#91  Peter is a nice guy with a good job until he meets Christina an attractive girl with a coke problem. Peter gets hooked, loses his job and starts stealing to support their drug habit. A few months later Peter gets arrested and Christina meets a nice new guy with a job. Peter has no other choice but to have his friends/family move all of his stuff out of his apartment and into storage. A few more months go by and peter is still locked up with no end in sight. Peter's friends/family quit paying on his storage unit and it goes into foreclosure.

Good news is you...ah....I mean <cough> "Peter" didnt have to bad of a coke problem if you...sorry...*PETER* still had possession's to be put in storage! 

 

I'm taking MM's lead and cleaning up.....

Stack #1:   Items must be listed in next 24hours.  Take advantage of the millions that ill be laying on the couch tommarow hung over surfing around.

Stck #2:   Stuff I've had forever.  Five-n-dime stuff.   All this is "free" or donated.  Just make room.


Damn good neighborhood scavengers I've got.
Put a box of cigar boxes on curb.
Loaded up a box of electronics - old pocket pc's, MP3 players, ect......
By the time I put that out the 1st box ws empty.
Hour later took some miscellaneous stuff out......electronics pretty much picked thru.

I don't even see anyone out!   Little worried I have trolls living in the sewer drain........


<update>
Resolution to clean and purge.....purgeing going well.....cleaning?.....have ten time the mess!

But I've found $42 in scratch ticket winners.  About $60 in change. And 7 milk bottles to turn in for deposit.  $112.50 cleaning day isn't bad!

But where the heck did all these clothes come from?!!    Next stop:  GoodWill!!

 #96

"I had to buy my 'medication'".     <sound of b*ng hit>.   "Ahhh.....what were we talking about".

I'm not sure but I don't think you need a license to sell smokes.   As long as the tax was paid, shown via the tax stamp, your good.

I know lots of small businesses that buy cartons at Costco and resale by the pack.   That's how we did it at the bar.......


I'd still do it on the sly to be safe.   Got a local needle exchange or methadone clinic?   Go sell cheap cartons there so they stop shoplifting them!   

I spent my 20's as a nightclub bartender.  Ruined New Years for me.  Amateur drunk night.


Staying home and waiting for the usual 1am phone call from some drunk friend(s) that needs a ride......

No, I don't just set up shop.   Not like I'm parked there asking every passer by. 

I've done it that way at things like Farmers Markets but I'm pretty careful.  Not of police but of organizers.
So far no problems.   Had one organizer come ask if I had a sellers permit.  When I said no he asked if I could not sell in the parking lot because he could be fined.  He even pointed out the boundary and asked that I stay on he other side.   

And once in Seattle I got chased off by police but just because they like to be d*cks and they don't even know the laws.   I had a street vendors permit.  I was 100% legal.   So I just went to another location.
And the cops in that location didnt care.    My suspicions are that the other vendors kicked backed to those cops to either sell there or to keep others out.   


Other than that no one has said a thing.  But again, I'm low key.  Not like the guys selling fruit on the corner.....

First, I apologize or the double post.   Just answered a topic in the newbie section but since its a frequent question I'm adding it here......I'll just add a bit.


It's a little ghetto but I sell a lot from the trunk of my car.    I always go to the same gym, gas station, grocery store, auto parts store, dive *ss low life corner market.....

Get to know employees, locals, regulars.  Find what they are into, mention what I have.....

Or if a got a 'lot' of items ill even open my trunk while pumping gas, causally strike up convo to others then "oh....hey....you interested in <item>?"

Also, I'm on a lot of forums.   Everything from automotive to movie sites to health/fitness.   Eventually you "meet" people and talk turns to more personal stuff and bingo. 

Instead of buying items and finding a buyer, a lot of times it's having a buyer and trying to find items.

I keep a notebook with names an numbers and types of things people are into.   Find a unit or item at estate/garage sale and I can call them and see if thy are interested.

Also helps since I can pre-research items.  Know a bit about them and value.
I know nothing of camera lenses.   But this mechanic wants a telephoto.   First, never would have guessed he was into photography had I not brought up what I do, have, can get...
But by talking to him I got a possible costumer and I  pumped him for info....rule #1: always get people talking then sit back and LISTEN.   You'll get more answers then if you asked the questions. 

Now, I have yet to find what he wants but due to talking to him and researching wht he was talking about I've found several money makers at estate sales.

Guess it comes down to networking.