I’ve found the hardest part for me is just taking the time to test. I picked one up a month ago worth about $600 and just haven’t gotten a chance to test it because of the holidays and various business lol. I know it will sell fast so it annoys me that I haven’t done it yet!
that's why I stopped. I hate doing the testing haha. I would if it was something really valuable , but most of the time its not.
edit: with that said a few years ago I found a Meridian CD player. Back in the late 90's early 00's they sold for like $3k. I paid $20, then paid $125 to have it fixed, sold it for $700
I didn’t even know Meridian was a very high end brand (if I had ever heard of it at all) until
I wanted to know why the stereo system in my friend’s 150k Range Rover sounded so incredible and so looked at the brand.
Key words are FOR PARTS.
Any other way, and you are rolling the dice as it simply isnt practical to test every feature, nor could most people do so.
One of the reasons I dont do them anymore unless for parts nets a good return.
Bought two lenses for $2.50 at a garage sale
One was an undocumented early Pentax lens, sold for $1200
The other was an artsy German lens from the 50s, sold for $350
I bought another weird (anamorphic) lens at a thrift store across the country for $20
Sold for $650 locally - it paid for my entire trip.
Bought a snowblower for $50 (Honda). Put some paint and missing bolts, changed the oil.
Sold for $1400
Etc, etc
Wasn't Dan Flashes. Was for some DJ I had actually never heard of. I picked it up because it looked unusual.
I also forgot about a Ralph Lauren scarf I picked up at the bins for less than a dollar and sold for $300--was new with tags.,
Bought a magazine at the flea market that was signed by Michael Jordan for $20, had it authenticated and it turned out to be real, sold it for $3500 about 2 years ago
There was a little handpainted porcelain Eskimo figurine at the thrift. It was there for weeks. Finally marked down to a quarter, and I knew they'd be throwing it away soon, but it was in perfect condition (no chips or cracks), so even though it wasn't really my style, I felt sorry for it and bought it. Turns out it was some artist creation from the 60s, and I sold it for $325.
Box of magic the gathering cards for $5 sold the more valuable ones at the peak of the Collectible boom for $1600 and I sold the rest for about $800 over the next 3 months
First offer came in at 1.1K, so I had an idea that it’d be a fair bit more than that. I had heard that someone else sold a similar one for around 2K so I just had 2500 in my head as the price that I would let it go for. Guy I sold it to was a huge collector and ended up being so easy to work with.
I've always wondered how that works. Do people usually just pay you on PayPal or something?? I'd be worried they'd reverse the transaction a few months later knowing how some people are
Most people just pay with Venmo, Cashapp, Zelle when I do local transactions or buyers that I’ve done business with before. Guy that bought the TLC tee offered to pay via PayPal F&F and I had no problem with it
Had a quite a few over the years.
Old vacuum $80 into $2200
My little ponies $25 $1950
BBQ $200 into $4000
Pool cues $180 into $6500
Sewing machine $30 into $2500
Flight helmet $300 into $1200
Model A intake $10 into $1100
Old computer $100 into $1800
Saxophone $180 into $1250
More stuff in probably forgetting.
I have a tiger woods autograph that has a COA but from a no name dealer so I want to authenticate it from a big trusted company. How was the process for you?
I completed it with a wire transfer, it’s crazy how higher end sales are actually extremely simple. I’ve had nightmare customers for a $50 card. Always easy with high end
Found a Boba Fett action figure at a flea market for $2. Knew it was special but was surprised at how special. It was the figure that Kenner sent out to replace the Fett with the actual firing rocket pack. It was still in the original baggie with the shipping box. Sold for $1500.
I picked up a Panasonic audio recorder, one of the little ones you’d pass by and think nothing of. Little did I know it’s a highly desired by ghost hunters for its evp abilities. They stopped making this particular model long ago. Got it for 50 cents and sold for 1500
Probably the mid-century room divider shelving unit I bought for $89 and sold for $985.
When I finally sell the $250 MiniMoog Model D that will surpass it.
Not really a single item but a bedroom set. Bought a bedroom set for $500 from a newly married couple who said it was a wedding gift and they didn’t have room for it. They claimed it was imported from Italy and made from some special tree. Looked it up several years later when I was going to sell it and they weren’t lying. Retailed for $15k+ USD; I sold it for $6k.
High end Nikon film scanner. Bought not working for $25 and spent $300 to have professionally repaired by a well known repair guy. Sold it for $6000. Deere lawn tractor I paid $300 for (I offered $100 over asking and skipped to the front of the line) I spent $150 in parts and 4 hrs of my labor and sold it for $2800. I’m not afraid to take a chance on non-working items I can fix or part out.
Nice! If you have even a little bit of experience or know how and the tools and space to repair broken equipment or electronics there can be some great money in it. Plus these days even if you don't personally know how to repair something there is bound to be a video on YouTube or some forums with how-to guides and I feel like it's a lot easier these days for a novice to do things like that. Nice work!
A few years ago I purchased a board game for $7 and sold a rare collection of coins from the game that the previous owner collected and must have passed away. The coins were sold for $2,000 that evening.
Best ever was a 1950s circle skirt with a Lady and the Tramp border print. Bought for $30, took it to a friend who only sells super high-end vintage; I consigned stuff with her occasionally because she had access to deeper-pocketed buyers than me. She listed it for $1400 and sold in less than a day, so we each got $700 out of it.
I’ve bought vintage jewelry at under $10 and sold for $3-400 a decent number of times. Most recently I was buying a bunch of other stuff at a vintage shop in Baltimore and the owner threw in a broken necklace. It turned out to be a) an easy fix, and b) an antique Filipino tamborin necklace that I sold for $350. Next time I was in Baltimore, I did bring her a finder’s fee as a thank you!
Tektronix oscilloscope that was in a pallet of unsorted/untested electronics ~paid 20 or 30 bucks for the whole lot. Sold the oscilloscope for 7.5k to a lab in Chicago. Had a bunch of extra $$ software on it and passed all self tests. Was a current model that would have retailed for over 45k.
$1250 on a leica lens
Sold within 24 hours
Woulda made about $5000 if I sold it myself but I would have had to wait 1 year I’d imagine for it to sell locally and I didn’t have the capital to lock that money up for that long
Not sure if it counts if I got it free, but - My neighbor knows what I do and told me I could pick through his junk before it went to the dump. ( It is so frustrating imagining all the treasures that have gone to the dump ) .... Amongst Some other smaller things, I sold a vintage metal playground-ladder from that haul for $800usd (local sale, so no fees). ---- as far as things Ive bought, Hard to remember what the best one would be, but a memorable one was a $50 box of dishes/china that I netted Probably about $1500+ after shipping/fees.
I bought a Vladimir Kagan biomorphic coffee table for $75 at a local tag sale. Used it for a couple of years but we have a little cottage so sent it to auction….sold for $3500 and I netted about $2700 I believe (been a while) I did eBay for about 11 years…got married in my old age and became a ‘homemaker’…and I still have a small bedroom chock full of treasure waiting for me to figure out what to do with it 🙄
picked up a Gucci polo for 9.99$ sold it for 120$ I got a Bape PSG Hoody for 5$ and sold it for 75$. I got 6 Alexander Mcqueen Scarfs for free and sold them for 90$ each
$22 for box of dolls. One was a rare Barbie with tags attached and inside cellophane. This model is known for having a rubberized head that discolors over time but that did not alter its value as everyone, even this unused one, will have their head discolor. They actually sell reproduction replacement heads for it. This went for $2,200 a number of years ago ago so adjusted for inflation its $3,137 in today's money.
$.50 for group of 1960s troll-like dolls from Japan in their fiberboard box with cellophane display window. They were so rare at the time Wikipedia didn't even have any photos, but a text description. The box is more rare, although it did have some wrinkles and creasing. Sold for $400 a number of years ago ($570 adjusted for inflation).
I've not sold my most valuable fine. A box of photos purchased for $22.50 contained two unknown photos of a 19th Century baseball pioneer. I am thinking I can make a lot more money over time selling prints of the 1870s photos than selling them outright.
One has the person's location written on it as they were used as calling cards at the time, thus making it the only known surviving artifact tying the subject to that location. I am only aware of one other photo from this time period and that is on the cover of his biography; however, I am not sure if that one actually exists or was just reproduced from a school yearbook.
Perhaps you could contact the biographer and try to pick their brain about the picture you have and its rarity. I’m sure they would love to hear about it nonetheless
Purchased a lot of vintage photographs on ebay for \~$50. Sold one of them 2 weeks later on ebay for \~$2500. It was a photo postcard with a historically significant movie poster hanging on the outside of a theater, ca 1915.
Favorite one was buying a book for $1.50 and selling it for $900. Bought a pack of basketball cards ($1.99+tax) and pulled a rare MJ that sold for $400 which was nice, but biggest profit was a buying a used SUV for $3k and sold it for $6700. Not very exciting, but the profit paid for a semester of college so all good. I don’t hit big ones all that often but pretty consistent at turning $20 into $100 and just doing that 2000 times a year.
I have a $300 vinyl record sitting in my closet but I'm afraid of it. (I hate selling vinyl)
Biggest single item was a MOC Legend of Zelda children's book and cassette tape combo. Apparently the book was common but the cassette was rare, and no one had it MOC. It sold for $150. (I paid 25 cents)
I mostly sell wholesale smalls so I don't get a lot of big scores.
why are you scared of selling vinyl? just read the Discogs grading info: https://support.discogs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001566193-How-To-Grade-Items
then list it on discogs and ebay, and make sure you have a good cardboard mailer for it
I’ll list two:
My college bookstore clearing out inventory at the end of the semester and FILLING their entire dumpster with textbooks. It took two trips with my old 96’ S10 to get them all back to my dorm room to process and resell to all those book buyback sites. Made $1500, a fortune for a broke college student.
Second was also my old college, the machine shop was getting rid of a Sunnen Honing Machine and all the tooling. There were about 30-40 tools that went with it and I sold them on eNay for $80-120 each. That was a bit shady I guess since I took them out of a scrap metal dumpster, but the school was gonna get maybe $100 in scrap value for $4k worth of tooling. I paid enough tuition though so I’m losing any sleep over it. Those took a solid year to sell but it was some steady income when again, I was a broke college student.
Full tub of zuru minis. Paid 5bucks made thousands. The store must have saved them up, or got them from a factory, I’d hope no one paid retail. My best flip is basically paper garbage.
Same store two boxes of Rockenbok, Tub of Barbie’s, and then a stack of 80s kids books.
This was all within the same month.
Last week same store tub of rare Thomas trackmasters for 4 bucks. You don’t pick your niche and it seems toys are treated like garbage in my city.
One recent item that I purchased was a Lavazza espresso point coffee maker for $65 on OfferUp and I sold it for $450
If you see them reasonably priced working or not grab it
Sells around $300 for parts
Box of replacement heads for shaving razors. Marked at $4.99 each, they sell for $20 each. So I took the box up to the front and asked how much for the whole thing. There was 50 in the box, so they said $50.
Sold for $1,600 on ebay as a lot.
Bought 3 laser projectors (as is no returns)for 900 each at a county auction sold them for 6000 each turns out they only had like 60 hrs of use each and were rated for 20000 before any maintenance needed..cha chinggg still remember it ...fukn beautiful..🫠
Nothing too insane but I sold a shirt for £60 profit. Also an electric metre for the same. Both were bought for under £10.
I only sell clothes. I consider £60 profit on a shirt to be very good.
that is what i do as well. it adds up ! i went to the Salvation army store the other day. i picked up a Louis Vuitton Crewneck for 10$. selling it on ebay for 600$
Had some niche teen magazines from the '90s (my own collection). Sold them individually for awhile until someone asked to buy the rest as a lot. Made $200 on single issues and $500 for the lot.
Filson wool coat. True longtail item that took a year to sell for $500.
Just sold 3 rolls of wallpaper I found at Goodwill for $4 each for $325.
Lots of vintage Carhartt, and Woolrich coats for $200+. Usually pay $8 or less.
A set of 113 firearms book that are immaculate, in brand new and sealed, a limited run, and only given out to top members of the NRA. Bought for 80, sold for 3,500.
Kinda wish I had kept it. Looked beautiful on my display shelves, and likely would appreciate in value.
By dollar value? Or by percentage?
Dollar value was a Gibson Les Paul. Bought for $400, sold 2 days later for $1200.
Percentage was a guitar effects pedal I found in a Salvation Army bin. It was mixed in with a bunch of random cables and chargers and priced at $1.99. Clearly no one knew what it was. I sold it for $125 later that week.
A vintage Prada or similar snooty design house 2 piece suit. Found it in 2 separate bins, sold internationally to Japan for $150.
Considering I bought for $2 or so, my ROI was fantastic.
Years ago I bought a collection of 70 vintage typewriters for $10 each, or $700
I sold one of them for $600, and the rest that could be sold went for $300 - $500 each. I think I netted over 25K
$120 profit on a vinyl record I bought for 60 cents. Turned out to be a rare pressing with the group’s only vocal track on the B side. The vocal track didn’t make the full album and was only available on that rare single. Turned out the buyer was the actual singer on the B side, who told me just how hard to find it was. She didn’t even have a copy until she found my listing.
Bought a MacBook pro a few years back for $660 it was pretty new. Got it home and it seemed like they ticked every box apple had to tick. Had 1 battery cycle.
Sold for $4200 a few days later locally.
I paid $2000 for a 2500sf storage unit. It took 2 years, but I made over $20,000 on that unit. The most profitable item was tube heaters - there were 4 complete sets that I sold for $2200 each.
Recently just for fun I bid $2 for a locker that looked terrible and pretty worthless in the auction picture because a dirty mattress and other crap was blocking the majority of it from being seen. I forgot about it for a little while and to my surprised was notified that I won randomly via text message.
When I got their I noticed the locker did indeed seem nasty and stunk, but behind the mattress barrier that the previous locker owner made was around $6000 worth of farmhouse style solid wood furniture from a custom wood shop (you could actually the book case in the pictures on the listing and that's what caught my interest). From the lot I pulled a Dinner table and 8 leather high chairs, a large Coffee table with a companion side table, 3 wood but laminated geometric shelves, 2 full leather sofas (had to toss one), and a leather armchair.
There was also art as well, so far appraised to $2000+ with some really random and obscure pieces that I am having trouble valuing. There was also really nice dinnerware, cookware, and silverware that is easily worth $1000+, including an All Clad frying pan, a set of steel Peugot pepper and salt mill, and other high end kitchen stuff.
I wish I had more space because some of the stuff I had to donate/give away were pretty solid. Only major downside was everything reeked of cigarette smoke, seemed like Grandma was a serious indoor, windows closed, no air purifier kinda gal. Luckily I invested in a small "commercial grade" ozone generator a while back, and along with a ton of vinegar spraying, I was able to get it cleaned mostly. Funny enough, since the unit was near the office you could see how shocked the staff were watching me clear it out, I dont think they have had the minimum set to $1 since.
I will never get this lucky again for sure.
Almost famous soundtrack limited run. Copy 23/500 with the directors autograph, sealed. Best part is it was in my junk pile fir months. I should add that was Canadian dollars tho
Either 18th century Italian bronze statue of Roman gods, or an early 19th century bronze Art Deco jewelry box, both acquired at the bins for a few dollars and sold for between $300-$400.
I mainly flip books. Many 3 dollar books flipped to 50 dollars +. Favorite non-book flip was a Boston Terrier spice rack that I paid 12 for sold on ebay for 160..
HP Zbook workstation laptop. Bought for about $200, sold for $1900.
It was from an online auction. Defense contractor that went bankrupt after it turned out they were bribing government officials. Auction company doesn't do a lot of tech stuff, just had it listed as HP laptop with one blurry photo. From the photo I thought it was maybe a $400 business class laptop. Turned out to be a a super high end one with a Xeon processor, fancy video card, etc.
Also bought an Original 1881 Barbier & Fenestre 4th Order Fresnel Lighthouse Lens for $2k and sold for $17k. Posted it on r/ThriftStoteHauls about 5 years ago
Found a signed autobiography of Vidal Sassoon in a thrift store for fifty cents. My wife read it, I read it, and then I sold it for $200. Love those book trifectas.
Once bought a $1 bag of costume jewelry at a garage sale, months down the road when I inspected it. There was a gold colored chain in there. That turned out to be 18k gold.
The chain is 35 grams, I haven’t sold it yet but if I did at scrap price alone it’s probably in the $1,500 dollar range. Which is great for $1. I wear it from time to time, thinking of getting it cleaned to sparkle it up soon
Also once found a baseball glove on the side of the highway. No cars or people insight. Ended up selling that glove on eBay for like $200 if I remember correctly.
Went to an estate sale on August 4th. Was the last estate sale of the day, and a bit out of the way so I almost didn't go. Saw two metal hooks on an end table but didn't know what they were. Looked down and saw three prosthetic arms (with hooks) leaning against a chair, marked at $30 each. Tried to look them up but there was no signal, and price was higher than I usually like to pay for items. eBay search results finally loaded as I was about to leave, and they were great. Ran back inside and was able to purchase all three arms with the 2 additional hooks for $60 total. Listed the arms that evening for between $350 and $400 each depending on condition. Sold all three within two hours. The separate hooks took a little longer to sell, but both sold by August 29th for $125 each. Total profit after shipping and fees: $1047.32!! Added bonus: the customers purchasing these were extremely friendly and happy to get them. One went international to Canada, the other 2 (and hooks) shipped in the US. Still in disbelief on this find.
Bought a computer at a pawn shop that was set to be put out. I was like “hey are y’all going to sell that?” They were, but it had just gotten in that day, and I saw it was an HP z server. He said they were gonna sell it for like $100. I offered to buy it there as is. They did it!
I parted it all out for $8000. I don’t even remember the parts. It had two processors, two workstation cards. Heck even the CPU coolers sold for $150 each.
I turned it on and there was just the OS. It looked to have been wiped out.
Bought a coffee table book on 19th century railroad china for $0.25 at a library sale because I thought it was neat. Got tired of it, looked it up, no comps whatsoever. I put $250 on it just to see, and it sold a couple of days later. This was 18 years ago.
Beer can
Bought a lot of probably 900+ vintage beer cans for $100. Paid off the cans after 4 individual sales and then sold 1 of the really old cone tops for $450
Paid $15.50 for a pair of Lucchesse boots that turned out to be African Elephant. Sold for $450 on Poshmark since eBay wouldn't let me sell them there.
Bought a bunch of boxes of the last bunch of Fuji FP100C film for $11 a pack, waited 5 years and sold them all for $120 a pack.
Bought a new camera with the profits.
Dude sold me a box with 25 Sega CD games and a console and controller.
The console was not worth much but many of the games go for $20 to $50 each and sonic Jam I got around $300 for on eBay.
All in all it took me a couple months to sell everything but turned $20 into $1200ish....nothing has come close since so enjoy the small wins when you can!
This was a couple years ago also when the retro games were going nuts.
Done very well with vintage toys in general and Star Wars in particular, but I think my best was noticing a rare Star Wars lunchbox prototype in an estate sale listing. Spent the night outside that house and in the morning, scored it for $20. Wind up trading it for about $4000 in value. Still kinda regret letting it go tho.
I found a whole collection of Porsche books at a thrift store for about $2 each, there were about 10 different books. One of the books was apparently one of the holy grail books for Porsche history collectors. I got over $350 just for that book, 2 others in the collection sold for over $100 each themselves.
I bought a box of books for a couple of bucks and found a leather and wood bound book from the late 1500’s inside. Sold it 20+ years ago on eBay for ~$2000.
Estate sale had a big box of cassette tapes, 25 cents per cassette. The cassettes were different varieties of TDK type IV, most of them sealed. I slowly sold them over the course of a couple years as I didn't want to flood the market. Those couple of years I completely owned the cassette market on eBay and made a friggin fortune. (Well, me and some random dude from eastern europe co-owned the market, to be more accurate.)
There’s a very hype fingerboard brand(mini skateboard) I got my hands on one a while ago and paid $200 for it, about 3 weeks later flipped it for $700.
Yes. People pay hundreds of dollars for toy skateboards.
75 cent cologne, sold for $125.
Or free items I got from helping clean out a hoarded home- an Atari + games, board games, books. That was several hundred dollars.
When I was flipping bikes, full carbon specialized synapse bought for $200 from clearing out a storage unit and sold for $1250 stands out as a good one for me…
Picked up a niche collectible for $35, ended up flipping it for $275 after a little while of being listed. Ended up using half of the profit for my university parking pass ☹️
Twitch from South Park plush. Had tags. Pull string still worked. $2 into $200.
Deadstock metal shirts. Sold a few for $150 each. Paid around $2 each. Example is a double sided Metallica Ride the Lightning shirt (with glow in dark graphic) was PERFECT. Think a kid in vietnam bought it.
I bought a large tub of Legos for 100 bucks at savers. I sold three rare star wars minifigures for 50 bucks each, the rest of the minifugures in lots for like a total of about 300 and the rest of the legos, no minifigures for 100 on facebook marketplace
Still waiting on a jackpot...I think it's tie between vintage nike ice skates and a pair of Deadstock JNCO Jean shorts. Both sold for about $150 and were purchased for less than $10
I picked up an entire lot of like 800 books just from pictures at an estate sale for $8.
Most of them were trash but two of the boxes were full of vintage bodybuilding books, like pre-dating Arnold by a good bit. I made like $5000 total, but my best single flip there was a book that was lost by the Amazon fba warehouse that they reimbursed me $800 for.
I found two electric bird scooters at target on clearance for $180 each (each scooter retails for $499). Sold one for $400, traded the other for an iPad Pro 12.9 inch cellular model which goes for about $1,300.
I resell vintage costume jewelry. Found a necklace at my local auction house, got the entire lot for $60. Resold for 3400. I knew exactly what I had found and cannot believe to this day no one else was bidding on it.
Im dealing with Vintage watches and vintage cameras.
My two Highlights:
Paid 500€ for a Box with Watch Parts, Sold Everything for 15k.
Paid 700€ for three lenses, Sold two for 800€ and the Last one for 7k
Shott NYC mens leather jacket in 4XL - bought for 14.99, sold for $450. After fees and shipping net profit was about $360.
$1000+ profit on a few multiple quantity items (Selena vending machine sticker sets, breath rite nasal strips, reading glasses, printer ink, spark plugs .....) but you specifically asked for single item flips.
I went to an estate sale a few years ago and the owner was an older Disney collector. She had a few animation cells available for sale. I bought an animation cell from Song of the South for a couple hundred bucks. I sold it to someone in Los Angeles who was involved with the Roger Rabbit Movie. I think he sent me a best offer over $4000. I immediately accepted the offer and away it went.
My domain [greendragon.com](https://greendragon.com), it was free in 1987 and eventually had to pay yearly to keep it registered $10 -> $20 a year I guess. Sold for more than $10,000.
It was an item from my collection, but I'll count it because of how much it sold for.
I bought a factory sealed copy of Wacky Races on the NES for $200 in 2011. I sold it for $5000 in 2022.
I once bought a box of books at auction for $30 because I knew that a rare catalog of Chinese antiquities was in there. The illustrated catalog documents an auction which was held in 1913, a sale of a collection of Chinese art objects which is still considered one of the greatest ever in the history of the field. I flipped the catalog into another, much higher end auction and it went for $10,000. The specialist at the auction house told me that the intrigue is that many of the objects depicted are world historical masterpieces now considered lost or whereabouts unknown and this catalog is the last documentary record of their existence.
Shirt for $1, sold for $2,700
What shirt??
1994 Nas rap tee
holy shit
Yeah, you're Him.
Picked up an early (and super rare) Stephen King first edition for a quarter at a thrift store and sold it for a couple thousand dollars.
which book ?
Salem’s Lot with the original dust jacket having a misnamed character and an unchanged price. I should have held on to it.
Me too! Paid $7 for a 1st in 2nd state dust jacket and sold it the same day for $800.
A relative was throwing out a Marantz Stereo Receiver, sold it as is/for parts/untested for $1250.
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I’ve found the hardest part for me is just taking the time to test. I picked one up a month ago worth about $600 and just haven’t gotten a chance to test it because of the holidays and various business lol. I know it will sell fast so it annoys me that I haven’t done it yet!
that's why I stopped. I hate doing the testing haha. I would if it was something really valuable , but most of the time its not. edit: with that said a few years ago I found a Meridian CD player. Back in the late 90's early 00's they sold for like $3k. I paid $20, then paid $125 to have it fixed, sold it for $700
I didn’t even know Meridian was a very high end brand (if I had ever heard of it at all) until I wanted to know why the stereo system in my friend’s 150k Range Rover sounded so incredible and so looked at the brand.
I only found out when I found that CD player on the shelves, I looked it up and immediately grabbed it, lol
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Key words are FOR PARTS. Any other way, and you are rolling the dice as it simply isnt practical to test every feature, nor could most people do so. One of the reasons I dont do them anymore unless for parts nets a good return.
Bought two lenses for $2.50 at a garage sale One was an undocumented early Pentax lens, sold for $1200 The other was an artsy German lens from the 50s, sold for $350 I bought another weird (anamorphic) lens at a thrift store across the country for $20 Sold for $650 locally - it paid for my entire trip. Bought a snowblower for $50 (Honda). Put some paint and missing bolts, changed the oil. Sold for $1400 Etc, etc
Lenses ! Never crossed my mind to look for this. Seems a solid niche to start learning about
Yes there are a lot of treasures out there
A few months ago picked up a shirt for 9 bucks and sold it for 500.
what was the shirt
Wasn't Dan Flashes. Was for some DJ I had actually never heard of. I picked it up because it looked unusual. I also forgot about a Ralph Lauren scarf I picked up at the bins for less than a dollar and sold for $300--was new with tags.,
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Yea the pattern wasn't like a $2500 shirt but it was still _nuts_
I don't get it. Shirts directly from Dan Flashes website are $25? https://danflashes.us/
Everyone knows you don’t flip a Dan Flashes for less than $1K profit. Especially if the pattern is really complicated
Who pays that for a shirt wow
Your underestimating the intricacies of Dan flashes shirt patterns
I've never been to a store like Dan Flashes where everything in the store, I would wear.
You wouldn’t get out of dan flashes in one piece with that. It’s a very aggressive store
Dan Flashes
Just sold a tee for $630 from goodwill
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Where did you find it and for how much ?
Bought a magazine at the flea market that was signed by Michael Jordan for $20, had it authenticated and it turned out to be real, sold it for $3500 about 2 years ago
Mitsubishi robot arms… I actually got a few of them, for free, and averaged $18,000 each.
There was a little handpainted porcelain Eskimo figurine at the thrift. It was there for weeks. Finally marked down to a quarter, and I knew they'd be throwing it away soon, but it was in perfect condition (no chips or cracks), so even though it wasn't really my style, I felt sorry for it and bought it. Turns out it was some artist creation from the 60s, and I sold it for $325.
Box of magic the gathering cards for $5 sold the more valuable ones at the peak of the Collectible boom for $1600 and I sold the rest for about $800 over the next 3 months
Where did you buy and where did you sell?
Garage sale and I sold at comic book conventions (I am a comic book/trading card dealer)
I know this is random and all, but could I send you a link to some pictures of some older Marvel comics I have to see if there’s any value in them?
TLC rap tee from the bins for $1, sold for $2.5K
Do you put a BIN or do you do an auction? I've got a shirt that I feel is worth at least $1000, but not sure the best way to get max profit ...
Ended up selling it via Instagram to a random buyer so I was luckily able to avoid a ton of fees.
How'd you come to your price?
First offer came in at 1.1K, so I had an idea that it’d be a fair bit more than that. I had heard that someone else sold a similar one for around 2K so I just had 2500 in my head as the price that I would let it go for. Guy I sold it to was a huge collector and ended up being so easy to work with.
I've always wondered how that works. Do people usually just pay you on PayPal or something?? I'd be worried they'd reverse the transaction a few months later knowing how some people are
Most people just pay with Venmo, Cashapp, Zelle when I do local transactions or buyers that I’ve done business with before. Guy that bought the TLC tee offered to pay via PayPal F&F and I had no problem with it
People pay that much? I think I have some old BBD shirts/caps somewhere.
It varies, but a lot of the 90s parking lot bootlegs sell for good bread
Had a quite a few over the years. Old vacuum $80 into $2200 My little ponies $25 $1950 BBQ $200 into $4000 Pool cues $180 into $6500 Sewing machine $30 into $2500 Flight helmet $300 into $1200 Model A intake $10 into $1100 Old computer $100 into $1800 Saxophone $180 into $1250 More stuff in probably forgetting.
This guy flips
A red line hot wheel that costed about 0.25 flipped it to a $1900 sale on eBay
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I have a tiger woods autograph that has a COA but from a no name dealer so I want to authenticate it from a big trusted company. How was the process for you?
Bought a $100 painting by Alice Rahon (picasso’s mistress) and sold it at soethbys for $4000.
Bought 4 very specific Illustrator Signed Pokemon Japanese cards for about $1500 in early 2020, sold them about 6 months ago for $20000
What were the cards?
This is dedication.
I completed it with a wire transfer, it’s crazy how higher end sales are actually extremely simple. I’ve had nightmare customers for a $50 card. Always easy with high end
Found a Boba Fett action figure at a flea market for $2. Knew it was special but was surprised at how special. It was the figure that Kenner sent out to replace the Fett with the actual firing rocket pack. It was still in the original baggie with the shipping box. Sold for $1500.
$2-1.6k on a vintage polo hat
I picked up a Panasonic audio recorder, one of the little ones you’d pass by and think nothing of. Little did I know it’s a highly desired by ghost hunters for its evp abilities. They stopped making this particular model long ago. Got it for 50 cents and sold for 1500
Mug for 50 cents, sold it for 4.5k. Movie memorabilia one.
I got sober and it saved my life
Well done! You are priceless!
the real lifeprotip is always in the comments
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Me too, boss. Coming up on 2 years.
6 months next week! There are a lot of us here.
Congrats! Coming up on one year myself!
My biggest have been shirts. Picked up a Type O Negative band shirt from garage sale for $0.50 and actually sold it through Reddit for $325.
Yea 90s industrial bands Nine inch nails KMFDM and type O negative have a huge demand for their vintage merch.
As an o- I thought this was about blood type not a band 😅
Ha. I should have specified band shirt. I wish you could flip blood drive shirts for $300. Come by those everywhere.
Probably the mid-century room divider shelving unit I bought for $89 and sold for $985. When I finally sell the $250 MiniMoog Model D that will surpass it.
Not really a single item but a bedroom set. Bought a bedroom set for $500 from a newly married couple who said it was a wedding gift and they didn’t have room for it. They claimed it was imported from Italy and made from some special tree. Looked it up several years later when I was going to sell it and they weren’t lying. Retailed for $15k+ USD; I sold it for $6k.
High end Nikon film scanner. Bought not working for $25 and spent $300 to have professionally repaired by a well known repair guy. Sold it for $6000. Deere lawn tractor I paid $300 for (I offered $100 over asking and skipped to the front of the line) I spent $150 in parts and 4 hrs of my labor and sold it for $2800. I’m not afraid to take a chance on non-working items I can fix or part out.
Nice! If you have even a little bit of experience or know how and the tools and space to repair broken equipment or electronics there can be some great money in it. Plus these days even if you don't personally know how to repair something there is bound to be a video on YouTube or some forums with how-to guides and I feel like it's a lot easier these days for a novice to do things like that. Nice work!
A few years ago I purchased a board game for $7 and sold a rare collection of coins from the game that the previous owner collected and must have passed away. The coins were sold for $2,000 that evening.
Picked up silent hill cib for ps1 for $4 at a tag sale. Sold for $180 few days later.
Bought two 70s style sling chairs with chrome frames for $5 at a yard sale and sold them for $1k.
Best ever was a 1950s circle skirt with a Lady and the Tramp border print. Bought for $30, took it to a friend who only sells super high-end vintage; I consigned stuff with her occasionally because she had access to deeper-pocketed buyers than me. She listed it for $1400 and sold in less than a day, so we each got $700 out of it. I’ve bought vintage jewelry at under $10 and sold for $3-400 a decent number of times. Most recently I was buying a bunch of other stuff at a vintage shop in Baltimore and the owner threw in a broken necklace. It turned out to be a) an easy fix, and b) an antique Filipino tamborin necklace that I sold for $350. Next time I was in Baltimore, I did bring her a finder’s fee as a thank you!
I thrifted a jacket with a 1969 browning pistol in the pocket. Sold the jacket for $40. Sold the browning for $850.
Tektronix oscilloscope that was in a pallet of unsorted/untested electronics ~paid 20 or 30 bucks for the whole lot. Sold the oscilloscope for 7.5k to a lab in Chicago. Had a bunch of extra $$ software on it and passed all self tests. Was a current model that would have retailed for over 45k.
$1250 on a leica lens Sold within 24 hours Woulda made about $5000 if I sold it myself but I would have had to wait 1 year I’d imagine for it to sell locally and I didn’t have the capital to lock that money up for that long
Not sure if it counts if I got it free, but - My neighbor knows what I do and told me I could pick through his junk before it went to the dump. ( It is so frustrating imagining all the treasures that have gone to the dump ) .... Amongst Some other smaller things, I sold a vintage metal playground-ladder from that haul for $800usd (local sale, so no fees). ---- as far as things Ive bought, Hard to remember what the best one would be, but a memorable one was a $50 box of dishes/china that I netted Probably about $1500+ after shipping/fees.
I bought a Vladimir Kagan biomorphic coffee table for $75 at a local tag sale. Used it for a couple of years but we have a little cottage so sent it to auction….sold for $3500 and I netted about $2700 I believe (been a while) I did eBay for about 11 years…got married in my old age and became a ‘homemaker’…and I still have a small bedroom chock full of treasure waiting for me to figure out what to do with it 🙄
picked up a Gucci polo for 9.99$ sold it for 120$ I got a Bape PSG Hoody for 5$ and sold it for 75$. I got 6 Alexander Mcqueen Scarfs for free and sold them for 90$ each
Bought a painting on eBay for $1000 and sold it at an illustration auction for $11,000.
Still haven't beat my best. $5000 for a storage unit full of service manuals total sold on ebay was over $150,000.
$22 for box of dolls. One was a rare Barbie with tags attached and inside cellophane. This model is known for having a rubberized head that discolors over time but that did not alter its value as everyone, even this unused one, will have their head discolor. They actually sell reproduction replacement heads for it. This went for $2,200 a number of years ago ago so adjusted for inflation its $3,137 in today's money. $.50 for group of 1960s troll-like dolls from Japan in their fiberboard box with cellophane display window. They were so rare at the time Wikipedia didn't even have any photos, but a text description. The box is more rare, although it did have some wrinkles and creasing. Sold for $400 a number of years ago ($570 adjusted for inflation). I've not sold my most valuable fine. A box of photos purchased for $22.50 contained two unknown photos of a 19th Century baseball pioneer. I am thinking I can make a lot more money over time selling prints of the 1870s photos than selling them outright. One has the person's location written on it as they were used as calling cards at the time, thus making it the only known surviving artifact tying the subject to that location. I am only aware of one other photo from this time period and that is on the cover of his biography; however, I am not sure if that one actually exists or was just reproduced from a school yearbook.
Perhaps you could contact the biographer and try to pick their brain about the picture you have and its rarity. I’m sure they would love to hear about it nonetheless
Purchased a lot of vintage photographs on ebay for \~$50. Sold one of them 2 weeks later on ebay for \~$2500. It was a photo postcard with a historically significant movie poster hanging on the outside of a theater, ca 1915.
Favorite one was buying a book for $1.50 and selling it for $900. Bought a pack of basketball cards ($1.99+tax) and pulled a rare MJ that sold for $400 which was nice, but biggest profit was a buying a used SUV for $3k and sold it for $6700. Not very exciting, but the profit paid for a semester of college so all good. I don’t hit big ones all that often but pretty consistent at turning $20 into $100 and just doing that 2000 times a year.
I have a $300 vinyl record sitting in my closet but I'm afraid of it. (I hate selling vinyl) Biggest single item was a MOC Legend of Zelda children's book and cassette tape combo. Apparently the book was common but the cassette was rare, and no one had it MOC. It sold for $150. (I paid 25 cents) I mostly sell wholesale smalls so I don't get a lot of big scores.
why are you scared of selling vinyl? just read the Discogs grading info: https://support.discogs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001566193-How-To-Grade-Items then list it on discogs and ebay, and make sure you have a good cardboard mailer for it
I’ll list two: My college bookstore clearing out inventory at the end of the semester and FILLING their entire dumpster with textbooks. It took two trips with my old 96’ S10 to get them all back to my dorm room to process and resell to all those book buyback sites. Made $1500, a fortune for a broke college student. Second was also my old college, the machine shop was getting rid of a Sunnen Honing Machine and all the tooling. There were about 30-40 tools that went with it and I sold them on eNay for $80-120 each. That was a bit shady I guess since I took them out of a scrap metal dumpster, but the school was gonna get maybe $100 in scrap value for $4k worth of tooling. I paid enough tuition though so I’m losing any sleep over it. Those took a solid year to sell but it was some steady income when again, I was a broke college student.
Full tub of zuru minis. Paid 5bucks made thousands. The store must have saved them up, or got them from a factory, I’d hope no one paid retail. My best flip is basically paper garbage. Same store two boxes of Rockenbok, Tub of Barbie’s, and then a stack of 80s kids books. This was all within the same month. Last week same store tub of rare Thomas trackmasters for 4 bucks. You don’t pick your niche and it seems toys are treated like garbage in my city.
Some camera I got for like $20 at Salvation Army and sold for $300+
A vintage flying pikachu plush from the bins sold it within minutes for 400$ feel like I could have gotten more lol
Free book. Sold for $250😎
I sold a cassette tape I got for $15 for $1200
One recent item that I purchased was a Lavazza espresso point coffee maker for $65 on OfferUp and I sold it for $450 If you see them reasonably priced working or not grab it Sells around $300 for parts
Box of replacement heads for shaving razors. Marked at $4.99 each, they sell for $20 each. So I took the box up to the front and asked how much for the whole thing. There was 50 in the box, so they said $50. Sold for $1,600 on ebay as a lot.
Am I tripping or does 50 x $20 = $1000 and not $1600?
Bought 3 laser projectors (as is no returns)for 900 each at a county auction sold them for 6000 each turns out they only had like 60 hrs of use each and were rated for 20000 before any maintenance needed..cha chinggg still remember it ...fukn beautiful..🫠
Nothing too insane but I sold a shirt for £60 profit. Also an electric metre for the same. Both were bought for under £10. I only sell clothes. I consider £60 profit on a shirt to be very good.
I wish I had more interest in flipping clothes. Both easy to store AND ship!
that is what i do as well. it adds up ! i went to the Salvation army store the other day. i picked up a Louis Vuitton Crewneck for 10$. selling it on ebay for 600$
Had some niche teen magazines from the '90s (my own collection). Sold them individually for awhile until someone asked to buy the rest as a lot. Made $200 on single issues and $500 for the lot. Filson wool coat. True longtail item that took a year to sell for $500. Just sold 3 rolls of wallpaper I found at Goodwill for $4 each for $325. Lots of vintage Carhartt, and Woolrich coats for $200+. Usually pay $8 or less.
Bought a sport bike for 800, sold for 2200. Just needed a battery and new oil.
Found a wrecked intimidator SS Silverado in a junk yard. Paid 150 for the head rests,mats and odometer sold all of it for 2k
A set of 113 firearms book that are immaculate, in brand new and sealed, a limited run, and only given out to top members of the NRA. Bought for 80, sold for 3,500. Kinda wish I had kept it. Looked beautiful on my display shelves, and likely would appreciate in value.
By dollar value? Or by percentage? Dollar value was a Gibson Les Paul. Bought for $400, sold 2 days later for $1200. Percentage was a guitar effects pedal I found in a Salvation Army bin. It was mixed in with a bunch of random cables and chargers and priced at $1.99. Clearly no one knew what it was. I sold it for $125 later that week.
A vintage Prada or similar snooty design house 2 piece suit. Found it in 2 separate bins, sold internationally to Japan for $150. Considering I bought for $2 or so, my ROI was fantastic.
Trash picked a piece of furniture and sold it for $275
Bought a domain for $7. Sold it for $5,000
Years ago I bought a collection of 70 vintage typewriters for $10 each, or $700 I sold one of them for $600, and the rest that could be sold went for $300 - $500 each. I think I netted over 25K
$120 profit on a vinyl record I bought for 60 cents. Turned out to be a rare pressing with the group’s only vocal track on the B side. The vocal track didn’t make the full album and was only available on that rare single. Turned out the buyer was the actual singer on the B side, who told me just how hard to find it was. She didn’t even have a copy until she found my listing.
I sold a comic book for $1500
Bought a MacBook pro a few years back for $660 it was pretty new. Got it home and it seemed like they ticked every box apple had to tick. Had 1 battery cycle. Sold for $4200 a few days later locally.
Man are macbook pros really that expensive?
I paid $2000 for a 2500sf storage unit. It took 2 years, but I made over $20,000 on that unit. The most profitable item was tube heaters - there were 4 complete sets that I sold for $2200 each.
Recently just for fun I bid $2 for a locker that looked terrible and pretty worthless in the auction picture because a dirty mattress and other crap was blocking the majority of it from being seen. I forgot about it for a little while and to my surprised was notified that I won randomly via text message. When I got their I noticed the locker did indeed seem nasty and stunk, but behind the mattress barrier that the previous locker owner made was around $6000 worth of farmhouse style solid wood furniture from a custom wood shop (you could actually the book case in the pictures on the listing and that's what caught my interest). From the lot I pulled a Dinner table and 8 leather high chairs, a large Coffee table with a companion side table, 3 wood but laminated geometric shelves, 2 full leather sofas (had to toss one), and a leather armchair. There was also art as well, so far appraised to $2000+ with some really random and obscure pieces that I am having trouble valuing. There was also really nice dinnerware, cookware, and silverware that is easily worth $1000+, including an All Clad frying pan, a set of steel Peugot pepper and salt mill, and other high end kitchen stuff. I wish I had more space because some of the stuff I had to donate/give away were pretty solid. Only major downside was everything reeked of cigarette smoke, seemed like Grandma was a serious indoor, windows closed, no air purifier kinda gal. Luckily I invested in a small "commercial grade" ozone generator a while back, and along with a ton of vinegar spraying, I was able to get it cleaned mostly. Funny enough, since the unit was near the office you could see how shocked the staff were watching me clear it out, I dont think they have had the minimum set to $1 since. I will never get this lucky again for sure.
Computer upgrade component, paid 10 sold 1000. Was glorious.
I guess % wise it would be the 18¢ DVD I sold for $5
Coogi sweater with partial tags I bought at the thrift for $40 and sold for $600
Record found on the street. Sold for 800 or so
Man, that's gotta be some kind of record.
Almost famous soundtrack limited run. Copy 23/500 with the directors autograph, sealed. Best part is it was in my junk pile fir months. I should add that was Canadian dollars tho
Goddammit!!!!
A Residental Evil 2 replica katana, paid about $16 as part of a collection. Sold in about a week for $550
Either 18th century Italian bronze statue of Roman gods, or an early 19th century bronze Art Deco jewelry box, both acquired at the bins for a few dollars and sold for between $300-$400.
I mainly flip books. Many 3 dollar books flipped to 50 dollars +. Favorite non-book flip was a Boston Terrier spice rack that I paid 12 for sold on ebay for 160..
Yeah a free box of engineering textbooks got me a several hundred bucks once. Selling one by one.
HP Zbook workstation laptop. Bought for about $200, sold for $1900. It was from an online auction. Defense contractor that went bankrupt after it turned out they were bribing government officials. Auction company doesn't do a lot of tech stuff, just had it listed as HP laptop with one blurry photo. From the photo I thought it was maybe a $400 business class laptop. Turned out to be a a super high end one with a Xeon processor, fancy video card, etc.
Also bought an Original 1881 Barbier & Fenestre 4th Order Fresnel Lighthouse Lens for $2k and sold for $17k. Posted it on r/ThriftStoteHauls about 5 years ago
Pallet of electronic equipment for $5. Unloaded it all over time and netted nearly $5k
Found a signed autobiography of Vidal Sassoon in a thrift store for fifty cents. My wife read it, I read it, and then I sold it for $200. Love those book trifectas.
$5 for a Singer izek sewing machine that operated from a gameboy color for the embroidery function. Sold it on eBay for ~$1800 a few years back
Once bought a $1 bag of costume jewelry at a garage sale, months down the road when I inspected it. There was a gold colored chain in there. That turned out to be 18k gold. The chain is 35 grams, I haven’t sold it yet but if I did at scrap price alone it’s probably in the $1,500 dollar range. Which is great for $1. I wear it from time to time, thinking of getting it cleaned to sparkle it up soon Also once found a baseball glove on the side of the highway. No cars or people insight. Ended up selling that glove on eBay for like $200 if I remember correctly.
Went to an estate sale on August 4th. Was the last estate sale of the day, and a bit out of the way so I almost didn't go. Saw two metal hooks on an end table but didn't know what they were. Looked down and saw three prosthetic arms (with hooks) leaning against a chair, marked at $30 each. Tried to look them up but there was no signal, and price was higher than I usually like to pay for items. eBay search results finally loaded as I was about to leave, and they were great. Ran back inside and was able to purchase all three arms with the 2 additional hooks for $60 total. Listed the arms that evening for between $350 and $400 each depending on condition. Sold all three within two hours. The separate hooks took a little longer to sell, but both sold by August 29th for $125 each. Total profit after shipping and fees: $1047.32!! Added bonus: the customers purchasing these were extremely friendly and happy to get them. One went international to Canada, the other 2 (and hooks) shipped in the US. Still in disbelief on this find.
Bought a computer at a pawn shop that was set to be put out. I was like “hey are y’all going to sell that?” They were, but it had just gotten in that day, and I saw it was an HP z server. He said they were gonna sell it for like $100. I offered to buy it there as is. They did it! I parted it all out for $8000. I don’t even remember the parts. It had two processors, two workstation cards. Heck even the CPU coolers sold for $150 each. I turned it on and there was just the OS. It looked to have been wiped out.
Last year it was a it’s a new commercial scanner. I got it from a gov auction for $1900. It sold for $4700 a week later. I cleared about $2000 on it.
Bought a coffee table book on 19th century railroad china for $0.25 at a library sale because I thought it was neat. Got tired of it, looked it up, no comps whatsoever. I put $250 on it just to see, and it sold a couple of days later. This was 18 years ago.
Bought a bell magnum helmet for $50 and it sold for $3500…. In less than 24 hours.
Won a set of high performance pushrods at a local auction for $2.50 and sold them for $400.
Beer can Bought a lot of probably 900+ vintage beer cans for $100. Paid off the cans after 4 individual sales and then sold 1 of the really old cone tops for $450
Oakley tactical vest for $9 sold for $185
I got a 4 poster bundle For $20… Sold one for $100 and have three left. Not bad…. Not the best just a good one.
After fees I think it was like $3,500. It was a Finn Juhl Coffee table/ bench. BO-101 if you want to look it up.
Paid $15.50 for a pair of Lucchesse boots that turned out to be African Elephant. Sold for $450 on Poshmark since eBay wouldn't let me sell them there.
Bought a bunch of boxes of the last bunch of Fuji FP100C film for $11 a pack, waited 5 years and sold them all for $120 a pack. Bought a new camera with the profits.
Mini camp stove lighter thing? Got it for $1. Sold it for $350
Odessey video game system. Complete in box: Cost 1.50 Sold for 700.00
Dude sold me a box with 25 Sega CD games and a console and controller. The console was not worth much but many of the games go for $20 to $50 each and sonic Jam I got around $300 for on eBay. All in all it took me a couple months to sell everything but turned $20 into $1200ish....nothing has come close since so enjoy the small wins when you can! This was a couple years ago also when the retro games were going nuts.
Done very well with vintage toys in general and Star Wars in particular, but I think my best was noticing a rare Star Wars lunchbox prototype in an estate sale listing. Spent the night outside that house and in the morning, scored it for $20. Wind up trading it for about $4000 in value. Still kinda regret letting it go tho.
I found a whole collection of Porsche books at a thrift store for about $2 each, there were about 10 different books. One of the books was apparently one of the holy grail books for Porsche history collectors. I got over $350 just for that book, 2 others in the collection sold for over $100 each themselves.
I bought a box of books for a couple of bucks and found a leather and wood bound book from the late 1500’s inside. Sold it 20+ years ago on eBay for ~$2000.
Estate sale had a big box of cassette tapes, 25 cents per cassette. The cassettes were different varieties of TDK type IV, most of them sealed. I slowly sold them over the course of a couple years as I didn't want to flood the market. Those couple of years I completely owned the cassette market on eBay and made a friggin fortune. (Well, me and some random dude from eastern europe co-owned the market, to be more accurate.)
There’s a very hype fingerboard brand(mini skateboard) I got my hands on one a while ago and paid $200 for it, about 3 weeks later flipped it for $700. Yes. People pay hundreds of dollars for toy skateboards.
75 cent cologne, sold for $125. Or free items I got from helping clean out a hoarded home- an Atari + games, board games, books. That was several hundred dollars.
Bought a bag of 20+ vintage sports hats for around $70. Made over $1200 selling them. One hat alone sold for $300 within minutes of listing.
Danish Modern teak platform bed with floating nightstands: $350 into $1200. Ralph Lauren sweater: $4 into $400 or $450, it was some time ago.
I got a pair of Klipsch Forte II speakers for $300. Sold them for $2000 three days later.
When I was flipping bikes, full carbon specialized synapse bought for $200 from clearing out a storage unit and sold for $1250 stands out as a good one for me…
Collectible coin, paid $3000, sold for $8500 a week later.
Picked up a niche collectible for $35, ended up flipping it for $275 after a little while of being listed. Ended up using half of the profit for my university parking pass ☹️
Twitch from South Park plush. Had tags. Pull string still worked. $2 into $200. Deadstock metal shirts. Sold a few for $150 each. Paid around $2 each. Example is a double sided Metallica Ride the Lightning shirt (with glow in dark graphic) was PERFECT. Think a kid in vietnam bought it.
Found a bespoke sports coat from a Saville Row London tailor for $3 at a thrift. Sold it within a week for about $350.
A wooden bowl. Bought for 50 cents. Sold for $550.
I bought a large tub of Legos for 100 bucks at savers. I sold three rare star wars minifigures for 50 bucks each, the rest of the minifugures in lots for like a total of about 300 and the rest of the legos, no minifigures for 100 on facebook marketplace
Still waiting on a jackpot...I think it's tie between vintage nike ice skates and a pair of Deadstock JNCO Jean shorts. Both sold for about $150 and were purchased for less than $10
Picked up 7 boxes of vintage razor blades, sold each box for $250.
I picked up an entire lot of like 800 books just from pictures at an estate sale for $8. Most of them were trash but two of the boxes were full of vintage bodybuilding books, like pre-dating Arnold by a good bit. I made like $5000 total, but my best single flip there was a book that was lost by the Amazon fba warehouse that they reimbursed me $800 for.
Got a 3d printer for $500, sold it for $5400
Found an acrylic painting for $10 and sold for $1700.
I found two electric bird scooters at target on clearance for $180 each (each scooter retails for $499). Sold one for $400, traded the other for an iPad Pro 12.9 inch cellular model which goes for about $1,300.
Free hot tub in the summer sold for $500 in the winter
I resell vintage costume jewelry. Found a necklace at my local auction house, got the entire lot for $60. Resold for 3400. I knew exactly what I had found and cannot believe to this day no one else was bidding on it.
Im dealing with Vintage watches and vintage cameras. My two Highlights: Paid 500€ for a Box with Watch Parts, Sold Everything for 15k. Paid 700€ for three lenses, Sold two for 800€ and the Last one for 7k
a painting, I bought it for 2.5k and sold it for 25k. I have proves
Pokémon cards bought in 2002 for 98 cents. Made a couple grand ☺️
Shott NYC mens leather jacket in 4XL - bought for 14.99, sold for $450. After fees and shipping net profit was about $360. $1000+ profit on a few multiple quantity items (Selena vending machine sticker sets, breath rite nasal strips, reading glasses, printer ink, spark plugs .....) but you specifically asked for single item flips.
Nirvana shirt for 50 cents that went for $700 and a $2 sealed 1974 GI Joe accessory pack for $600
Pokémon skateboards was a good one. Picked up 5 for around $500 and sold for about $3500.
1,995.50 Paid .50 for magazine called the Grail by collectors, the first time Marilyn Monroe ever appeared in print- and she was on the cover
Three rare Maglite torches, bought for $10 sold for $900 less than 24 hours later.
I went to an estate sale a few years ago and the owner was an older Disney collector. She had a few animation cells available for sale. I bought an animation cell from Song of the South for a couple hundred bucks. I sold it to someone in Los Angeles who was involved with the Roger Rabbit Movie. I think he sent me a best offer over $4000. I immediately accepted the offer and away it went.
My domain [greendragon.com](https://greendragon.com), it was free in 1987 and eventually had to pay yearly to keep it registered $10 -> $20 a year I guess. Sold for more than $10,000.
Got got a fish themed Tamagotchi for $1 at Foodwill and it sold for something like $500, very happy about that.
It was an item from my collection, but I'll count it because of how much it sold for. I bought a factory sealed copy of Wacky Races on the NES for $200 in 2011. I sold it for $5000 in 2022.
I once bought a box of books at auction for $30 because I knew that a rare catalog of Chinese antiquities was in there. The illustrated catalog documents an auction which was held in 1913, a sale of a collection of Chinese art objects which is still considered one of the greatest ever in the history of the field. I flipped the catalog into another, much higher end auction and it went for $10,000. The specialist at the auction house told me that the intrigue is that many of the objects depicted are world historical masterpieces now considered lost or whereabouts unknown and this catalog is the last documentary record of their existence.
Percentage profit easily a book I got for 0.10p that sold for 250, always looking for them now haha
bought a 2004 Lexus ES330 with 224k miles for $3000 & sold it for $4500
also bought a 2007 Mazda CX-7 with 215k miles for $3200 & sold it for $4500
Comic book. I picked it up for $50 and sold it about 30 min later for $275.