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Glad to hear you made it and are setting up quickly, back in business as soon as you can sort out the passports…
Mycottage, that’s an interesting article. I guess Neiman and H&M are looking for new revenue streams and think they have figured out how to profit twice from the same item…
Awesome show, GD australia has some really nice home as well.
Some episodes are really funny, you hear the people say they want to do such and such and many 1000’s of square feet and their budget is like 100k, my wife and I just look at each other and laugh.Jay, I have not posted them on ebay because of my location, i don’t want them to get hung up in customs or something, that’s how they got lost/seized in the first place. For me, locally, it would be about impossible to move them, I guess i will hang on to them for the time being and bring them north with me when I visit next for ebay.
That’s awesome! Sounds like it took a bit to get it all together but you killed it on sales!
Interesting mini story. Most of them I have been through you can develop a bit of a story in your mind as well based on the cleanliness of different items. The least dusty items are the most recently used, usually walkers and wheel chairs, with sporting goods like golf clubs with a few years of dust on them, and the bicycles have flat tires by then. Sad but that’s the general progression…
Back in the day, like 2004ish, I used to use Scoutpal and sold on amazon, i see they are still around. My main sources for nice books were always the Friends of the Library stores often in a basement at public libraries. The big thing with these was to travel a bit and hit the more expensive areas libraries. Pretty much everything was a buck or two at the most. Another GREAT resource can be university press shops. I remember one time when I lived near Yale, they had a cart outside with oddball books, brand new just a black marker streak on the top of the pages. One title was something about petrochemical engineering, pretty thin book, i figured i would take a shot for a buck, bought one, listed it walking home and it sold almost instantly for over 60 bucks. I went back and bought out the cart…
Winchester, I just took the time to read through all of this, I have to say I AM IMPRESSED with your hustle man! Being out of the US has it’s challenges, same for me, but you really figured out all the logistics to make it work both ways, that in itself is a tough way to go. You set some big goals as far as income and listings and are pulling it off, amazing job man and good luck with the upcoming move!
The cheap vs frugal conversation was great! An example I would give would be to say buying an inexpensive pair of Chinese made leather boots at Walmart is being cheap, they will fall apart in a short time. Being frugal would be finding a nice open box of Doc Martens for a highly discounted price, even if they end up costing more than the Walmart boots, but they will last for many years.
Business is business, if you can get something for a decent price buy it…
Jay, Mercadolibre where I sell has what sounds like a similar shipping deal to poshmark. If I list something over $549 pesos, about $27 bucks, I can offer free shipping that will go with either Fedex or DHL, mercadolibre gives me a huge discount of the shipping, WAY cheaper than I can go in to the offices and purchase it for. They must have some sort of partnership with those two companies to offer me such drastically reduced rates. To give an example, I can ship say something the size of a shoebox and about the weight of a pair of shoes anywhere in Mexico for less than 4 bucks with either fedex or DHL.
Down here NO ONE uses the postal system, it is too slow and many things get “lost” en route. By mercadolibre making some loose partnership with those two companies they have taken what was once the big detractor, dubious shipping times, out of the equation of online sales and their business has boomed over the past several years because of that.Ironman, nice to see another scavenger here, finding the nice treasures to furnish rentals is awesome!
