@edtrade1 wrote:
The idea that I would not have to invest in a lot of inventory that I might not sell. Also, I am not as young as I used to be and would not have to keep up with inventory, shipping, and trips to PO etc. In other words, I am getting lazy.
Well, that's fair enough. When I started selling here over 20 years ago now (*cough* 😳), I was selling anything and everything that I thought was worth listing, mostly found at estate sales and such, giving each a full new writeup, taking photos, finding boxes to ship things in, etc., to the point that the spouse was complaining about all the time I was spending on what was really just a side hustle to my salaried job.
I eventually got into restoring vintage advertising clocks and lighted signs, which sold well but required even bigger boxes. Thinking back, I can't believe what I was selling and shipping without one disaster. (I still have many of those items in my basement and I'm actively wondering what to do with them these days.)
I realized that I was much better off finding a business niche with smaller items that were safe to ship, and my lifelong interest in bicycling led me into restoring and selling vintage bike parts and accessories, most of which are easy to store (individual ZipLok bags keep humidity, spiders and other critters out) and ship (in either padded envelopes or small boxes).
I'm not planning to expire anytime soon, but after I have departed, my family can have one big estate sale and be done with it.
