Issue #100

Welcome back to Flip Weekly. I hope you had an amazing Christmas, New Years and holiday break, but it’s time to get back into the swing of things. First of all, I’m in complete disbelief that this is Issue #100 of the newsletter. Flip Weekly was started in February of 2024 so we’re coming up on 2 straight years of writing close to 3,000 words a week.

#100 is a milestone and it makes me think about the future. Will there be an Issue #200? Will we just go on indefinitely? Who knows. All I know is that I’m thankful to have you opening and reading the newsletter every single week and as long as you keep doing that, I’ll keep writing.

Mat.

In This Issue

• What I Bought

• What I Sold

• Official Flip Weekly Podcast

• Win a Free $200 Mystery Box

• Flip Weekly on Social Media

• 100% Free Resources to Help You

What I Bought

2026 is starting off with a bang.

If this Facebook Marketplace item sells, it will be my biggest flip of all time.

It was only a few weeks back that crown went to Sonic comic books that were bought for $60 and sold for $1,600. This item was bought for less, and listed for more.

It looks like a pile of junk, but in reality we have something that is incredibly rare.

We have a Hannah Montana CRT TV with a built in DVD player.

I knew that CRT TV’s could sell for good money, we’ve sold them before. When you combine them with a DVD or VHS player the prices go way up. Now introduce Disney and Hannah Montana to the theme? We’re talking big, big money.

We don’t have a ton of data to go on, but from these 2 listings, I mean… it looks good, really good. So good in fact that I’m listing this up for $2,000. It’s insane, I know, but people are insane.

Now, Hanna Montana isn’t my cup of tea but take a look at these themed CRT TV’s, some are pretty cool.

Take a look at the price of the Shrek TV…

Keeping in line with themed old tech, we have another Marketplace pickup that comps up for some ridiculous money. You could buy an old DVD player for $5, but because this next item is themed, it’s valuable. Extremely valuable.

An early 2000’s Hello Kitty DVD player was put up on Marketplace on January 31st. I was surprised when I sent through a message and it was still available. A Game Boy will be Pending after 5 minutes with a $100 profit margin, yet this thing? No-one jumped on it. A surprise, check out the Sold Listings.

When I went to pick this up I was thinking of a $499.95 listed price, but after seeing 0 Active Listings and 6 Sold Listings, I decided to add on an exclusivity tax along with my Australia tax. The person who wants this DVD player is going to have to pay $599.95.

Speaking of Hello Kitty, this $3 op shop constellation projector was as close to a home run as anything.

Released exclusively in Japan in 2001, it’s essentially a night light globe that projects Hello Kitty’s constellation onto your bedroom roof. It looks really cool and considering the huge market for Hello Kitty, I wasn’t surprised to see the sheer number of people interested.

With no Active or Sold Listings on eBay, I’ve decided to list it up for $149.95 on eBay and $100 on Marketplace. In terms of picking up Hello Kitty in the future, I think I’ll avoid the low hanging fruit, stuff like plushies and random knick knacks and instead focus on the type of items you see above… a bit weird, but definitely rare.

I think someone at Savers really dropped the ball. I was coming home from Sam’s place on Saturday and decided to stop in at Savers Hoxton Park. It’s a drive and a half away from Sydney City so it’s not in my regular rotation. In fact, most of the times I go there I leave empty handed. Combine that with it being a Saturday I wasn’t expecting much (I hate thrifting on the weekend).

I was striking out left and right until I came to the Fiction section in the Book aisle. Take a look at what I found.

The Horus Heresy, one of, if not the most valuable Warhammer series of books that you can find in the wild. Priced at $5.49, there are sold comps for $100. The crazy thing is that there are no Active Listings for this book at the $100 mark, the minimum is $180.94.

We know that if we find one of these books, chances are there’s more.

So I accept my fate and decide to look through all of the fiction books. I want more.

That’s when I start to get lucky. Really lucky. I pull out 4 other Warhammer books including a Horus Heresy that is worth $250! By the way, these are all hardcovers!

This was a crazy find. I spent $35 total and walked away with $1,040 worth of total listed value. You don’t have that happen everyday. Oh, and I did find 2 other books while I was there.

The next deal that I scored was for a huge Pokemon and handheld video game bundle via Facebook Marketplace. You’ll have to excuse the bad photos, I forgot to take screenshots and full size photo.

This guy had his whole entire childhood Pokemon game collection for sale on Marketplace. I had a feeling there was money to be made because he had priced each game individually and they weren’t that close to eBay comps. For example, Pokemon White Version 2, the same game I sold for Sam for $180, was priced at $100.

Knowing that even if I paid asking price I’d still be able to make money I sent through a message and asked if he was open to a bulk deal. Adding everything up it was around $800 and I offered $500. To my surprise, he accepted. Then I did what everyone should do when they get a deal like this… I asked if he had anything else.

From the above message you can see the dudes mindset when pricing. He checks the prices online, drops a bit off, probably for a quick sale. As a reseller though, the profit margins are just a bit too small for me. I decided to give him an offer anyway, we were spending $500 so adding anything onto that would surely sound lucrative and hard to pass up.

It worked! We were able to get a (pretty much) new PS Vita and 3DS XL for $300 total. If you’ve ever sold these handhelds before you know they sell for over $300 each and they sell quickly (one has already sold).

From the $800 we spent, which to be fair was a lot of money, the listed value was just over $2,800. Considering this is all Pokemon, the sell through rate is really high and I should recuperate the $800 quickly. Fingers crossed anyway. If you want to read my exact Facebook Marketplace strategy, how I’m able to find really good deals every single week, check out Issue #77.

A few other finds this week:

I took a gamble on this 1988 Dragonlance board game. I recognized the logo from valueless science fiction books and was surprised to see what it comped up at.

There’s only 1 listed within Australia at $150 so I figured even if it wasn’t fully complete, I could still get some good money for it. I brought it home and took about 10 minutes to see that everything was there except for 2 dice. That’s actually best case scenario for missing pieces because I can just do an Officeworks run and pick a couple up. This board game ticks all the boxes of board games with value:

• Nerdy

• Complicated

• Looks expensive

A home grown Aussie television show that’s worth buying if you’re selling physical media. Big Girls Blouse sells for between $50-$70 depending on supply at the given time.

It was a sketch comedy show that ran for just the 1 season with Magda Szubanski, Gina Riley and Jane Turner. Some of the sketches included the popular Kath and Kim characters so if you ever find this DVD, you could bundle it up with the TV show and ask for a premium.

I got my hands on a Sega World Sydney arcade card this week. We all know how insane Sonic and Sega World Sydney collectors can be, this card, which is incredibly thin and the size of a library card is routinely bought and sold on eBay for anywhere from $200-$400, again depending on supply.

What I Sold

We’ve had so many sales over the past week and a bit that I’m just going to dump most of them below. In no particular order…

This was, I think, my 4th op shop find that has been cataloged in the Powerhouse Collection.

A 1968 Humphrey B Bear plastic figurine that despite being behind the counter at Savers, was priced at just $20. It’s the exact same mold that’s featured in the Powerhouse Collection here and it sold in less than 48 hours for $150.

It makes sense that one of the first sales of 2026 just happened to be a Bratz doll. Rock Angelz Yasmin was priced up at $150 and a buyer got in touch asking if I’d accept $115. Considering I got all of my Bratz dolls out of a tub for $20 it was a no brainer to say yes. I know what you’re thinking, has the $1,000 doll sold yet? Unfortunately not.

This sold on the same day as the Bratz doll so my first 2 sales of 2026 were Bratz and a Polly Pocket. This was one of my mums favourites, it came with 5 of the original dolls, the wedding dress and tiara plus when you opened it up it played the wedding march song. When I first listed the Polly Pockets this was the one that I thought would sell first. I guess people are hard up to spend $200 on a Polly Pocket these days.

I was quite proud of my myself for this sale. Watching hours and hours of YouTube reseller content paid off when I came across a small bundle of Stephen King books at a garage sale. Knowing that a lot of them are worthless, I remembered someone (sorry, I forget who) talking about The Bachman Books. A collection of Stephen King books all-in-one including some that are out of print. The books were priced for the entire bundle and I inquired whether or not he’d sell them individually. He said yes, I pulled this one out and got it for $2, and it’s gone on to sell for $150.

I’m bewildered by what some people spend their money on.

This is literally just a cheap plastic water bottle with a Jumanji logo on the jacket. I imagine it was given out in influencer swag bags and then donated to Vinnies.

This next deal was found on Facebook Marketplace.

I paid $35 for seasons 1-12 of The Simpsons and they comped up at around the $250-$300 mark. I priced low at an even $200 and they were out the door in 5 days. Nothing really surprises me about the sale, The Simpsons is always going to be popular, they’re a sequential 1-12 and priced below everyone else. The thing that does surprise me however is why the dude priced them at $35. Not $20, not $50, not $100, not even $5/season, just a random $35.

Here’s a reminder to you if you ever sell old video games. If you receive a message from the buyer stating that the game doesn’t work and they immediately open a return request, to politely and gently ask them to keep trying. This exact scenario happened with this sale and I knew some (read: most) buyers can be hasty to scream “IT DON’T WORK“ but just keep your cool.

Within 15 minutes the dude had sent through the 1st message, opened a return request, closed the return request, sent through the 2nd message and confirmed he was able to get the game to work. Bit of a whirlwind 15 minutes.

Hopefully this expensive Emerald game that was sent to Malaysia “works“ for the buyer.

I started off this next item priced around $1,000. Over the next few months I brought the price down before eventually accepting an offer on Marketplace.

This was a part of the deal when I got invited into a Marketplace sellers home. Funnily enough, the person that bought this from me was a LEGO reseller and quoted Brick Links prices. They paid $380 and it looks like they’ve posted it for sale on eBay for $800. More power to them if they can get that price.

Once again, thank you for following on my journey over the past 100 weeks. I feel like I’ve learnt a lot about about reselling and little about sentence structure and narrative writing. If you’ve been here since Day 1, wow. If you’re new, welcome. I hope you’re enjoying the newsletter and I’ll see you again next week.

Mat.

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