My grandparents used to do this as their retirement hobby. Would go all around hitting up auctions, garage sales, and estate sales buying all sorts of cool stuff. She had a bunch of huge books covering what kind of things were with money and how to identify authentic ones and would sell them at her stall in a local antique shop and on eBay once that became popular. They’d use the money to find about two cruises a year and traveled to all sorts of places, was always really fun hanging out with them and going through their newest purchases or attending sales with them :3
My grandma has been doing this since the early early days of eBay. She was one of the first sellers on there. Her whole business is doing this stuff and selling it locally or online. She makes good money. Enough for essentials and to have extra for things
He probably just recorded first, went home, googled what he thought it was valuable and what not. He sure discarded a lot of footage in his video during editing lol
That's honestly such a good find if you'd ask me. Those Thomas trains are actually so worth it, there's literally tons of people's childhood memories attached to it, i know many who would definitely pay quite some money to grab them and have them on their house shelves 😅
My Nana was like that. She had enough money. For her it was the convenience of decluttering. She didn't really care how much it sold for unless it was something she knew for a fact she payed like thousands for lol
@@christophersmith8316yes I'm about to do the city wide garage sale where the business is crazy. I honestly know i have great stuff if value but would I ever take the time to sell? No so I have to keep reminding myself it's not worth anything sitting in my house when I do not want to lost, package and ship anything
Low end my dad has saved 250k by buying from garage sales. He was an investment broker so by the end of his career was definitely making great money but always bought from garage sales. All his suits, appliances for apartments, a large chunk of our clothes all from garage sales. It got to the point that people would give him wish lists of things that they were looking for. So many good memories.
How? Most people just want stuff gone from their house, chances anyone was looking for a bin of Thomas the train toys in sellers town was unlikely. Now the toy gets a new home he makes some money and original owner gets rid of something that he didn’t need or want anymore for some extra garage space.
And yet he has the audacity to say rich people don't care. Lmfao. Some kid would've had those but he bought them for dirt cheap and resold for 100s. Greedy what people are.
@@MarxPopstar69he literally said this was at a garage sale that was closing down for the day, no one bought it all day?? plus stuff isnt restricted to certain people at garage sales, it free picking for those who have the money
@@MarxPopstar69 There is no greed if you are selling and someone is willing to pay the price, the amount doesn't matter as long as someone pays for it, it means the worth is there for someone. What is greed is trying to sell for a price no one is going to pay for, that means it ain't worth it and you are just being greedy.
I grew up with Thomas and ima say seeing all these toys gave me so much nostalgia 😭😭, I own quite a few trains that are worth something, like a track master proteus, take along culdee, yk. You got a good catch with this trains as some of them (like the track master bill/Ben) could easily go for around 30-40 each.
A home near me was having a yard sale and when we went to check it out they were giving everything away for FREE. Apparently they were moving and they didn’t need any of the stuff set out so it was an easy grab and surprisingly no competition even though they had signs on every other block.
People don't always want to deal with the hassle of listing online and mailing packages. Additionally, lots of people aren't too particular about nickel and diming everything when their main priority is decluttering. However, while you'll often get a deal, it doesn't mean they'll give it to you for free.
doesn't necessarily mean he will get $100, he gotta find someone willing to pay that price. just buy shit and reselling makes no sense at all. Just scalping
In my experience, rich garage sales are either really good or really bad. I saw one lady trying to sell a broken Christmas tree for $400. She was shocked that no one wanted it.
Throwback to when my mom threw away all my old hot wheel cars and streets with buildings that all connected to each other so I had my own city roads to play on. And in 3 huge boxes just like that… All in the garbage one day. No selling, no donating. Garbage …
I used to be a mover and we were on a junk removal job of a rich family moving from FL to NY they threw away hundreds of trash bags in their garage, we went through them at the office and found brand new Nikes, Gucci glasses, prescription medication, Mercedes Benz keys(no car unfortunately haha) name brand makeup, so much more. I got a pair of Gucci sunglasses still in the case and gave em to my mom as a gift she still uses them
And when he corrected himself, i kinda heard "Thomas Trans" at first 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 But then had to watch this all again to figure out that I was in the wrong and that he actually said Thomas Trains haha
Depends on your finds, sometimes you can find stuffs which are still intact, in decent condition in the box and everything, which could worth for quite a bit of money if you'd resell them. Sometimes you can find awesome great collectible stuffs which people would be willing to pay big money to get em off your hands. But all to all, you gotta have a good eye for finding these stuffs, you gotta know which ones gonna get you double if not triple and more of the money that you initially bought them for when you gonna flip them. Or, just like this guy is doing here on the vid, you can Google search em stuffs worth and compare if it'll be worth a buy or not.. Experience and good general knowledge plays a very important role here in this kinda trade..
I think the most expensive things I may have are 1. A few news papers/magazines of Selenas death. Her upcoming trial, during the trial and interview with the family about a possible homage to her by making a docu-movie, starring an up and coming star "Jennifer Lopez" The stuff Is all dated the weekend of the week she died all the way up two years from that day, which is when the movie talk started. 2. Some pokemon cards that I've seen online that can reach a few grand if they're in good condition.
i wish there was a way to mark stuff so only the person buying things could use it. internet flippers have ruined the point of goodwill/yardsales and the prices show it.
You hit it big on the Thomas trains set. That set looks almost complete (the original ones were all wood) and you could keep it forever! I bought one of those complete sets in 1993 or 94 for my son and I paid $600 for the table the tracks, and a small handful of trains. I then had to purchase every single one of those other trains separately And I think that they were $15-$25 each. I still have part of a sad but over the past 30 years my nephews used to sneak them home in their pockets so now it’s a broken set. It also came with a wooden crate that had a cushion on the top and they could sit on it while they played. I still have the crate, but the blue cushion lid is gone.
Low-key, old school Thomas the Tank Engine sets are good money and very nostalgic. You see the new stuff and understand why people want the older stuff. Definition of, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
I live in an apartment right next to a really rich neighborhood. I found a 600$ shark vacuum sitting outside one of my neighbor's house on the side of the road just begging to be picked up. I now always look in the nice neighborhoods to see what I can find. I highly recommend this!
We had a HUGE amount of those trains and sets. My mom ran a daycare for nearly 2 decades. When we moved, we gave them to a family friend with young kids. I kept a couple trains for myself, but we didn’t sell any. We weren’t hurting for money, and I’d rather they be used my a kid that will truly enjoy them 😊
I bought a bin filled with designer wallets at a yard sale. The wallets were supposed go with purses but a lady bought all of the purses a little early. I bought the entire bin at $2.00 per wallet. As I was carrying the bin to my car the lady that bought the purses earlier came back and made me an offer of $5.00 per wallet. I spent $66.00 and within 10 minutes I got back $165.00. 😆
When I was a kid, by brother in law gave a lego ninjago set which I lost piece by piece, and when I was searching for it just recently, I found out that it was discontinued and now sells for 200-400 dollars depending on where you buy it. Needless to say, I feel so stupid for not taking better care of it.
Thomas the tank engine toys had a recall on red and yellow paint due to lead. Just check manufacturer dates before selling them to a family. I used these my whole childhood lol
I go to garage sales and look up the value of stuff. If it's worth alot i tell the seller so they know they could make more. These ppl are rich, but alot if garage sales aren't from rich ppl, and i feel weird underpaying for something they could profit from. It once got me some stuff for free because they were happy I told them.
I'm glad to see one of the RU-vidrs that I watch take my toys cuz I used to bring mine when I was six and then I gave it away in this person ended up with it and I'm not capping 🧢🧢🧢🧢
I worked for ToysRus when Thomas train toys were in high demand and I had a big collection of them, I would buy them every week now they are highly collectable and worth alot for certain ones...
You see the thing is, is that when someone who is doing a yard sale who is also rich in a very rich house they don’t care about the price they will just do it just for the yard sale
Today I learned a new major anger trigger, hearing people call Tomas the train “Tomas Tanks”… I never knew something so small would make me so annoyed and frustrated
Bro I use to play with these Thomas the train toys when I was like 5, cuss me and my little brothers baby sitter had them, then she would make us take a nap and I was so mad, nostalgia is a great thing
OMG i totally forgot how fun the Thomas the Tank train sets were as a kid! It especially helped that I had a knock-off Godzilla toy to have even more fun! Good times!
You would have loved my yard sale. Had one just before the 4th and everything was dirt cheap. I'm saying everything was around $1 and a few items for a bit more
I had a Thomas the tank engine set like that! One day my mom gave it to another kid at work. I was ok with it cause I knew id never played it again or if i did it would be just 1 time. Great toy set very well built too
Wow, im glad I played with my Thomas toys when I had em, great memories, couldn't imagine why they'd be scalped for a hundred dollars to keep other kids from having that same fun, but go off
