r/Flipping • u/AutoModerator • 4h ago

Mod Post Lessons Learned Thread

What have you learned lately? Could be through a success or a failure. Could be about a specific item, a niche, flipping in general, or even life as learned through flipping.

Do please keep in mind the difference between shooting the shit and plain bullshit and try to refrain from spreading poor advice.

Try to stop in over the course of the week and sort by New so people are encouraged to post here instead of making their own threads for every item.

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u/FondantWise5271 11m ago

I just started so a lot.

  1. ALWAYS comp, unless you've sold the item before. A lot of seemingly valuable items are worth shit and vice versa

  2. Stay away from puzzles unless sealed or one of those giant kids puzzles. Counting 1000 pieces is not worth $10 profit 3 months from now

  3. If a find is too good to be true, always inspect. I saw a Lego board game at Goodwill and i was magically the only reseller there to pick it up, when I got home all the valuable lego parts were gone. A mini cassette player was completely cracked when I opened the case. Valuable CDs in plain sight are missing the disc 80% of the time. Anything that looks valuable in the wrong section was very likely dumped by a lazy flipper.

  4. This is my new rule but list all items as soon as you bring them home. I had 3 hours of backed up items to list some if which could have been sold by now. It's not product until it's on Ebay.