The other day, I was shown a post on Instagram. It was a short video by a woman talking about her watch strap.
Apparently, in a previous video people noticed that she was wearing an Apple watch that had a Gucci strap. The strap didn’t say Gucci, people recognised the pattern.
Gucci have a distinct pattern that they use on a lot of their products such as handbags and luggage bags.
Her followers wanted to know where they could get the strap from.
The thing is, Gucci do not make watch straps, and hence why she had a lot of people ask her where she got it from.
In the video she explained that they are not actually made by Gucci and had bought it from a person on Etsy.
She paid £100 for the watch strap.
It looked like it was well made. Whoever made it, knows how to make a quality watch strap.
What I found interesting was something she said, which was, ‘there’s a lot of £100’s in a second hand Gucci handbag’.
Gucci bags are expensive; I saw a medium sized one for sale recently at £800. Looking at the size of it I believe you could get a lot of watch straps out of it.
If you paid £800 for a handbag then made 16 watch straps out of the material and sold them for £100 apiece, you have doubled your investment… minus other material costs if there are any.
If you bought a second hand handbag for a couple hundred pounds… or less, then you really are quids in.
There is a market out there for these products.
Gucci is a huge fashion house that makes millions and people are willing to spend hundreds and thousands of pounds acquiring their products.
But it gets better; people will buy fake Gucci stuff so that they either appear to be wealthy or because they simply like the look and don’t want to spend a small fortune.
Those who love the Gucci pattern and love anything Gucci will want to own a Gucci watch strap…even if it isn’t actually made by Gucci themselves.
Essentially, what this person is doing is piggybacking off a popular brand.
They have taken something recognisable that people love, and used it in a different way.
I think this is a great way to make money.
It could make a decent second income business for someone at least.
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I am not sure where people stand legally as they are selling a trademarked pattern, but I don’t believe there is a law against taking old (and new) products, dismantling them and reusing the parts to make something new… at least not with clothing and bags.
People have been doing it for years.
A lot of people go to charity shops and thrift stores looking for used clothing and shoes which they modify into something new.
I know someone who used to buy canvas trainers and baseball caps and then paint characters on them. He would then sell the trainers for over £100 a pair.
One year he made £10,000 from that little side venture of his.
As long as the person who is making the watch straps don’t try and pass them off as ‘made by Gucci’ and state that the material is sourced from used bags, then I believe they should be fine.
If you are unsure, I suggest that you consult with a lawyer who specialises in trademarked and protected retail products.
I imagine that the watch strap maker is now inundated with orders after that video. The woman who made the video has 82,300 followers. That’s not a bad piece of free advertising is it?
So…like these watch straps made from used handbags, is there something new that you can make from something used?
Another great thing about watch straps is that they are small and can easily be popped into a jiffy bag and sent through the post.
Products that require little work are ideal for a second income.
Etsy is a great place to sell products.
In previous articles I have talked about people who make thousands of pounds selling digital products and printables.
Digital products require little work once they are online selling.
People sell digital products such as eBooks on Etsy because there are a lot of people who regularly browse the platform.
EBooks can be sold on Amazon Kindle, Etsy, Gumroad as well as from your own website.
Once published to these platforms, people can buy them at any time of the day or night.
They sit there online waiting for someone to come along and buy them.
Like baited hooks dangling in a stream teeming with fish.
You create an eBook once, and then sell it thousands of times for many years.
One eBook has the potential to make you £30,000 or more… depending on the subject matter of course.
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www.The30DayTo30KChallenge.com
Kind Regards
John Harrison
PS… Some of our best selling manuals are less than 20 pages long. It can take as little as a day to create a product that short.
There is no limit to how many eBooks you can create and sell.
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