For sellers on eBay finding inventory is a never ending struggle. Believe me, if you can find decent stuff to sell for a decent price, people are going to buy it and you are going to make money. I should know, I have sold tons of used stuff on eBay.
I, along with many other people really enjoy selling clothes online. The reason I like it, is it is very easy to pack and clothes never break and there is a set way to list each type of garment.
There are many ways to find clothes to sell online: wholesalers, liquidators, yard sales, thrift stores and clothes recyclers or rag houses. While there are benefits and drawbacks to all of them, my favorite place to get inventory is from clothes recyclers.
The reason I like clothes recyclers is that most people aren’t willing to work hard enough to find the clothes that will sell or to build relationships with these companies.
Clothes recyclers, or rag houses as some people call them, all seem to work differently. Some you have to go to their location and do the picking yourself. It’s like a huge treasure hunt and it is amazing the great stuff you can find. Other recyclers will only ship you the sorted clothes, which will include some amount of clothes that you cannot sell. For this method you tell them the types of clothes you want, like western shirts, scout uniforms and vintage T-shirts. They will have a minimum order, say 100 pounds, you pay by the pound and they ship it to you.
With this method you are taking your chances but you get the cheapest price per item. Or, the rag house will have the clothes sorted and you make an appointment to go search through the sorted garments and pick what you want. Usually there is a minimum weight you have to purchase and the price per item will be higher, but you will be able to choose what you want.
There are a couple of major drawbacks to this way of finding inventory. Most clothes recyclers are located in a port city or on the Mexican border. For example there are many places in Los Angles, New York and New Jersey, Miami, Houston and Texas cities like Brownsville on the Mexican border.
The other problems with this method is the recycling companies are notoriously hard to work with. Many of them are shipping containers full of clothes to Africa and India, so your small orders are not going to interest them too much. Also, I have found that some are too busy to bother with new customers. But if you are determined you can get your foot in the door and make this an excellent, long-term source of clothing for your online business.
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