There is an expensive medical bed, over 500 sci-fi books that when put into author lots - sell well. A bunch of easy to sell chairs in a garage sale. Lots of things that will do well in a garage sale or FB, not so much that will do well on eBay though.

I went to an estate sale. Spent $200. There were 3 canon DSLR cameras. When I took the picture to check eBay, they all came back over $150 at first glance. I got all three at $60 each thinking easy money. After more looking into it, the ones I saw had nicer lenses that sold. So I was only able to sell one for over a hundred. The other 2 right at $60 but with fees I made less. Fortunately I was able to separate a few fancy SD type cards that I’ve never seen before and a bunch of extra batteries, plus a few other things I got at the estate sale, so I won’t lose money but I will only make around $40. I’m already at $226.00 with one more thing to sell so it’s fine. Lesson learned - a basic camera is not worth much.

You can tell all the people running the Estate Sale that you will come with guys and a truck or trailer the Tuesday after the sale and take everything out free of charge. you want to make it worth their while. A lot of them have to pay a company to come in afterwards and do a clean out. So if you can do it for a couple hours of labor cost only and get a whole bunch of free things. You now have free inventory. Even if it’s not that great of stuff, you can still put it in your garage sale for a dollar an item.

One of my favorite types of reselling is finding products where you can create a repeatable listing instead of constantly hunting for one-off items. A great example is old board games from the 80s and 90s. There’s an old game called HeroQuest. It’s basically a simplified version of Dungeons & Dragons and has a huge cult following. Over the years it had a bunch of expansion packs, and many of those included special cards, manuals, and accessories that are now extremely expensive on eBay. Instead of trying to source original copies, I found scans of the cards from multiple sources online. I cleaned them up, rebuilt the decks, and had them professionally printed through PrinterStudio. Now I sell reproduction decks on eBay. I’ve also started doing this with: - Fireball Island - Warhammer Quest This is the kind of business model I love because: - You create the listing once - You can stock quantity instead of listing individual items - Shipping is easy - The audience already exists - Nostalgia collectors are always searching for replacement parts and accessories Most of my decks cost around: - $8–$10 each to produce Typical selling prices: - $35–$40 for standard decks - $80–$100 for larger or rarer decks So far: - HeroQuest sells the best - Fireball Island does pretty well - Warhammer Quest has been slower The bigger lesson here is this: Look for old games, manuals, cards, charts, expansion materials, instruction booklets, reference sheets, or missing accessories that collectors need but are hard to find. If you can: 1. Find or scan high-quality originals 2. Clean them up in an editing program 3. Have them professionally reproduced 4. Create a clean eBay listing …you can build a surprisingly easy semi-passive income stream from niche collector communities. Some of these niches are way bigger than people realize.