What's up, Pro Flippers?On today's episode, we have a special treat for you.We are recording our 300th episode, and we're so excited to talk to you guys and do a little recap of the last 300 episodes.
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So let's go. All right, guys, so today's episode 300, baby.
We made it.And we did talk about the other day that we were, you know, working on to being more consistent, getting these episodes out to you guys, because we really love doing it.
And then there was a week of new episodes because our well, let's be honest.
I mean, the last three weeks we've had hurricanes hit us.We've been in a mastermind.We've been out of town.We've had a lot of stuff going on.
So also, Nicole, who helps us with these podcasts.Shout out to Nicole.She's amazing.
helping us get these out there but she let us know it's our 300th episode and did we want to do because we had a couple others lined up and she's like did you want to do something like yes we did so we held off on recording it because we were out of town this week so but here we are we're recording the 300th episode and yeah that's pretty exciting because i i don't know the stats off the top of my head but i know a lot of podcasts don't make it past like the first 20 episodes so yeah and
Can we say probably half a million downloads off of this?Yeah, I think we're at that.I haven't checked recently.So 400 to 500,000 downloads off of this podcast.You guys are amazing.Kudos to you guys.How awesome is that?
Hopefully you guys have enjoyed it through the last couple of years that we've actually put this on.So thank you guys for supporting us and being here.We had a special treat for you guys as well.We are going to do a drawing after this episode.
I think we'll do it in the next week or two.Give you guys some time to jump in.Let's talk a little bit more about that.
Yeah, so if we're gonna do a drawing, we want to keep growing this podcast.Like we, it is something that we enjoy.
I, when we first started it, I was like, oh, another thing to do is just like, you know, because you got so many things to do and you want to get it done.And then it's like, but I've enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would.
I've enjoyed, you know, talking to you guys, hearing your feedback and it's been a lot of fun.So yeah, we would love to keep growing it and what helps with that is by getting reviews.
So if you haven't ever left a review for the podcast and you find it helpful, you find some of our tips and tricks helpful, we would love it if you could leave a review for us.
And if you do, you can screenshot that review and just send us a screenshot to rob at fleamarketflipper.com
with review in the title and we'll make sure that you're in the drawing and we'll do the drawing we'll probably leave it open for two weeks so that because sometimes it takes time for reviews to get posted so that it leaves enough time and then in a future episode in a couple a week or two we will do a drawing for a $50 Amazon gift card
So guys, if you do find value in this podcast, please, we'd love it if you guys could do that.And we'll also give you the opportunity to win that $50 Amazon gift card.So you guys can spend it on whatever you want, which is awesome.
Now let's do a little recap, guys.
This is 300 episodes.That was something that when you said that in the intro, I was like, we're not recapping all 300 episodes.Like we're just hanging out for a couple of minutes today, but. Yeah, this has been, it's been a fun journey, so.
A lot of fun.And like we said, the last two weeks it's been roughly, you've had hurricanes hit Florida.We've been away at a conference.We actually, Melissa and I are in a mastermind that we're always trying to grow.
We've talked to you guys many, many times about that.We're always trying to grow.We don't want to be stagnant.We don't want to be de-dressing.We want to constantly be growing so we can be sharp, so we can learn.
Do you remember where we heard that, that if you're not moving forward and you're not growing, you're actually, you're not staying still, you're going backwards.
Yeah.It makes sense logically, but I don't remember somebody did actually say that and told us.
Yeah, I can't remember who or where we heard that.
And you can think about anything.I mean, the way that it was explained to us as if even like a physical item, like a car sitting inside of a driveway, that car is not staying the same.And outside of the elements, it's deteriorating.
whether you're using it or not using it, it doesn't matter.It's deteriorating.Or for us, we want to sharpen what we're doing.So we always want to be growing further and further forward.
And that's one of those things that that's why we constantly are in masterminds.We're constantly investing into ourselves, into our knowledge, learning.We're listening to podcasts.
We're doing the same thing that we always preach to other people to do.So it's really, really cool.And we've had so much fun doing it.
I think ever since we started this whole journey online, like sharing, so we've been flipping stuff.You've been doing it since you were 16, so almost three decades.
But the online portion where we share all this stuff via blog is what we started with.It's almost 10 years ago.So and ever since we first started, we started right away with coaches and they always wanted to learn.
Okay, we don't know about this blogging thing. So our friend helped us and she helped us get started because she's the one who kind of got us off the ground, I guess.
And I remember even when we went to another conference, we did this two or three times.You'd hear somebody, you'd hear their story and how they grew and what they did.And you're like, you guys do amazing. Will you coach us?
So then we would do coaching with them.So we're always trying to find out like who knows more than we do.How can we learn from them?
So I feel like, I don't know if that's just a, I'm glad that we're both like that, that we are always looking for those people who are ahead of us so we can grow and learn more.And I think that also, yeah. Cause you don't, you don't know everything.
We don't know everything.There's so much to learn.So depending on what you're doing.
For sure.So what would an episode be without some flipping items without giving you guys some stuff that we've done in the last couple of days, which we've had two sales come in in the last two days.I haven't packaged them up yet.
I think one was actually today, correct?While we were on a call, a coaching call with one of our coaches, an actual sale came in and that was a pole saw that we sold.How much did I pay for it?Do you remember?It was between 20 and $40.
I have to, that was a little while ago.Eight or 10 of these things.So we'll have to look back before we actually do.I wasn't planning on doing like a whole recap of it, but it was 20 to $40.I paid for it.We sold that for $800.
I remember the story though.You bought them from that lady.Yeah.It was, she was going through a divorce.
Right.And she was selling all her husband's stuff.That's it.She was getting them out of the garage.So she either went through a divorce or whatever, but she's like, I have all of these.They're sitting in my garage.I don't want them here.
So you got them for really, I think it was $25 each.It could have been.
It's why you ended up paying for them.
Don't quote us on that, but it was between $20 and $40.Somewhere in that area, we paid for these.I've already sold probably four to six of them.This one sold today for $800, which is awesome.
And then while we were at our other mastermind two days ago, I had another sale of seat belts from the stretchers.
If you guys remember the stretcher stories, I pulled some of those seatbelts off because I, so the reason why that ended up happening was the first stretcher that I took pictures of didn't have seatbelts on and I didn't know that all the other ones did.
So when I actually sold them, I sold four of them in a lot and I had to take the seatbelts off of those three that did not have, or that had seatbelts, but I originally advertised it with no seatbelts.
So I took those off and we sold those separately, sold those for $150 for the seatbelts.
And you have more of them, right?
I do.I still have a couple more listed on that.I have a couple more things listed off of those stretchers that I ended up selling or took pictures of and they weren't on there, so I had to ship them out without those things.
Do you have that as a listing of multiples so it could stay up?
Yes, yes.So that's how somebody bought four of them and they had a couple.The only picture that I took of the single one, I had to make sure all four of them were the exact same.
So that's why I had to take parts of them off and then we just sold the parts separately.So anyways, close to $1,000, $950.
on two sales very very small sales this pull saw that I'll be able to ship in a box the seat belts will go in a tiny box or an envelope I mean a padded envelope so but cool cool cool flip that just happened within the last two days so we love love sharing those with you guys to see what the possibilities are on this flipping game that we love so much and we'll continue to do for the rest of our lives as long as we're possible to as long as it's possible for us to do it we will be doing it so
Yeah, so those are the two things I sold.You gotta start getting some more stuff listed.We got a lot of fun stuff planned for the fall.
And depending on when you're listening to this, I know we weren't gonna really do this, but I just thought about it.
Depending on if you're listening to this in real time or if you're listening to it later, it might not apply, but we are doing another challenge this week.So if you're listening to this when it airs, check it out.We'll put the link in the show notes.
We're doing a three-day reselling challenge to really help you get that first flip under your belt.So like I said, check it out in the show notes.The link will be there, but we'd love to hang out with you for the week.
So it's going to be a fun three-day challenge.
So much fun.You're not going to want to miss it.If it is still able for you to enroll or jump into that and grab that ticket, definitely do that.And we'll also put a link below.We'd love to see you guys on that challenge.And I think that's about it.
There's one thing I did want to also add.So this podcast is just going to have a lot of things.If you guys want to go do them, you can do them. If not, it's okay, you can just listen to.But we just have all this stuff.
We didn't really have a clear like, oh, we're just gonna do a fun episode.
But if you ever have any questions that you wanna hear answered on the podcast as well, if you go to fleamarketflipper.com backslash question, you can put your question in there and we would love to answer those for you.
Yeah, we'd love to do episodes on stuff.Like we do stuff.One thing that's really cool is that Rob is gonna do this flipping thing until he physically can't anymore.Like he loves it so much.And then you still will probably like, still go find stuff.
Well, I'll be helping my son do it because he loves it too.So we'll be showing him how to do it and I'll just be on the side for sure.
Yeah, but you'll be doing it forever.So it helps keep you sharp so that you can, so we like to talk about the things that we're going through as we go through them.
Like as things change, as platforms change, as strategies change, like we get to still do this and still tell you about it.So we like to do episodes on that stuff.So yeah, but if you have a question,
But yeah, we're just happy that we could be here for 300 episodes.It's been a lot of fun.Anything else you... Oh, we did go to... Did we find anything at thrift store today?
We had some lava lamps that we're going to figure out what to do with them.Lava lamps, for some reason, are selling for a lot of money.So we'll figure out what we have.We actually got them for our kids to actually flip.They're small.
They'll be able to ship very easily.So we'll get you guys posted on that.But we were at a thrift store today and bought those.So that's kind of fun.
Lava lamps are kind of cool.
We need to plug them in.Did we plug them in yet?
We did not plug them in yet.So I'll have to plug them in and make sure everything's all right with them.
So yeah, we like to, we don't go to thrift stores a ton, but like sometimes we're, we have to wait for kids at school or whatever and we'll stop by, you know, if we're trying to kill time, it's always fun to stop by and see what, what we can find.
You got the jump things too.
Oh, I did.What are they called?Skyjumpers.I think skyjumpers.And they were a little bit too small for me, but I put my son in them and he started jumping.
And I didn't really get those to resell, although they were cheap enough where we could make money on them.But those, they look like stilts that you put onto your feet and you're able to do jumps.They do some crazy stuff with it.
So those were really, really cool.We bought those as well, just kind of as a toy.
Did you have those when you were a kid?
We didn't have that, those weren't out when we were kids.We had some moon shoes from like Nickelodeon that had rubber bands and you jumped on those.We had the pogo balls, if you guys remember pogo sticks and pogo balls, we had those too, so.
I wanted to add too before we finish that you grew up, like your parents didn't have a lot, they had seven kids, so you didn't have a ton of money, but you said you had the coolest stuff.Yeah.
Because they would always go to yard sales and go to flea markets and go to all this stuff and you said you had just the coolest stuff.It was all second hand.
What was the phone?You had a phone.What was that phone?
I had phones, the brick phones before they even had really cell phones.My dad had a bag phone and then we found at yard sales, those big old brick, if you guys remember Saved by the Bell, dating myself, Saved by the Bell.
Zach Morris had those brick phones that he would- You had one?I did.I had multiple.I had a couple.I actually remember going to a yard sale, buying two of those in a package deal with somebody.
that somebody was selling at a yard sale and activated those as well.I mean, activated one of them to be able to use, but yeah, that's how long we've been around.
And we got that, we lived in a really, really cool area that there were very, very expensive.We didn't live in a very expensive house, but a lot of expensive houses around us for yard sales.
So we got some really, really cool stuff secondhand that a lot of people didn't have the access to, but we by no means were wealthy or anything like that.
Was it your mom or your dad?Because I know your mom did more of like the selling baby clothes.So was it your mom or your dad who bought the cool stuff?
I think my mom had the buying, what would you call it?The it or she loved to buy.That was what she loved to do.And you might relate to it.I love to buy as well.I'm really good at finding great deals and buying stuff.
But I think it was more my mom than my dad that would go out and find some really cool stuff.
Even like the four wheelers and stuff?
Yeah, we had four wheelers.We had dirt bikes.We lived in a country and we lived on a lake, but dirt bikes and jet skis and all that. all secondhand.We never went out.My parents never financed anything like that.They would get it from a yard sale.
That was the only time we actually got anything is when they would find it at a yard sale.And it was really cool.It was a cool way to grow up.We had horses too.We had two acres, grew up on two acres.
You didn't get those at a yard sale.
No, those actually, well, they got them on a classified section.So it wasn't like they were, I don't know where else you buy horses, but they got horses out of the classified section.So that's kind of how we grew up.But we did, we grew up in a second
I mean, I don't know if anybody here can relate to that, but we didn't, we had a big family and my parents couldn't afford all new stuff.
So secondhand stuff was how my parents have provided for us, but it was a really, really cool to be able to do that.And I've lived into that for the last, I mean, 15 years, 17 years, Melissa and I have been married.
I mean, we go to the flea market, we come across, I'm thinking about like right now, once we get off of this, I'm going to fix one of the skateboards that I bought a couple of years ago.And it's an electric skateboard with batteries.
big wheels on it.It'll go over anything that you've seen electric skateboards that have come out with in the last couple of years.This is one of the good ones.
The first ones that came out, they will do like 35 miles an hour, big wheels that will go over anything.And it's been sitting for a long time, but now my kids are getting to the age where I can feel like I can Jump on these skateboards.
I have four of them jump on these skateboards and go downtown and have some fun with them So that's just the kind of stuff that I grew up with as a kid And I'm trying to do the same thing with my kids where we don't buy new stuff We buy it from yard sales.
We buy it from flea markets thrift stores, and we can come across some really really cool deals, so
People still now say we have the coolest stuff, but it's all secondhand.So many people have used our cotton candy machine, our snow cone machine, and all that fun stuff because we get it all secondhand.
Because some of the stuff you buy knowing that you can resell it, you know you're getting it at a good price that you can resell.And we do that a lot.We'll use stuff and then still resell it.You still gotta get that hovercraft up and going.
So that's another fun one.
That's another fun one that we got.I mean, we just got a golf cart.
This is coming up.If you guys are listening to this in live.I mean, this is around Halloween.We were planning on doing some trick or treating with the kids and my kids wanted me to get a golf cart so we could go do it.
Did I go out and spend eight to ten thousand dollars?No, I did not. I went out and spent $650 on a golf cart that wasn't a gas-powered golf cart.It was a six or eight-seater with the back seat on it.
It's an eight-seater, but it's three rows of seats and we got it.It had been sitting for probably three years.Sorry, it's not electric.It's a gas-powered. It goes off a gas, but $650.It's probably a $7,000 to $8,000 golf cart.
If it was running, that would be the price tag on it.And we got up for $650.So, I mean, this is just the lifestyle that we live in that we're giving you as kind of a peek of how I grew up and how we live right now.
It's just really, really fun to be able to do this stuff while once I have the golf cart up and going, I I could probably sell it for $5,000 to $7,000 and make money on it, or we can keep it and use it, whatever we want to do.
You just have a lot of potential where you're not going out, writing a check and financing something that's losing and depreciating.
You're buying stuff that you can put a little bit of work into, whether it needs work and sometimes it doesn't need any work, but you're finding it for the right price.And you're being able to do, I mean, look at our computer right now.
If we pull that story as well.
We just bought a computer last week because we were trying to get new software.We were trying to use this new software and it wasn't working because our computers, we had bought secondhand already.We did.
And so they were older and I couldn't get... Four years old.I couldn't... No, but that's when we bought them, was four... Oh, it was... 2020s.
No, I bought them used, but I still got a great deal on them.
Okay. So, but anyways, the software would not load onto our computer.We were trying to use it.And anyways, I really wanted to use it.So we were debated, do we get another computer?
And my computer, I really was excited to get another computer, but not excited to spend money.So you found one.I did.
And we paid half price for it.And it was less than a month old that somebody had got it that was going to college and they bought one before they enrolled into college.Once they got to college, it was included in their tuition.
So they had an extra computer.They put it up for sale.We ended up spending half of what we would have went and paid a check. for at the Apple store or at a retail store.We got it for half price and it was only a month old.
That's just because- And it came with the warranty.It did.It's got a three, I think it was a three- Three year.Three year Apple care warranty on it.So that's, I mean, that's just, we're giving you a peek of kind of how we live.
This is not what we- I think it took you three days to find it.Cause I was, we were in a pinch.We were doing the event soon and I was like, we need this.
And I think it took you, maybe you were, you were searching on Marketplace for three days and you found it.So.
But that's just we're giving you a peek into our life.This is this is how we live and same thing on cars We don't buy and finance new cars.We go out and we we get used cars.Our cars are 20 How old is it always sell our cars for more than we've paid?
Yeah, 24 years old and 22 years old, but I know how to fix stuff And if I got a brand new car, there's no way I could ever fix anything with all the computers.We have cars
Does our truck have 400,000 miles on it?
Truck has 450,000 miles on it and our excursion, which is diesel, they're both diesel, that the excursion has 240 or 260,000 miles on it.So high, high miles, but I'm not scared of high miles when I know I can fix something.
So that's just, yeah, kind of like I said, it's kind of the lifestyle that we live.We preach that we tell other people to do as well.That's just kind of how we do it.And it's just so much fun.
Yeah, and I will add too, we've always got nice stainless appliances in our kitchen because like our dishwasher is that, it's a fancy one that your sister even has in her big fancy house.It's the drawer one, but we, you know, got it.
I don't even remember where you got it.
That one came from the flea market.Was it the flea?Yeah, I paid $80 for it.And the retail on these things are $1,500, $2,000.Yeah.So, I mean, it's just cool.It's cool.
And our oven that we, I mean, we replaced it now, but the oven that we had for like five years, I pulled out of the trash. that somebody updated their appliances.
Still, it was like a $2,500 range, beautiful KitchenAid range that we pulled out of the trash and we used it for five or six years.
Finally, one of the buttons stopped working, right?
Yeah, the touchpad, something went wrong on it.So I went and bought another one from the flea market for $100, $150, and now that's the one that we're using.So anyway, so when you guys know, that's a little bit more about our life.
This is how we live.It's not something that we preach and we're not two-faced or whatever you would call it.I mean, this is how we live.This is how we live our life.We get really, really cool.
We get nice things, but we always buy them secondhand for that reason.
And I would say that's a really fun side effect or like perk of this business too, is that you're out there looking for deals.So when you find something you need, you can get it.
Furniture, you can get like, there's so much stuff that you can get that is at a Really low cost that's still in great shape.
So I don't know It's just a perk I guess to the business when you're out there hunting for deals and then when you need something for yourself You know how to hunt for them So anyways, that was kind of just our long little rant back and forth and we're just excited to be here So recap you guys if you do enjoy you get value out of this podcast, please go leave us a review Send us a screenshot of it We'd love to do a drawing where we can give you guys $50 or a gift card from Amazon
So just email it to rob at fleamarketflipper.com and put review in the subject line so we make sure we see it.And yeah, and we would love to, yeah.
You guys are awesome.We greatly appreciate you.We greatly appreciate your input, your reviews.You guys are so awesome.So thank you so much for spending 300 episodes with us.And here's to 300 more, right?That's right.You guys are amazing.
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