Selling Items You Own
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Look for ways to sell your items. You can concentrate on selling your items to people you know, in-person to customers, or online. Depending on where you live, any of these methods might be a way of making a sale quickly.
- Yard sales
- Flea markets
- Online sites such as eBay
- “For Sale” postings (on a bulletin board, in a newspaper, or on an online classifieds board like Craigslist)[4]
- Pawn shops[5]
- Online retail sites like Amazon or AbeBooks.com will sometimes pay quickly for popular items like books, DVDs, electronics, and smartphones. These sites may charge a small fee or percentage of your profit.
- Trade-in at stores; some will buy items like used designer clothing, CDs and Records, or books on the spot.[6]
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Making other Sales
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Sell things to pedestrians. Entrepreneurial sorts sell things like cold drinks on hot days or hot nuts in winter. This method can be especially lucrative if you set up a spot near a sporting event, park, etc. You’ll need to have a small amount of money to invest in the product, but then you can sell it at a much higher return and make some quick cash.
- For instance, say you buy a multi-pack of 20 water bottles for $5. If you then sell water to pedestrians for $1 a bottle, then you can make $20, leaving you with an overall profit of $15.
- Check laws in your area and make sure that it is legal to sell items in this way.
- Be cautious if you are trying to sell things in high traffic zones.
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Recycling
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Return bottles and cans for a refund. In some states, you can get 5 or 10 cents per can or bottle by returning them to a deposit center.[13] There are a number of ways to take advantage of this opportunity:
- Scrounge up all of the cans and bottles you can find around your home.
- Look for cans and bottles in trash cans, along busy roads, and anywhere that people hang out (parks, stadiums, etc.).
- Host a bring-your-own-beverage party. When the party’s over, gather all the bottles and cans and turn them in for cash.
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Scrap a worthless computer. Computers are full of valuable metals such as steel, aluminum, and gold.[16] If you dismantle old computers, you can sort these metals and sell them to a salvage yard.
- If possible, amass a large number of computers to scrap, to make it worth your while. For instance, offer to take outdated computers off the hands of a building or school doing considerable upgrades or find junked computers in the classifieds.
- Don’t scrap good, working computers; what you get for the scrap probably won’t be as much as you could get by selling the components or the entire device.
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