About the Thrifter's Field Guide
If you've tried before to find information on what sells on eBay, what items to buy at the thrift store, and come across semi-useful information like certain Remington pageant rollers, Starbucks city mugs, and vintage concert T-shirts, you might be wondering if people actually can or do make a living selling thrift store items on eBay. Yes, Virginia, full-time eBay sellers are real. So how can you become one? By having a proven strategy for success. This is a guide to what works for us.
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The Thrifter's Field Guide was developed to answer the question, "What can I sell on eBay?" The easy (and somewhat true) answer is anything. The better answer is almost any type of thing. It just has to be the right one of the type of thing. The Thrifter's Field Guide is a visual primer to being able to recognize the things that make money on eBay. It also gives tips for finding even more things. 2,800 things to be exact. Much of the online advice tells you to find your niche in order to be successful on eBay. Our niche is whatever makes money. There are not enough rollers, mugs, and T-shirts out there worth enough money to pay your bills (that was our goal).
There are over 2,800 sales and 1,550 photos listed in the Thrifter's Field Guide that are actual items we have sold on eBay from the time period August 2012 to May 2015 (incomplete Feb-May 2015, in progress --more about keeping current). This guide is for beginners as well as experienced thrifter flippers (we recognize them in the stores, and they walk by alot of this stuff all the time), Many of the items look like worthless junk. Browsing the guide, you will learn to recognize the types of things that we find over and over, the types of pre=owned products people regularly buy on eBay (and the surprising prices they go for), and tips for expanding your inventory potential. Each listing includes selling price and date. There will be multiple prices and dates for repeat items, often with additional information such as if the item was new or not working, what was included.
More about our sales
More about us
The Thrifter's Field Guide was developed to answer the question, "What can I sell on eBay?" The easy (and somewhat true) answer is anything. The better answer is almost any type of thing. It just has to be the right one of the type of thing. The Thrifter's Field Guide is a visual primer to being able to recognize the things that make money on eBay. It also gives tips for finding even more things. 2,800 things to be exact. Much of the online advice tells you to find your niche in order to be successful on eBay. Our niche is whatever makes money. There are not enough rollers, mugs, and T-shirts out there worth enough money to pay your bills (that was our goal).
There are over 2,800 sales and 1,550 photos listed in the Thrifter's Field Guide that are actual items we have sold on eBay from the time period August 2012 to May 2015 (incomplete Feb-May 2015, in progress --more about keeping current). This guide is for beginners as well as experienced thrifter flippers (we recognize them in the stores, and they walk by alot of this stuff all the time), Many of the items look like worthless junk. Browsing the guide, you will learn to recognize the types of things that we find over and over, the types of pre=owned products people regularly buy on eBay (and the surprising prices they go for), and tips for expanding your inventory potential. Each listing includes selling price and date. There will be multiple prices and dates for repeat items, often with additional information such as if the item was new or not working, what was included.
More about our sales
For more information on how you can use this guide, read the "Getting Started" section. Questions and suggestions welcome!
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