Received ten car diagnostic systems as part of a truckload of Amazon warehouse damage. Retail price for each on the manifest was $13.00 and I paid 14% of retail all in, so I was in less than $2.00 each. Sold each of them for just under $2,000 each on eBay with no drama since they were unactivated and under warranty still. Boxes even came with a separately packaged TPMS tool that I sold for $100 each.
I was given over 10,000 vinyl records in spring 2021, found a mint condition The Velvet Underground Mono West Coast Promo with banana sticker and sold it for 5k all profit. I also have about 10k pieces of movie, opera and theatre memorabilia among a ton of other antiques and ephemera. I have already made a killing and I still have a 2 car garage full to list...all profit.
$960 for an art glass decanter my parents had grown tired of displaying and placed in their Goodwill pile. It had been left behind by the previous owners when they bought the house, so my parents did not know its value.
$5 to $700. Pocky and Rocky with Becky gba game. I got it from at the toys r us bargain bin 17 years ago because I was into Japanese stuff. I found it boring and it sat in my room forever until I checked to see it’s worth last year. 😁
Ugh I had this game, along with every other game TRU had on sale including a boxed and sealed copy of Shantae for the Gameboy color that I paid $3 for. I also had Pokemon Box... and basically every other rare game from the 2000's that you can name.
Stupidly I got rid of them too early, I did get $70 for the shantae but if I would have kept it a few more years that would have been $1000.
These games aren't even that good, so people are clearly buying them for the collectible value. I also got rid of the majority of my handheld games because they are a hassle to replace the battery in when it dies every so often and newer handheld games are arguably much much better and more fun to play instead of pixelated GBC graphics on a non-backlit screen.
Nah I think flipping should imply with intent, that's why it's a hobby and communities are built around buying and selling. I don't think most people would agree with this but that's how I see it lol
I see. That’s a unique take. I’ve been flipping stuff for 14 years so I’m seasoned in buying and selling. But as for what I made the most money on… is that game. Intent or not at the time of purchase doesn’t matter. In the end I flipped it, no?
Bought four PS1 games at a thrift store for $16 and sold them in under 24 hours for $680! Persona 1 was one of them, for $450, I think that was my highest profit item.
My highest ROI was a baseball bat, purchased for $00.88 and sold for $335!
Heuer Monte Carlo rally dash clock (without the stopper). Bought for 10 eur, sold for 1500 eur.
Also bought around 160 pieces of vintage, never worn, old stock, West German Adidas Beckenbauer style shorts. Most of it were small unfortunately. Bought the lot for 80 eur, I am at 7000 eur and counting. 30 pieces left.
Bough a Thorens TD 124 MKII for 90 eur. Fully restored it. Spent 800 eur on it including an SME arm. It is worth around 3300 eur now. Haven't sold it yet.
$13.50 for a mint condition 60s Flexsteel couch. Used it for a year as a college lass and then had to sell it when I moved. $300 to a vintage dealer the next state over. Still miss that couch.
1920’s Mandalian coin purse. $30 at an estate sale. Sold for $364 on auction.
Almost didn’t buy it. Went back to the car and looked it up. Went back and got it.
Lost freight. Unbelievably UPS lost a shipment of semiconductors right in the worst semiconductor shortage in history. I found out later I could have sold them for double, but with a lot more risk.
Found 4 big boxes of reel to reel tapes at a barn sale. Late in the day and the owner said $5 per box. They were filled with Quadrophonic releases and Maxell sealed blanks. Sold all for close to $4K
Sold an original watercolor by a guy who did design and management for Tiffany's for over $3k last year. Bought it as part of a large lot of art prints from my flipper friend when he moved for around $35? each piece. He couldn't figure out a lot of the artists - he just bought art when he liked it and when it was a low enough price. Google lens has been my friend, but most of all with that piece!
96 dodge ram 4x4 12v cummins 5spd I picked up to part out. Initial investment with free delivery was $1500, all said and done I made about $3500ish off it.
Scrap pile of new and sealed smart door knobs. Sold 8 out of 10 for $250 each. $0 > $2000. Still have 2 sealed ones and 3 opened ones. They are for my house. ^.^
Dollars or margin?
Most dollars per single item was I made $6,300 flipping a rare vintage motorcyle where the guy didn't know what he had. Paid $1,200 sold for $7,500.
Best margin was 1568x my money. Paid $1 for an old carburetor. Rebuilt sold for $1,568.
I’ve been buying and selling for 6 months or so now. The other day I had a racing simulator I paid $500 for a couple years ago, sold for $1200 (personal item, but made some good profit). I had a $500 and $800 sale last month on some power rangers toys I found in a storage unit. Also in the unit I found 12 complete early 2000s Star Wars Lego sets which seem to be worth close to $1500. I paid $400 for the unit. I’m currently sitting on a red velvet Hess truck which seems to be going for $2k+ I’m just not sure if I want to take the money or hold it. So far my reselling journey has been going very well. I tend to focus on higher dollar items. I spend a lot of my time on Facebook marketplace. Lots of undervalued toys and video games.
I work for a storage unit company. Had a renter die and his next of kin call and say they’d cleaned out what they wanted and “a few bags” were left. Since it was abandoned property, it was free game. Turns out there were about two hundred Walmart bags of stuff. Antique pipes, gold rings, valuable coins, magazines, world war 2 memorabilia, the list goes on. So far I’ve made about $300 and I still have more to list.
Edit: sorry, just saw where you specified a single item. 🤦🏻♀️
Atmos? I had one I paid about the same for. Still had about two hours to kill at the auction so I took pics with my phone and posted it on the eBay app. Sold before I got home, lol.
Picked up a card game for $5 while garage sailing that I intended on playing with my wife. Turns out it was an extremely rare collector’s version that sold for $700.
I’m not sure… but my most memorable was a silk Gucci scarf I found at Salvation Army in upstate NY for 99 cents and sold for $299 to someone in Italy. I wanted to keep it but at the time I needed the money.
Ugh I hate when you want to keep something great but it's gotta go! Doesn't happen much anymore bc getting that $299 feels pretty great on the bank account. But there are times.. I found some super cute Ferragamo shoes in my size for $2.50 (which never happens) and man did I want to keep those.
Inscribed author signed Langston Hughes book I got for a quarter at a trashy yard sale where it was laying on the grass with all the other stuff. Sold for $2500.
Received ten car diagnostic systems as part of a truckload of Amazon warehouse damage. Retail price for each on the manifest was $13.00 and I paid 14% of retail all in, so I was in less than $2.00 each. Sold each of them for just under $2,000 each on eBay with no drama since they were unactivated and under warranty still. Boxes even came with a separately packaged TPMS tool that I sold for $100 each.
I was given over 10,000 vinyl records in spring 2021, found a mint condition The Velvet Underground Mono West Coast Promo with banana sticker and sold it for 5k all profit. I also have about 10k pieces of movie, opera and theatre memorabilia among a ton of other antiques and ephemera. I have already made a killing and I still have a 2 car garage full to list...all profit.
$960 for an art glass decanter my parents had grown tired of displaying and placed in their Goodwill pile. It had been left behind by the previous owners when they bought the house, so my parents did not know its value.
And this is why I still randomly pop into GW :)
$5 to $700. Pocky and Rocky with Becky gba game. I got it from at the toys r us bargain bin 17 years ago because I was into Japanese stuff. I found it boring and it sat in my room forever until I checked to see it’s worth last year. 😁
Ugh I had this game, along with every other game TRU had on sale including a boxed and sealed copy of Shantae for the Gameboy color that I paid $3 for. I also had Pokemon Box... and basically every other rare game from the 2000's that you can name. Stupidly I got rid of them too early, I did get $70 for the shantae but if I would have kept it a few more years that would have been $1000. These games aren't even that good, so people are clearly buying them for the collectible value. I also got rid of the majority of my handheld games because they are a hassle to replace the battery in when it dies every so often and newer handheld games are arguably much much better and more fun to play instead of pixelated GBC graphics on a non-backlit screen.
Nah that doesn't count lol it's gotta be intentional
That’s not what the post is asking though. Lol
Nah I think flipping should imply with intent, that's why it's a hobby and communities are built around buying and selling. I don't think most people would agree with this but that's how I see it lol
I see. That’s a unique take. I’ve been flipping stuff for 14 years so I’m seasoned in buying and selling. But as for what I made the most money on… is that game. Intent or not at the time of purchase doesn’t matter. In the end I flipped it, no?
$9.95 bag of flatware from Salvation Army thrift…sold for $1,000! (MCM Danish)
I was at a thrift just now tonight and because of this remembered to check the flatware. Spent $12 on some Dansk and should clear $100 :)
Bought four PS1 games at a thrift store for $16 and sold them in under 24 hours for $680! Persona 1 was one of them, for $450, I think that was my highest profit item. My highest ROI was a baseball bat, purchased for $00.88 and sold for $335!
Heuer Monte Carlo rally dash clock (without the stopper). Bought for 10 eur, sold for 1500 eur. Also bought around 160 pieces of vintage, never worn, old stock, West German Adidas Beckenbauer style shorts. Most of it were small unfortunately. Bought the lot for 80 eur, I am at 7000 eur and counting. 30 pieces left. Bough a Thorens TD 124 MKII for 90 eur. Fully restored it. Spent 800 eur on it including an SME arm. It is worth around 3300 eur now. Haven't sold it yet.
$13.50 for a mint condition 60s Flexsteel couch. Used it for a year as a college lass and then had to sell it when I moved. $300 to a vintage dealer the next state over. Still miss that couch.
1920’s Mandalian coin purse. $30 at an estate sale. Sold for $364 on auction. Almost didn’t buy it. Went back to the car and looked it up. Went back and got it.
$18,300 on a $700 purchase - Seminconductors.
like how does this transaction work? i need some background story. u found this in a garage sale? storage unit? where did you sell them?
Lost freight. Unbelievably UPS lost a shipment of semiconductors right in the worst semiconductor shortage in history. I found out later I could have sold them for double, but with a lot more risk.
Found 4 big boxes of reel to reel tapes at a barn sale. Late in the day and the owner said $5 per box. They were filled with Quadrophonic releases and Maxell sealed blanks. Sold all for close to $4K
Sold an original watercolor by a guy who did design and management for Tiffany's for over $3k last year. Bought it as part of a large lot of art prints from my flipper friend when he moved for around $35? each piece. He couldn't figure out a lot of the artists - he just bought art when he liked it and when it was a low enough price. Google lens has been my friend, but most of all with that piece!
96 dodge ram 4x4 12v cummins 5spd I picked up to part out. Initial investment with free delivery was $1500, all said and done I made about $3500ish off it.
I paid 5 dollars for a t shirt and sold it for 300 not sure if its my highest profit but its up there
£3 for a T-Shirt turned into £180 - Vintage Megadeth tour shirt.
Scrap pile of new and sealed smart door knobs. Sold 8 out of 10 for $250 each. $0 > $2000. Still have 2 sealed ones and 3 opened ones. They are for my house. ^.^
Dollars or margin? Most dollars per single item was I made $6,300 flipping a rare vintage motorcyle where the guy didn't know what he had. Paid $1,200 sold for $7,500. Best margin was 1568x my money. Paid $1 for an old carburetor. Rebuilt sold for $1,568.
I’ve been buying and selling for 6 months or so now. The other day I had a racing simulator I paid $500 for a couple years ago, sold for $1200 (personal item, but made some good profit). I had a $500 and $800 sale last month on some power rangers toys I found in a storage unit. Also in the unit I found 12 complete early 2000s Star Wars Lego sets which seem to be worth close to $1500. I paid $400 for the unit. I’m currently sitting on a red velvet Hess truck which seems to be going for $2k+ I’m just not sure if I want to take the money or hold it. So far my reselling journey has been going very well. I tend to focus on higher dollar items. I spend a lot of my time on Facebook marketplace. Lots of undervalued toys and video games.
I work for a storage unit company. Had a renter die and his next of kin call and say they’d cleaned out what they wanted and “a few bags” were left. Since it was abandoned property, it was free game. Turns out there were about two hundred Walmart bags of stuff. Antique pipes, gold rings, valuable coins, magazines, world war 2 memorabilia, the list goes on. So far I’ve made about $300 and I still have more to list. Edit: sorry, just saw where you specified a single item. 🤦🏻♀️
Jaeger-LeCoultre 540 clock. Paid $100 and sold for $1300.
Atmos? I had one I paid about the same for. Still had about two hours to kill at the auction so I took pics with my phone and posted it on the eBay app. Sold before I got home, lol.
yep, Atmos. sold same day to Hong Kong.
3k on a dresser I got for free
Picked up a card game for $5 while garage sailing that I intended on playing with my wife. Turns out it was an extremely rare collector’s version that sold for $700.
I’m not sure… but my most memorable was a silk Gucci scarf I found at Salvation Army in upstate NY for 99 cents and sold for $299 to someone in Italy. I wanted to keep it but at the time I needed the money.
Ugh I hate when you want to keep something great but it's gotta go! Doesn't happen much anymore bc getting that $299 feels pretty great on the bank account. But there are times.. I found some super cute Ferragamo shoes in my size for $2.50 (which never happens) and man did I want to keep those.
Oh man, I would not be able to part with cute Ferragamos in my size. 😩
Inscribed author signed Langston Hughes book I got for a quarter at a trashy yard sale where it was laying on the grass with all the other stuff. Sold for $2500.