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Top 10 Flips Of 2025
Rob: What's up, pro flippers? On today's episode, we are diving into our top flips of last year and gonna tell you guys exactly what we got into them, what we made on them, and kind of have a little bit of fun today.
Melissa: And of course, dive into all the fees, costs, and the profit that we made.
Rob: Alright, so on today's episode, we are breaking down top 10 sales of last year. Love looking back and seeing some of the cool things we got to flip. So we're gonna actually break it down for you guys. Have a little bit of fun today.
Melissa: Yep. So I have all the numbers here with us that we are going to go through. We haven't really, we didn't really do a recap, podcast yet because we kind of stepped away from the podcast for two months and now we're back at it and we're excited to go over last year. And it's already March and that's just crazy.
Rob: It is. So let's do it. Let's dive in. What are we starting with? Starting at the bottom or the top?
Melissa: Yeah, we'll start number 10.
Rob: Number 10.
Melissa: It was the only one that was below a thousand dollars for a sale.
Rob: Okay.
Melissa: Of the top 10.
Rob: Okay.
Melissa: Was a, the pole saw for $864, which
Rob: Pole saw, one single pole saw.
We've sold, this is the gift that keeps on giving. We got these really, really cheap and bought
Melissa: $25 each. 'cause you bought eight of them for $200.
Rob: Okay. Is that right? Yeah. Yeah, something like that. We bought a whole bunch of them. I've sold them out multiple times. I still believe I have one or two for parts that are in the shop, working on cleaning out the shop right now.
Once I get those, we'll get them listed and get them sold. But yeah, so that was a fun one. We sold for eight, what did you say? 8?
Melissa: $864. Cost of goods was $25. Shipping cost was $75. eBay fees were $120, which brought our profit to $669 on
Rob: $669
Melissa: That was not a hard one to ship either.
Rob: It is not. This is a saw that's probably about six foot tall.
It's long, skinny pole. Went into a very, not a very big box, a long and narrow box, but not a difficult sale by any means, anybody could do this, so still made over $600 in profit.
Melissa: You've done a couple of them. You've sold a lot already. So.
Rob: I have. I have multiple, multiple ones, so, but let's go.
That's an amazing, amazing flip .
Melissa: And you found that on marketplace, I believe.
Rob: Yeah. I bought them from somebody on marketplace. They had a lot of them. They're cleaning out like their garage, so yeah.
Melissa: All right. Number cool. Number two, number nine actually.
Rob: Sorry. Number nine.
Melissa: Number nine is the Timpani drum that we picked up not that long ago from the film.
Rob: This one was fun. So my kind of brother-in-law to be, he was at the flea market with us this week, and he played last year. He played Maui out of, Moana. He's got big, huge upper body, big, big tattoos on him, and he's over there at the flea market beating on this drum. And he looks like Maui pretty, pretty funny.
So it's a monster big drum that we actually found at the flea market. What did we pay? A hundred?
Melissa: A hundred dollars.
Rob: A hundred bucks for that thing at the flea market. Sold it for?
Melissa: A thousand dollars.
Rob: Man. A thousand bucks. This one sold really quick too. It did. Once we got e listed, I think in less than weeks, two or three weeks, it was sold.
We shipped it. Crazy experiment, crazy ordeal with shipping. But everything got worked out. We still made really, really good money on it. So, what is,
Melissa: oh yeah, you had to ship it to someone else. I did. I shipped it to the wrong address.
Rob: The guy gave me the wrong address.
Melissa: Because he gave you the wrong address.
Rob: He did. He ended up having to pay the extra money to have it shipped from. The carrier at the wrong address to his address. So,
Melissa: I believe we did a whole podcast on that.
Rob: I think we might have.
Melissa: If we did, we'll link it in the notes below too. Okay.
But kind of what, what, how we, rectified that whole situation.
Rob: Yeah. Not a big ordeal. Like I said, everything got handled, figured out. Kind of a, a little weird story with shipping, but all that being said is we paid a hundred bucks, sold it for a thousand dollars. What was the eBay fees?
Melissa: And so eBay fees were $111, shipping cost was $276. And you said you should have charged shipping.
So a lot of times when we do our pricing, we'll either include shipping and do free shipping, like include it in the price and do free shipping or add on. And you should have added on to this one. It wasn't really included in the price.
I should have. Yeah.
Rob: So, but it's okay. We still made really good money.
What was the total profit?
Melissa: $514.
Rob: 514 bucks. Come on. We had a little bit of fun with this. Melissa didn't like this one because, no, it was so loud. The kids, it had a pedal on the bottom of it, and when you beat the drum, you could push that pedal and make different sounds with it as it pulled the drum, tighter and looser.
Really, really cool drum. We had fun with it for a little while before it actually sold. So. Too long. Killer deal, over 500 bucks. Profit. Love it, love it, love it. Alright, what's
number?
Melissa: So it was actually, should have been probably number 10 'cause the profit was less than the first one, but all the other ones are in the right order for it.
Rob: Perfect.
Awesome.
So what is number eight?
Melissa: Number eight was the prosthetic knee joint, knee joint. I'm drawing.
Sold it for a thousand dollars.
Rob: blank on this one. Okay. So I bought a couple of these.
Melissa: It was the leg, it wasn't just the joint, it was the, the whole, like the whole leg part.
Rob: I bought a package of two of these, right?
Yeah. Two or three of these, from the flea market. Okay. How much did we pay for it?
Melissa: We pay cost of goods was a hundred dollars.
Rob: Okay?
Melissa: And sold it for a thousand dollars. eBay fees were $133. Shipping cost was $36, which was our profit was $731.
Rob: Sweet, over $700. And this was not very big, very small box.
It actually went into, I say small box, but if you can think about a prosthetic, a knee joint, it's not very big. Went in. Killer, killer deal on it. Yeah. Shipping wasn't that, that expensive? So, still over $700 in profit. Come on, let's go. What do we got next?
Melissa: Number seven was the Electrolux. Do you remember that one,
Rob: Electrolux?
This was,
Melissa: this is all like a, a mystery to you. You don't even know what's on this list.
Rob: So Electrolux was, we bought that in Colorado. Yes, we did a thrift store in Colorado. I think I only paid 25, 30 bucks for it. Oh,
Melissa: 25 bucks.
Rob: $25 from a thrift store. Killer, killer deal on this, big, I think it was a 36 inch Electrolux.
It was glass, so it was electric cooktop that we bought. Sold how much we sell it for?
Melissa: $1,650.
Rob: Woo hoo. $1,650 after eBay fees and shipping?
Melissa: Well, cost of good $25. eBay fees $227. Shipping was $122, so our profit was $1,226.
Rob: Over a thousand dollars in profit. Come on. Who can complain about that? And this was not a very big box.
You did. This went in a box. It was not a pallet because it was an electric cooktop. Able to ship it in a box with styrofoam and yeah. Killer deal on that. What do we got for number six?
Melissa: We're on number six is the pizza dough press for $1,900. Do you remember picking that up with the flea market?
Rob: I do, yes I do, because I'm carrying out those
Melissa: and it was flipping heavy
for $45.
Rob: 45 bucks. Cool.
Melissa: Pizza dough press. So $45 is what we got it for. eBay fees were $223 shipping costs, which I, it was $17, but that's what eBay said when I pulled it up, like for shipping, $17 seemed a little low, but that's what eBay said. Okay. But we did pay a $35 ad fee as well on that.
Rob: Ad fee. Okay.
Melissa: So, so we don't do a lot of promoted listings, but every once in a while you'll promote them.
Yeah. And they'll still be on there. So.
Rob: And we don't do what the recommended promotion is? No, I usually do 2%. That's the minimum that you're allowed to do. So we did 2% on that. So what was the overall profit?
Melissa: So we actually had to give a re partial refund on this one.
Rob: Okay.
Melissa: So it, we you gave her a two. Oh,
Rob: I do
Melissa: remember $65 refund.
I think it close because of the spring. Yes, it closed the spring. Didn't close all day. Yes. Do you remember
Rob: that one? So I do. So this one, I did a video showing that it worked. I picked it up. I'm not a pizza guy. I think we might've even done a podcast about this in, in the past as well. I don't remember.
But so what happened with this is the pizza dough press. So, when you pick up the pizza dough, it's supposed to stay up. It's a press, it's two flat plates. It's, when you pick it up, it's supposed to stand up. And I didn't know that. When I did the video, I did the pictures, all that, I had no idea that that was how it was supposed to work.
So the spring inside was bad to actually hold it in the upright position. So she told me that I, I told her, listen, that's not your responsibility. I didn't know, and you couldn't really tell from my video or my pictures that it was missing. So we actually paid for it. We sent them the spring. They actually put it on, I don't remember what was the refund that I gave her to
Melissa: $265.
Rob: $265 back towards that. So a little bit of a different thing, but I didn't want to do the wrong thing in this situation.
Melissa: You didn't wanna lose the sale.
Rob: No, and I didn't wanna have her ship it back or him, whoever it was, I don't remember who the buyer was. But I didn't want them to ship it back and have to pay for shipping.
And then I lost out on shipping as well. So I worked a deal with them and said, Hey, I'll buy the spring. We'll pay, a technician to actually install it.
Melissa: So that was what the $265 was for.
Rob: So that was what it was. It was $265, I think the spring was $65 and I paid them in a $200, refund for having a technician install it.
So that's what that worked out to be. So a kind of a little tweak to a sale. And if you'll notice, guys, we're trying to be honest with you and tell you the, the different nuances of these sales, like the drum, they got shipped to the wrong place. We had to get it reshifted, but all, so it always works out.
You just have to work with your buyers. If something does work out that's unfor, unforeseen or a situation comes up, you wanna work with a buyer, make them happy and always not the. The right response is not always, hey, I'll give you a refund. Right? Sometimes you can work it out and save the sale.
In this case, we saved the sale and still made how much profit even after I did a
Melissa: $1,315,
Rob: over 1300 bucks in profit versus taking a refund and having to ship the item back and that kind of stuff. So, still over a thousand dollars in profit and. Yeah, you know what? Even now that I'm thinking about this, the $17 probably was the spring that I shipped out.
Second. Oh, the spring. So it was, so I would probably say this was a little bit more shipping. And I don't know offhand, let's say we made over a thousand dollars on this. 'cause even if we, we, and I know it wasn't $300 to ship because this shipped in a box, it didn't ship on a pallet. So let's say we, let's say we shipped it for maybe $200.
I don't remember right now because as I'm talking through this, I'm realizing the spring was what I shipped after the fact That makes sense to $17. So yeah, I even deducted another $200-$300 bucks for shipping, which I know it wasn't that much.
Melissa: $200. So I can,
Rob: that's so still over a thousand dollars in profit.
Come on, let's go. Worked out an ordeal with this lady or this guy, whoever bought it. We worked out a deal, so they were able to keep it, fix it, and they were very happy with it. So,
Melissa: but I also would say that's a very important thing, like you owe you. You can always figure out a solution to problems.
Like things happen. Your buyer, you might message you, but you don't have to all of a sudden like message them back. And we talk about that all the time. Yeah. Like you don't have to write them right back and have a solution right there. And you can wait some time, take some time,
Rob: take some time, think it out.
Melissa: And then figure out a solution.
And usually you can come to a good solution. So.
Rob: Even if they reach out and say, hey, I want a refund. Yeah, you dig a little bit deeper, right? And figure out what the problem is with the item. Can you fix it? Can you rectify the situation? Is there a way to do it without having to get a refund? Especially on our items, they're a little bit bigger, so we're gonna pay more for shipping on them.
We wanna figure out how we can work out the best deal, how we can work out a deal with them so we're not shipping it back and having to resell it or do anything like that with it. And sometimes it's just damaged in shipping. And you do a shipping claim? Yeah. And everybody wins. So it's,
Melissa: They don't get the item, but everybody gets paid out.
Rob: Yeah. They get their money back. We get our money back and nobody loses. So. That's the biggest thing. So what are we on number five?
Melissa: Number five was the absen lot. So do remember that one $2040? It was actually $240 for shipping. So I think it's $1,800.
Rob: I think you're talking about like the hardware for these absent LEDs?
Melissa: Yes.
Rob: Okay. Yes, the absen.
So that was the gift that keeps on giving. We still have some of these left, a couple pallets of these. And every time they sell, we sell them for a crap load of money. 20, what'd you say? 2,400 bucks?
Melissa: $2,040.
Rob: Oh $2,000. Just over $2,000.
Melissa: Was it 10 of them?
Rob: I think.
I think I sell them either 10 or 12 at a time.
Yeah. So somebody bought a package of these. They're not big, they're small. No, I sold multiple times. We've sold them for this, so they're not very big. What they are? LLCD screens.
That was LED.
It might be LED. They're actually the commercial screens. This is the hardware that you connect the screen to, and then it hangs from this little.
I'm trying to, it's like a trust.
Melissa: He bought a whole bunch of screens at one point. Yeah. A couple years ago. And you just have sold those started. You haven't sold the screens?
Rob: No, not the screens themselves, but I've been parting out some of the parts that we got with it and still have made thousands, tens of thousands of dollars just on some of the parts that we bought with it.
Melissa: So, so it was, $ 218 for eBay fees. Cool. $126 to ship and cost of goods. I put $50, but really it was less than that because you
Rob: way, way less.
Melissa: You paid $2,000 for the entire lot. And this was, and
Rob: we've already sold.
Melissa: Yeah.
Rob: Tens of thousands of dollars out of just these alone. I've sold multiple of these lots, so.
Melissa: But I put $50, so that's fine.
Rob: 50 bucks is cool.
Melissa: $1,646 for the profit.
Rob: $1,646
Sweet. Over 1500 bucks. Come on, let's go. $1,500 in profit. These were not big. Went into a small box, like I said, not a pallet. The majority of these things that we're talking about so far have not gone on a pallet. They have gone inside of box
Yeah. Boxes.
FedEx or UPS. So amazing. Anybody can do this. Absolutely. It's very, very cool, that we're able to create this type of income off of these items. So.
Melissa: All right.
Rob: What do you got? Number four.
Melissa: Four was the hot foil set.
Rob: Hot foil. This is a fun one. So we were on vacation with the kids. Found this set that somebody had an estate sale, they couldn't sell it at the estate sale.
And it, I mean, that's the best description we can, 'cause I don't know how to describe this very much, but it's a hot foil set. It had a whole bunch of numbers and letters and almost, if you think about like a scrap, scrap up, what do they used to call scrapbooking? Scrapbook. Yeah. Yeah. Scrapbooking thing where you had all these different things that you could make different postcards and different, all, just, just weird, weird stuff.
But it was a big lot of them. We bought them from an estate sale, found them all marketplace. They had them, estate sale, couldn't sell them. We actually went and paid $350
Melissa: $350, yep.
Rob: $350 with the kids. I told the
Melissa: no $300.
Rob: Sorry $300. I told the kids that I would do this with them. At one point I was thinking maybe we could actually start up a, the business for Hot Foil.
And then I was like, there's way too much here. There's no freaking way.
Melissa: It was so much.
Rob: So there's no way we could do it. So we listed them all together as a a lot, and some people laughed at me when we bought them for $300,
Melissa: Said they'll never sell.
Rob: And they said we would never sell them for what we sold them for.
And this one actually sold for three?
Melissa: $3,500
Rob: $3,500, paid 300 bucks, sold for $3,500. This one was a unique one with shipping as well because, so hot foil stamp sets, and I don't know for sure where this technicalities work. This went to Hawaii and I don't know exactly, but I was able to ship, ship it in a box media in a box? Well, I think it was three boxes. Oh. But we used media mail because this was. Classified as some type of printing. Press. Yeah, print press or whatever, so it could be classified as media mail. Well, my first time dropping it off, they opened it up and thought they were lures. So because we shipped it, media mail, they're able to open it up and see if it's really media stuff.
They opened it up and somebody told me to come pick it back up from the post office because they said there's lures inside of this box, like phishing lures, and I'm like. There's no lures. You guys can open the box and see. It's a whole bunch of little numbers and letters and thousands of these things.
That's what's in here. And it is actually made for printing stuff and pressing stuff, for like stamps and stuff like that. So I got it classified that I was able to ship it. Media mail, I, what was the shipping cost on it? $300. 300 bucks. It was a little bit more expensive.
Melissa: No, $304. Sorry.
Rob: So it was a little bit, it was heavy.
These were like not normal, like rubber stamps. These were like, cast aluminum or steel stamps. So they pressed in and it embroidered or embossed. Whatever it's called when you stamp in and it stamps into something, and changes the paper versus
Melissa: lots of paper too.
Rob: Yeah,
Melissa: there's a lot of different kinds of stationary
Rob: and lots of, lots of stuff
Melissa: and envelopes and paper and that kind
Rob: of, but really cool sale.
We absolutely loved this one. Had fun with the kids. The kids helped me do the videos and when we were actually doing the pictures, they helped me box it up. So I had a lot of fun with them doing this.
Melissa: eBay fees were $345, shipping costs $304. Cost of goods, $300. So our total profit was $2,551.
Rob: $2,500. What? Let's go. And we gave the kids some money on this one too, because we actually, used their help and I wanted to do it with them. So they helped me do a lot of stuff with it. So. Cool.
Melissa: All right. So the number three was the Wolf Range.
Rob: Wolf Range. You have to get more specific on this. Oh, this one's a fun one.
If it's one I'm thinking
Melissa: of, yeah, it's the one that we picked up on the coast.
Rob: Cool. So this one's pretty cool. A little backstory on this. I told my buddy. They wanted to go on vacation with us. We love going on vacation. We love buying stuff on vacation to flip. They wanted to go out west and they said they didn't have the money to do it.
So I'm like, let's find something to flip. I'll help you. It's one of my close friends. So guess what? I found them something, a Wolf Range, and I said, hey, here's this Wolf Range. It's about 45 minutes away. It's over on the coast. We will ride with you to go pick it up. I'll bring my trailer, we'll load it up, I'll bring it back.
I'll help you clean it up. I'll help you get it listed and I'll help you ship it out. And guess what? My buddy's like, yeah, I don't have time. And I'm like, are you serious? So it was, how much did we pay for it?
Melissa: Let's see. We paid $350.
Rob: $350. I talked the guy down. I think he was asking $500 somewhere in that price.
Talked him down to $350. So yeah, we went and picked up the range. We got it, I brought it back, I listed it, we got it sold, sold it for $3,500
Melissa: plus $600 shipping,
Rob: $3,500 plus $600.
So $4,100 including shipping on it. Killer deal on it. I told my buddy, hey, we did this. It didn't take very much time. We did this and we created almost, $4,000 in revenue. You could have done this and then paid for a vacation, but it instead, actually, actually
Melissa: the funny part is it actually sold while we were camping with them too.
Rob: With them?
Melissa: Yeah, we were.
Rob: So we were on a camping trip with them and I was able to show them, hey, look what just sold chaching. And it was pretty fun. So, anyways, yeah, that was a cool one as well. So what are we down number two,
Melissa: cost of goods. Wait, oh, sorry, wait, break it down.
Cost of goods was three 50. Okay. eBay fees were 360 1. Shipping costs was 3 82. So total profit was $3,007.
Rob: Over $3,000 in profit for something that I tried to give away to one of my friends, who did not want to do it, even I was gonna help him do the whole thing. So, but that just shows some people don't want to go out and do the work for the money, so it's all right.
No big deal. It was fun. We made some money. Awesome. Love it. What do we have to number two?
Melissa: Number two was the freeze blaster.
Rob: Freeze blaster. Now this one was fun too. Bought this from a local auction, paid $88. Mm-hmm. Is that right? Yep. Paid $88 for this at a local auction. Really, really cool. So it was in a, I think it was in a commercial kitchen or a school or something like that. They had to take the door off of it to get it out of the room door that it came through. So they took the refrigerator and a freeze blaster, if you don't know, it's like a big refrigerator. Yeah. That you put stuff in. It drops the temperature from, like room temperature down to like negative 20 and it does it within like minutes.
So really, really quick, that's what it does. Ended up having the door off of it when I saw it in the auction picture and they just had it sitting on top. So they took it off to get it out of a doorway. Put the door on top, didn't reinstall it. And I was like, man, I'm gonna get this. 'cause everything was there.
It just had to be put back together with screws. So we bought it for $80, went picked it up, got it listed. I think it took me a little while to get it listed, but once I finally listed it, it's sold. Not think it sold not that long. Yeah, pretty quick. Within a month I think it's sold, but
Melissa: listing is always your,
Rob: here's the clincher.
We paid $88 for it. And guess what it sold for?
Melissa: $8,000.
Rob: Eight grand. We sold it for $8,000 a killer deal on this. We actually shipped this, this costs a little bit of money in shipping. This one did go on a pallet. Nothing else up until this point went on a pallet. Everything was shipped in boxes.
Melissa: No Wolf Range went on a pallet.
Rob: Oh, sorry. The Wolf Range did. So the one before that, that one went a pallet, but before that, nothing else. They and all shipped and still some of them over a thousand, $2,000 in profit. So this one. Killer killer profit on it. $88 sold a for $8,000, eBay fees? eBay fees were $455. $455. Shipping cost was $500.
Cost of goods $88, so our profit was $6,957
$6,000, almost $7,000 in profit. That's not even gross. That's net. That's what we actually profited on this one. Killer, killer deal.
Melissa: You also have to do a freight for the Timpani, I think.
Rob: The, the,
Melissa: that one box.
Rob: Oh, you're, no, you're right. I did. So sorry, I lied. One other one.
So still,
Melissa: so 1, 2, 3,
Rob: 4, 4 items outta the top 10 went freight. The rest of them actually in a box shipped in boxes, either FedEx or UPS or USPS. So still killer deals.
Melissa: All right. Brings us to
Rob: number one flip of last year. You know what it's. I do actually, this was our cool one. So this one is cool. It's got a little bit of backstory.
We went to a mastermind up in Boise, Idaho. We were at a mastermind. I like going to thrift stores while we're outta town, seeing if I can find anything. Guys, this isn't my blood. Love doing this. I went to a thrift store and saw in the back of the thrift store a big stainless steel like cooker.
Or it was a steamer, a convection steamer or yeah, something like that. I don't know what it's, but anyways, in the back of the store. So I looked, no prices, couldn't find a price on it. The cool thing about it was. It looked brand spanking new. Still had the plastic on the doors and stuff. So, yeah. Went and up to the front said, hey, how much is that thing in the back?
It was dusty had been back there for a while. They said, oh, we want $1,500 for it. I think, what did we pay for? A thousand?
Melissa: Yeah. A thousand. Yeah.
Rob: So we want $1,500 for it. I said, hey, can I give you a thousand cash right now? Would you take it? And they jumped on it. They're like, absolutely.
Melissa: It's been sitting there for a while, right?
Rob: Yes. When can you pick it up? I said, I can come back tomorrow. We'll bring a trailer. We are staying with a friend, that is in the mastermind with us. He had a little trailer that we were able to go and pick up. We came back the next day, picked it up. I took it back to his garage. Now mind you, this is already on a pallet.
So it was
Melissa: on or brand new. I don't,
Rob: that's it. I didn't have to do that much to it when we sold it. All I did take some pictures, cleaned it up, they still had the installation piping and stuff never used.
Melissa: They still had the blue covers on it, right?
Rob: Yes, everything on the stainless stuff.
Still brand spanking new, never hooked up. So we got it for a thousand dollars. Now the reason I bought it for a thousand dollars and I looked in, there's no comps on eBay for this exact one. But retail, when you looked up retail on Google, I think it was, if I'm not mistaken, $42,000 or $50,000 in that range of $40,000 to $50,000, retail on this sucker.
So I'm like, absolutely. I know if I pay a thousand dollars for it, our goal is to either 50 50% of retail or depending on it. But when you get into numbers like that, yeah, it's a little bit harder. So, but anyways, we got it. I took some pictures before I left my buddy's house. It took me about a, a a couple hours, I would say a couple hours to get it all set, get pictures, wrap it with a blanket, get it ready to ship out, 'cause I wanted to get pictures, get it listed, and if he had to cut it off to, to get it ready for the pallet, the the people to pick it up. Then I wanted to make sure, that it was ready to go. All I had to do was slide it outta the garage. So that was the biggest thing. We put it on a little, dolly, furniture dolly, push it in the garage so he can move it around and do stuff. So all that being said is we did it from another state and then when we came back, I think it sold in a month, a little bit less than a month. Yeah, we were going back up there and guess what? It actually sold right before we went back up there.
Gave me some time to help him, get the thing delivered, picked up by the freight carrier. I was there to help him when it went, which is amazing. But the clinch on this as well, we paid a thousand dollars for it. What did it sell for?
Melissa: $15,000.
Rob: 15 K. Yes. You heard me right, but you remember the retail on it was $40,000 to $50,000?
I still think, somebody probably could have negotiated with, one of the, manufacturers or one of the companies that actually sold these. Probably could have got it for like $30,000. So we sold it for $15,000. I think I had it listed for $20,000, somebody offered me $15,000. You better believe if I paid a thousand dollars for it.
I'm gonna jump on that. So we paid or sold it for $ 15,000. So cost of goods a thousand. What did we pay for shipping on this? It was six something wasn't
Melissa: think was $615. Yeah,
Rob: $615. Not that big of a deal. When you think about the overall profit on this, what were fees? Did we
Melissa: So,
Rob: so this was outside of eBay?
Melissa: Yeah. This. We went outside of eBay and she, she sent you a check and so we had to wait for the, that was another thing. We had to wait for the check to clear. That's right. And make sure everything went through. And it was, she was a business, she was a restaurant. Yep. And, and she was very thankful to you.
Rob: She said most of the stuff that we've bought in the past has been junk. This is an amazing unit, so really, really cool. That brings us to another point.
Make sure you're cross posting, putting on different platforms, Facebook marketplace, OfferUp, Craigslist all over the place if you're using other platforms. Everything doesn't have to sell on eBay. We like eBay because typically that's where the most eyes get seen on it, but not everything sells on eBay in this one.
Absolutely killer, killer deal. We sold this one and we did ship it. We, so we had to ship it out. So we still paid shipping. But we did take a business check on this. We had to wait for that check to clear before we shipped it. The lady was amazing. She's very, very nice to work with. Yeah, she's very appreciative.
I got a text from her after the fact saying how much she appreciated it. So, killer deal on this. Total profit on this,
Melissa: $13,340.
Rob: Over $13,000.
Melissa: That's a good one.
Rob: Amazing, amazing profit on that. So, killer, killer deal. Those were the top 10 sales of last year. Had a blast doing them, had so much fun. Like you said, four of those are the only ones that actually went on a pallet.
But I will be honest with you, I think we only used one forklift, even out of the ones that went on a pallet. We still picked up those pallets, moved them around, or used dollies to do it. The last one that we sold, number one we actually used, my buddy actually had a forklift, for his business, a a bobcat.
So we did use that. We didn't have to use it. We could have used the dolly, but it made it easier because it had one on the property. So we used that for that. Other than that, everything else, and I still could have used the dolly. It didn't have to use the forklift,
Melissa: and we had a pickup truck for that one, because normally if we were home, you would've had your little low trailer and you could just walk it up the trailer with the dolly, and that would've been easier.
Rob: But since we were out of state, we rented a pickup truck and we were able to use the forklift, put it in the back of the truck, pickup truck to move it around and do what we need to do with it.
Melissa: That's the only one.
That's the only one. But we didn't have to do that. Like I said, all these could have done, been done without a forklift.
Still on pallets, but using dollies and hand trucks and stuff like that to be able to move them around.
So, so I know we're getting long on time, but I wanted to point out, so we had, it was $39,053 total in sales, and our profit was $32,046, which was our profit, and we only had to invest $2,083.
Rob: That's the impressive part, guys, is $2,000 out of pocket go show me $2,000 anywhere else that you can invest in this. Now we did have to do some labor into it, very minimal. We did have to put some time and effort into this, but still $2,000 out of pocket to create $32,000 of net profit.
Melissa: Net.
Yeah.
Rob: Of net income. Come on. Where else can you do that? So, killer, killer deals. We had fun on all these there. We hopefully you, enjoyed the little stories we told about each one.
Melissa: Yeah. Before, before you, we stop though, I wanted you to also, people are like, okay, well what about your time invested because you're not doing your hourly, but if you divide each one by how many hours you have into it. That hourly rate is really crazy. Like
Rob: huge.
Melissa: Yeah.
Rob: So the
Melissa: majority is, the whole point is you don't wanna be working a whole bunch of time. No. And so that is why we've gravitated towards this business. So.
Rob: So even if you try to break down the hours real quickly, so this is a real quick recap.
Even the biggest one that we sold was that last one, the number one that was on a pallet. If we broke down the time that we spent on this, remember this is only one item, over $13,000 in profit. But if we broke that down, I had less than five hours. Definitely less than five hours, probably closer to towards three hours total in this unit.
It did not take me that long to do.
Melissa: I would say most of them are three to five hours.
Rob: Three to five, that's it per unit. Now let's break that down. Let's say five hours for every single item that we sold, which is 10 items, so what is that? 50 hours? Yeah. Break down 50 hours and a $32,000. Yeah, and the hourly rate.
Insane. It is insane on these. That's why these are so much fun when you're able to do items like this, high profit items, your hourly rate goes through the roof, which that's what we focus on. We wanna spend less time in the business making this money and more time with our family, having fun with our family, making memories with our family and doing stuff like that.
So, yeah.
Melissa: So, yeah, if you, I guess that's it. Yeah. If you are interested in learning more about our business model and how we do the higher value items, we do have a free workshop you can check out. It'll be in the show notes below. But thanks for tuning in and listening to us, listening to our stories.
'cause they, all the items have a story they do, which is fun. They, it is fun.
Rob: You guys are amazing. Thanks for spending a little bit time with us here today. We can't wait to see you on the next episode.