Jul 13, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min · 17 segments
Vendit AI Lister Free Month - Code: purehustle In this episode we discuss making money while traveling and major changes in shipping that will impact resellers.
So Orlando, how are things going for you, my friend?
You know, really good.
I just came back from took a little bit of vacation, a little bit of reselling.
And that wasn't it wasn't a reselling vacation, but did some reselling while on vacation.
You know, I got to tell you.
And maybe I'll get hate for this, but reselling, I would say on the coast, at least on the West Coast, at least in California, it's pretty rough, right? Because I was thinking about the math.
I had to make well into the six figures.
To sustain life.
To be able to rent a home, pay the electricity, pay for my cars, pay and all this.
And my sourcing had to be either...
I had to go to the rag houses or I had to go to garage sales every weekend or estates every weekend.
The thrift stores were dead.
There was...
Like it was crazy.
Like there was a time when it was peak thrift stores, I would say up until maybe 2022, 2023.
And then with the implementation of AI and just the popularity of the bins, like thrift stores are no longer.
And I would argue till this day.
That in California, unless you're maybe in the high desert or some area that's not very populated, which I don't know, the high desert may be populated now, that going to thrift stores is brutal.
But when I was in Wisconsin, I have a good friend of mine, and she loves going to thrift stores.
And so whenever I go hang out in Wisconsin, I'm like, you want to go thrift store garage? She's like, yeah, let's go.
So I remember I went to the same business as DePaul, and they had 50% off all their toys online.
And they had toys upon toys.
And I could tell that they weren't picked over.
Like they were just
So Orlando, how are things going for you, my friend?
You know, really good.
I just came back from took a little bit of vacation, a little bit of reselling.
And that wasn't it wasn't a reselling vacation, but did some reselling while on vacation.
You know, I got to tell you.
And maybe I'll get hate for this, but reselling, I would say on the coast, at least on the West Coast, at least in California, it's pretty rough, right? Because I was thinking about the math.
I had to make well into the six figures.
To sustain life.
To be able to rent a home, pay the electricity, pay for my cars, pay and all this.
And my sourcing had to be either...
I had to go to the rag houses or I had to go to garage sales every weekend or estates every weekend.
The thrift stores were dead.
There was...
Like it was crazy.
Like there was a time when it was peak thrift stores, I would say up until maybe 2022, 2023.
And then with the implementation of AI and just the popularity of the bins, like thrift stores are no longer.
And I would argue till this day.
That in California, unless you're maybe in the high desert or some area that's not very populated, which I don't know, the high desert may be populated now, that going to thrift stores is brutal.
But when I was in Wisconsin, I have a good friend of mine, and she loves going to thrift stores.
And so whenever I go hang out in Wisconsin, I'm like, you want to go thrift store garage? She's like, yeah, let's go.
So I remember I went to the same business as DePaul, and they had 50% off all their toys online.
And they had toys upon toys.
And I could tell that they weren't picked over.
Like they were just
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