Jake Kern | FB Marketplace Pro

My neighbors love my resale business. I sell my rugs for $100. Same rug that’s sold at Costco for $250+. I bought it for $16. My customers are saving more money than I am netting. Is there a better win win situation out there?

@twalk6er Through Costco on @bstocksol % of msrp really depends on category. I get rugs and exercise equipment for under 20%

@JakeKern Are you buying through Costco? What % or retail do you usually get?

Remember this guys morning routine? Mine looks a little different. Each day before heading to my w2, I set the day’s Facebook marketplace pick ups on my porch. $3000 in sales every month with this system. While I’m away in my cubicle, customers pick up their items, sending me a Venmo or leaving cash in my mailbox. You don’t need a fancy storefront or warehouse, you just need to get started.

While I don’t flip electronics, I do resell home goods like rugs, kitchen sinks and baby strollers Follow @JakeKern to see how I sell $3000+ of liquidation goods from my garage every month

Buying this pallet and spinning up 44 Open Claw agents ASAP.

@HSchenewark Smart man!

@JakeKern Ha! My wife craves Taco Bell when pregnant so they all made it home 😅

They call me the Taco Man! Just striped my fourth Taco Bell. He's been a great client. Will probably be a seal and stripe later in the year, but he needed a restripe done immediately, so I was happy to oblige. There's some potholes that need cut out and patched too, as you can see in this bumpy video. These are quick, easy jobs, and I love seeing the work I've done around the community. The bonus was going home with a party pack comped by the owner.

@charjahar Auctions! Mainly Costco returns on @bstocksol

@jakekern Where do u get the liquidation items? Auctions, local shopping etc?

What would you do with an extra $1000 each month? I make $1000 plus every month (net), selling liquidation items from my garage. Rugs, kitchen sinks, strollers. Mostly Facebook marketplace some eBay. The cash goes right to my family’s travel funds. This side hustle allows me to hit savings goals and still have epic travel experiences with my wife and kids. I could put effort into growing this side hustle into a business. But right now, I’m happy with what my w2 is providing.

@hey_mindi I spy some chase credit cards on that desk. Are you diving into the credit card points world 👀

On this episode of “the bank is having a Monday” We spent 2 1/2 hours opening 2 business accounts at a new bank. Our 4 kids made themselves right at home. No one had a meltdown. I still don’t understand why it takes that long to open a new account. Or why this office looks like a prison. But we I am fairly certain we’ve upgraded.

@prismauctions @bstocksol Many did get a lot of bids towards the end. Just something that caught my eye in browsing for my normal home good lots

@JakeKern @bstocksol Very hard to sell anything more than 5 years old particularly in bulk. Margins are very thin, if you look on Ebay you will see what I mean for old stuff. Not at all impossible to make money and scalable, but those pallets will go for closer to retail and compress margins.

Someone who is smarter than me is going to make a lot of money buying pallets of laptops from @bstocksol today ~5-10% msrp seems crazy to me. Maybe I'm wrong. Anyone have experience selling liquidated laptops/electronics?

@bigg_mike22 Guaranteed profit right?

@JakeKern Brilliant

@JonathanDrake Open claw would make my $80k back in a day or 2 right?

@JakeKern Just 44?

@RaiderOfTheAlts @bstocksol That is true, but big variance in these ending shortly. Some still at under 2%. I’m not knowledgeable in this area to know why

@JakeKern @bstocksol A lot of these end up going for 60 to 70% of retail though. From what I see. I think unless you specialize in that market, it would be kind of difficult to make a decent margin off of it.

@resellerrowe Excited to follow along as you make the big sale happen

My entire store is up for sale $379k including the inventory. 400 items listed on EBay…500 or more soon. Whatnot sales channel Email list…it’s all included. Why…because my goal all along was to make $1,000 - 700 times to buy my dream yacht. This is part of my journey to make that happen

@WebEstatesVtg @z_heisey @bstocksol For reference shipping from Arizona and Texas to me in Ohio was around $600.

@z_heisey @jakekern @bstocksol Well you don’t know anything about the laptops so my guess is that they are the old models that didn’t sell. I’m generalizing. It’s still an extremely saturated market. If you can get them for $50ea all in with shipping, sure but your cost per unit is unlikely to be that low

@joepoole @ShannonJean What did you feel when you woke up today??

I’m out of a job… Yesterday was my last day of work. My wife and I got started reselling in April last year after joining @ShannonJean’s group, and now we’ve quit to go all in. We’ve got a warehouse, about $80-100k of inventory, and a goal to build a real business

I'm not buying any electronics, so I don't mess with data cleared. I typically select like new and used good, but have only found the price to work for me with used good. I don't filter by any distance because I buy based on the total cost, so if something across the country has a low bid, it can still make sense despite the high shipping cost.

@jakekern @bstocksol I'm itching to pick up my first pallet. Do you prefer to set any distance / condition filters?

@donnyyoung @bstocksol Reselling has worked for me because I didn't have to reinvent the wheel. Learning from others already having success is awesome. The $5 Mastermind is an awesome community of people ready to help problem solve.

If you want to buy pallets directly from the source: Check out @bstocksol That’s where retailers like Costco, Target, Home Depot, and Amazon offload inventory. A few things to know: • You’ll need an account to view manifests • You’ll need a reseller’s permit to bid • Mine was free and took <24 hrs Biggest shortcut? Get around people already doing it. I found that in @ShannonJean’s $5 Reseller Mastermind. Saved me time, money, and a lot of dumb mistakes. I’m 11 auctions in now. Not perfect… but profitable. And I’m doing it: • Nights • Weekends • Out of my garage No job quitting. No crazy risk. Just stacking wins in the margins. If you’re thinking about starting… start small. Comment one item you could sell and I’ll help you turn it into your first flip. 👇 And if you want to know more about reselling in the margins of your 9-5, be sure to give me a follow… I share helpful tips, wins, and losses everyday.

You don’t have to quit your job to make extra money. Most people just need a better lane. Reselling is one of the easiest ways to start. Here are 5 things you can do this week: 1. Sell stuff from your house on Facebook Marketplace (learn fast, zero risk) 2. Hit a thrift store and flip 1–2 items (don’t overthink it) 3. Find a local wholesaler and test a small buy 4. List a few items on eBay (use their tools, keep it simple) 5. Tell people what you’re doing (your first buyers are already watching) Ready to level up? Keep reading 👇🧵

Traveling with points and miles is a skill. Booked a flight with Delta for 40k skymiles per person. Set alerts on @SeatsAero, got a notification that the flight was bookable with Virgin for just 16,500 miles per person. Going to be boarding the same plane I was previously but for 50k less points. Now I can take another trip with the refunded points!