Swap meet stuff huh?
Ya, it was just a venture but since he couldn't play it straight we didn't do a repeat. I did have fun selling clothes though. We one bin of store returns and then sorted and folded them for resale. The one losing item was blue jeans. Since we bought by weight, blue jeans turned out to have little profit at the rate we were selling. Lighter stuff made a good profit. Mixed in were some very defective pull on dresses because the necks had been made from non stretchy stuff there was no way a woman could pull it over her head. Very attractive dresses otherwise but unusable so what I did was walk around and found another seller who took them all on at a break even price.
I think I was more interested in sorting and pricing than the other guy was. His idea was to just sell them as is with no thought to price structure to maximize our profit which I thought was dumb. It's super easy to sort out the items, stack by size and then determine cost by weight and compare with retail price to arrive at an attractive swap meet price that will get people excited to buy. Couldn't make a profit on the jeans because they are heavy so I just priced them at cost to get rid of them.
The guy I was working with was whining that it was too much work and too hard to figure it out. Bullshit, it was fun work, easy work. What, he thought we could just toss out a bin of mixed up clothes and people would like to rummage through it like a dumpster sale? No! Presentation is important.
How'd you get into that line of business?
One guy bought an entire shipping container sold off by a major mail order women's clothing manufacturer. It was from their mail order returns. Women are the worst at this as they will order a bunch of clothes, use them once and then send them back. Basically they get to use the clothes for free.
Kind of like us guys who buy a tool for a one time job and then return it to Home Depot because, "It doesn't work" or "It's the wrong size".
Anyway, the original buyer purchased the shipping container and then sold off the large bins inside. The plan was for us to sell our purchase and return for a repeat but since my jerk partner had a shorter plan there was no repeat. He just wanted to blow the cash on booze.
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