Carter Stevens started reselling discarded items from dumpsters around Nashville, Tennessee, in March 2024. Months earlier, he'd been living in his car.
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.
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.