like it to be but the Lord sees us through. And does help a lot.
Your son is awesome 🎉keep up the good work you all.
I sell on ebay because it is my only option for making any money. I am on Social Security and disabled so I continue. Is it worth it?, it has to be, its my only option. But the truth is I dont enjoy it and wish I did not have to. I will likely have to resell until my last day, as SSI is not enough to live on.
Kevin , you are cool guy! But what solidified it with me; first British Bulldogs tee, epic! Then, that tune; “I wish I was a little bit taller, I wish I was a baller!” 😂😂 80’s - 90’s best years and like myself 77 is the Best Year!
I had started reselling at the beginning of covid. And I was doing well. Making few mistakes here and there and then at some point I was still making mistakes, Learning of course, But making very few dollars. So I think it around the beginning of 2021 I stopped. And then around the end of 2021? Maybe October or so. I started again and been happy with reselling ever since. I just needed a break to recalibrate my thoughts on the whole process. But for me, the biggest game changer was finding Gemini comic book mailers and it made that process so much easier
I find social media very worth doing. My Dad had 600,000 subscribers so my goal is to beat that eventually.
Your content is excellent and you never run out of interesting things to talk about. You are meant to do video creation. It had to have huge positive impact on such great daily sales.
For me this will never be work. I used to (work) before I retired including being a restaurant manager,an industrial shop employee and a lineman for 25 years. Sometimes I tell myself I’d do reselling for free it brings me so much pleasure reliving my childhood. In my opinion you have to have the passion first before the desire for money.
Would love to see info on pricing and shipping ball caps
No offense, but being a vintage toy collector for the last 40 years, resellers have wrecked collecting. Gone are the days of scoring finds on the cheap. My heart only goes out to you because you seem like a nice guy. These days i only deal with fellow collectors. Sorry, but its the truth
you can thank youtubers for enlightening your competition. That bin of 80s toys? I reserved it five days prior to you even setting eyes on it.
I’m sure there a lot of collectors who love finding what they want on eBay instead of waking up early on Sat.
I think Turner should keep doing the like/sub line.
I can't source until I move some stuff as I don't have room lol.
Click bait you have saying the same, and continue to sell on eBay. Seems to me you are doing fine.
relies on cloicks for money
I have been "losing" money every month lately because i have been stocking up on inventory. Reason? My husband plans on retiring soon, so I've been taking advantage of amazing buys with a little extra cash. These are items that will be in demand and aren't trendy. So not being able to list everything right away is not an issue.
Reselling is so worth it to me, not just financially - getting out of debt and having extra "fun" money - but more so because it's time with my kids. Each of my kids trade off weeks going with me on Saturdays. We enjoy the time together, looking for stuff to sell, stuff for ourselves and then we have lunch. So I hardly consider those hours "work" like I have to make sure I make enough per hour due to all those sourcing hours.
I just love finding treasures, I love buying...and unfortunately I can't keep it all! So in order to keep doing what I find fun, I have to sell. I could spend the long hours I spend on "stuff" taking more hours at my part-time job, and make lots more money, but I don't want to. I'd do nothing but resell if I made enough money to do that, but I'm not there yet.
In regards to highway sales: It does not pay for me to do them. But a City Wide is great for me! I can find way more at the prices I like to pay for an item. Plus I usually don't have to pay for a room to spend the night. Where I live highway sales don't really happen. I have been to them, but I have to treat it more like a vacation rather than out doing my job.
Crush is the other member of Demolition. You actually have Crush and Smash.
I relocated to a very competitive area. That has me struggling to keep going. Have not thrifted until I clear my current inventory. But I’m looking forward to restocking where I enjoy the deals. Plan to keep reselling until I retire soon and continue afterwards to supplement income.
I just began adding shorts on youtube when a tree crashed through my ebay this week! I absolutely thought about quitting. I wondered if maybe God Himself was telling me to quit. But I love it too much! I took down all my listings and I'm reorganizing what was inside and deleting what was affected by the tornados. I can't quit!
I just do ebay. No channel and no desire to have one. Enjoy doing it and make enough to make it worth my while. Garage sale season starting here in SE Ohio and the Berlin Community sales in a couple weeks in Amish country.
I just like thrifting for myself and if I find something that doesn't work for me, but it may be a high ticket item, I will pick it up, because I can always find that one person who has been looking for that one item. So if I can resell that item for that person that has been looking high and low for an item. I love it.
I don't think the Highways are worth it to me and I have watched your videos from those sales. It seems like fun, but the numbers are not good enough to make it profitable. Would it make good content certainly.
Would it all still be worthwhile without the youtube channel and viewer sales? If you could only do reselling, without social media celebtrity and income, would you still do it?
Does Dan love women who are way smarter than him, as in always right? Always.
Asking for a friend.
Having some independence is worth it. Part time reseller. Stayed up till 1:00am taking pictures of clothes. Up at 6:30 to take kid to bus. It’s a grind. The pay per hour is low. The extra cash though without extra bosses is priceless. For most of us earning a $1 at a full time job is not worth it, and reselling is. It worth it. We do it anyways. Why? Because we hard working Americans, not leeches.
It’s interesting to hear people say it’s not worth it. I do not try very hard to resell. I will go to a couple thrift stores, hit a couple estates & a few yard sales every other week. I don’t do it to make a living I do it because I love to find treasures to resell or keep. I have 31 active and 39 items sold in 60 days with an average ASP of $105. Conservatively I may work 2 hrs a day MAX, which would be approximately $34 hr. 1/3 of those items were from my closet but hey it’s reselling right? I concentrate on high sell through items especially (electronics, collectibles etc) again, love the content and the subjects. 👍
A while back I got laid off from my Job and I had just started watching your videos a little prior to that. I have always been looking for a way to make money on my own and I definitely found this appealing. I started DoorDashing for fast money and bought 2 storage units at $10 a piece to start with for reselling (ebay, facebook marketplace). I found it to be the fastest and cheapest way to get some starting inventory. From there I would use profit from items sold to purchase more and more. Eventually it paid for everything. (Tape, Boxes, Bubble wrap, shelves, storage, personal finds, etc.) It took awhile but I built it all with only $20 invested.
I am now back to my day job 5 days a week but I am not giving up on growing my business and my knowledge surrounding it all. I love doing it and it teaches you a lot about learning to work Independently. Sorry this got kinda lengthy but I wanted to say Thank You for all that you do and all the knowledge I have received from you. I truly appreciate it!
currently selling high volume 3k a month and im constantly negative on the books. I will lose money all this year. I only have 2000 liquid cash but do crazy sales, its snowballing into a room full of free inventory for the future however.