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Retail Arbitrage Update, September 2019

Well hello folks. You may have thought I died. I didn’t! However my progress with retail arbitrage may as well have. This has been a great lesson in supply and demand, rather than cost vs. benefit. It’s also been a...

6 Side Hustle Ideas to Make Money That Don’t Feel Like Work

If passive income is our ultimate goal, we’ve got to understand that to get there, we will have to work and work hard first. Side hustles are small jobs we can do on the side to supplement our income in pursuit of...

Retail Arbitrage Update – Feb 18, 2018

I haven’t updated my retail arbitrage series in a few weeks. I’ve started a new job recently, which involves a 1 hour commute both ways, and which has understandably taken away a considerable amount of my writing time. It’s actually...

Retail Arbitrage Update – Jan 27, 2018

It’s been a couple of weeks since I last updated my progress with retail arbitrage. Truth be told it’s not as easy as it sounds. All of my listings have gotten some attention, and all of them are for products...

Some Unintended Benefits of Seeking Financial Independence

For years and years we’ve all been told that the the standard operating procedure in this great American life is to be born, go to school, get a job, have kids and retire. The formula is painfully routine and in...

Retail Arbitrage Update – Jan 10, 2018

Just a quick update to my original post here. All of our listings are still posted on eBay. They’re generating a fair amount of interest in the form of views. This suggests on the surface that at least the items...

Figuring Out Retail Arbitrage

I’ve known for years about people who make a living off of reselling stuff they bought online. For one reason or another it never crossed my mind that I could be one of those people. They always struck me as...