Tag: Reselling

Bam! Pow! Crash! The Comic Book Reselling Hustle

What It’s About

A mechanical design engineer by day… superhero comic book seller by night.

Words of Wisdom

Ali says that if you’re on the fence about starting a resale business, then just start with one item. That will be the toughest thing to sell, but it will open the floodgates. You will need to find a good balance between collecting and selling based on your personal financial needs.

Fun Fact

Action Comics 1, which introduced Superman in 1939, is the holy grail of comics and sold in April 2021 for $3.25 million. Amazing Fantasy 15 from 1962 with the first appearance of Spider-Man sold in September 2021 for $3.6 million. These comics weren’t nearly as hot twenty years ago, when you could have purchased them for between $50,0000 and $150,000.

Notes from Chris

Episode 2005
Ali Subz remembers sitting on the stoop with a friend, looking at his buddy’s Marvel cards and comic books. At the age of just 6 years old, he was immediately hooked … and comics became his passion.

One problem: money was tight, so when Ali went out shopping with his parents, he always looked for comics with 99 cents on the cover….because $1.99 was too expensive for his family. He dreamed of having his own comic book store someday so he could read all the comics he wanted.

Years later, as a teen in the early 2000s, Ali would go to local conventions with twenty bucks he’d earned by doing chores. Money was still tight, but luckily, $20 went a long way back then.

Ali scoured the 50 cent and dollar bins at these conventions, buying anything that caught his eye. Little did he know that a lot of what he was buying would be worth plenty of money later on.

After college, Ali went to work as a Mechanical Design Engineer. The lingering student loans were heavy on his mind. He decided to sell his personal collection of comics to pay them down and ended up raising almost double what he needed.

That was the moment he started SubZero Comics.

Ali realized he could have his dream of owning a comic book store—in a way—and keep the day job he liked and still needed. And since it was possible to sell online, Ali didn’t need to invest in a brick and mortar store. An online store would do just fine.

Profits can vary, but on average he earns between $10,000 to $20,000 in extra cash each year. Now, he’s living his childhood dream and making money on the side. It’s a good feeling.

For Ali, the best part of owning SubZero Comics is getting to meet people and hearing their stories. The business has helped Ali interact with people more, get out of his shell, and be more social. It feels like he’s getting to know the person through the comics they love.

Going forward, Ali is happy to just keep on hustling and hoping for the best.

 

 

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

  • Learn more about Ali and his comic reselling business at his website, SubZeroComics.com/.

SEE ALSO:

  • Mother Of Five Sells Pretty Old Books: When a stay at home mom hopes to avoid returning to full-time work outside the home, she starts selling vintage books packaged by color—and her dream becomes more than a pigment of her imagination.
  • Avid Reader Sells Used Books On Instagram: An IT analyst makes page-turning profits after building a dedicated audience of book enthusiasts. You can make money without a large following!
  • Flipping 101: The College Textbook Edition: A college student with a new family to support reads between the lines and turns a $20 used textbook into almost $70,000 within two years. This episode will flip your lid!

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"if you’re on the fence about starting a resale business, then just start with one item. That will be the toughest thing to sell, but it will open the floodgates."
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Chris Guillebeau

Hollywood Video Editor Shoots for the Stars

What It’s About

A hardworking Hollywood professional builds an empire from inexpensive Craigslist ads.

Words of Wisdom

Graham is a huge advocate for Craigslist advertising, “Make use of those $5/month Craigslist ads! I don’t know of a more cost-effective form of advertising.”

Fun Fact

Graham once did a project for the band Maroon 5. They had several hundred videotapes of behind the scenes footage they had shot over the years, and needed it all captured to a computer.

Notes from Chris

Episode 1998
Graham “Gray” Jones works as a TV editor/writer. Because that industry has so many ebbs and flows, he’s always filled in the gaps with side jobs, including building a stock footage library and getting sponsorships for his video podcasts. But in 2017 when he was invited to shoot a music festival, he started thinking bigger.

Although he had a lot of gear already, he didn’t have everything he needed, so he rented it from a peer-to-peer equipment camera sharing platform called ShareGrid.

That experience made him realize he could be renting out his own gear when he wasn’t using it, so he immediately listed everything he had and started making $1,500/month. He reinvested earnings to build a bigger rental catalog, and got it as high as $3,500/month before COVID hit.

In addition to bringing in revenue, the rentals also allowed Gray to be more aggressive in pursuing jobs that needed a lot of specialized equipment, because he knew whatever he bought could be rented out to offset the purchase price.

Buying and selling camera equipment has also been lucrative. In fact, Gray made about $30,000 last year just on the buying and selling through a mix of eBay, Craigslist and ShareGrid, the website that started these hustles.

So far, Gray’s biggest catch was a $140,000 job with an educational foundation for billionaire Michael Milken. The foundation had 14,000 videotapes (appropriately fifteen tons of tapes) that needed to be imported.

By capturing from nineteen machines at once, Gray and a small team were able to deliver it in ten weeks. Even the most established transfer companies would take a year or more for that amount of video, so he feels that speed is what’s helped him succeed in that niche. He celebrated the six-figure project with a week-long vacation in Disneyland and a weekend in wine country.

When Gray saw how much success he had renting out camera equipment on ShareGrid, he and his wife started renting their minivan through the peer-to-peer car rental site Turo. In the first two weeks of signing up, they booked $3,000 of rentals. They plan to reinvest their earnings to buy more vehicles and gradually build a fleet.

Finally, because two multi-six figure side hustles isn’t enough, he’s also in talks to buy a competing well-established audio/video transfer company.

 

 

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

  • Learn more about Graham and his AV services at his website, AVGearGuy.com/.

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—Gray Jones #SideHustleSchool

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Marine Resells Appliances for Extra $2,000/Month

What It’s About

A former Marine uses his will and YouTube to flip appliances.

Words of Wisdom

Benson mentions that “uncertainty is an important part of [his] business strategy.” Because it was one of his biggest points of worry when starting out, he now tries to focus on the points of the market he can work with. Instead of expecting positive profits, he’s focused on the buyer’s goal.

Fun Fact

Millennials (born 1982-2000) are now the largest age group in the United States, according to Pew Research Center. While most people were dedicated to investing in the stock market, this age group is more interested in real estate as a valuable asset. With stock market investor numbers dwindling, 85 percent of millennials believe real estate to be a great investment.

Notes from Chris

Episode 1907
It might surprise you to know that household appliances used to last 20-25 years when purchased brand new. Today, it isn’t out of the ordinary to replace a washer and dryer after fewer than ten. What happened?

Well, the manufacturing of these appliances has improved in some ways, but clearly not all. Though most people accept the rinse and repeat of the modern market, Benson Gitau saw something he got hung up on.

While looking for appliances to fill his empty house, he found that brand new sets would be bought and sold for $800 daily, but used sets that had a problem or two would sit on the market at $100 for longer.

Many people wouldn’t consider buying used appliances that weren’t working well, but as a former U.S. Marine, Benson saw a whole other ball of lint.

After purchasing the used, broken washer-dryer set of his dreams, he looked up its serial number and began parsing through its parts to figure out what was wrong. He was no stranger to online research—after all, his day job was now in cybersecurity.

Step one was a confidential government database that few have access to … no wait, it was YouTube. Using the appliance’s serial number he searched for instructional guides. He learned that all he needed was a $15 replacement part. From there, it was a quick fix.

After repairing the washing machine, Benson started to put the pieces together for a money machine.

Living in pricey California, he wanted to boost his income. Luckily, the house he owned was a duplex so he was able to rent it out for a small profit. But in California, expenses are everything … so he began buying, repairing, and reselling more appliances.

Benson’s monthly target was $2,000 in net income. At first he stuck with appliances he was familiar with, as well as anything that might have tutorials online. He was soon earning beyond his monthly income target, enough to buy a small truck, pressure washer, and some power tools.

Since he started, Benson has moved to Texas. He’s currently running for election to the U.S. House of Representatives, while still working in cybersecurity and real estate.

He’s a busy guy! Hopefully it works out for him, but if not, he can always sell more appliances.

 

 

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

  • Benson has been making more moves and you can follow along at his YouTube channel, @BensonGitau.

SEE ALSO:

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Quote of the Day
"YouTube is literally a library of knowledge."
—Benson Gitau #SideHustleSchool

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To infinity and beyond,

Chris Guillebeau

Consignment Sale Secrets: Ask to Sell Your Grandma’s Stuff

What It’s About

“We are family!” A reseller stocks his reselling inventory utilizing family and friends.

Words of Wisdom

Thinking about reselling? Jeremy has an important piece of advice, “Don’t have an inflated view of an item’s value or become too attached to an item.”

Fun Fact

Jeremy once sold 200 of moss covered, dirty red bricks that were originally used on a patio. He didn’t clean them up before selling them, just sold them as is.

Notes from Chris

Episode 1774
Jeremy Vanderslice and his wife were both in grad school and money was tight. Not only that, but there was also debt to pay. Jeremy sold off all his unwanted belongings on Facebook Marketplace and eBay to raise some quick cash. He was reading The $100 Startup at the time and looking for a way he could continue to make some extra money on the side … but just as I discovered more than twenty years ago, he soon ran out of unused household items to sell.

That was his point of inspiration… what do you do when you want to have your own business, but you hate taking risks? You sell other people’s stuff for them, and you split the profits!

Before long, at least twice a month people were dropping off carloads of stuff for him to sell. Jeremy typically splits the money 50/50 with the owner but he’ll sometimes lower his fee to 30% for more expensive items.

At this point in the business, he doesn’t say no to selling an item, even if it will only give him 3 or 4 dollars… he figures it takes just a minute or two to shoot some pictures and post the ad online. The dollars add up. Even better, after he’s established a relationship with an owner, they’ll often bring him a higher ticket item to sell that will make him a hundred dollars or more in no time. It’s all about building trust.

Jeremy typically works with three or four sellers at a time because he has only so much storage space in his basement. Using this strategy, he’s earned as much as $1,500 in a month, all in a small amount of spare time. Fortunately, this business gives you the freedom to grow. If you have more space or you want to earn more money you can sell for more people.

He recommends starting out by going through your own house and selling things you don’t need, then moving on to friends and family who are moving or decluttering—especially parents or grandparents who’ve collected a lot of stuff over the years. Tell them how well you’ve done selling your own stuff and when they say they don’t have time to do that—offer to sell their items for them and split the money!

The extra income has minimized Jeremy’s financial fears and has allowed him to take a few more chances in life. For example, it’s given him the financial confidence to invest in stocks, something that seemed risky before. Also, his wife wanted to leave her job and start her own private practice as a Speech Language Therapist. Jeremy’s new revenue stream has helped them take the leap and get her business off the ground as well.

 

 

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

  • Learn more about Jeremy and check out his new book which talks about his reselling journey at his website, NoOverheadBook.com.

SEE ALSO:

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Quote of the Day
"Don’t have an inflated view of an item’s value or become too attached to an item."
—Jeremy Vanderslice #SideHustleSchool

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Chris Guillebeau

Crafter Fashions Upcycled Chairs Into Six-Figure Shop

What It’s About

Sit down for the story about reupholstered chairs that bring in over 6-figures.

[podcast_details]

Words of Wisdom

Wendy shares some excellent pricing advice. “Come up with a good pricing system. When we price our things really low people question what’s wrong with it and decide it must not be that valuable. But when you go ahead and you price it high … you believe that this is worth that amount because of the time and energy that you have to put into it.”

Fun Fact

Fifteen years ago, Wendy taught a Detective 101 online course for elementary school kids. She sent them a box of clues to use for each weeks’ assignments.

Notes from Chris

Episode 1737
In 2012, Wendy Conklin was working as an educational consultant when she took a couple of upholstery classes. She’d already tried doing it using instructions from a book but wanted hands-on guidance from a pro.

In the first class, she learned how to fix up vintage and antique chairs and reupholster them with new fabric. Toward the end of the second class, she decided to open an Etsy shop to see if the chairs she’d worked on would sell.

Starting up didn’t cost a lot of money. Wendy sourced her chairs from Craigslist and was conscious of choosing affordable yet beautiful fabric. Within two weeks of opening ChairWhimsy, she got her first order.

During year one, she made about $500 a month in her Etsy shop. Not a bad start, but how about now? Well, I hope you’re sitting down… on a chair. Her average monthly profits now are between $10,000-15,000 depending on the season.

Interestingly, some Etsy sellers with high sales volume choose to shut down their Etsy shop and focus on selling through their own website to avoid Etsy fees and own their sales channel. Not Wendy. She has her own website for ChairWhimsy, but sees the value in keeping both going. A lot of customers find her on Etsy and end up buying from her website or vice-versa.

The best part of the process has been the journey of proving to herself that she can figure things out, whether it’s shipping, pricing, or something else. And as a side note, she was fifty years old when she started her side hustle, so she says you’re never too old to learn something new.

ChairWhimsy’s creations have been featured in Better Homes & Gardens, Woman’s World, and BuzzFeed. In addition to selling chairs, Wendy has begun offering online courses. These include upholstery for beginners, how to find swoonworthy fabrics, and what she calls the Business of Chairs.

 

 

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

  • Check out Wendy’s beautiful creations at her website, ChairWhimsy.

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"Come up with a good pricing system. When we price our things really low people question what’s wrong with it and decide it must not be that valuable. But when you go ahead and you price it high … you believe that this is worth that amount because of the time and energy that you have to put into it."
—Wendy Conklin #SideHustleSchool

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To infinity and beyond,

Chris Guillebeau

Houseplant Biz Blossoms for Hong Kong Transplant

What It’s About

A government employee finds harmony selling houseplants through Facebook.

[podcast_details]

Words of Wisdom

“When dealing with customers, don’t take it personally and don’t let your emotions cloud your judgment. Always remember that each customer has their own challenges in their own daily lives, so they may come off as a bit rude or unhappy.”

Fun Fact

Clara sometimes set up a booth at Washington, D.C.’s Eastern Market and she counts well-known politicians and others among her customers there. One actress even drove all the way from New York City for Clara’s houseplant sets!

Notes from Chris

Episode 1716
Clara Leung works as an accountant for the U.S. Department of Justice. She’s lived in Washington, D.C. for twenty years—but she was born and raised in Hong Kong. There, she learned ancient Chinese Feng Shui from her mother. For those who don’t know, Feng Shui is an ancient practice to help energy flow in and out within the home to improve people’s lives. Having houseplants helps promote more positive energy around the house.

In February 2018, Clara bought a huge plant from Facebook Marketplace for $50 and the baby stem fell off. She put it in a modern planter she had in storage and posted it on Facebook Marketplace, purely for fun because she didn’t have the space for it herself. She heard from a buyer within five minutes and sold the plant for $25: effectively a 50% savings on her own purchase.

Clara’s second customer bought a houseplant for her dying mother after hearing about the benefits of Feng Shui. That customer contacted her after a year with thanks and the news that her mother was living longer than expected. Was it the plant? Maybe, maybe not, but the point was that it made the customer feel better … and that matters.

Those positive selling experiences planted the seed of a new side hustle idea. Clara decided to combine her mother’s teachings of Feng Shui with houseplants. The money earned from those first sales went to buy more planters, so she didn’t have to spend any of her own money on startup costs.

In the beginning, she marketed the business entirely through Facebook Marketplace. It’s a popular platform for local buying and selling. Plus, she doesn’t have to pay fees on adding a shopping cart to her website.

Most of Clara’s plants sell for between $25 and $50. In the past several months, her side hustle generated around $4,000 in gross monthly income.

Going forward, Clara is exploring different ways of creating an online platform to share her passion for Feng Shui houseplants and add another income stream. She’s also considering a mobile shop that she can set up at farmers markets. She’s done farmer’s markets with a tent and a table but she’d love to have a mobile trailer or even a Volkswagen bus bursting with plants for sale.

 

 

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ESL Teacher Resells Furniture for Big Profits

What It’s About

A teacher flips furniture for future financial freedom.

[podcast_details]

Words of Wisdom

Danielle suggests to pull up a chair and learn from others, both in the entrepreneurial space and with your specific niche: “Connect with your local entrepreneurial community if possible. Be willing to play with ideas, talk about them, and get as much feedback as possible. Ask people a LOT of questions. Go to the experts. I have had meetings with lawyers, accountants, professional upholstery cleaners, antique shop owners, just to learn as much as I could about anything related to my side hustle.”

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The office chair was first invented by the famed naturalist Charles Darwin in the early 1840s. As he worked on his research, he became frustrated with how much he had to maneuver around his workspace, so he attached legs and wheels to an armchair to be able to better access his specimens. [source]

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Episode 1688
When Danielle Winton bought her first home in November of 2020, she wanted it to look like it could be in a magazine.

The problem was, she was starting with limited furniture, only owning a bedroom set, a desk, and two barstools. And, she didn’t even have a place for the barstools, so those didn’t really count. To make a little extra money, she decided to sell them.

Danielle originally bought the barstools for $15 on Facebook Marketplace. Hoping to earn a little extra money, she listed them for $45. They sold without delay, and Danielle was surprised how fast she had made $30!

She figured that she could do it again, and decided to buy more pieces. One of her favorite early finds was an old, outdated orange table. Danielle bought it for 25 cents, painted it white and grey, staged it, and sold it on Facebook Marketplace for $50. That’s a profit margin of 99.50%!

From there, Danielle was hooked. It was like she had found Aladdin’s lamp. She loved the process of finding good deals, transforming pieces, and making sales, especially as she made more and more money from them.

As she went along, she reinvested into her business to buy more furniture, restoration tools and even her own website, WintonFurnishing.com. She made the website about six months after starting, mainly as a source of credibility for her brand. She knew from personal experience that when people had a website, it meant that they were serious about providing a high quality product.

The website links to her Facebook Marketplace, which is where she still spends the majority of her energy. However, she has also experimented with selling on other platforms including Craigslist, Ebay, Nextdoor, and something called Chairish. After starting in November, Danielle has already worked up to earning more than $5,000 a month from her business.

She says that one of the main factors in building her income was investing in storage units for the furniture. That way, she was better able to acquire a larger pool of inventory, rather than be limited by the space she had in her home to store the pieces.

Danielle focuses mainly on selling around her area, in mid-Missouri. Over time, she hopes to build a larger network of shoppers, drivers and virtual assistants all over the state! She still teaches a few ESL classes, but her focus is on furniture.

 

 

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Summer Job Reselling Silver Brings in $10,000

What It’s About

A college student gets educated in coin reselling and strikes gold.

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Max share some great advice, “Be humble, don’t think you know everything. This will allow your mind to stay open to learn. Knowledge/experience is the key to this (and most) business.”

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On one occasion, Max was offered gold jewelry worth over $500 for just the price of $20. The reason? The seller was a former nun an avowed communist who didn’t care about how much she would get in return.

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Episode 1660
Max Hockley vividly remembers the most important Sunday of his entire college experience. It was supposed to be an uneventful evening watching TV—that is, until his roommate burst into the room and threw a stack of $100 bills on the table. When Max asked him where he got all this money, his roommate exclaimed, “Silver, baby!”

A friend had told him that gold and silver were at all time highs, and that he made a tidy profit heading to garage sales buying mismatched jewelry and selling it for scrap. In fact, Max’s friend had made $2,000 in profit that weekend.

This was in 2011, and Max was a broke college student who needed the money. Upon hearing about his friend’s success, he immediately begged for lessons.

He also studied up on his own. After going through countless YouTube videos and talking to a few old-timers at the local library’s coin club, Max charted a course of attack for his plan. He would spend Thursdays nights flipping through Craigslist to find weekend garage sales and mapping the best possible route to visit each of these places.

Starting with just $500, Max went on to make over $10,000 in profit in that summer. Hitting up garage sales over the past months taught him that competition was intense, and that he needed to hustle harder than anyone else if he wanted to do well. In fact, one of his most common experiences was showing up to a sale and finding out that someone else had bought the items he was looking for just hours earlier.

Looking back, Max says that the willingness to hustle was what set him apart. Not many people are willing to get up at 6am on a weekend and drive from house to house. His commitment to his craft has also left him with wild stories that he would never forget. One such experience was meeting a former nun at a garage sale who was selling some gold jewelry for just the price of $20. Max was honest: he told her that what she owned was worth at least $500—but she said she didn’t care because she was a communist! In the end, the goods changed hands for $40, which was all that Max had left in his pocket after making a bunch of other purchases.

These days, Max has followed true Side Hustle School fashion and shifted his focus over to sharing his knowledge. Although he now runs a car rental company for his day job, he remains passionate about the scrap business, and spends his spare time creating videos on YouTube to teach people the tricks of the trade. His channel—the SilverPicker—now has over 100,000 subscribers. As they say, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.

 

 

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Sports Cards Trading Hobby Becomes Pandemic Payday

What It’s About

A hobbyist hits a home run buying and reselling sports cards.

Words of Wisdom

Brad drops some important advice for those seeking to start a similar hustle, “Have a deep passion and sense of urgency for learning about the niche. Have immense will power and patience when it comes to investing. There are a ton of shiny distractions that are horrible investments. Don’t get trigger happy. Get excited to dive into the research.”

Fun Fact

The most expensive sports trading card ever solid is a 1952 Mickey Mantle baseball card. It sold for $5.2 million dollars in January 2021.

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Episode 1606
Brad de Comarmond describes his life as one big side hustle. While he makes his living mainly as a finance coach, he also dabbles in modeling and speaking—two activities that both took a big hit in 2020.

While looking for ways to pass the time in lockdown, he fell back into one of his childhood hobbies: trading collectible sports cards.

Brad had never lost his interest in sports, but the trading cards had sat on the bench since his teenage years. While he knew there were a few rare, vintage cards that were valued in the millions, he thought the hobby for the most part was child’s play—not a way to make a serious income.

Yet, a chance discussion with a childhood friend would soon prove him wrong…

That friend told Brad about COMC.com—the site stands for “check out my collectibles.” It’s a card trading platform that allowed remote sales and storage of trading cards. In other words, you could purchase, store and resell a card with them without it ever leaving their warehouse.

Instantly intrigued by this concept, Brad set himself a thirty day window to learn all there was to know about the world of trading cards. If, after that time was up he felt like it was a home run idea he’d throw himself in. If not, he’d forfeit his free agent rights and move on.

By the time his thirty day limit was up, he had the confidence to give card trading a shot, starting at the budget price of one hundred dollars. Although it wasn’t quite the big leagues, for Brad it was still game on.

Luckily for Brad, he is a sports fanatic and follows the industry closely. That helped him develop a sixth sense for what cards would do well and increase in value. This keen eye for value helped Brad sell over twenty thousand dollars worth of cards over the last twelve months. That’s been enough money to cover his living costs while his other work has been quiet.

But the best part is Brad feels like a kid again, and is actually making money while following his favorite sports teams.

 

 

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Q&A: Should I keep selling headphones or expand to new categories?

What It’s About

Today’s caller wants to know if they’re hearing the right potential reselling headphones.

Notes from Chris

Episode 1570

Welcome to a new week!

This listener has gone all-in with reselling headphones, and is making a good profit! Should they focus on this category and try to scale, *or* use what they’ve learned to enter other categories?

“Hi Chris this is Kelly from Detroit. I started reselling during the pandemic and have hit on a speciality item: headphones. I learned all about the various models, from Bose to Sony to the new Apple Airpods Max that cost way too much money. Believe it or not, even though those are really new, there’s already an active reseller market for them! I’m doing pretty well, bringing in around $1,500 a month in profit, but now it’s decision time: do I keep doing this (and potentially do it better, with more inventory), or do I take what I’ve learned and start selling items in other categories? I can see arguments both ways, so I know there are pros and cons … but if you had to choose, which is better?”

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