So with truck sales being non-existent as of late, I've been kinda bored. I kinda wanted to see what I could do, starting with "nothing" but experience and seeing where I could go with it. At first it was to get myself something useful, just ended up turning into seeing how much I could make. I sold the first item on April 10th.
In total disclosure, when I started doing this I had no intention of trying to do anything within "30 days" or to make X amount of money, so I wasn't really in a hurry. I think after I sell the last of what I have left I'll start "fresh" again with an actual deadline and rules to abide by.
Started with a weather guard tool box that came with a truck I bought.
Cost- $0 (technically)
Sold-$400. $350 for the box, $50 for some 1x3 aluminum stock I had laying around I got for free so the guy could mount it in his short bed truck without hitting the wheelwells.
Purse total- $400
Found a guy one town over selling the same tool box in the polished aluminum finish and a pair of the side boxes. He was asking $350 for it all. Offered $300 since they were missing keys, he accepted. Had keys made for $15.
Cross box sold on the 14th for $350, side boxes sold a day later for $350.
New purse total - $785
Took that money and found that aerator I posted about above for $750 on the 17th, he was asking $900 and when I tested it there and wasn't quite sure if I liked it, he dropped the price on his own lol. This was the item I intended on using. I used it in my own yard, it was SLOW and tippy on slopes. A walk behind unit is just as fast and takes up half the space on a trailer, so I decided to sell it.
I posted the aerator on the 19th for $1,900 and my phone lit up. Had two people look at it that day, a verbal agreement for full price from one of them and they came back on the 21st with a trailer and took it home.
Purse total- $1,915
A few days after the aerator sold I went with a friend of mine to Russo Power Equip. in Hainesville to look at a used zero-turn mower for his house. For those that don't know, Russo holds a large used equipment auction twice a year, because of COVID they cancelled their spring auction, and, unbeknownst to me, were selling the used equipment themselves. They had 50+ walk-behind mowers that were trade-in machines. I talked with the salesman about them when we were there, but didn't follow through since we were there to get Jeff a mower.
I ended up going back there last Monday the 27th and bought four walk behinds. They were willing to make deals on the machines they had not yet serviced and listed for sale, which was the majority of them.
$400/each for two of these.
$400 for this one
And $500 for this one
Grand total out the door was $1,830.31 for all four machines with sales tax.
I listed the machines Tuesday the 28th, got over 30 messages. Wednesday AM I sold one of the orange SCAG's for $1,400 and the 36" Bobcat for $1,100 plus $50 to bring it to the buyer after he came to look at it. So I'm at $2,635 right now with two mowers left to sell. The other orange SCAG needed a few parts which I ordered on Thursday, and I have someone coming today for $900 for the green 48" bobcat. All things considered, if I get the parts quickly and sell the other one for $1,500 I should have a new purse total of $5,035 minus parts costs.
I didn't really have a deadline or goal in mind with all of this. Should I cash out once these last mowers are gone, take another tool box I've got sitting here and start again or just keep going with the $5,000?
So yeah, TL;DR I'm bored trying to turn a useless toolbox into a big pay day. I will update this as things happen.