This thread is for you to talk about anything and everything. It can be flipping related, but it doesn't have to be.

Whatever you want to know about flipping, no matter the question, ask here. Even if it's been covered 1,000 times before. Doesn't matter if you're new or old. If you stop learning things, you're probably on your way out.

-If you're completely new to flipping, I highly recommend checking out our Noob Guide for some basic information about flipping to get you started!

-If you're wondering about how to start selling your thrift finds online, check out this Complete Beginner's Guide to Ebay

-If you're wondering about how to start sending and selling books through Amazon check out this Beginner's guide to flipping books with FBA

-If you're wondering about what kind of stuff our members buy & sell, check out our previous Weekly Haul and Flip of The Week threads.

This is an extremely newb-friendly thread. As such, any rudeness is to be reported.

Some guy messaged me on FBMP to purchase a console. His English was a bit broken but I understood him well enough. When I asked where he wanted to meet up, he requested that I come to his house to test the console. I refused and told him that I would send him a video of it working, but he offered me even more money to come to his house. After I declined again he ghosted.

Do you guys think this was a scam? I've sold a few consoles before and never had this issue, has this ever happened to you? Should I have included a video of the console working in the listing? What should I do better next time? T-T

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It was an immediate sale so I was curious and ended up spending a few hours trying to figure out why it sold so fast.

Would you still ship it out or cancel and risk getting a negative? I could use the money but this hasn't really happened to me before. I'm conflicted.

Thanks for any assistance 🙏

Curious to get some thoughts from other small engine flippers. Some equipment is rough!!!! So much so, it would be a money pit to try and place the equipment back in service. However there may be good tires and an engine that runs after you clean the carb, etc.

For these mowers that are worth little more than engine swapping, do you find more demand for the engine or the engine and mower?

I show all my running equipment running with video to demonstrate they’re not buying total junk.

For these mowers I list it for parts or engine swap, so no one gets the wrong idea that this is something they can mow with as is.

My full time 9-5 is sales and today I closed a decent sized deal I’d been waiting on for months that will be making me $5-6k in commission and when my boyfriend got home he pointed out that I was 10x more excited about a shirt I told on eBay today that I thrifted Saturday 😭😆🤷

There is a place near me that rents out 8x8 booths. The store is open 6 days a week and a booth rents for $130 a month, plus an additional 13% of your sales. You are not required to stay with your items, only to come in at least once a week to freshen up your booth and keep your booth stocked and tagged. All sales are made at the front of the store. Most of the booths are antiques and other little knickknacks, but my booth would be a little different, lots of clothes, some electronics and anything else I can find cheap and flip. Does this sound like something that could be viable and worth looking into? Not having to spend countless hours listing items, fielding messages and dealing with postage/meet ups sounds really appealing to me getting started.

I just started buying and selling phones. And would love to meet new buyers.

Plus-Sized Polos

Sounds obvious that big-and-tall clothes should sell for more, since they aim at a narrower market and comprise more material, but my tally of the 75 sales showed an interesting bell-curvy representation of sizing.

• Small: 2
• Medium: 8
• Large: 19
• Extra Large: 13
• 2XL: 11
• 3XL: 9
• 4XL: 10
• 5XL: 1
• 6XL: 2

Predictable to see Large, XL, and 2XL in the top three—but it was surprising to see 4XL coming in fourth, skipping 3XL and Medium. (Note: I know this tally doesn’t add up to 75; some of the listings were wholesale lots with varying sizes, so I left them out.)

Camouflage Pattern

Prior to reselling, I’d have said there’s three types of camoflage: jungle, desert, and snow kinds. Turns out there’s more. Even just the greeny-brown ones. “Breakup” camoflage, for forestry with lotsa sticks, “splinter” and “woodlan” and “flecktarn.” Whatever the case: that pattern sells well. Often across brands. Terapeak, a researching tool for eBay storeowners, shows 19,639 Polo Ralph Lauren polo shirts (for Golfing) sold in the past 90 days.

At an average cost of $22.

When running the same search, only adding the word “camo,” we see the average sale price jump to $38.

Not exactly a gold rush, but it’s a better trend than your typical row of PRL.

Terry Cloth

Pretty discreet, since they look like any other PRL shirt from a distance, but once you touch it you’ll know the difference.

Better known as a coveted material for bathrobes, absorbant and insulating, terry fabric is soft in a way that makes you feel guilty. But terry manifests another quality that drives huge sales across all brands of menswear: convenience. They’re easy to clean and they hold their shape and they last a long time. You’ll find in other brands, like Banana Republic, that their best-selling menswear lines have names like Wrinkle Free and Non-Iron and Stain Resistant and Built to Last. Men are statistically more likely to buy a shirt that promises it’ll be a long time before they have to buy another shirt. (Also worth noting: Ralph Lauren’s Terry Polo retails for $380.)

Rugby

Ask an eBay seller, “What’s a rugby shirt?” Bring lunch. It’s like asking Walt Whitman what grass is: they’ll tell you they have no idea, and then talk for nine pages.

According to one clear-headed source: a rugby shirt is basically a polo, but with a stiffer collar, and ideally made of sturdier material.

“Rugby shirts,” whatever they are, constitute some of the better-selling Ralph Lauren polos.

On the left, we see a promotional photo for POLO BY RALPH LAUREN rugby shirts. On the right we see the logo for something completely different: a polo by Ralph Lauren called RALPH LAUREN RUGBY.

Where it gets confusing is, for the most part, a rugby shirt has long sleeves. Not all rugby-themed PRL shirts have long sleeves. In fact, most of the polos that sell as “rugby shirts” do not have long sleeves. (According to Terapeak: searching “Polo Ralph Lauren rugby shirt” with filters Mens Polo, Longsleeve, Polo Ralph Lauren shows an average sale price of $33.)

However, between 2004 and 2013 there was a line called Rugby Ralph Lauren. It’s discontinued and, as of this year, the line is technically vintage. (Rugby Ralph Lauren polo shirts have an average sale price of $40, according to Terapeak.)

What seems to generally be meant by “polo shirt” is a long-sleeve polo with horizontal stripes. Sometimes there’s an embroidered number on the sleeve and/or back. Also, while Polo Ralph Lauren typically sports a pony logo on the left breast, over the heart, the “rugby” themed shirts often have a crest of some kind on the right breast.

Honestly Just Long Sleeves in General

Didn’t even know they made em this way. Literally just a standard Ralph Lauren polo shirt and collar, just the leeves are long, and seem to usually have an elastic cuff. They also seem to mostly be vintage. Terapeak says the average sale price is $30, which gets in line with my own observations (i.e. about 50% more than the average polo shirt).

AOP

Stands for “all-over pattern,” which means the shirt has some kind of graphic that repeats all over the shirt. Pineapples are popular but, passing no judgment, it might be worth noting that pineapple-themed clothing is also a low-key signal used by swingers. Not sure how you might tilt your keywords toward that demo, but let me know if you try.

The Right-chest Crest

Opposite the pony logo, usually part of a sports theme, I noticed that RLP polos with a crest generally sold for more money than most others; Terapeak backs this up, showing they have an average sale price of $32, ten bucks higher than the standard polo.

Hey everyone! I know I know another Rolex flipping post. This has been my dream for years and would love to make it a reality. I currently sell seikos on eBay for a bit of profit but want to step things up a bit. Does anyone here do this successfully? Are there specific reference numbers you only look for? I just applied for an ein # to hopefully get access to more funds. Any advice would be greatly appreciated, thank you!

Hello Folks!

I have a contact with a shirts/suits/etc fabric that produces for few nice brands including NUS, Dielmar and so on.

The quality and variety of the products is good and i have access of fabric prices for the pieces (and i never asked if bought more quantity would be cheaper).

I usually buy few pieces that i want for myself and bring few extra that after i sell i don't pay my own and many times can get some profit.

I was wondering if i could sell them in Amazon or other place and what would be the better way to do it.

Thanks for your opinions and advices.

I have been looking to take a few trips to Bin Shops in the EU but they are really hard to find / research, anyone know any?

Hi! I don't know where I should post this question but I'm asking it here because there is probably a lot of overlap(if you know where I should post instead please do tell). I have been really successful on depop and have so much inventory that I want to get into vending at flea markets.

I live in lower OC so I am trying to strategically pick places that will make the drive worth it. So far Silverlake seems like the best option because 1) its weekly Fri-Sun, 2)its well known, 3) it seems to match my demographic (I sell women's trendy vintage/ clothing).

If you have been a vendor there before:

Hows the crowd size/demographic? What do you sell?

Is there a lot of competition?

If you don't mind sharing - how much in sales do you average in a day?

Overall would you recommend it?

Also if you have any other suggestions on markets or fleas in or around OC please let me know! I haven't been able to find any that seem to match my audience(trendy vintage womens clothing (around college/post-college age)).

TLDR: If you have flea market experience or advice please share:)

If you didn't see my last post, I have a buyer who's interested in local pickup. I added that as an option to the listing and sent the offer to the buyer, however it's still showing on Ebay that the item is to be shipped. I have a feeling the buyer was supposed to select local pickup instead of shipping, but they didn't. Can I still go through with the pickup and just mark it as shipped through ebay?

Recently bought a motherload of circuit boards plus a few motors. Heard Atlanta scrapyards pay well, but I’d rather not drive that far, nor scrap these items if someone would buy them at proper value. Very busy and don’t feel like I have the time to post each individual item on FBM or the like, any recommendations to sell in bulk or something to quickly get them off my hands? I’m trying to get some spring cleaning done!

I'm back 3 years later after my OG post to give some quick & updated takes on reselling-themed YouTube channels.

Do you watch any of the below pickers? Anyone I missed that I should check out?

OG post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Flipping/comments/k2ugoh/quick_takes_on_the_youtube_resellers/

• ADHDave - Guy is a bit of a disaster, but that's his brand. Good entertainment value, and often a good channel to watch to learn what not to do.
• American Arbitrage - Specializes in sports cards and collectibles. He's 1/3 of the Trash to Cash Podcast crew, which I find to be one of (and maybe the only) entertaining pods focused on reselling. Picks with his partner, Dawn, who seems to be a competent overall reseller.
• Bearded Thrift Machine - Julian and his partner are pretty great. They pick a wide variety of dude stuff (tools, outdoor gear, golf clubs) and lady things (jewelry, purses, clothes).
• Bonafide Hustler - Enjoy watching because he's usually out picking in my town. Seemingly good knowledge of larger items like bikes and antique booth items. Constantly trying to hock his online guides
• Cincinnati Picker - If it ain't broke, don't fix it. John posts less frequently (maybe due to seasonality) but has otherwise maintained the same approach for years. A seemingly affable and humble kitchen sink picker.
• Commonwealth Picker - Kevin has essentially launched a picking brand empire. Enjoy his banter and he's generally knowledgable across several categories.
• Craigslist Hunter - Still subscribed but mostly stopped watching. (My personal preference has been to watch folks who go out picking versus running a brick and mortar store.)
• Flipping Junk - Subscribed but rarely watch. Seems to have good content overall, but I prefer pickers in the streets versus Goodwill.
• Florida Pickers - Picking power couple who seem to be amiable and pragmatic. Very relatable and honest in their encounters.
• Froggy Flips - I don't really watch him anymore, as his content seems to have pivoted to collector conventions and private picks. I prefer watching people finding stuff in the streets, not stuff that's hand delivered to them.
• Golden State Picker - Still subscribed but mostly stopped watching. Lots of good info and philosophies, but typically shoots out of one location (his garage) and videos tend to be long-winded.
• Kurt Curtis - Used to really enjoy his old content, but has now pivoted to card collector content.
• Midwest Picker - Subscribed but rarely watch unless the headline or thumbnail catches my fancy.
• Nic & Andrea Hills - Subscribed but rarely watch unless the headline or thumbnail catches my fancy.
• Old School Picker - Think he's stopped creating new content for now.
• One Foot Flipper - Subscribed and watch occasionally. Tends to make gimmicky, clickbaity videos, but appreciate his approach to things.
• Osborn2Thrift - Think he's stopped creating new content for now.
• Patrick the Picker - Think he's stopped creating new content for now.
• Philly Phlipper - Channel misnomer since he's relocated to Florida. He's generally likable, but his banter starts to feel stale when you realize he uses the same 4-5 lines in every video.
• Picking and Punching - Dig most of his videos, but some of his advice might be obvious to experienced resellers. Not a huge fan of flea market content in general, but that's just my personal preference.
• Prime Time Treasure Hunter - Dom seems to have scaled back his YouTube involvement. Still the master of comics and estate sale tips and tricks.
• Profit Monsters - Subscribed but rarely watch unless the headline or thumbnail catches my fancy.
• Profit Picker - Really enjoyed his old content but rarely posts anymore.
• Pro Picker - Your everyday "got any video games?" low-hanging fruit reseller. The type of picker who might early bird a garage sale to grab a stack of low value pop culture tchochkes/gaming stuff, only to miss the real treasures. He and his partner seem like decent people, but the over-reliance on video game stuff is boring.
• Ready Set Resell - Doesn't post as frequently, but a fountain of knowledge around clothes reselling.
• RK Treasure Center - Still subscribed but mostly stopped watching.
• Ronnie Bizzle TV - Channel seems to have pivoted away from reselling content.
• Rudy Works - Really enjoy his garage sale/estate sale adventures in SoCal (maybe because I miss living there). Doesn't post as frequently any more.
• Shad Juice - Channel has been mostly inactive and pivoted toward health and lifestyle updates.
• Shed Flips - The seminal channel based out of a shed that influenced so many others. Lonnie & Candace keep it simple with pull and pack videos. They approach reselling in a way that has a universal appeal to all levels of pickers.
• Team Resell - Retro hounds w/what I find to be an unsettling energy and jittery camera presence.
• Tennessee Picker - Posts infrequently now, but I did enjoy his garage sale exploits. Wide range of knowledge and generally amiable fella.
• Tesla Picker - Posts infrequently now. Was one of my favorites when his channel was active.
• The Art of Resell - Seems to be more interested in becoming a YouTube star than a pro reseller -- every one has different motivations and that's ok. Editing is generally fresh. He loses me when he starts hocking his Whatnot shows.
• The Auction Professor - Posts less frequently now. Kind of miss his ranting and raving about eBay. Prickly and condescending at all times.
• The Curious Picker - Channel has gone inactive, but was a good watch while it lasted.
• The Dude Flips - A newer one that I started watching but doesn't post frequently.
• The Homeschooling Picker - Most videos feature her new love interest and fellow Youtuber, Matt the Part Time Picker. They seem to be having fun and enjoying each other's company. Pretty knowledgable across the board and generally likable personalities.
• The Nurse Flipper - Still subscribed but mostly stopped watching.
• The Picking Gilla - Another everyday "got any video games?" low-hanging fruit reseller. Not sure I really learn much from this channel, but overall the content is good enough. Starting to pimp the Whatnot stuff, which is a red flag for me.
• Thrift Nice - A polite and affable picker who specializes in clothing and retro stuff.
• ThriftSchool - One of the first resell channels I started watching, but posts fairly infrequently these days.
• Treasure Hunt PA - Don't watch frequently but tends to pick a lot of clothes, sports, and pop culture stuff.
• Vincents Valuables - Channel has gone inactive, but was a good watch while it lasted.
• X's House Hustles - Another everyday "got any video games?" low-hanging fruit, pop culture reseller.

Hi all,

I've been an avid estate sale shopper for years, and have done the odd flip here and there on ebay but am looking to actually dive in and give this side hustle a fighting chance.

As i've been hunting for inventory, I keep running across silver and silverplate - dishes, bowls, candlesticks, serving pieces etc... My question is, is this worth anything in general? Have you had much luck in reselling silver? What are some things to look out for or avoid?

For example: There's a guy near me on fb right now selling 100 various silver pieces for 80 bucks. I'm like, is he just getting rid of stuff he doesn't want and maybe inherited or is it all just pretty but worthless?

thanks!

Hey guys! So I've been planning for a while to sell vintage clothing and vinyls in some sort of small-scale pop-up store here in Sweden. I've got most of it figured out, but going around vintage stores and flea markets here doesn't provide enough items to sell. So I've been looking for suppliers for a quite a while. My question to you are, is it worth ordering bulk packages? Do you have any recommendations on suppliers, because I got very little knowledge about foreign suppliers? I need some help starting this project up, i'm willing to take all information you got for me!

I got a letter saying to take the packaging to the nearest post office.

But I sent this item to the buyer, who claimed it was damaged. So I don't have the box?

So I typically like to meet people in public to inspect items before purchasing. The past couple of days I’ve had sellers tell me (same line). I’m going out of town, and can leave items in my mailbox in a gated community. They then ask me to send half payment as a deposit to get address. I’ve seen another thread on here with others saying that porch sales are pretty common. I’m buying pretty expensive phones, doesn’t seem that safe/secure to me. Any thoughts.

2 weeks ago we shipped a $140 item to a customer. They messaged several days later to say "tracking shows delivered but I don't have it!".

When I checked tracking, it showed "delivered, left with neighbor as requested". When I relayed that to the buyer, they sent back an angry note, "send another. Neighbor doesn't have it and I didn't ask post office to deliver there."

So I gave them the standard line about checking with their carrier or local PO. Just got another angry response in return. "Send a replacement!"

This sounded like total BS, but I went ahead and filed a trace with USPS and before the day was over, a very pleasant person from the recipient's PO called and said they would look into it and call back in 3 days. She also made a point to day, "it's really odd that the customer hasn't contacted us...The shippers rarely do." I messaged the buyer with an update - no answer.

Fast forward 3 days and the PO called back and explained that the "neighbor" is actually the main office for a group of businesses at that address, and they have a longstanding policy of delivering everything to that one office. They also had the GPS info for the package. The letter carrier also confirmed delivery.

Long story short, USPS absolutely nailed this one and I was blown away by the level of service. Of course the buyer has never answered any of my messages and most likely found the package but can't admit they were wrong.

I just happened to be going over my sold orders when I noticed one that was mailed over a month ago has not been delivered yet. I checked the tracking and it has not updated in weeks. I spoke to the courier company I used and they reached out to post Canada and concluded the package must be lost. I had taken out insurance on the shipment so I can get my money back if I put in a request.

My concern is that the buyer has never contacted me, nor opened a ticket. For all I know the package was delivered but just never scanned into the system. Should I reach out to the buyer and offer a refund, or will that just be inviting problems and possible negative feedback. Or should I just wait until the customer brings up the issue?

Hello, so the thing is, I've sold a phone on ebay, buyer received it and then he open a return saying he received a damage and empty box without phone, so he said ups stole the phone, I open a claim on ups, they tried to reach the buyer by the phone two time but they never answer the call, ups close the claim because they could not contact the buyer, I open another claim and again the same, they tried to contact the buyer but was no possible so they close the claim again, I asked the buyer for his phone number to give it to ups, they said "I'll contact ups myself and tell them what happened", but the buyer never contacted ups. so what I can do in this case, did someone got into something similar?

If so, what kind of items would fall under this category? I'd assume larger/bulkier items that are not reasonable to ship, but is there anything else?

Background on me: I have zero experience flipping. I've sold used things of my own in eBay for 15 years. Not often, a few books or electronics a year.

I found what seems to be too good to be true. I bought a couple ~40 year old books that are part of a series with about 30 volumes. I bought for my own enjoyment, not to flip. I am trying to get the full set eventually. Every year the author released another volume. It's a history book. He retired a few years ago. In my searching I see that the complete series now sells for about $1000 but I am able to buy individual volumes on eBay for like $20.

Why can't I just buy up all the $20 volumes and sell complete series for $1000. Seems too easy. What am I missing? Are there many book series like this? Is there a successful strategy in buying individual books and reselling as complete collections? Is it harder than it seems?

What'd ya get? How'd ya get it? What do you plan to do with it?

I'd like to encourage people to revisit this thread occasionally for as long as it's still on the front page. Sort by New so that latecomers aren't left out. Obviously, if this is a few pages back, you're probably better just waiting for next week's thread. You'll see that I've also changed the title to Weekly instead of Weekend so people don't hesitate to post what they found on a Wednesday.

Further, if I see haul posts outside of this thread, I'm removing them. Feel free to report them if you see them.

Whatever you want to know about flipping, no matter the question, ask here. Even if it's been covered 1,000 times before. Doesn't matter if you're new or old. If you stop learning things, you're probably on your way out.

-If you're completely new to flipping, I highly recommend checking out our Noob Guide for some basic information about flipping to get you started!

-If you're wondering about how to start selling your thrift finds online, check out this Complete Beginner's Guide to Ebay

-If you're wondering about how to start sending and selling books through Amazon check out this Beginner's guide to flipping books with FBA

-If you're wondering about what kind of stuff our members buy & sell, check out our previous Weekly Haul and Flip of The Week threads.

This is an extremely newb-friendly thread. As such, any rudeness is to be reported.

Hi all, I'm curious how to go about this. I have a buyer interested in an item, and they live close by and want to pick it up at a small discount, but I'd still be making more because I won't have to pay shipping (I have it set to free shipping). I just don't know how to go about it on the ebay side of things? Do I delete the listing and do the full transaction outside of ebay? Or is there a way to mark it as delivered on my end without entering tracking information? Thanks in advance.

This is a call for all Flippers to contact eBay and ask them to fix UPS’s shipping quotes. Whether you use UPS or not your help is greatly needed.

UPS is putting surcharges on packages for something they call “billable weight”. This should be a non issue since when getting a shipping quote sellers are putting in the weight and all dimensions of their packages. This is nothing more than a bait and switch after a service has been completed. I can personally tell you right now if any company said an item was $10 and after you left charged your account $25 they would not be in business long.

Sellers need to continue to work together to make eBay a reliable way to sell our products. Unfortunately, eBay and UPS won’t address this issue unless all of us complain. I’m asking all sellers to report this issue anyway they can. Call / text customer service or social media outlets would be best.

I've been selling video games consoles on Kijiji and FB Marketplace and I'm looking to expand and grow past these two markets. I tried eBay and Amazon but they take too much percentage to be profitable. Is there any other market I could grow? Any other form on advertising? Instagram perhaps? Located in Canada.