Today we have a special guest post from Stacy, one of our Flipper University students who remarkably funded an all-girls trip to Disneyland in just 12 days! Stacy is a part-time RN and has been rocking her flipping side hustle for the last year and a half. Stacy is a wife and a mother of 6 kids and has been completely debt free since 2016. She uses flipping as a way to save money for...
How I Quit My Job To Flip Flea Market Stuff Full-Time It's been three years since I originally wrote this post. Three years since I quit my job to flip flea market stuff full-time. First off, the three years have flown by. Our oldest was only three years old and now she just graduated from kindergarten! Next year we will have two kiddos in school full-time! It turns out quitting my job and focusing on flipping has been...
How To Create A Profitable Amazon FBA Business: The Selling Family's 6-Figure Success Today we have a special treat! Today we are going to take a little break from eBay and talk about Amazon FBA. Since we are full-time flippers, we get a lot of questions asking us about selling on Amazon. It's not something we've done before so we always refer them to The Selling Family who are the Amazon experts. Well today we have an interview...
2019 Flipping Challenge It's a new year and a time for a new flipping challenge! 2018 is now behind us, and it's time for the 2019 Flipping Challenge! Last year's flipping challenge didn't quite end up how we had planned. Once the last items sell we will have made close to $4,000 from $5, but we know we can do better! Check out our recap of the 2018 challenge to see the mistakes we made last year that...
Two Flea Market Flips Bring In $6,500 Last month we had two awesome sales within two weeks of each other. Two flea market flips that were a total investment of $325 that made us $6,500! That's a 2,000% return on investment! I stand by my statement that I don't know where else you can get these kinds of returns! These two items were lawn mowers. They were not just any run-of-the mill mowers, but commercial stand on...
127 Yard Sale: 11 Tips For A SuccessFul Trip 127 Yard Sale Highlights We just finished an epic yard sale. It wasn’t just one yard sale, but 690 miles of yard sales that spanned over 6 states and over 4 days! This yard sale was the 127 Yard Sale. In case you haven’t heard about it yet (we just learned about it 2 years ago), it’s a 690 mile stretch of yard sales that run from Gadsden, Alabama to Addison,...
$450 eBay Sale From a $50 OfferUp Find This week we had a great flip! We turned a $50 investment from OfferUp into a $450 eBay sale! Sourcing items from my La-Z-Boy is one of my favorite things to do! I love browsing OfferUp, Facebook Marketplace, Craigslist and LetGO when I have a few minutes of downtime in my day. I found these stilts on OfferUP for $65. I shot the guy an offer for $50 and he agreed...
eBay Local PickUp: How to Prevent Being Scammed We get this question all the time: "If I meet a buyer for eBay local pickup, am I covered? Are they able to scam me because there was no tracking number for the item?" Well, something similar recently happened to us, and we asked eBay the best way to handle it. Watch the video here First let me tell you what happened to us this week, then we will dive into...
eBay Item Returned Damaged? Here's What You Should Do. One big concern many resellers or potential resellers have is getting an eBay item returned damaged from a customer or be a different item then they originally shipped. Unfortunately some people do try to scam the system and send back their damaged items, but if the item is returned to you in a different condition then you sent it, you don't have to worry. You shouldn't have problems...
It's no secret that I love flipping items. But I especially love it when there are days like this one when a few flipping sales can equal a couple grand! This 24 hours had 3 items that sold, that equaled $2,400! That's a good day! All three items were bought from OfferUp. (It's starting to be one of my favorite places to buy things from!) Two of them sold on Facebook Marketplace and one on eBay. We have...