In a world where computer programs and AI software appear to be running the whole show, we have to remember that not everything is digital and that people still want and need ‘physical’ items.
People still need to wear shoes and trainers, they still want to play computer games and listen to music on records, CDs and even cassette tapes.
Did you know… cassette tape sales are at a 20-year high according to the music magazine NME.
I don’t know who is buying or selling cassettes, I can’t imagine many people have cassette players these days, but yes, cassettes are becoming popular again.
In the US, sales of albums on cassette tape increased by 28% in 2022 to 440,000 (up from 343,000 in 2021) according to the US 2022 Luminate Year-End Music Report.
There is a big demand for old albums on cassette tape by those who either missed them when they originally came out when they were young, or they have since sold or lost them and they want to get them again.
Cassette tapes, CDs, DVDs, books, computer games, shoes, trainers, jeans, ties… all of these things can easily be popped into a box or a bag and put into the post.
The reason I am telling you this is that there are decent profits sat waiting on the shelves of charity shops or the table tops at carboot markets.
This week I spoke briefly to a guy who had bought an original 1983 Pac-Man game console, boxed and in great condition, from a charity shop for £30, there are others currently being sold on eBay for between £300 and £500.
That same guy paid for his whole wedding and several holidays through selling items he bought for a few pounds from charity shops and carboot markets, on eBay for a much larger profit.
I found out that this week he sold several pairs of trainers that he had bought a while back from a carboot market and hadn’t got round to listing them on eBay until last week.
The profit he made from those sales is somewhere in the region of ten times what he paid for the trainers.
So, if he had spent £10, he made back £100.
£90 profit isn’t bad at all for a £10 investment. Is it?
He says that he always makes at least treble his initial purchase costs.
So for every £1 he spends, he makes at least £3. Very often he makes more.
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On the surface, it sounds like it can be hard work going to carboot markets and trawling through charity shops, but it doesn’t have to be.
He usually goes to a carboot market early on a Sunday morning for an hour or two, gets back and lists his purchases on eBay and is usually finished by 10am.
That is it for the week other than dealing with questions and processing any sales that happen.
Occasionally, during the week he will pop to the charity shops to look for a bargain and then list them as soon as he gets home. It doesn’t take him long to get items listed.
It is one of the easiest and least technical ways to make money.
Other than being able to take a photo with your smartphone and access eBay, there is nothing technical to learn.
The wife of one of the Streetwise team loves to trawl charity shops at the weekend and she drags him around too. While in the charity shops with his wife he is always looking for a bargain that he can sell for a profit.
He is there in the shop anyway, so he might as well profit from being there.
If you like to go for a walk as way to get some exercise, why not walk to the charity shops and look for a bargain or two?
If you have to ‘pop into town’ for something specific, why not pop into a charity shop and have a browse for a bargain or two?
Incorporate a carboot market or charity shop with your weekly walk and turn that walk into a money making venture.
While energy and food prices are high, and people are struggling, anything a person can do to make more money is a must.
It’s not hard to determine what can sell for a profit or not, a quick search on eBay and Google can tell you there and then what something is worth or whether there is a demand for it.
Once, while waiting for his wife to look through clothing in a charity shop, the guy who works for us found a load of old comics and wondered if they would be good to buy.
After a quick look on eBay he determined that they were not worth his time or effort as they were selling online for the same price.
Later, in a different charity shop, he found a series of old books priced at a £1 each that were selling on eBay for at least £5. Needless to say, he bought them and sold them for a profit.
If you make just £50 a week, that is a nice £200 extra each month, which is a decent £2,400 per year.
It may not be huge, but you can do quite a bit with £2,400.
In fact, you can do quite a bit with £200 if you use it as the seed money for an online digital business as laid out in this blueprint:
How To Build A Six-Figure-A-Year Income Without Spending A Penny Of Your Own Money!
Kind regards.
John Harrison
PS… Once you have this up and running correctly, it can reward you with an automated passive income for many years meaning that you will no longer need to trawl charity shops and carboot markets looking for bargains… unless you want to, of course.
Here’s that link again: