A few weeks ago I cleaned out an Estate Sale. Got everything for free. All listed everything good on eBay or Facebook marketplace and everything else having a garage sale. It’s pretty fortunate because I own the Tent already. I will post how it goes later.

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.