I have only ever seen ONE Jellycat since going to boot sales and charity shops. That was in a charity shop which wasn't even open! You seem to find them every week.
I went down to Sully Carboot on Sunday and wow was it busy. I thought you would have been there, thoroughly enjoyed, great atmosphere and the sun stayed out. Well done Ian, really enjoy your videos.
Love your channel. Managed to pick up a Chococat BAB recently for £2 in a Charity Shop thanks to you, my best ever find. I remembered you saying in a video that some of the BAB have value so looked it up in the shop.
You gotta keep the videos up. Think about how I will spend my down time if you don't! (Yes, it is all about me!). Also, you sir are a natural in frount of the camera...
Hard work doing it part time like you say. I’ve been in a big slump for the last month but I made myself list something everyday this week and the sales have started again Now I just gotta get out there more, we just gotta keep grinding Ian
I'm a stay at home parent and do some reselling as a hobby. For me charity shops hunting is taking time for myself. More than often I don't come back with very much.
Exactly what they used to be for me and the jellycat Guy... spending time together. Now he's at school, I'm effectively going round to make money... and that's not really happening
Refreshingly honest Ian, and it's true that this pastime we partake in is getting more difficult in terms of sourcing and indeed profiting with everything going on. As an escape from your full time job it's ideal, and if you can make a bit of money whilst you do it then that's a definite bonus. But as something that you would otherwise depend on to fill the "non-working" day's pay, it's far too unpredictable, particularly given the time and effort spent looking for stuff. Some days may yield some excellent returns, but otherwise leave you wondering why you bother. I'd say it's nigh on impossible these days to make a full time living from this, just by sourcing from charity shops.
Mate, you're absolutely smashing it but you also have to enjoy the grind. There's good days and bad but I would just suggest that you re-asses things and go at it from a different angle. A lot of people love what you do and it inspires others to do the same. Keep up the hustle.
Enjoying the grind is a must and reselling for me has always been more than the money. If it were all about money I'd have packed it in and focused on my full-time job. There are lots of positives about the reselling world
@@MasterofPieces absolutely. I work full time but I sell on the side like yourself. Your videos along with the welsh pokepickers and a couple more have levelled up my reselling and definitely have me enjoying the grind daily.
You are spot on about the time spent searching and money earned. I normally source if ive got a spare 1/2 hour when im out in the van for work which works fine for me. Park on a loading bay, no parking tickets to worry about 😅. Ive always enjoyed the hunt anyway, so a 60 mile round trip on a sunday morning to a boot sale sometimes isnt worth it. Thats a bit dis heartening for me, especially when i could have had a lie in. But if you dont go, you wont know.
I know our situations differ, but I won’t take time out of work to go to charity shops. I’ll visit them on my days in the office, and like you, it can be therapeutic to potter around lost in your own thought. I’ll find the odd gem, but nothing consistently so will only visit the gem at my convenience. I can imagine disappointment drives buying things that aren’t brilliant because you don’t want to come away empty handed. Just glad neither of us does this full time as I fear it would suck the fun out of it.
It would definitely suck the fun out of it and imagine you'd start to resent it. I cannot see how anyone can make a fulltime living out of charity shops. There's just not enough in it
Love the videos amigo, maybe you could turn it into more content like how to ship some items you buy, storaging items, anything you do to improve the condition of your toy collection 😅
I had the same issue with a full Football kit, funnily enough it was a Liverpool one too but an adult one. They took my listing down but I changed things a little and just said full kit worn once without mentioning socks at all and it sold.
I've got all lee child's books,half of them are signed,there a good read ,but your right charity shops are full of them but if nobody has his books ,there cheap enough
Your voice overs in the shops remind me of Neil from Art Attack back in the day, dont know why haha. Maybe he was welsh 🤔 but he always used to whisper when drawing or whatever.
Hey Ian, i know how you feel, mate. I haven't been out sourcing for two weeks as I've decided to get a "proper job" since ebays not bringing in enough with all the bills going up 😢 Missing the hunt though.
@@MasterofPieces did spent £300 at WH Smith ponty tofsy though 75% closing down sale + got chatting to staff & they gave me discount on top of the 75% opportunities is everywhere, also a £240 spend at my local auction house should return atleast £1250
Not true on the jellycat btw I listed a limited edition stripey one for 399 a year maybe year and a half ago I accepted 300 same night cray money and they do sell
