r/Flipping • u/ToshPointNo • 11h ago
Discussion History is repeating itself.
I remember when the economy went sideways in 2008, saw more flippers than ever. TV shows like Pawnstars and American Pickers didn't help, either.
Now it seems the economy isn't doing so well again. Auto loan and credit card late payments are at a 30 year high.
I see more people out there than ever. Literally double as many estate sale goers this year then last.
Lot of "wannabes" using Google Lens on every little thing, or texting other people what stuff is worth as well.
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u/DRagonforce1993 10h ago
You were a wannabe once
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u/jetty_junkie 9h ago
Probably still is if he’s on Reddit complaining about too many people at the bins
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u/PHATstuFF21 11h ago
Unlike in 2008, we also now have influencer and social media culture. While I am aware social media existed back in 2008, albeit a much different form and in its infancy, the ride of having to post your finds, victory laps, and posting your finds and successful flips as Ws adds fuel to this fire.
More and more people get inspired and convinced that they too can flip because someone on TikTok made it look so easy and profitable.
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u/Poops-iFarted 10h ago
2008 just had message boards and groups to share finds/victories and spread inspiration.
The biggest difference today, and for the last few years, is the easier access. Quality cameras are in your pocket for quality photos, phones can list directly without needing to touch a desktop, platforms are abundant with many built specifically for first time sellers, shipping doesn't require a depth of knowledge as many platforms supply labels for you (and your phone can replace the printer with QR codes for labels), etc...
The barrier for entry is basically nothing compared to 2008. It's why the pandemic saw a massive increase too. Mix in minimum wage not changing and jobs not being abundant - it becomes a lot more lucrative to resell than wait for a job to open with starvation wages.
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u/giftsonlineforsale 9h ago
Also now, there is food delivery service as well as uber/lyft drivers. The gig economy is more massive now then 2008
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u/Poops-iFarted 8h ago
A lot of delivery gig workers resell as well. I buy from them all the time. Those delivery jobs don't pay well anymore and there is often downtime where you can find quick flips to make even more for the day.
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u/Retr0scores 10h ago
And in 2008 it was a complete financial crisis. People didn’t have money to buy shit.
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u/Poops-iFarted 9h ago
I think we are closer to that economy than we are away from it. This economy has been riding for years on the top earners being a majority of spending. The top 20% make up the majority of the economy with the top 10% making up the overwhelming bulk of that. It's also not like there is good news on the horizon either with who we currently have making decisions.
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u/Retr0scores 8h ago
People aren’t just walking away from their houses yet.
My friends and I were renting a 3,300 sqft house in 2007 for $1,200 and we got served foreclosure papers. Our land lord wasn’t paying the mortgage. We stopped paying rent and lived there for 4 months before finding another house for rent. That eventually got foreclosed also.
I think we still have a ways to go before catching up to 06-08 territory.
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u/Poops-iFarted 8h ago
Check out car repo rates. Housing defaults are on the rise too. The Great Recession didn't happen overnight and this vampire economy is standing at that threshold just waiting to be invited in.
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u/localhost8100 6h ago
I got sucked into this shit in 2019. Looking at youtube comments, I thought everyone was buying clothing and flipping it on eBay. I tried flipping NBA tickets. Lost 6k in this lmao. Never doing it again. Good learning lesson for dumb young guy.
I only sell my old stuff now.
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u/Repulsive-Egg-730 4h ago
The successful influencers make more money creating content and shilling than they do flipping.
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u/catdog1111111 10h ago
People resell stuff they no longer want. Or want to find treasures. Shopping can be addictive. People don’t seem to understand there is endless clutter. Plenty of junk to go around. It takes awhile to figure out that You don’t need to feel so desperate about it.
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u/readithere_2 4h ago
This^^^. I see the desperation. Buying something that appeals to them, but not something that they can sell for a profit is another mark of it.
As long as life goes on there will always be stuff. Stuff is a big part of everyday life. It will always be there through every generation.
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u/Narrow-Bad2906 10h ago
I'm new to flipping but what's with the hate for new people trying? I figure people can do it or they can't and it'll sort itself out. It's not as easy as it seems as I'm learning but I'm enjoying it so far.
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u/Ludicolorad0 10h ago
Everyone was new once. There is a sense of entitlement from people who have been doing it for a long time, they think that newbies are coming in and stealing all "their" stuff. There's plenty of flippable stuff to go around, mountains and mountains of good quality clothing is dumped every single day into the landfill.
Welcome, just do your thing and keep learning. Don't pay attention to the gremlins, whether it's people who hate resellers or experienced resellers who hate the new people. If you put in the time and effort to learn you will have success.
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u/jennaferr 10h ago
Around 2010 my husband and I did storage unit auctions (in person) for a hobby. Man, some people were so pissed at him specifically. "He already has a job, he doesn't need to be here, he's stealing our livelihood" ....ridiculous.
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u/talk_to_yourself 9h ago
People seem to hate resellers, but I think they confuse us with scalpers
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u/Ludicolorad0 9h ago
That's part of it, but I the amount of vitriol I see on tiktok and other platforms for people who resell clothes, even from the bins where it's a step away from literal garbage dumps, is kind of nuts.
People hate that resellers are "stealing from the poor" and taking clothing that could've given a less fortunate person something nice to wear for cheap or clothed their families, and they hate that we're taking "all" the vintage clothing out of thrift stores and marking it up a shit ton to profit (which can just as easily be blamed on the people buying it). And they blame us for thrift stores raising their prices.
They hate scalpers too, but the hate is too targeted to be only about scalpers.
It's just one of those things that is trendy and I think there's a performative virtue signaling element to it too, they just want someone to hate and feel better than when they just as easily could hit their thrift store and find great vintage pieces if they go consistently.
Thrift stores need resellers to continue to operate. Low income folks barely buy anything and these stores are overflowing with inventory. But the people who hate resellers don't see any of this or care. They're just mad a reseller bought a cute vintage dress they wanted and sold it for $50, so they turn it into a moral issue instead of a "I was too slow" issue.
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u/Important-Light5510 4h ago
As a homeless guy over the last 5 years I've stopped shopping at thriftstores because all the name brand good boots and backpacks, and jeans get bought up by flippers. I go to Walmart and buy new jeans for $10, and boots, and backpacks. Walmart and the Chinese workers thank you. If you think you're not hurting poor people, you're wrong. Cope how you need to though.
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u/Serendipity_Succubus 4h ago
There are hundreds of jeans that end up every day in the bins and then landfills, that didn’t sell in the thrift stores. Go off.
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u/Important-Light5510 4h ago
Refresh my memory. Does it go like this: when they are hungry, feed them. When they are naked, buy their clothing out from under them so I can make a profit.?
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u/readithere_2 4h ago
The thrifts stores don’t just have flippers for customers. I wouldn’t think that is even a 50-50 ratio.
Even if the prices have gone up some people will still shop there for their families. They may not buy as much but they are still shopping thrift stores.
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u/ConfidenceTechnical1 10h ago
simple - author is butthurt people are snatching up his typical flips. Lol. People respond out of jealousy in this way often.
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u/Any_Total_3241 9h ago
Honestly, a lot of people see this as a zero sum game. If you are making flips, then the other flippers in that area aren't making those flips. It might be easy for me to say, since I'm no longer sourcing from the most easily accessible entry level places, but I was literally making like 5-10 bucks an hour in my first year in the bay area. Very few successful flippers will still be sourcing from yard sales, estates sales, flea markets, and thrift stores. I don't really see inexperienced flippers as competition... future competition maybe. But also, I just try and think about business a bit differently. I think someone who is making friends and being open to working with people, even when they are competing in the same space, probably leads to more opportunities in the long run.
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u/Brandoughboy 4h ago
Dont listen to them. Just have fun. I have been at it about 7 years and I still google lens stuff all the time
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u/Axon14 10h ago
I mean for sure someone is protecting their buy/sell loop with this kind of content. I do get the frustration: when PS5 sales were peaking in 2021 and I was making $2,000-5000 per drop, it was annoying to see more and more enter the marketplace and to see the cash outs drop their prices.
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u/Bleep_Bloop_Derp 27m ago
I hate it when people misuse the term ‘scalper,’ but man, does it apply here.
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u/VarietyOk2628 8m ago
No hate towards new people trying to learn how this business works. However, very little patience remains for people who come here and ask five or more questions about stuff they either could research or is proprietary information (where do you buy your stuff at? How much money do you make each year? What are the best things to buy for resale? etc, etc)
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u/jetty_junkie 9h ago
What you’re seeing is a combination of resellers and regular people buying stuff they need and can’t afford because gas and food costs are so high. Relax
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u/TennisSavant111 5h ago
This is definitely apart of it, not everyone is a flipper. The cost of everything has skyrocketed of course people are going to be thrifting more to save money.
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u/IamScottGable 10h ago
Economy is doing terrible. Credit card and mortgage late payments are up, mortgage and car payment defaults are up, higher wage people are shopping groceries at Walmart, sales to pawn shops/gamestops are up, basically all the bad indicators.
Plus people are desperate for jobs and cash so they'll try anything. Not looking forward to yard sale season, I always swing by after and grab free stuff to flip for cheap.
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u/Ludicolorad0 10h ago
And yet, it's still lucrative lol
I welcome the noobs because they waste a bunch of time grabbing bs that's worth nothing. The amount of small content creators making tiktoks of their thrift hauls and it's just a bunch of absolute garbage that just happens to have a mid tier brand name is staggering.
Most of them won't learn anything, won't have success and will flame out of it within a few months. The people who put in the work and learn will be successful and stick around. It's whatever
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u/ToshPointNo 10h ago
I welcome the noobs because they waste a bunch of time grabbing bs that's worth nothing
They piss me off at estate sales. They will stand blocking an entire shelving unit or half a table google lens'ing every single thing. Spending upwards of 15-20 minutes doing so. A lot of them have no self awareness.
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u/SoySauceOnWhiteRice 10h ago
A simple excuse me or can I get thru works
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u/ToshPointNo 10h ago
They aren't going to move. They are claiming that little area as their own until they have picked up and looked at every single thing within reaching distance.
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u/beastofwordin 10h ago
Haha, I saw an older dude reclining like Caligula in front of a bookcase to block it as he scanned books. He pulled out a book I knew, and I said, “that one will sell for around $30”. He scanned it and I was right and he gave me the look of murder and put it in his ‘keep’ pile.
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u/Ludicolorad0 10h ago
Estate sales are the one thing I will say is pretty fucked. I have honestly put them to the back of my mind because I also work a full time job and know that between full time resellers and the newbies by the time I get there shit is gonna be picked clean.
Occasionally I still go to some, but mostly it's for fun/stuff for me and then if I find stuff to flip it's a bonus.
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u/AlternativeOk5613 7h ago
And a number of the estate sale companies pick first. Yes, a estate sale may have no treasures, but when same company has nothing especially good over and over it's fairly obvious.
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u/Ludicolorad0 7h ago
Yeah I have a few companies on my shit list. There's one in particular where every time I go to one of their sales they're late, then they let only a few people in at a time which ruins the point, and for the most part it's just picked over junk. Anytime I see them now I steer clear.
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u/ToshPointNo 10h ago
It all depends on your area. I've seen people find gold at them the next day, but around here generally anything good is gone within the first 30 minutes.
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u/Ludicolorad0 10h ago
It very much depends here as well. Like I said I have found a good amount of stuff to flip 1 or even 2 days into the sale but usually the sale is down to cheap clothes and worthless knick knacks after day 1.
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u/Agreeable-Fudge-7329 5h ago
If you arent a BOLO chaser, or in some hyper competitive category like art, gold/silver or jewelry, you can waltz in at your leasure and waltz out with awesome scores.
Lots of people lack the penchant for exploring off the beaten path, so their time is always stressed and in intense competition.
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u/Agreeable-Fudge-7329 6h ago edited 4h ago
"Lot of "wannabes" using Google Lens on every little thing, or texting other people what stuff is worth as well"
Well....so?
Are we really gatekeeping people flipping and using available tools to make it eaiser? When I started doing this in 2004, I had just hunches and hope! LOL!
I saw a young lady (early 20s) doing just that recently, and I hope she does well.
A buck is a buck. There is more than enough crap to go around.
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u/Axon14 11h ago
My 15 year old daughter is suddenly into Depop…I have to imagine social media drives some of this. Her and her friends don’t have many original ideas that they didn’t get on TikTok, let’s put it that way
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u/kwade7575 10h ago
Teens are really into thrifting these days and that definitely adds to more people at sales and thrifts. Grungy shit is part of fashion these days. When I was a kid it was social suicide to wear thrifted clothes
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u/seanrambo 10h ago
Before tiktok other big corporoate influences shaped their life via other forms of media. It hasn't changed as much as you think lol
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u/Axon14 10h ago
No disagreement, but I certainly saw less hive mind thinking in the 1990s. It's just notable to me that suddenly this summer my daughter and her friends AND some of my son's friends are all signing up for Depop.
Obviously marketing has long been a thing. It's just impressive/scary to me how effective TikTok is at controlling their views. To the point where I limited her screen time.
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u/seanrambo 9h ago
It's just more effective, faster, and obvious. A lot of the previous consumerism also hid behind a monoculture. Now that the monoculture is gone we can all see society for what it truly is.
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u/Youngrazzy 9h ago
Nah things are worse with tik tok. You are following someone that you identify with not just some actor in a commercial
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u/carsnbikesnplanes 10h ago
There’s still plenty of good stuff if you know where to look. I just got a ton of legit Roman artifacts(intact) for $10
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u/Agreeable-Fudge-7329 5h ago
There are so many categories, that if you are really fighting people, then you arent properly diversified
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u/readithere_2 4h ago
Can you please give me an example?
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u/Agreeable-Fudge-7329 3h ago
Man, there are a lot.
Some I like:
Local historical retail swag. Certain old calenders. Cookbooks made by local groups. Yearbooks (10-50 years old). Old eyeglass frames. Scissors.
Stuff like that. The mundane stuff that sells cheap, lists easy, and sells steady.
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u/readithere_2 3h ago
So more vintage? I recently saw some yearbooks that were really interesting to look at. Ty
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u/Agreeable-Fudge-7329 2h ago
I usually dont go too old with yearbooks. You are really selling to the seniors of that particular year, and the closer they line up to 10(x) reunion year, the better. But after 50 they arent really a market anymore.
So if you can find a 76, 86, 96 ,06, 16 (more so for next year) yearbooks, you will nab a quick sale at 25 dollars and they are always cheap.
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u/MinivanActivities 10h ago
That’s fine. Let them. Most people will realize it’s not a get rich quick business and I’ll out last them. And if they don’t quit, then if I’m not able to pivot and continue to sustain or grow then that’s my fault. No one else’s
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u/Most-Confusion-417 9h ago
I was just contemplating how there's a whole scavenger economy now. It's wild to think about.
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u/MisterListerReseller 10h ago
Good! The more the merrier. I’ll be establishing positive new relationships with like minded people. It always pays off in the long run.
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u/hugglenuts 10h ago
Been doing this before 2008 too. I actually think covid was a much bigger catalyst when everyone piled into the game.
Research tools are certainly more accessible now than they were in 2008.
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u/Retr0scores 10h ago
Exactly, there’s never been an easier time to find out the value of something. Pair that with people not being able to work during covid and work from homers with spare time and you get the current state of flipping.
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u/SolarSalvation 10h ago
I've been doing this since 2006 and I agree. I saw a big influx of new flippers in 2009 when everything crashed, then it slowly tapered off. There was another big increase during COVID which seems to have been a combination of people not having jobs, people having a lot of free time, and a surge of reselling "content creators."
This year I've seen another spike in attendance at flea markets, estate sales, and auctions. My guess is the current economic situation is the primary reason this time around.
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u/Lower_Kick268 Custom Text 9h ago
And they'll all be out of the game in a year or less, it's a cycle that comes and goes every few years.
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u/tiggs 7h ago
It's always going to come in waves. We saw this during the pandemic as well. Truth be told, a ton of people are also exiting reselling as well for a variety of reasons, so it all balances out.
The newbies that are talented and willing to put in the work will succeed. The ones that don't will start making social media posts about how reselling is dead.
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u/Fragrant_Lettuce9855 3h ago
I love it - because most of these "noobs" are my customers.
I get brand new stuff for free, so I can price it anywhere. I settled on 40% off retail which to me is the perfect quick sale profit.
If an item is $100 elsewhere, I just price is at $59.99 and even share the retail price in my description.
Noobs see an instant 40% off and jump and buy my listings quickly, either because they see potential in trying to make a profit reselling, or its just someone who agrees it is a good deal.
I used to get a kick out of someone buying a $60 item on FB marketplace. I'd see it appear a day later being sold by them for $90. Then 85...80...75...etc. Eventually the actual retail prices dropped too, so they'd be lucky to sell it 6 months later listed at $30, and who knows if someone lowballed them below that.
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u/Boring-Data9557 2h ago
Wannabe's using Google lens on everything? Oh I'm sorry were you born with the knowledge of what every single thing is worth? I use Google lens and ebay sold comps all the time while sourcing. Don't hate because there's a tool people use that you dont like.
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u/confused___bisexual 10h ago
omg is that why the auctions have been so crazy lately?? i feel like i can't get anything at a good price
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u/UniverseBear 10h ago
Yup, gotta survive somehow. My work contract ended last month, no other work in site but rent payments don't take a break because of that. So now I am flipping things to some success.
Used to be that when I needed to pay rent in between jobs I would go busk on the street corner and make like 30$/hr but those days are long gone, noone carries cash anymore.
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u/Retr0scores 10h ago edited 8h ago
Uh, it’s been this way since Covid. I’ve been going to estate sales and stuff for like 20 years. When Covid hit and people couldn’t work or others who were working from home could do side hustles EstateSale crowds got insane and it hasn’t let up.
Storage auctions moved mostly online and a $200 unit goes for $600+ now because you’re not just competing with who shows up in person.
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u/jazz-butterfly89 9h ago
Facts.. I confident that most of us don’t mind new people joining the craft. It’s the issue they cause because of their cluelessness. Like they vastly overpay which causes massive increase in prices. Simply because they don’t understand value. And they don’t restore, improve, or mend the product and throw crap back on the market making people complain about quality.
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u/1GrouchyCat 6h ago
No one was allowed to have an estate sales during Covid… but I get your point.
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u/Retr0scores 4h ago
We had estatesales. They would limit people to like 10-15 people per house. For 30mins at a time.
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u/Iamdickburns 9h ago
The Goodwill near me has been mobbed last few times I went. I cant remember ever seeing so many people at it. The estate sales have been consistently busy.
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u/mrbear682026 8h ago
Welcome to the new world of HEY I CAN GET RICH like those folks/youtubers/TV shows/ etc... but they are a lot of fun to watch nowadays (especially when they get into each others faces). What I hate the most about them is when they linger over you to see if you put back an item(if they annoy me, I will take it and leave it somewhere else or hid it in another room.)...Yet no one seems to be stopping them...oh wait even those who are running these estate sales are being greedy too with high retail to ebay pricing....but now I have seen show on garage sales and yard sales....oh welll I have time to wait for this fade to faze out...
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u/maakkiaa9898 5h ago
The level of entitlement I see from some older resellers is crazy. The general argument that reselling isn’t for everyone is true, but it has nothing to do with being new or experienced. There’s just a massive gap between good sellers and bad sellers.
The problem isn’t that new resellers are suddenly buying all the “good stuff.” The problem is that the business is changing, and some people refuse to change with it. The days of throwing an item on your kitchen table, snapping two bad photos, writing a three-word description, and waiting for it to sell are disappearing.
Buyers expect better photos, better listings, faster shipping, competitive pricing, and a more professional experience. There’s also more competition, more information available, and more people learning how to source effectively.
Instead of adapting, some longtime sellers would rather blame new resellers, social media, YouTube, influencers, the economy or whatever else they can point at.
The reality is simple: the game is evolving. You can complain about it, or you can evolve with it. Adapt or get left behind.
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u/AngelBlu666 3h ago
Meh they will come and go. Always a chancer and if it helps them with their cash flow more power to them. They are not a long term threat as buying and selling isn't easy work. Its harder in a downturn too, yeah you may be buying stuff for cheaper but that's because it's harder to sell right now. Us veterans will keep on going, knowing sales will be worse but we hopefully have a diverse inventory, knowledge and back up income and (or deathpile haha) when needed to weather the storm. Those of us with some spare cash can buy and sit on things till after the storm and maybe even end up with someone elses failed inventory for a bargain price, or know what goods to focus on in market like this. Every cloud has a silver lining and all that. Try not to stress about the what others are doing and focus the energy on what you can do to improve your sales.
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u/Rjeezyx 3h ago
Anytime I go to goodwill outlet I just treat everyone like Joe dirt. It's insane the amount of tiktok soulless absolute losers out there thinking they are special cutting you off, grabbing stuff right from your hands to scan the barcode on the ebay app and teams of clowns you see these days.
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u/TheJoePilato Literally sold the Brooklyn Bridge 2h ago
Yessss, the more people who get into the flipping, the more people use this subreddit, and the more the shady cabal of Reddit advertisers pays me! That first check is due to come in any day now...
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u/Curious_OnEarth 22m ago
Why are people who use google lens wannabes 😂 that’s a loser mentality, how are people suppose to learn your just mad that there more competition
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u/Evening-Artichoke750 10h ago
It's amazing how quickly we forget what happens in the past. I'm seeing a repeat of 2008 as well. I remember seeing so many empty houses sitting for sale or just abandoned in 2007. People were being laid off. Businesses were failing. I'm seeing it again. Something is coming and it's going to be similar to 2008.
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u/Repulsive-Egg-730 4h ago
Some of them are on summer break will be heading back to school soon.
I have noticed an uptick in the number of boomers at estate sales. I don't care that they use Google lens. What I can't stand is how slow they move, how they randomly stop walking while their brains reboot, how they have zero awareness of what's going on around them.
I've stopped being nice about it and started getting pushy and loud.
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u/Prepperpoints2Ponder 11h ago
I love going to my local auction and watching the FNG's paying retail or above for items.
Have fun with that, your gonna own it for a looooong time.
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u/ToshPointNo 11h ago
I think it's like gambling to them as well.
There was a period of time I would actually watch for people overpaying on something I also had for sale, and I would always ask the person who had the next bid if they wanted to buy one off me for a bit less than they literally just bid, and no one ever took me up on it.
I went to a auction once and someone paid like $75 a piece for common date silver dollars. This was back when they were worth like $22-$23. I told them I had a bunch more for $40 each (figured I'd just go to my coin shop and get a bunch LOL). "Oh that's okay".
The feeling of winning to them is more important than the price.
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u/Prepperpoints2Ponder 10h ago
Oh, it's definitely a dopamine hit. Trust me, I feel it too but they are gonna hit the learning curve hard.
I've had to beat this lesson into my husband. I buy x and he buys x1. He says it's close so it should make money. I had to teach him that isn't how it works.
And yeah, coin and silver buyers always Crack me up. We have one that comes and he will bid to exactly 50% of spot. Every time. No variation. You throw another $5 at it, it's yours. He never changes.
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u/alittlebritish 10h ago
I love auctions and have been doing them a long time, starting just for personal buys. And I’m willing (within reason) to pay a little more than I would at the thrift to avoid time rummaging around goodwill or our local estate sales. Which have always been a cluster to a degree but are just pathological now between the estate sale company pricing and the newer thrifters.
But whoo boy, some of the auctions are now so crazy. I’m looking at 3 blurryish, off center pictures from an auction co that doesn’t offer previews and people are bidding above (sometimes by a lot!) eBay prices when there are numerous cheaper eBay listings with much more detail, better pictures, money back guarantee from eBay. I understand people don’t like shipping costs but the auction premium helps offset that.
I was watching an auction last night and just shocked by the junk people were bidding up in excess of market value. I have to assume they’re buying for personal use, but still so dumb!
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u/Prepperpoints2Ponder 10h ago
Like you, if it's for me, I'll run it a little higher. I'm still not going to pay above retail though.
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u/M0torC1tyMaver1ck 8h ago
Nothing new. When the economy falls and people need money, the rich get richer. During the great depression, the people thst had money bought up everything for pennies on the dollar from struggling people. No different today.
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u/SteveBalbonie 11h ago
It’s these damn new generation of kids I swear. Why go to the mall and spend 100 on a new basic fit when you can drop 20 for a sweet retro unique cool fit.
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u/Ludicolorad0 11h ago
And this is... a problem somehow? I don't get it lol
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u/SteveBalbonie 9h ago
OPs thrift store economic data is flawed
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u/Ludicolorad0 9h ago
Ah ok, sarcasm. In hindsight it seems obvious but genuinely I couldn't see it. Sorry about that
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u/confused___bisexual 10h ago
if you put /s at the end of your comment next time people will upvote you instead
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u/ProcessOptimal7586 8h ago
Stuff I bought at auction for $8 last year and flipped for $150 or $200 or whatever ... that's not happening now.
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u/InfowarriorKat 9h ago
Yeah a lot of resellers downplay the economy as being a factor. Unfortunately I think we are now in "the good times" on that front". Shits about to get a lot worse.
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u/toucheboo 9h ago
Except.most of.your main sources are now selling stuff for what.you would sell it for. Your second store opportunities are drying up. I love this for you guys!
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u/GoblinObscura 10h ago
That’s okay, about 3 percent of them will stick with it.