I picked up a bike someone left out with a “Free” sign taped to it and put it online. Finally after a couple weeks someone bit on it. I’m picking it up from my storage unit and meeting the person tonight. I could make $100. Lowest I’ll take is probably like $75 unless there’s a good reason for a lower offer (like the brakes being fucked off or something).

I wish I could make selling stuff online into more of a hustle but idk. I suppose I could try doing what my father used to make me do with him: go to yard sales on weekends and buy things that can be upsold.

Yay.

  • TheSpectreOfGay [hy/hym, she/her]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    hell yea

    you can definitely make some money selling shit people throw out for free. generally requires patching it up. if you have the ability to go to a rich people neighborhood and look there they tend to throw out perfectly good stuff fairly often.

    • scathliath@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 months ago

      Good advice, my grandpa would do this as a hobby after he retired from the Navy, or he’d give away what he refurbished because he had his pension and other backups.