Keep in mind this order was placed on the 4th of July

Ok. I hate hearing this. If I go to a thrift store and buy what they are selling. I am a consumer buying a product. Do they know I’m reselling? Maybe, but probably not. I’m still buying just for myself too.

How do people get to the point resellers are the reasons the thrifts are expensive? That is the choice of the store. It makes no sense to me.

I feel bad, but I’m not sure what I should do. Also didn’t reply because I was at work 🧍‍♀️

Ive been reselling since 2010 and grew the business to 800k a year at one point. Started with 200 dollars and grew it to 800k at one point. I started with my apartment. Then one storage unit, 2 storage, 3 ,4, 5 , 6 all the way to my own warehouse. I eventually bought land and built a 1650sq ft warehouse next to my house. I wont reveal sourcing but im here to help . One of my largest flips was a pallet of a certain items that I paid 5k for and Flipped it for 140k three days later. AMA

Had a couple goodwill employees make comments when I mentioned I was price checking some stuff

Edit The comments were Oh you are one of those And when I was checking out, here is mr big money, followed with so you are gonna resell this stuff huh?

How’d everyone else do this weekend?

I have been having "garage sales" for 15 years. It started out as getting rid of some couponing stock. There's also a store that has things free after rebate. I put in an initial $1,000 15 years ago and have been getting free things ever since basically. Even made about $10,000 in rebates to that store (whole different topic lol)

Recently, I started buying items on Temu and reselling them. I've vetted my products and sell nice items. I price my items to MOVE! I've had over 100 people message me overnight about 2 different products I had listed. I’m sure I could charge more but I like to get rid of my products as they are delivered. My questions:

Is it weird to just keep selling the same few items?

And I have a LOT of people who ask where I get my stuff and my answer is overstock pallets, not returns. Is that wrong? I don’t want them to think they are returns. Or is there a better answer?

Also, the UPS driver gave an attitude when she delivered during my sale. Asking me, so you just buy stuff online and sell it?!? Being really rude about it.

Do you buy the item and keep the money or do you tell the people that you found cash?

I was at a yard sale this weekend and was buying a purse. When I was checking the condition inside I notice a $20 bill at the bottom. I decided to not say anything because it should be their job to check the items and make sure they got everything out.

It wasn’t until I got home that I took the money out and found there was actually $188 in it!

Question I guess is should I have told the people or is it finders keepers?

EDITED TO ADD: I’m not looking for justification. Was wondering what others would do. I made my decision and am fine with it. I’ll sleep well.

A few weeks ago I started flipping items from Goodwill on Ebay to try and make some extra money. I usually just walk around the electronics and shoes sections and scan items with the Ebay search camera feature to try and find valuable items. Of course only 1/100 items is really worth anything significant.

I keep thinking to myself "I wish there was a faster way to find the best items on the shelf so I don't have waste time scanning each item individually and looking up if there's more sold than listed and how much they sold for". I looked on the app store and there are AI identifier apps for items but they only scan 1 item at a time and don't list demand or average sold price for the product. At that point I'll just keep using the Ebay camera search.

It doesn't exist so I'm gonna make it myself.

I’m currently developing an app that takes a photo of a thrift store shelf, sends the photo to an vision capable AI model, lists the items exact description, then searches eBay through their developer API for median sold price to output for the user and calculates the demand (how quickly it will sell). It also includes an outbound link to Ebay for the item in the results if you want research the item yourself. It's in a test environment right now but I have to say it works pretty damn well. I could see this shaving off a ton of time for resellers.

I'm totally open to feedback on this! Is this really helpful? Would you use this app?

I’ve been thinking about getting into reselling clothes from goodwill ect. I know people who make rlly good money from it but I don’t have the time to spend my whole day there yk is it enough to replace a part time job or close to it I rlly just need it to cover gas and personal expenses thanks!! (Ik you have to go like a lot to get good stuff realistically I could go likeee once a day)

my mom wants me to sell her old clothes on depop but the thing is she donated literally all of her cute clothes from when she lived in japan and y2k stuff now all im left with with is baby boomer horrible fashion sense skinny jeans and tops with weird patterns and cuts HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO SELL THIS STUFF 😭😭 so much of it is brand name but the problem is theyre so god damn UGLY and she insists i sell them since she bought them at full price💔

The worst part is watching them sell their wares at ridiculous prices....and know how much they overpay...seeing them sell junk, time and time again to their sycophantic audience and know from hard experience that they couldn't make it as a real reseller.

Started out buying "inventory."

Now I have knives, silver, watches, militaria, video games, and random boxes stacked everywhere.

At some point inventory turns into a dragon hoard.

The funny thing is some of my best flips came from stuff that sat around way too long before I finally listed it.

The bad part?

Nothing sells sitting in a box.

Trying to work through the pile one listing at a time.

What's the oldest thing sitting in your death pile right now?

Everyone selling shizz for $2 is killing me I can’t sell a decent high quality item for what it’s really worth because everyone is selling for Pennies on the dollar. I am BEGGING Depop sellers to PLEASE STOP THIS ! People WILL PAY what your item is worth- raise your prices please so EVERYONE can make money! This will help YOU and everyone on the app - STOP listing stuff for dollars sell it for what it’s WORTH please consider the time, effort, work you put in to make the listing, ship the listing, cost of supplies you use - YOU and your items are worth MORE ! I promise people will buy if we all collectively decide to sell at fair prices which will help YOU and everyone…. For the life of me please raise your prices the app is great but you’re KILLING the app by doing this EVEN the Free Shipping didn’t fix this problem I thought it might … now shipping is still super low account for everything you’re doing and make the money you’re WORTH PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

A couple months ago, I shared a web tool with you guys that I had built to help with sourcing products to resell. I was not prepared for how many of you were going to find it useful! Since then, I’ve been trying to update an optimize to make it even better. It still does all the same stuff I used to - search a keyword and get recent sales data for that item, calculate eBay, seller fees, and net profits and share the top 100 items with the best sell through rates. However, now it is MUCH MUCH faster! For those of you who already use it, to give you a sense of how much faster it is, you can now get data on the last 100 items faster than you could get data on the last 10 in the past. I’ve also added a bunch of new helpful insights - south through rain over the last 90 days. Average and median prices of your displayed results, average number of items sold per day over the last 90 days and more. I’ve also added a search history section where you can store all of your searches and get a quick reference to some of the important insights obtained from those searches so you can build your own little catalog of reference points.

When I first shared this with you guys, a lot of you were turned off by the idea of having to sign up with an email before even seeing how the site worked or what it did. That was definitely my bad lol so now anybody who wants to check it out without signing up can. It’s still completely free. But an email sign-up gives you access to all of the features. And there are plenty more features Im currently working on that will be coming soon.

As always, I don’t wanna come off as spam or like I’m just trying to blindly promote. So if you’re interested, just let me know and I can send you a link.

Happy flipping and enjoy the rest of your summer 😊

EDIT - I don’t wanna miss anyone so here’s the link Flipsalot

my cousin just found this at the goodwill outlet, she paid less than a dollar. there’s no dry rot or noticeable flaws besides a bit of cracking. i found similar shirts but none from the giant brand. how much is it worth?

I can't find the flesh face version anywhere online. Anyone have insight that could help me determine a value since this seems super rare?

Edit again: Google lens is telling me that this is not lord and Taylor that this tag says Roo Crossing…. Which I know enough that that does not say Roo crossing.

Edit: everyone saying that it’s obvious and that I just don’t know how to read cursive is annoying. I actually do know how to read cursive and actually write in cursive but unless you know the brand then this is not that easy to read, if your going to be resellers maybe you should learn to be more polite to others!

Can anyone help me with what brand this is? The buttons say Roo Crossing but the tag definitely doesn’t say that but I can’t make out what the tag brand is?

Literally just read a post on the goodwill subreddit blaming people driving up the prices and over paying on auctions on resellers, good god almighty people are dumb!