I have never taken a day off in almost 20 years.
Never.
How much?
I get after it every single day.
38, 39, 40.
When you unlock the power that this is the ability to multiply money, to take 5, put it onto eBay and sell something and get 25 back.
How in the world can you rest?
I don't get it.
This is a vintage Abercrombie & Fitch.
We paid $10 for this, probably easily $100 or more.
We ended up getting two Burberry trench coats.
So this one we paid $40 and this one will sell for 250, 300 bucks.
So we paid 40 for this one as well, probably about 200 bucks.
That one's more desirable because it's more of the classic Burberry color.
My name is Rick.
I'm 41 years old.
I'm from South Florida.
Last year, I brought in $6.5 million selling pre-owned clothing.
But it also took a tremendous amount of work, a tremendous amount of commitment and a tremendous amount of sacrifice to get from where I came from to now selling millions of dollars per year and living a very, very fortunate life.
All right, it's a little bit before six o'clock in the morning.
We're at the flea market.
While the rest of the world is asleep, we're gonna come out here and get the steels and the deals.
The good ones, as soon as they hit the table, they're gone in a second.
I'm born and raised South Florida, been here my whole life.
I grew up with a single mother who was a waitress at Denny's.
I had a son at 18 years old.
Nobody would hire me because it was 2008.
I had a son who was five years old and I was flat broke.
During this time, my cell phone broke and I went onto eBay to see how much it would be to get a replacement.
So I had the bright idea to go onto Craigslist, buy the phone for 35, list it on eBay for 70 and it sold the same day for 70.
That was a light bulb moment, and I've been doing that ever since for almost 20 years.
Rinse and repeat.
I started off selling electronics.
And then my business evolved into selling pre-owned clothing, which I do today.
Everyone's here looking for deals.
Just looking for deals all day.
I'll take it.
If you don't want it, I'll take it.
Hello, Evie.
Ready for the good news.
Three hats, two shirts.
Yeah, what's the good news?
You tell me.
You're the boss.
I'm the boss.
You're the boss.
Thank you. people come out here for a wide variety of reasons people get stuff from a wide variety of places some people do like this guy he does amazon return pallets so all of this stuff here he bought amazon return pallets this guy buys houses of people that have passed away so he'll buy a house for five thousand dollars he takes all of the contents And this guy in the green shirt, he buys golf clubs.
He's been doing it for 20 years.
That's his model.
So everyone out here has a business model, has a niche.
There are a lot of disputes.
A guy was swinging a samurai sword out here a couple years ago.
Thank you.
Have a great one.
Thanks.
So 20 bucks for this, over $100.
And could I have gotten it for $15 or $10?
Probably, but the guy woke up early to be here.
He's got to make some money.
We all got to make some money.
Like if I'm the only one who makes money and they don't make money, what happens?
They stop coming to the flea market.
And if they stop coming to the flea market, I'm out of business.
Yeah, when this one closed, you going over there?
The bridge?
Yeah.
All right.
I see you over there.
So I became eBay's number one seller in pre-owned men's clothing.
I distinctly remember the day on April 14th, 2021.
At the peak of the eBay business, we did $2.5 million per year.
And that was 50,000 items in the eBay store selling 100,000 items per year.
Come.
Come this way.
So this here, Adidas.
This is not Adidas.
This one is not legit.
So they have a lot of them here.
Morning.
How did I become the number one seller?
I believe it was a... I had a lot of tenacity and I had a lot of consistency.
And every single day I woke up and I did my job to the best of my ability.
And that is my mission and that is my goal every single day.
So this...
This is Bape.
Highly faked brand.
This is obviously fake.
It's got no tag.
Sublimation on it.
Highly faked brand here.
But all these are fine.
The logo is correct.
It's not sloppy.
The RN number will be here.
You could look that up and this is a legitimate item here.
Thank you.
Good seeing you.
See you again soon, okay?
Alright, thank you.
My business evolved into the wholesale business and now we do 65 million per year in sales in 2024.
In 2025, we will do considerably more.
My business now is B2B.
It's two other resellers, and they order directly from me 1,000 pieces a week.
They process it, they fulfill it, and they sell it one at a time on eBay.
Look, some Burberry shoes for good luck.
So this here we bought for $10, but a similar dress is on sale now for $5,000.
You have Hermes scarves, you have All Saints.
They're not faking All Saints.
You don't get that stuff every single day.
You don't get that every day.
Well, this one is about maybe worth 150 to 200 bucks.
We got it for 40.
And these dresses here retail for like 1200 bucks.
And we have one, two, three.
I think you understand very quickly the amount of waste that's in the United States of America when people are discarding Hermes scarves.
Because if we didn't get it would have been in the trash.
So like we save a lot of items from the landfill because otherwise, you know, the next stop for this stuff, if it didn't sell, is in the garbage.
We got this for five dollars.
This one is probably worth 75 bucks because it's very nice, has a nice embroidery.
We got this for six bucks, black label, ralph lauren, very expensive.
We got a ralph lauren purple label, very high end.
This was probably maybe five or 800 brand new.
We have Brunello Cucinelli, very high end.
Emilio Pucci scarf, very, very high end.
This was a Hermes scarf that the lady had.
This one is selling for 300 bucks.
So here's a whole palette of hokas and enclaves.
This palette will be 11,000.
Another palette of clothing here, again.
All really good brands.
Everything is washed.
Everything is ready to go.
Here's Patagonia.
So all nice stuff.
Again, more shoes, more shoes, more shoes, and more clothing here.
Here's some jeans.
We sell a couple thousand pairs of jeans per week.
And we sell a few hundred, if not a thousand or so hats per week.
And I even wholesale out some video game collections.
So my grandfather worked, he stopped working and two weeks later he died.
So, like probably a small part somewhere during this blend or gumbo that I've experienced, something has showed me or taught me, or intuition is that I gotta keep moving and I gotta keep going and I can't stop.
