Carter Stevens started reselling discarded items from dumpsters around Nashville, Tennessee, in March 2024. Months earlier, he'd been living in his car.
Not really. Small businesses require trust and word of mouth to be successful, and the vast majority of them go bankrupt or simply stop existing within a year. Your drive and passion don’t really matter when you don’t have enough customers to pay for expenses.
They require relationships to be successful. The ones that fail hand out business cards and wait for the phone to ring instead of developing relationships.
Incidentally, it might be bad for business for this guy to let everyone know he’s selling them trash. That kinda goes against the trust thing.
To your second point, not really. Anything you could sell for $140k in a year would be untouched discarded stock; this is always trash by definition; then again everything on ebay and facebook marketplace is trash by definition.
I was all agreed until that last point! There’s a world of good stuff on FB and eBay. In neither case does the seller want a bad reputation made public. Not sure I’ve ever been burned.
Had a friend that would pick up free or stupid cheap washers and dryers. He’d fix them in his garage after work and flip 'em. Told me he made around $600 a week.
Not really. Small businesses require trust and word of mouth to be successful, and the vast majority of them go bankrupt or simply stop existing within a year. Your drive and passion don’t really matter when you don’t have enough customers to pay for expenses.
They require relationships to be successful. The ones that fail hand out business cards and wait for the phone to ring instead of developing relationships.
Incidentally, it might be bad for business for this guy to let everyone know he’s selling them trash. That kinda goes against the trust thing.
To your second point, not really. Anything you could sell for $140k in a year would be untouched discarded stock; this is always trash by definition; then again everything on ebay and facebook marketplace is trash by definition.
I was all agreed until that last point! There’s a world of good stuff on FB and eBay. In neither case does the seller want a bad reputation made public. Not sure I’ve ever been burned.
Had a friend that would pick up free or stupid cheap washers and dryers. He’d fix them in his garage after work and flip 'em. Told me he made around $600 a week.