This is what’s worked for me so far:
- Better Than Sex Mascara (waterproof) sells really really fast, and they’re small enough you can probably grab 5-10 in one go if you’re careful/not being watched.
- Instax film (found at staples, Walmart, Michael’s, etc) sells pretty good imo. I sell a ten-photo pack for about ~8$-9$, and the twenty-photo packs for about ~14$-16$ apiece, and I sell them in packs, like 3-5 ten-photo packs and 2-4 twenty-photo packs.
- instax cameras (toys r us, and Best Buy if you’re really really lucky). They sell fast and at good prices, between 45$-55$ (if you get a really rare color, like somehow manage to snag one of the pastel ones from michaels, I could see it selling for like 55$-60$), but it’s best to have a structured purse for lifting those. The ones at toys r us aren’t tagged (at least the few locations I’ve been to they haven’t been) but def check over any from Best Buy.
- Newer high end makeup palettes sell pretty well too. And I’m sure limited edition makeup will sell very well a few months after they go off the shelf.
- copics (Michael’s or hobby lobby possibly) sell very good, only sometimes - I think for these try to sell them towards the beginning of school semesters and around Christmas time. But you can sell them for high prices, I sell mine for about ~5$-6$ a market, so like 20 markers is at least 100$ in profit.
Some other things to boost I’ve heard of but haven’t tried yet:
- high end wallets and purses (fossil/Kate spade/Michael kors etc)
- higher end art supplies (I’m guessing this means like oil/acrylic paints and good quality brushes and selling them in sets - again this’d probably be good more towards the start of semesters/around Christmas)
- Pokémon cards ? Like I guess there’s some rare cards out there so if you lift a whole bunch of packs and find the rare ones you could sell them ? Not sure on the specifics 😂
- Calvin Klein clothing (this and north face can be found at TJ Maxx, they usually have hook tags or gator tags.. unfortunately all the ones around me have gator tags, and their dressing rooms are watched over pretty well)
- maybe lipstick queen ? They’re small, rarely tagged, so you could grab a whole bunch at once and sell them either piece by piece or in small lots. I’ve wanted to try this but haven’t yet.
- also, this is just an idea but like maybe manga sets ?? If you work and manage to get all the volumes of a popular newer manga series you could prolly sell it for a pretty good amount. Manga books usually sells for about 7$-10$, so if it’s a series of ten books, and you sell them for 5$ apiece you’d make around 50$…. might not be anything, but this is just another thought I’ve had but haven’t tried yet.
For boosting, use mercari, Poshmark, depop, or eBay.
The one I use the most is mercari, it’s just the easiest for me to understand, plus it doesn’t go through PayPal (which I don’t like PayPal so it works for me 😊)
My car broke down so I had to buy a used car, my money situation is in the pit ATM, so I can totally understand - especially with Christmas so close… my kid is of course expecting toys and I’m like ?? Okay 👌 I’ll try my best lol. But Michael’s has like animal figurines (they’ve got dragons, dinosaurs, and like wolves and other animals), if your kid likes those! Some of them are pretty big (e.g. Can fit in a large purse). Toys r us has lots of untagged toys, but a lot of them are in packaging 😕 goodwill sometimes has good toy finds, and I’m pretty sure they’d be pretty easy.
Hopefully this is a lil helpful 😬 good luck boosting and getting Christmas presents!!