Resell overlooked electronics and other underpriced goods through local marketplaces and eBay
Buy unwanted or undervalued electronics from households, thrift stores, yard sales, Facebook Marketplace, eBay sellers, recyclers, schools, and businesses; test and price them using market data; then sell individually on eBay or in bulk to specialist buyers. The business can start part-time with household goods and eventually expand into wholesale sourcing.
physical B2C Resale / Flipping
From Chris Koerner on The Koerner Office Podcast — The Best Side Hustle for Beginners (Any Age) at 04:02
Problem: Useful electronics are often discarded, mispriced, or sold by people who do not know their resale value, while buyers still want discontinued or discounted products.
For: Consumers who want affordable working electronics, flea-market sellers who need inventory, and businesses or schools replacing old equipment.
Products from this video
Examples
- LEGO: Lucas sold approximately $5,000 to $10,000 of his household LEGO during one summer before moving on to other inventory.
Other takes on Resale businesses
- A used and new equipment dealership supplied through dealer trade-ins and local flipping
- Buy Costco customer returns and liquidation inventory through auctions, then test, clean, repair, and resell the items locally through Facebook Marketplace.
- Data-driven Amazon FBA business importing competing products from China
- Local liquidation and random-goods resale store
- Local buy-low, sell-at-market-value flipping of used items and equipment
- Live-selling business for discounted liquidation, overstock, customer-return and hard-to-sell goods