How I'm Dealing with Overpriced Thrift Stores

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@thriftingtiger 3 ай бұрын

Great haul Caleb. Never found those sweaters before. One of my bucket list items. Also never heard of Flux. I'll be on the lookout now!

@_calebsells 3 ай бұрын

Yeah they seem good but only one person listing them on eBay. Very random lol

@bigjohntechreviews4807 3 ай бұрын

Nice sourcing finds, you definitely had a good day. Great video sir

@_calebsells 3 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed!

@VIAGLO 3 ай бұрын

Also, I love the editing of the video. great haul. 👍🏾

@_calebsells 3 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@markippolito3620 3 ай бұрын

Great update - thank you again!

@_calebsells 3 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

@dogcatmousecow533 3 ай бұрын

You should see a little bump off your jiaropack shortly. Been meaning to try them out and now that basically everything is ground advantage ive been using more. You got the credit over other channels because you talked about how to do cubic and it has saved me a lot of shipping costs.

@_calebsells 3 ай бұрын

Appreciate you

@na-su2fk 3 ай бұрын

For Carhartt a medium is far more preferable than a 2XL. I'd much rather have a size small, with added bonus of it taking up less space and weighing less. Did a quick search to verify my gut feeling and here's what I found for average price of used men's Carhartt jackets: small $99, medium $97, large $88, XL $80, 2XL $68, 3XL $57. Obviously a lot depends on style, color and condition but you can see the price dropping significantly with 2XL.

@_calebsells 3 ай бұрын

You’re probably right but it was a tall size which for me tend to do better across the board. I could be wrong though. Either way I’m happy with a carhartt haha

@aidanman12 3 ай бұрын

I've noticed a slight decrease in my local stores here in PA not huge could be just the changing of the seasons of course but seeing a lot for $5.99 as to $7.99 default for everything not a huge difference but can make some items worth picking up now.

@_calebsells 3 ай бұрын

mine came out swinging with the jackets and sweaters.

@togetherrrr 3 ай бұрын

Let me be clear, with The North Face jacket that you bought for $7.40 and sold for $24. If you do recommended promotion rate, you will pay some $5 eBay fees, which will leave you with some $19 profit, subtract 7.50 original price, your net profit will be near some $12, but also you will pay income tax on all you make eventually, so profit is around 10$ for that TNF jacket. Is that about right?

@_calebsells 3 ай бұрын

That math is close enough. Make $10 on some items is fine but I try to make $15. That jacket already sold for $40. Including sourcing, photos, listing, and shipping I have less than 15 minutes into each item. So $10 per item is still $40 per hour to me

@togetherrrr 3 ай бұрын

@@_calebsells i see, if you sell 4 per hour on my its awesome

@tameby2400 3 ай бұрын

I’ve done well with Obermeyer. Just make sure you list it before the season hits.

@_calebsells 3 ай бұрын

It's listed!

@MSGsTreasures 3 ай бұрын

We have a local single store thrift who just recently DOUBLED their clothing prices, it's like walking into a Goodwill Boutique. Let them know my feelings on that. Goodluck staying open.

@_calebsells 3 ай бұрын

I'm lucky that even though my prices are high the inventory is good and they are willing to mark items down until they sell.

@MSGsTreasures 3 ай бұрын

@_calebsells I'm lucky that our goodwills and SAs have decent prices, so it's not hard for me finding clothes, 75% of my items are bread and butter, cause I live in SC where Nike and Ralph Lauren are about as good as it gets 😆 🤣

@EthanLupo 3 ай бұрын

Great find, well worth the money!

@_calebsells 3 ай бұрын

thanks man! glad to cross it off my bucket-list

@pishposhreselling 3 ай бұрын

If the RG happens to be limited edition, I learned that the # will be on the inside front tail. Great finds!

@_calebsells 3 ай бұрын

Good to know! It wasn’t limited but it did already sell for $48 plus shipping

@pishposhreselling 3 ай бұрын

@@_calebsells Nice! congrats! I only learned it because I had a Ltd Ed one that sold for $250 or something but it got stolen out of the buyer's driveway. He wondered if I had any pics of that number to help ID because the thief was trying to sell it on Craigslist. It was crazy! That's when i learned i should look there, lol.

@_calebsells 3 ай бұрын

that is wild! lol

@NoRthHiLL-LgNd 3 ай бұрын

Hey, you took the coogi sweater I was waiting for them to drop the price on smhh hahaha

@_calebsells 3 ай бұрын

Good to know I can’t leave anything sitting then 😉

@alimatt9685 3 ай бұрын

I think it’s funny when people say this bc I don’t have this problem in Raleigh. We don’t have the massive corporate stores here so they don’t price items individually. Oh yeah, and we don’t even have colored tags lol everything is set prices so everything

@_calebsells 3 ай бұрын

don't tell too many people or they will move their 🤣

@TheDustyOldHat 3 ай бұрын

@@_calebsells I just moved there

@_calebsells 3 ай бұрын

@@TheDustyOldHat lol!

@kategarb 3 ай бұрын

Raleigh here too! I think our prices are great compared to a lot of other areas. Lucky.

@VIAGLO 3 ай бұрын

the coogie sweater 🔥

@_calebsells 3 ай бұрын

I was in love!

@thats-what-she-sold 3 ай бұрын

You found some great pieces. Do you mind me asking whereabout you're at? I keep running into issues of not finding anything beside gloria Vanderbilt or faded glory since moving to a smaller city in Ohio and I hate the idea of driving an hour each way to maybe find some items.

@_calebsells 3 ай бұрын

I drive to a bigger city. From my experience that’s where the better items are

@TheDustyOldHat 3 ай бұрын

I think Cayley Elaine said she drives 1.5 hours each way every time she goes thrfiting, she also lives in tiny town in Ohio. The tradeoff is very cheap rent on a huge office space

@furtnot3441 3 ай бұрын

Just drive further and go to a bins store or hit a flea market daily. Low cost per item is a necessity. Just think if you are doubling your money or less on every item, you are going to have so much capital tied up. Also, what happens if a economic downturn hits and people are no longer able to spend that much on clothes. Suddenly, you are in a position to buy a ton of stuff but have 0 capital to swoop in.

@_calebsells 3 ай бұрын

I hear your point but I disagree. If my current model wasn't working I would definitely adapt and I know my COG is relatively high. If I shopped at the bins my ASP and STR would drop severely and I would have to list way more items and sourcing would take many days instead of 1 long day and some quick stops. Paying $1 and making $5 is 5X but a lot of work to pay the bills. Paying $10 and making $20 is only 2X but I can make the same profit with 1/4 of the items.

@TheClashOfTheClans Ай бұрын

each of those items would be atleast 3x the price at my goodwill

@_calebsells Ай бұрын

This wasn’t a goodwill so you might have to try other stores

@princesabonita79 3 ай бұрын

my local greedwill is out of their minds with their pricing, i only go on $1.79 day and make sure i have a coupon lol. I mainly go to the bins. Do you have a bins close by? Are you a fan of the bins?

@_calebsells 3 ай бұрын

I have a couple of bins but my area doesn't have overflow. So everything in the bins sat on the rack for 4 weeks first. So I try to get anything good before it gets there to save time.

@princesabonita79 3 ай бұрын

@@_calebsells we have a lot of overflow here (I'm in KC area) because the greedwill overprices everything so most of it ends up at the bins lol. Plus there's a lof of straight to the bins donations from donors either from the retail locations and at the actual bins. I think because the staff cant keep up with all the donations so they just send it straight to the bins. and then i dont know what happens at the retail store but i end up finding stuff that's only been on the floor less than a week. Anyways, awesome finds!

@samuelnichols7652 3 ай бұрын

Hi was wondering what do you with your inventory that hasn’t sold how long do you give for your inventory to sell and do you donate it or yard sales what do you do?

@_calebsells 3 ай бұрын

If it’s good inventory I never do but if they are bad items after a year or so. I haven’t actually ever done that but I’m sure my oldest items just need donated

@sellingsbee860 3 ай бұрын

caleb. just ordered my poly bags. also, what pre-owned levi style sell

@_calebsells 3 ай бұрын

501, 567 and 517 are probably the best. Vintage ones more can be good

@WeezSells 3 ай бұрын

I'm just wondering about the keywords? You're putting this in the description?

@_calebsells 3 ай бұрын

Keywords go in the title

@xavierwoolard8059 3 ай бұрын

What store was this at?

@_calebsells 3 ай бұрын

Local chain near me

@coniccinoc 3 ай бұрын

I think most people might be shocked at how much time and effort it takes to make a living off of flipping thrift store and estate sale items. People who do this successfully have a tall skill stack.

@_calebsells 3 ай бұрын

I agree! It’s simple in concept but not easy