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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I make about $20k/yr profit reselling on postmark for about 3 hours per week of work.[/quote]

Where do you source inventory to sell?[/quote]
Primarily thrift stores. It's crazy what people donate around here. Just this morning I sold two pairs of jeans for $85 and $99 each that I paid $4.99 each for.[/quote]

So you are spending more than 3 hours a week I am guessing. Going to thrift stores and hunting for items is very time consuming. Let’s be honest.[/quote]

It really doesn't. Once you know what you're doing, it's fairly simple. I know al the thrift stores discount days, colors of the week, etc. I can skim all the jeans in about 3 minutes. All the tags I'm looking for (FRAME, Good American, Reformation, Anthro brands, AG, Rag and Bone) are burned into my brain. Shoes, you just have to walk by and then check the brands on pairs that are on trend. Same with the purses. Athleisure takes a bit of digging, but I do find Lululemon, gym shark, vuori, Patagonia regularly which are usually $3 each. Kids clothes I just walk down the aisle and can pretty much pull out Hana Andersson and Mini Boden items just by their patterns. I pick those up if they are $1-2 and can usually profit $25 on them. I don't really do shirts because I hate digging through them for a low ROI, but some resellers only do vintage t-shirts (concerts, characters, sports, pop culture) and kill it. I can easily go down the home aisle and pick out any vintage pyrex, fire king, or le ceuset. Those I just sell on Facebook marketplace to avoid shipping. I'm in a lot of resellers Facebook groups and subreddits and have learned a ton.  For example, I read a post from someone that strictly resells vintage blow molds like the holiday light up decorations. It stuck in my brain and then a few months later, I was driving on garbage night and someone had a whole easter bunny blow mold family (mom bunny, dad bunny, and two little bunnies) out in the garbage. Must to my husband and kids dismay I made him pull over and I loaded them up. I sold them 12 hours later on Facebook marketplace for $300. There's crazy markets for some older or rare Lily Pulitzer prints which are easy to spot at the thrift store (the holy grail pattern being dark and stormy), vintage St. John items sell like hot cakes to people in the dog show world, vintage and rare buttons, rare and vintage stuffed animals, "boom boxes"/older electronics. It's actually been really interesting to learn about and even though most of it is women wanting a deal on clothes, it's really rewarding to find the rarer things and connect them with people who have been searching for them. Last year, I picked up a pretty vintage tea box on a whim and it sold to an elderly lady in Alaska whose mom had the same box and had used it to store her sewing supplies. The lady wrote me a letter about how much joy having that box gave her, she said I gave her the warmest piece of her mom's memory!

I takes me 4 minutes on average to photograph and list each item.

Anyway, poshmark emails you the shipping label, USPS has free boxes. I literally go on their website, add 100 boxes to my cart, and "check out" for $0 and then the boxes are delivered by my mail person with my regular mail. The boxes have self seal adhesive. I buy a 250 sheet pack of tissue paper from Costco and a 250 roll of "thank you" stickers from amazon. When I sell something, I wrap it in a piece of tissue paper, use a sticker to close the paper, put it in a box, and slap the label on. If I have 3 or less sales in a day, I leave them on my porch and my mail person takes them, if I have 4 or more, I can schedule a free pick up through the USPS website or just go drop them in the bin. I'm pretty much a well oiled machine at this point.[/quote]

Oh you are stealing priority mail boxes (I’m guessing the postmark prepaid labels are UPS or similar). [/quote]

I’m not a PP, but you are totally off-base here.  No “stealing” involved here.[/quote]

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