This is how I did it:
I started with $200 and a Master Card debit card, purchased from Safeway.
I searched the internet for wholesale companies.
I picked two, Leg Avenue (that sells women's clothes) and Chemical Light Inc. (glow novelities).
I made an order with Chemical light for glow sticks and necklaces. I would sell these at parks and events near nightfall, just wandering around. Made some good money. Then I would put $250 on the debit card and buy clothes from Leg Ave and sell them to the high school and college girls, and made more money.
Several years later, I do festivals, sci-fi/fantasy conventions, and fairs selling the same stuff and more.
If you want the money bad enough, you have to work for it every day for a while to cushion yourself.
I want to open a brick and mortar, so I'm trying to come up with ideas to make extra cash to pay for the expansion. All without investors, business plans or bosses.
I started with $200 and a Master Card debit card, purchased from Safeway.
I searched the internet for wholesale companies.
I picked two, Leg Avenue (that sells women's clothes) and Chemical Light Inc. (glow novelities).
I made an order with Chemical light for glow sticks and necklaces. I would sell these at parks and events near nightfall, just wandering around. Made some good money. Then I would put $250 on the debit card and buy clothes from Leg Ave and sell them to the high school and college girls, and made more money.
Several years later, I do festivals, sci-fi/fantasy conventions, and fairs selling the same stuff and more.
If you want the money bad enough, you have to work for it every day for a while to cushion yourself.
I want to open a brick and mortar, so I'm trying to come up with ideas to make extra cash to pay for the expansion. All without investors, business plans or bosses.
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Re: start small and work your way up
Thu, May 27, 2004 - 3:27 PMHas anybody out there done something similar on e-Bay and really made anything?
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Re: start small and work your way up
Fri, May 28, 2004 - 9:04 AMLord! I love your story, it gives me great hope to know that it is possible with some elbow grease and will. Keep it up! My boyfriend and I are working towards an import business. We'll be importing producst from Brazil (because he's Brazilian and stuff is cheap there).
We have alot of work to do but a bit at a time will get us to our goal. -
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Re: start small and work your way up
Fri, May 28, 2004 - 9:20 AMtry a table at a flea market for several weeks. I have seen vendors from Mexico do this by starting small and having 3-5 tables within several months. -
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Re: start small and work your way up
Fri, May 28, 2004 - 6:41 PMLord,
COOL!
I have a similar story...
I had weird parents (so well everyone does) My mother wouldn't let me get a job in high school, not even part time. I also wasn't allowed to get a drivers license, or learn to drive- some weird Parent control thing. Anyway I wanted to go to the Prom and needed tickets, tux, flower, money and a ride.
I went into PriceClub (a wherehouse store) with $16 I had somehow scraped up. I bought a box of Snickers Candy bars. I put it in my backpack and sold them for 50 cents a piece at school. That day I doubled my money. Next week when my parents went back to the store I bought two boxes. Soon I had enough to buy 8 boxes and I doubled my money EVERY DAY.
I earned enough selling candy bars at school to buy a tux, rent a limo and take (what I thought at that time) the prettiest girl in school. My parents were wondering how I had all that money... -
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Re: start small and work your way up
Fri, May 28, 2004 - 11:21 PMwe want to see the pictures!! -
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pictures
Sat, May 29, 2004 - 5:12 PMThat was near 15 years ago, uh I don't even know if I have any... That was the first time I had taken the bull by the horns started small and went forward. Only forward, only forward...
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