Hello! We are a reselling couple (Sarah & James) who buy from charity shops, wholesale, carboot sales, auction houses and we sell it online for a profit.
Its a misconception that if an item has been priced incorrectly the retiler has to sell at the price this is not true . Some retailers will honour the price but it is not a legal requirement . Strange way to carry on in that shop though i must say .
I understand that but I don't get why they were being selective with some items and not with others when they had the same week numbers and prices on the labels. And telling us were lucky to be getting the items at 99p and they could of removed more. We don't buy from the shop anymore, we've been in twice recently and prices have changed a lot. Maybe because of this they now drop prices gradually rather than straight to 99p after 3 weeks. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Had a lot on recently, so struggling for content. But thought we'd try something different with this video. Thanks for watching hope your well Jeannie?
Jeannie we also might be going to the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh on the 17th-21st. Not sure what day yet. Never been before. I'm guessing you've been before? Recommend anything?
We tried to buy from 3 different sellers and each experience was unpleasant. Fleek has lots of sellers, there might be some good sellers there but our experience put us off buying from Fleek again. From the youtubers we spoke to I believe it was £250 credit in exchange to promote Fleek.
With all these bundles of clothing that need washed before selling, are you able to claim your washing machine as a business expense ? And with the poor summer we have had ( I live not that far away from you) when on earth do you get them dried ?
Yes, you can claim electricity, soap powder, stain remover as a business expense. Same with dry cleaning. We use our own washing line and the neighbours. And also dry clothes inside. Soon as it's decent we need to try get as much done as possible with washing clothes. Where are you from?
@@TonksBoutique Just outside Paisley. Must be a nightmare drying inside though in the winter. You've got a great week this week for outside drying. Glad I dont resell clothes though. I sell small items (tho I have 1000s of them) and they take up enough space !
@@Jamiedee123 I can imagine how much space 1000 items take up. We may venture soon back into non clothing items. We are going to list all our back log then reevaluate our business.
3 of the tops had holes in the end. We got a £9 refund from the seller. She's too pale to go blonde but maybe she needs a wig or 2 with all the stress I'm causing her Alan :-)
Hi, I wanted to ask a while back that you bought lots of sacks from BOOM Wholesale. I wanted to ask if you had sold it all and was it worth it, and did you get your money back/make a profit? I ask because I was contemplating buying in bulk also from boom. Happy sales.
@@Lee-vx5df I wouldn't recommend buying from wholesale online as its a lottery of what will turn up. The cost of goods is too high, it can end up costing you £6-7 an item or more and in the sack there will be shorts and t-shirts that hold not much resell value. These sorts of items are break even or even running at a loss which eats into your overall profit. And there is always the expect 10% damages with wholesale, we find with wholesale it can be anywhere from 10-40% damages. If your going to spend up and buy in bulk I'd highly recommend hand picking at a wholesaler or buying joblots from ebay were your protected with free returns if an item isn't as described. The clothing market is saturated and with ebays no fees for private sellers its getting harder to sell clothes on ebay. We have sold most of the boom items but some still remain. But it's not something I would do again as it was very hit/miss and very time consuming with all the issues.
Good to see another video from you guys and that things are doing well. You mentioned taking your mother away. Can we assume you will be bringing her back ? 😁
OMG we got a shout out! Thanks both for all of your advice- we had a look at the sold prices, dropped what we were asking and the sales are picking up nicely 😊 still have more UPS / Fed Ed boxes than stock to fill them with, but that’ll come! Thanks for making the eBay thing look fun (it is)- it was one of your videos that made us take the plunge last month and haven’t looked back since! Paul & Michelle
Our pleasure! Hope your sales are still growing. We haven't done a video for a while due to listing lots of clothes. But a new video out today :-)And questions or help needed, drop us a message anytime.
do you buy the boom high street stuff we find it pretty good no washing its good to go all grade A and with their recent 45% off each piece was between £1.25 (lower end high st) to about £2.35 (higher end) and a lot are new with tags good profit in them we find
Hi, right now we are getting most of our items for 80p-£1.10 or there abouts for low and higher end brands. We haven't tried Boom high street. That's good your getting new and tagged and getting good profit from the items. We've kind of gave up with wholesale right now due to several bad experiences. Thanks for watching and commenting. Are you going to buy again from Boom highstreet? If so, let us know how you get on.
@@TonksBoutique yes but will wait until its on sale again yes quite a bit of new with tags theres actually only a few bits that look second hand they are either new with tags or seem to be new without tags stuff like pretty little thing hobbs m&s lyle and scott and zara some of the tags say up to £49.99 and even if you only get £10 per piece with approx 40 pieces thats good profit the lower end sacks cost £43 with the discount
@@saradoherty3875 They seem to be doing a lot of offers recently, so they might do another high street sack soon. Let us know how you get on with the next order of the high street sacks.
So basically, like me you've given up being an only clothing seller! No shame there. I've honestly now stopped sourcing clothing. I'm just working through the clothing stock I have - but mostly now just left with autumn and winter stock to list. I saw the writing on the wall with both no fees for private sellers and Vinted too and I'm getting out of the game and moving into collectable & vintage homeware niche. I barely use charity shops anymore - there is literally one I source from now. I do find that charity shops are not always as high for bric a brac as they are for clothing. I'm now sourcing from auction every 4 weeks. The volume I can get and the value of items is amazing - and my local is not a cheap auction house but the stuff I get my hands on is amazing. The other thing iI've found from sourcing hard goods is the sell through rate is rapid compared to clothing.
We've not given up with clothes. We've just been accepted onto the pre-loved partner program which is meant to increase sales. Ebay said 2-3 weeks before we're added and it's been 4 and we've not been added yet. That's meant to give a boost in visibility. We'll see how that goes but because of the private sellers and no fees we thought it best we pick up other items to resell. We've got 2600 items of clothes listed and we have a lot of unlisted clothes. Once we max out the sheds we will get a container and then look at mixing clothes with other items such as toys, collectables and other items.
@@TonksBoutique sorry, I didn’t mean you’ve given up entirely - I worded that badly 😅but yeah, I think a mix right now for me is safe. It’s a bit of a test really. I’m only sourcing hard goods right now and I’m curious to see whether this increases sales or not. They take up more real estate as it were but they turn over faster. My sales are a mix right now. No one thing is bring me more profit than the other.it’s hard to judge. However, selling hard goods only is limiting in terms of platforms to sell on. It’s a real pickle!
@@ThisisJo 100% it's a test right now. We'll still keep going with clothes but if needs be we're happy to change back to an everything reseller. We'll have a better idea once we get all the clothes listed and get a container to experiment more with mixing clothes with other items. Thanks for watching.
I ripped the tendon in my shoulder and made a hole in the middle of my bicep, they think minimum of 3 months to heal, but could take a long time. Maybe a year. But it's been roughly 5 weeks and its slowly on the mend. Cant use my walking stick which is causing me leg pain but hoping in another 2 months I can get back to normal. How are you Alan? Thanks for watching and commenting.
thank you so much for this video, recently got one off my grandparents and found the drive belt had turned to a thick sticky liquid, glad i was able to fix it up and enjoy using it.
Anywhere I can get stock cheap enough. That includes charity shops, wholesale, Facebook, auction house, Ebay, Vinted, Instagram, other resellers etc.... We went to Blochairn Carboot Sale yesterday and only found 1 item, probably due to the rubbish weather. Thanks for watching
Defo going as check-in is not until 4pm. We will leave early as there's 2 OAP charity shops I want to visit but after than I need to be on my best behaviour 🤣Thanks for watching ❤
i hired my 20 foot container (155 a month), thinking i will never fill this, now can hardly get doors shut😂, so good Luck when you get yours, Happy Birthday Sunday Sarah, have a great weekend away,
Thanks Jeannie. James said he'll go Friday during the day as check in is at 4pm. But after that he''s banned 🤣🤣🤣 Did you notice James forgot to buy candles and he had to add a tealight candle to the cake photo 🤣🤣
@@TonksBoutique When i pointed to the sign saying clothing starts from 99p they said that they have been up since the store opened 5 years ago and that they will be getting taken down. I said it’s misleading lol. Clothes started from £3
You're right it's very misleading. Even my favourite CHS charity shop in Wishaw the pricing has changed a lot (my last visit was about 1-2 weeks ago). They used to drop items to 99p after several weeks (we bought 99p items in March). Now they are dropping gradually and changing week numbers. It's the first time ever we didn't even spend £1 in the shop when usually we spend its 50, 60, 80, 100. I need to visit other CHS I think soon to see what ones are doing 99p clothes.
Well that was an interesting video and sometimes you need to pass on information on as you both are out for bargains and the games looks so much but when you said about the candle holders i was thinking they were lot bigger but there small. lol the TF jumper is nice shame i wont fit me.
The candles were free from our St Andrews loyalty card, hoping to get £25-30 for them. We wouldn't of known about the church sale if it wasn't for you so Thank You. I will go back again, but not sure when. Thanks for watching 👍
Intresting you mentioned CM Retro.. I bought their hoodie bundle aswell it was terrible. However, I also bought a dickies bundle that was perfect and i made over 400 on.
That's funny as they told me I was the only one having problems with their hoodies 🤣 They gave me a reason that now looks like an excuse "sorry, we've sent you the carboot sale 50p items" So I bought more hoodies on the promise the manager himself would pick and pack them and what arrived was just as bad or worse. He wanted us to join the 2 orders together and try make 1 order. When I make a new order its a brand new transaction. So he wanted me to join the 50p carboot sale items with the latest order to try complete an order. Joke!! I was refunded in full for both orders and told I was committing fraud. I said to him, pay for the return shipping and you can have them all back but he refused and told me to pay for the shipping. I would never shop with them again, horrible attitude and there Grade A/B with washable stains were more like Grade Bin. Holes, paint stains, rips, oil, heavily bobbled, etc... Thanks for commenting and watching
@@TonksBoutique Yeah, Think thats just an excuse they've spun unfortuantley. Got my bundle last september and just trying to scrape money from the stuff, made about 80 profit which is terrible
£80 is shocking as there is a lot of work to get the hoodie fit for resell. Did you not contact them about the issue? Wondering if you did, what the resolution was?
Get well soon for all. My Aunt and Uncle are all in hospital at the moment, going off to visit them shortly after work, cousin also is not well too. Bad times, but happy time for Sarah on her 60th this week :) yayyyyy
James you should take the advise to take it easy with the shoulder as down the line you will suffer even more and also gets Sarah doing more 🤣🤣, games seem to be doing well 👍
Hi Alan, I have been resting my arm some what, the worst part is not using my walking stick and legs in agony the later the day goes on. But doctor thinks 3 months before my arms healed. Thanks for watching.
Loved the Safari dress on you Sarah, did you perhaps have heels on as I saw you wobbling a few times lololol Lovely goodies you picked up, Hope you are on the mend James. Have a lovely Monday. xx
Morning Jeannie, I have hospital on Wednesday for the scan results. She's making any excuse to wear the Ayr shoes 🤣 even if only for 20 mins - see 12:12 🤣 She's winning the agreement so far, if not worn once in 6 months they're going up for sale. But sure I'll get a few pairs at the end 🤣🤣 Thanks for watching ❤
@@TonksBoutique lol Sarah and her shoes...lololol It's like watching a wee girl trying to walk in Mummy's shoes...lolol Hope everything is good on Wednesday with your scan results James...
Thanks Alan. The packaging was superb! We are very happy with the clothes. Lovely clean and in ready to list condition. We have so much so stock to list now, we should stop buying 🤣 Thanks for the fantastic deal. Have a lovely day.
Your videos keeping me company whilst I list again 😅 Every time I get Next in a wholesale order I think, ugh, Next never sells. I list it, it sells. I sold a Next top just a couple of days ago. 🤦♀ They aren't fast sellers I personally find, but I don't know where I got this opinion from because it does! 🤷♀
If we're doing bundles I like adding next with another item, same with the likes of Jack & Jones, I often use them to sell the cheaper brands we pick up. In the last 90 days we have sold 27 Next items (4 which were bundles). Next does sell, find it can sit similar to the likes of GAP and other high street brands. A lot of resellers wont pick up cheap brands, as they think everything needs to be branded but it you can get items cheap enough they all sell. Not everyone has £50, £100 to spend on clothes at one time. A lot of our sales are people spending £10-15. It all add up when the weekly payment comes in. Thanks for watching Jo ❤
Excellent video and comments help buyers guys like us, I am from South America, I dared with Fleek and a purchase of Barbour jackets (1000 USD) It is unfortunate that the jackets were not the same ones in the video, the A quality was really B with many repairs on the jackets, fleek helped with a refund of 100 pounds to buy from the same seller, but that does not give you confidence, and at the same time I lost the coupon because the message was deleted, I tried a second time with north face jackets, 20 Only 2 were men's and small sizes, it's a shame that the videos are not of good quality to really see in detail, the platform should improve, today I think they are with a better quality standard, since I bought 1400 usd in barbour grade A but at the same time Reviewing the Fleek equipment indicated that 80% were grade C, so I asked for a refund, apparently I have not had a good experience with the platform, I am still looking for the correct dealer. thank you
Hi @ekso - We had 3 bad shopping experiences with Fleek but only 1 order arrived and it was a mess (we did a video on it - I'll link at the end of this comment). I like what Fleek are trying to do but wholesalers who are selling on Fleek have different standards from what Fleek are trying to do. Sorry to hear you also had a bad time with Fleek, it doesn't sound like you've had much luck with them either. Here is a link to our Fleek order - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0e_EIlF54Nk.html
So i’m curious as ebay sellers who have gone from everything to clothing. Have you noticed your earnings change up or down? I have this eternal struggle! I decided to start picking up things other than clothing (but obviously still selling clothing) as a test, and my sales massively increased, as did my earnings….which irritates me. As now I don’t feel I can go back to selling just clothing!
Our sales with clothes are still hit and miss Jo, there up and down compared to being an everything reseller but we're getting there slowly. We're hoping we can do 1 sales video a week and share our journey more. We haven't listed this week at all because of hospital and my arm injury so sales are terrible this week. So when we started being just a clothing seller our sales were SHOCKING but the more and more items we list the better it's becoming. The main thing for us is even if we don't sell a lot, the 'Cost Of Goods' price really helps our profit as most of our items are around £1 per item. So, hopefully as the year goes on and we get the container sorted then we can gradually make more money each month. I am going to add the odd bric-a-brac item or toy, but going to be very selective and try get things I know will sell and not need much work done to them (ie. cleaning, testing etc). Today we used our loyalty card and got a pair of £4 brass candlesticks for free. And we got 113 computer games for 50p each and a mamas and papas seat we've sold many times in the past for £3. What kind of bric-a-brac are you picking up?
@@TonksBoutique I really enjoyed seeing what you sold by the way. There aren't many clothing UK you tubers, so it's interesting to see. Also we have a similar strategy, free post etc. That's interesting about the bric a brac, and I think I've come to the conclusion that maybe I need to do maybe a 70/30 split in favour of clothing. I'm not picking up anything earth shattering - mostly collectables, some vintage glassware, home decor items and they are flying out. But it's that thing isn't it. I can make a tenner really quickly, but the storage space for hard goods compared to that needed by an item of clothing for the same profit - with no complicated packing needed is a battle! I think I'm going to dedicated a small shelf in my container to hard goods. Don't really get returns with hard goods though! A storage container will honestly be so amazing for your business! It's hard to think about the cost - but it's freeing!
@@ThisisJo Yeah packaging can be a pain in the arse with non clothing. But we're trying to pick smaller items with bric-a-brac, then I buy a Mamas and Papas chair today 🤣 I think with our 2 sheds and the new container it will allow us to grow as we can get our listing numbers up.The time it will take to get shelving, get a sku system in place, buy-wash-photograph-list the clothes I think it will probably next year before we see a big difference in sales. How many items do you have listed with your container? And what do you do for lighting in the container?
James torn his tendon in his bicep with all that hitting the buy button....lol Hope you are doing good James. Lovely to see you both in the video. Sarah "Cabbeekki" lolol You did so well with what you bought the items for and then the selling price just superb. Waving at you both :) xx
That had both of us giggling "James torn his tendon in his bicep with all that hitting the buy button." 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 If that was the case, I'd have no arms left 🤣🤣 I'm doing ok, hospital tomorrow again and then have to wait for the results. We try and buy all our items now for around £1 but we will spend up if the right item comes along. Thanks for watching Jeannie. Have a nice evening ❤
@@TonksBoutique lolol Take care James, hope everything goes well at the hospital tomorrow, thank you, hope you and Sarah have a lovely evening too.. xx
@@TonksBoutique Hope everything good and that you will be on the mend soon and feel so much better...take care James and stay away from the buying button... :)
@@mcgregormcgregor6482 I bought more stock as you will see tomorrow and today I bought even more stock 🤣 Cant help myself 🤣. We went to some charity shops after the hospital today as it was a 30 min drive to get there.
Thanks Alan, just a little haul to try get a video out there as we're a little disorganised with looking for storage and moving some stock to our plastic shed to try get by until we find something. Thanks for watching ❤
@@retrorewiindtv A lot of our 99p items are from a Scottish charity shops called Chest, Heart and Stroke. Not sure if your in Scotland but they have stores in Wishaw, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Lanark, Biggar, Perth, Elgin, Leven, Auchterarder, Kirkcaldy ,Bridge of Allan and lots more places in and around Scotland. But, not all are discount stores, some are Boutique. We also buy cheap clothing at church sales, wholesale, carboots, social media (Facebook/Instagram) etc... Thanks for watching❤
@@TonksBoutique Thank you I’m in Scotland outside Glasgow. Good to know there’s still some cheaper shops as in general they are more expensive than ever. Where do you get wholesale clothes from? I forgot about Facebook :) thanks for the inspiration x
@@retrorewiindtv @retrorewiindtv I'm not sure what end of Glasgow you live but the Chest Heart Stroke shop in Partick and Drumchapel are discount I believe (best call the store to find out if Boutique or Discount before traveling in case I'm wrong). And I forgot ebay is good to buy stock as they offer free returns if an item isn't described. And vinted is also good but you have to pay return shipping on items but you can find good items on there. Sorry I cant give away my current wholesale sources. But I've tried various wholesalers and I find most to be either too expensive or full of issues, ie. stains, holes, wrong grades etc. If you do wholesale, your best hand picking if possbile.
