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I Went Viral & Made $125,000 In A Weekend At 23 Years Old
A bit of a different one this week, but I hope you enjoy!
Issue #62
What’s up, Mat here and I’ve got a bit of a different Flip Weekly Issue for you. You can still read what I sold on eBay below (huge sales!) however during this busy few weeks I wanted to tell you a story about one of the most insane weekends in my life. It’s the first time I’ve actually talked about it and the only way to listen to how I made over $100,000 with the stupidest thing is via the Flip Weekly podcast.
In This Issue
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What I Sold
An absolutely massive return on investment with multiple games from Issue #61 selling this week.
$12 into $850 best offer.
$3 into $249.95.
$3 into $249.95 + post (forgot to make it free)
The above 6 games were bought for a combined $18 and have gone on to sell for a total of $1349.90. These were big box PC games from the late 80’s, not CD’s, not cartridge, but floppy discs. They sold without even being tested, that’s how rare and in demand they were.
The games were published by a company called Sierra and were a part of the Kings Quest series, widely considered classics in the golden era of adventure games. You can watch me finding them over on Instagram here.
$10 into $150 best offer.
The subject of Issue #59, I declared that The Bigger The Care Bear, The Bigger The Profit. That would have been true if I didn’t screw up the listing. In an effort to cater to a broader audience, I attempted to reduce the price from $200 to $150, add international shipping and change free postage to calculated post. Unbeknownst to me, the box that I had put this gigantic ball of fluff in exceeded the maximum cubic measurements for international shipping. Dejected, I settled for the Australian market but that wasn’t before I forgot to change free Australian shipping to calculated shipping. So what happens next? Someone buys the Care Bear for $149.95 with free post. Post itself will run me around $60 so after eBay fees I’m left with approximately $50 profit if I’m lucky.
Such a cool find in working condition. Vintage Fisher Price can hold its value.
$9 into $99.95.
Bratz started off as a competitor to Barbie and became incredibly popular with the dolls morphing into having their own television shows, movies and video games. If you look in the childrens section in thrift stores you might get lucky and find someone’s donated collection of Bratz movies. I was able to get 9 for $1 each and they went on to sell for $100. If you do create a listing similar to this, you can expect a lot of views and a lot of watchers. This collection was up for just over a month and had 300 views and close to 50 people watching.
Couple of bucks into $37.95 + $14.95 post.
This 1st edition copy of The Big Short took 10 months to sell for $52.90. I was tempted to keep this as a personal as Michael Lewis is a great author and a lot of his most famous books have been turned into feature films that I love. It’s always worth checking out popular books to see if any are 1st editions or signed by the author but just remember that not all titles are created equal. A signed 1st edition Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone is worth a hundred times more than a wellness guru who self-published their own vanity piece.
$3 into $49.99.
In Issue #48 I found these 3 pens… yeah, pens. I paid $1 each and to be honest, I knew nothing about them but I do know thanks to watching The Price is Right as a kid that certain brands are desirable and worth a bit of money. I can hear the host right now announcing “It’ssssss a Parker Pen!“ with such excitement that wasn’t met by the contestants. Anyway, this Platignum brand had an unexpectedly great sell through rate (at the time it was 205%) and whilst it did get some traction when I listed 1 initially for $49.95 nobody committed to the purchase until I lotted all 3 up together for $49.99. It was then purchased by a dude in Saudi Arabia who paid a grand total of $82.49 for 3 pens purchased for just $3.
This is the first pen sale I’ve ever made but I guess if I was to offer some general advice it would be that the difference between these and any other regular pen you find in the thrift is the attention to detail, branding and packaging. If the pen is in a plain white plastic sleeve chances are it’s not desirable, but when I saw the huge logo in nice typography I figured maybe this Platignum is something. Turns out it was.
That’s all I’ve got for you this week, be sure to follow Flip Weekly on social media, listen to the podcast if you want a laugh and let me know what you thought about this weeks episode. Thanks again for reading, I’m still quite busy this week so we’ll see how we go next week but fingers crossed.
Mat.
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