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Ah! A fellow traveler! Some of us are just born hustlers. When I was 12, I funded my own computer in no small part by selling most of my stuffed animals and al
by ahoyhere 16y ago
Ah! A fellow traveler! Some of us are just born hustlers.
When I was 12, I funded my own computer in no small part by selling most of my stuffed animals and all of my My Little Ponies.
When I was 13, I used to make good money reselling brand new IKEA lamps and things on eBay. I had it down to a system -- selecting the ones that had the biggest multiple of going price over real price, never keeping stock on hand, having a real system to writing the listings, and spacing them out, etc.
Things just got more boring from there on out. And while the secondary IKEA market is funny, it's not as funny as yours.
Bicycle upholstery! Cracked me up. That's amazing.
- kajecounterhack 16y agoI'm not nearly as much of a hustler as either of you, but I traded three pokemon cards I got for free from a friend into 400+ cards back in 4th grade. (Pokemon cards were as good as currency for us.) I would trade a pokemon to someone who didn't care about energy cards (and would give me 10:1), then traded 5:1 for better cards, traded those cards for some star cards, traded star cards with better stats for holos with worse stats, traded holos with worse stats for multiple non-holo star cards, and kept this up until somehow I had a lot of cards. Never ended up buying a pack of pokemon cards either. My parents thought I was crazy. Yeah I ended up accidentally sticking most of my holos into the wash on one occasion though. :(