What makes the best things to buy and sell for profit? For us it comes to consistency and scalability. What can I buy to sell for profit that I know can provide a stable stream of profit, and that I can continue to grow over time?
In this quick article I break down some of the most commonly resold items and tell you what has performed best for us and our clients!
” Houses and Cars are obviously expensive options so feel free to skip to the other sections if you want to”
The list could go on forever, but we must consider the major factors above that have a big impact on what most people can resell.
Let see how the best items to resell are really determined…
For starters, both Cars and Real-estate are fairly capital intensive, meaning they will cost a lot up front to buy, hold, fix, and resell. Although a lot of money can be made with these options, the majority 
of people will be limited by the shear amount of money needed to enter this type of business. Not to say that these are not attractive markets (which they are) but they are better left for when you do have some money saved and are able to buy and hold these investments before selling them. One more thing to note here is that there are also many regulations that can impede successful resale on these segments such as requiring a real estate license, or car dealer license. (You cannot buy and resell more then 3 cars without license in a single year)
Shoes/Clothing is an attractive segment because you can find good deals on these items. Your Access Price can be fairly low and you can buy discounted brand name items from stores like Marshall’s, TJ-Max, etc… and sell these items on Ebay and Amazon for higher prices where the Current Demand is aggregated online into these massive search engine stores. This access to Demand via the internet is perhaps another of the important factors. If there was Demand but there was no way for someone to find or contact you, then it would be entirely useless.
- A great place to find amazing deals on Shoes and Clothing to resell is StockX
A similar market exists for Furniture, where you can find discounted furniture to buy on apps such as Offer- Up, Let-Go, Craigslist, Facebook Marketplace, and more. 
There pieces can be purchased and resold on Ebay or again on those same marketplaces simply by having patience and waiting for the right buyer, or by refinishing the items. (paint/stain/etc…) Again the capital intensity on furniture can also become fairly high depending on the quality and size of the items. At the same time cost can run up as you hold and store these larger items which can cause your inventory holding costs to eat into your profit margins at the end of the day. Overall this segment is still fairly attractive with many people making good money flipping/reselling furniture.
Furniture is one of those things to buy and sell to make money when you have a lot of space and tools needed to make handling a lot of heavy stuff, easier. So many people are limited from this specific market.
When it comes to Watches, it can be a fairly complicated game. There are a million and one kinds of watches and different
people will place different values on the watch. The most important thing when it comes to reselling watches is buying limited edition, collections, or brand, and finding the RIGHT Buyer. There may be someone willing to pay a huge premium on a watch where as someone may not think it worth nearly that amount. Finding the right buyer really applies across all reselling fields but especially to watches. Another important aspect to keep in mind is that watch restoration can also significantly increase the price you can sell at, so keep that in mind as well.
Our Favorite: Ticket Resale
Lastly, we have Tickets, and of course this being our resale business of choice we will explain some of the factors that make Ticket Resale one of the most attractive resale businesses of ALL time. Lets’ consider the 6 Major Factors and how they relate to tickets. When it comes to flipping items for profit few compare to the scalability of ticket reselling. There are sellers are making hundreds of thousands in profit every year just reselling digital tickets online.
Best Items to Resell for Profit are Tickets (Online, most stable demand, and simple to learn and scale)
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- Current Demand: Ticket Demand is much easier to gauge by looking at statistical data across the internet. Thing as twitter hashtags, Google Search Trends, Current Billboard listings, Spotify Listen Volume, Ticket Counter Data on the event sales page, and much more. You can also reach the people who want to buy these tickets through the marketplaces that already exist. Stubhub spends millions of dollars informing people of tickets for sale. All you do is upload your PDF’s and the buyers will find you. (This is one the largest perks of reselling tickets online)
- Capital Intensity: Tickets are fairly cheap when you compare them to other resale options. They can range anywhere from $30-$500+ dollars. The benefit is that you can go in at whichever price range you can currently afford. From there you can scale up and invest more and more.
- Turn-Around-Time: Tickets can vary greatly on how long they will take to sell. Sometimes you can sell really good seats within a few hours of buying them, and other time General Admission tickets may not sell until the last week prior to the concert. But you can choose how much to price your tickets to sell quicker or slower. It really is an art and you can choose which method of attack you want to make. If you can’t wait for your tickets to sell, and you want to pay your credit card off faster, then you can lower your pricing and and take a smaller profit on your tickets.
- Inventory Holding Costs: One of the biggest benefits of tickets is that it is almost 99% online and never have to see a physical tickets. This means your house isn’t full of shoes or furniture and you are not paying for storage, you simply have another PDF file on your computers nicely organized into the “ticket resale folder”. (Or at least that’s how we do it)
- Regulations: Similar to clothing and furniture, ticket resale is largely unregulated. You can buy and resell as you want. Once you sell a large enough amount of tickets you will get a a tax form from Stubhub and that’s it.
- Access Price: You can buy tickets at the cheapest price they are available if you buy during the presale. This is big advantage over buying from another person who has already tried to make a profit margin on the ticket.
Overall, you can see how many of Major Factors lean in favor of the seller when it comes to buying and reselling tickets. And since events have a specific date, it causes the demand to increase tremendously until that day as people want to not miss the show or game. Understanding the demand of different tickets and event is EASY with the right tools.
To learn more about buying and reselling tickets for profit click this link to watch the Ticket Reseller Introductory Explanation.
Overall reselling tickets online is one of the easiest and best things to resell for profit.
I hope this article has helped you understand exactly how to make money buying and selling online!
