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Start selling anything and everything that has any monetary value on platforms like: Craigslist, Ebay, Facebook marketplace, nextDoor, close5 (if they're still

Start selling anything and everything that has any monetary value on platforms like: Craigslist, Ebay, Facebook marketplace, nextDoor, close5 (if they're still around), letgo, etc. I mean, literally, just go through every last item in your house. If you haven't used it in the last 3 months, what's the point of holding on to it? It's labor intensive, but at when you're done, you'll have a much cleaner house and a little bit of money too. I do this on the weekends.

consultutah 6y ago
While is isn't a continued source of cashflow, it IS the very first thing that anyone needing money quickly should look it. It's relatively easy and op mentioned, you can clean out the garage too!
Scoundreller 6y ago
And if you have the time, look into parting it out for max value. Often the parts are worth more than the complete unit. And we probably all have spare bubble envelopes and boxes from delivery services. Plus you get to learn how it's assembled. And people will pay more for parts from a 100% functional unit than a scrapped unit of unknown provenance.
mattgibson 6y ago
A friend used to have a great ebay sideline in reselling poorly listed items at a higher price. He'd search for reasonably high value items that had been listed with spelling mistakes in the name so that they didn't show up in searches, or showed up too far down the results to be noticed. He'd then buy them and immediately on winning the auction, re-list the same item but without the spelling mistakes. His secret trick was using a copy/paste of the text and images from the historically highest priced listing that had sold for that same item, which ebay made it easy to search for. By the time it arrived in the post, he'd already sold it on at a higher price to someone else. He just relabelled the packages, sent them on and pocketed the difference.
- chupaolo 6y ago
  That's a great trick! Any idea how profitable this was?
  - mattgibson 6y ago
    I never asked for figures, but he kept doing it despite being in a reasonably well paid job as social media manager for a restaurant chain. Which brings to mind another of his tricks: He set up a lunch voucher trading scheme for all of the other restaurants in the little downtown area where he was based. He got to eat anywhere he liked every lunch time. One of his employment perks was getting a free lunch from his restaurant every day. He soon got bored of it, so he designed and printed some home made lunch vouchers with his name on, and arranged for the front of house staff to accept them in lieu of payment. The understanding was that there would be no more than one per day for the days he didn't eat there. Then he went to all of the other restaurants and told their front of house staff that they could swap their own free lunches for his by letting him eat there in exchange for his vouchers. They could then eat at his restaurant for free on one of the next few days. That was 10 years ago and I've never since met anyone with a better hustle than that guy.
TAForObvReasons 6y ago
This is a great time to sell any retro video game consoles and equipment -- the third party market prices for lots of old controllers and consoles and games jumped 25-100% in the last two months.

consultutah 6y ago

While is isn't a continued source of cashflow, it IS the very first thing that anyone needing money quickly should look it. It's relatively easy and op mentioned, you can clean out the garage too!

Scoundreller 6y ago

And if you have the time, look into parting it out for max value. Often the parts are worth more than the complete unit. And we probably all have spare bubble envelopes and boxes from delivery services. Plus you get to learn how it's assembled. And people will pay more for parts from a 100% functional unit than a scrapped unit of unknown provenance.

mattgibson 6y ago

A friend used to have a great ebay sideline in reselling poorly listed items at a higher price. He'd search for reasonably high value items that had been listed with spelling mistakes in the name so that they didn't show up in searches, or showed up too far down the results to be noticed. He'd then buy them and immediately on winning the auction, re-list the same item but without the spelling mistakes. His secret trick was using a copy/paste of the text and images from the historically highest priced listing that had sold for that same item, which ebay made it easy to search for. By the time it arrived in the post, he'd already sold it on at a higher price to someone else. He just relabelled the packages, sent them on and pocketed the difference.

chupaolo 6y ago
That's a great trick! Any idea how profitable this was?
- mattgibson 6y ago
  I never asked for figures, but he kept doing it despite being in a reasonably well paid job as social media manager for a restaurant chain. Which brings to mind another of his tricks: He set up a lunch voucher trading scheme for all of the other restaurants in the little downtown area where he was based. He got to eat anywhere he liked every lunch time. One of his employment perks was getting a free lunch from his restaurant every day. He soon got bored of it, so he designed and printed some home made lunch vouchers with his name on, and arranged for the front of house staff to accept them in lieu of payment. The understanding was that there would be no more than one per day for the days he didn't eat there. Then he went to all of the other restaurants and told their front of house staff that they could swap their own free lunches for his by letting him eat there in exchange for his vouchers. They could then eat at his restaurant for free on one of the next few days. That was 10 years ago and I've never since met anyone with a better hustle than that guy.

TAForObvReasons 6y ago

This is a great time to sell any retro video game consoles and equipment -- the third party market prices for lots of old controllers and consoles and games jumped 25-100% in the last two months.