The headline find at the Aida Springs Citywide didn’t come from a price tag. It came from running into Sheree — a TikTok shop influencer with a garage full of brand-new product TikTok had sent her to promote — and the fact that I deliberately overpaid to keep her phone number in my future.

Meeting Sheree

[5:55] She had a table of clothes, a beauty-product setup, and tucked behind it a sealed-in-the-box Medicube red light therapy facial device — a TikTok freebie she’d never reviewed. “This is over $200. Never been opened. Look it up.” Plus a sealed photo sticker printer next to it.

The negotiation was a slow dance. “Can we do another 40?” — “Come on, we got something going here.” — “How about 50?” — “50 it is.” Then I told her I wanted the printer too, said I’d round up to 60. “It’s not what they’re worth, but you hooked me up.”

Here’s the thing: I wasn’t trying to scrape every dollar of margin off this. Sheree mentioned she gets sent stuff like this all the time. There’s a reseller in Baton Rouge we already buy from who has the same gig — “she has garage sales and there’s kids swimming pools full of beauty products,” and she sells them $2 a piece. If Sheree turns into a steady stream, paying a few extra bucks today is the cheapest marketing I’ll ever do. So Sheree, if you watch this — hit us up. We’ll pay up.

She also subscribed to us right there at the table. “You got to go follow me back to have a chance.” Reseller and creator both got something out of it.

A few other picks

[1:32] Donna Summer / Village Stompers record purse — $4. Candice’s pickup. The lady’s friend handmade it — not mass-produced, zipper, structured bottom, double-chain strap, checkerboard velvet. Going to be in the $30 range easy.

[2:56] Vans women’s 8.5 — $5. And a TWA bag, $8 for both as a deal.

[13:14] Power strip — $1. Keeping that for myself. Paid up.

[13:40] Two digital-to-analog converter boxes — $2 each. For people still using their old TVs.

[15:15] Yadro figurine — $20. Candice spotted it. The reason she spotted it: I’d already gone through that sale, the prices had been so wild that everything blurred together (“all the other prices made me blind”), and I walked back to the truck. Candice took her time. She came back holding a Yadro. Should be about $100 listed.

The lesson

That one’s the recurring lesson on this channel: Candice’s patience pays off, my impatience doesn’t. We make a good team because of how differently we work a sale, not despite it.

Sheree is the broader version of the same idea. The transactional read is that we paid 60 for $200 worth of brand-new product. The longer read is that we paid 60 for that plus the chance she calls the next time TikTok dumps another box of stuff in her garage. Reselling is not always about scraping margin off today’s deal — sometimes it’s about being the person someone calls.

We had a blast filming it. More from Aida Springs to come.