A while back I was working on an article about buying inventory from thrift shops. Thrift shops are one of my favorite places to find used inventory – and I have a system that works really well… as I was writing the article, I came across this article by Melissa Smith – she shares all of the strategies I already use when I go to thrift shops (I especially love shopping with my mom to get a senior discount – saving an extra 40% on everything!!)… so, rather than recreate the wheel – I asked Melissa if I could share her article. Here you go…

Goodwill Hunting: Finding Inventory for Resell at Thrift Stores
Guest Article by Melissa Smith
Ebay Seller melissakbs

I’m Melissa Smith, a SAHM (Stay At Home Mom) to my 2-year-old daughter, and wife to my husband Tim. I’ve been eBaying since 1998 and selling kid’s clothes for a year. I sell mostly children’s clothes under the ID “melisskbs” and I get 99% of my inventory from Goodwill’s thrift stores. You can see my auctions for yourself here:

Auctions by “melisskbs”

I used to work for Goodwill Industries in the Job Placement Division, and I am one of their most frequent customers! I’ve sold Baby Lulu, Hanna Andersson, Oilily, Kelly’s Kids, Orient Expressed, Lilly Pulitzer, and untold numbers of Gymboree, all purchased from the GW. Even as a kid, I loved hunting for bargains at the thrift stores.

Here’s how you can find great “treasures” and inventory for your auctions at thrift stores such as Goodwill, Salvation Army, and other charity thrift stores.

Let’s Get Started!

First, go often and find out when new merchandise arrives. At my local GW, a truck comes every day from the main donation center warehouse. Also, the stock is rotated every day among the 16 stores in the district so there is always something new to find.

A while back I was working on an article about buying inventory from thrift shops. Thrift shops are one of my favorite places to find used inventory – and I have a system that works really well… as I was writing the article, I came across this article by Melissa Smith – she shares all of the strategies I already use when I go to thrift shops (I especially love shopping with my mom to get a senior discount – saving an extra 40% on everything!!)… so, rather than recreate the wheel – I asked Melissa if I could share her article. Here you go…<\/p>\n

Goodwill Hunting: Finding Inventory for Resell at Thrift Stores<\/strong>
\nGuest Article by Melissa Smith<\/strong><\/strong>
\nEbay Seller melissakbs<\/p>\n

I\u2019m Melissa Smith, a SAHM (Stay At Home Mom) to my 2-year-old daughter, and wife to my husband Tim. I\u2019ve been eBaying since 1998 and selling kid\u2019s clothes for a year. I sell mostly children\u2019s clothes under the ID \u201cmelisskbs\u201d and I get 99% of my inventory from Goodwill\u2019s thrift stores. You can see my auctions for yourself here:<\/p>\n

Auctions by \u201cmelisskbs\u201d<\/p>\n

I used to work for Goodwill Industries in the Job Placement Division, and I am one of their most frequent customers! I\u2019ve sold Baby Lulu, Hanna Andersson, Oilily, Kelly\u2019s Kids, Orient Expressed, Lilly Pulitzer, and untold numbers of Gymboree, all purchased from the GW. Even as a kid, I loved hunting for bargains at the thrift stores.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s how you can find great \u201ctreasures\u201d and inventory for your auctions at thrift stores such as Goodwill, Salvation Army, and other charity thrift stores.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s Get Started!<\/p>\n

First, go often and find out when new merchandise arrives. At my local GW, a truck comes every day from the main donation center warehouse. Also, the stock is rotated every day among the 16 stores in the district so there is always something new to find.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-selling-childrens-items","category-used-inventory"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennihunt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennihunt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennihunt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennihunt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennihunt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jennihunt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennihunt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennihunt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennihunt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}