Bootsale/Charity Shop buying and selling

asajj

DaveTheGeordie wrote: »

What's worth it to me may not be worth it for others. And for me personally, I think about it like building a knowledge base. The sum of the parts type of reasoning too. Discovering an item I can make a fiver on once after a days research may seem stupid. I appreciate that.

Yet factor in if it can be done weekly or every other week, even be able to sell once a month. Then factor in 20 other things you've learnt that are fairly easy to get and sell, and doing these simultaneously and regularly. And being able to spend a low amount of time doing that once you've figured it out.

If you have this sort of time, surely. It is not the amount of profit for me is the issue, it is the time that I have to spend to earn it is. I work full time and I have sold a fair amount of stuff on Ebay - mostly items that I don't want to use anymore. Also I don't have such a space to keep let's say 5 books for months on shelves. Also again buying things with the intention of selling is different than selling your second hand items and have other implications.

MollyDolly

DaveTheGeordie wrote: »

I've never thought of this. Have you managed to resell any? Or were you just buying in general?

I was buying in general, if I hadn't been so skint I would have bought everything that they had reduced and flogged the lot, or possibly kept hold of and sold next Spring. Still, theres always next year.....

Girl_Overboard

CD singles from the last five or so years are sometimes a good bet, because they're produced in such small quantities nowadays. I recently bought a bundle of 10 CDs for £1 and sold one of them (a rare One Direction single) for about £30 on eBay.

jumbojuice

is anyone actually making money on ebay after postage selling books in bulk?