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Shed Flips We bought a $5 jewelry box at a garage sale and found gold inside
A $5 garage-sale jewelry box with three pieces of 14k gold inside, plus a packing day across eBay, Poshmark, and Etsy and 173 vintage giveaway-plane noses listed all at once.
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Garage Flips A $500 cash register sitting there for $40
Vintage cash register with the original stickers still on it, priced at forty bucks at a yard sale. Comp solds put it north of $500. Bonus: a lot of vintage Pinewood Derby cars including a Batmobile.
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Garage Flips Armfuls of profit at the garage sale
A short Saturday-morning stop where the seller already knew us by category — "you've been buying a bunch of HBA lately, huh?" Yes ma'am, we have.
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I'm Gonna Pack It I owe Candice an apology — $32 of plate complaining
A late Thursday-night pack session — 14 eBay orders out before tomorrow morning's garage sales, headlined by Lonnie cussing his way through a FiestaWare four-piece and a hidden Easton Press leather we didn't even know we had.
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Lonnie & Ryan Hairy Tornado made it personal — $450 a video, a 27-hour week, and the question that flipped the table
Josh from Hairy Tornado opened the books on what a 443K-subscriber reseller channel actually costs to run. Then near the end of the episode he asked me a personal question I hadn't been asked before, and the conversation pivoted.
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Garage Flips An RV park yard sale? Why not
We followed the signs into a campground and ran into a Vietnam-era paratrooper knife with a broken blade, a 9-year-old dog named Fancy, and a reminder that we will, in fact, go anywhere there's a yard-sale sign.
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Welcome to the Shed Flips blog
A written companion to the YouTube channel — hauls, what sold, what flopped, and the strategy behind both.
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I'm Gonna Pack It eBay's AI live-show ads are driving us crazy — should we finally try Whatnot?
Mid-week pack day spent half-arguing with myself about whether to give live selling a try, half-roasting eBay for using AI-generated thumbnails on every single one of its live-show ads.
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Shed Flips Everything we sold on eBay, Mercari, Etsy, and Poshmark — Monday morning pull
A full pull-orders pass — 24 eBay sales, one each on Mercari and Poshmark, and an Etsy windfall. Every item, every price, every story.
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Shed Flips Why we stopped shipping eBay orders every day
Same-day handling is best for eBay sales. We don't do it. Here's the schedule we actually run, the carrier-pickup constraint that locks it in, and why two-day handling has been the right trade for our setup.