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Thank you so much for accepting my request to be a member of the famous Scavenger Life forums! I’ve been listening to the podcast for some time and am really excited to be an active member here.
My name is JJ and I’ve been selling on eBay since 1996, just a year after it started…talk about a long time ago! My first item I ever sold was a 5GB harddrive for a classmate of mine (I hadn’t actually heard of the site so he just assumed I’d be interested in joining and signing up). I wasn’t even eighteen at the time so I need my parents to set it up for me and the rest is history.
These days I do eBay as a part time job (well kinda sorta full time as I’m furloughed at least until the end of June) and split my time between eBay and Mercari. I sell mostly video games and animation goods which tend to sell very quickly, but have a lot of overhead. I’ve been inspired by your podcast to seek out more “long tail” items and thrift store type goodies that are inexpensive up front and have a good ROI. I think mixing the two strategies could be really helpful to my future. Now that I have a home and more storage space, I’ve been actively organizing all of my inventory and working towards being structured better in terms of bookkeeping and product purchasing and such.
Can’t wait to comment on your threads and podcasts in the near future. Thanks for all you do ^_^.
PS: I already ordered two bags of the coffee from Broad Porch Coffee and you guys weren’t kidding..it’s incredible!
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Hi Jay, thanks for responding :). Yes! Video games are endlessly rewarding to me as someone who enjoys playing, collecting and selling them. There’s just so many to choose from with new ones coming out practically every week, and decades of past ones to find/sell as well. Over the years I’ve amassed a collection worth literally tens of thousands of dollars, and most of it was just purchased on eBay directly and sold back on eBay. It’s kind of crazy and reminds me a little bit of that one seller you interviewed a while back who bought coins online only to resell back in the same market.
The biggest problem with selling games is that you generally need to purchase in lots and part them out, which takes a lot of time and effort, but as long as it’s something you love doing. As a game enthusiast, animator and artist I enjoy the challenge and the money is there, but it becomes a time sink if you’re unorganized. Juggling family obligations, a full time job and two energetic kids makes it an effort and a half, which is why it’s been mostly a hobby for me over the years, but the more I do it, the more I realize I could potentially make it a full time job in the future if I wanted to. Time will tell :).
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Absolutely! I try to limit myself to an hour a day or less playing games as it’s easy to get carried away, so it’s mostly my kids and friends that enjoy my spoils these days and I’m not really into collecting sealed games or anything anymore, so all of my collection is pretty much accessible as it waits to be listed :). I have found it very good to to buy on Mercari, Amazon and other places to source for inventory for eBay (which tends to have higher sales prices, but also higher fees over all).
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