Pick Your Way to a Fortune, Your Guide to Turning Trash Into Treasure

By Tim Conde

This is a one-stop source book into the field of buying and selling merchandise from garage sales, estate sales, auctions, etc., preparing it for resale, and reselling it for substantial profits. The book covers everything from the things you will need before making this into a business, the best, and the worst, merchandise to acquire for resale, the best places to find bargains, how the various sale types operate, how to tell between fake and authentic merchandise, how to clean and repair merchandise to ready it for resale at maximum profit, how to know the selling price of an item before you even buy it, where to resell your merchandise to achieve maximum return, even a super-secret business opportunity guaranteed to increase profits. This author of this book knows hardship as well as anyone having been downsized out of two jobs in the last ten years. It is his hope that everyone who has been laid-off, terminated, had their hours cut, or anyone who just needs extra income in hard times can make use of this book and change their lives for the better in the spare time.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tim Conde
• Release date: Mar 20, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310364051

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PICK YOUR WAY TO A FORTUNE

YOUR GUIDE TO TURNING

TRASH INTO TREASURE

By T. C. Conde

Pick Your Way to a Fortune

Your Guide to Turning Trash Into Treasure

By T. C. Conde

Copyright 2014 T. C. Conde

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DEDICATION

This book is dedicated to my wife and daughter who have been instrumental in getting me to put all of my expensive, hard-won secrets on paper. This book is also dedicated to the two young fur-kids who are my constant companions in my office. They may only be Basset Hounds but every day they teach me everything there is to know about being happy and loving each other.

But more than that, this book is dedicated to you, my reader. If you are anything like me, things have not been going as well as they could for the last eight or ten years. Taxes are up, wages are down, medical insurance is expensive and nothing is as good as it once was. At times like these, it is getting harder and harder to make ends meet. So, I wrote this book for you. You tired, struggling soul, you. I urge you to just follow the ideas contained herein. Give it a chance. Use your head and be organized. Start small, but start. It may just be the ticket out of your problems and into a better life. Please let me know of your successes. I wish you the very best of luck.

DISCLAIMER

This book is presented to our readers for educational and entertainment purposes only. The author is not in the business of providing any kind of financial, legal, or any other professional advice or service. While all due diligence and best efforts has been employed in the creation of this book, the author makes no representations or warranties of any kind and assumes no liability of any kind with respect to the accuracy or completeness of the contents herein. The author disclaims any implied warranty of merchantability. The author shall not be held liable or responsible to any person or entity with respect to any loss or incidental or consequential damages caused, or alleged to have been caused, directly or indirectly, by the information contained herein. The information contained herein uses strategies and conditions that may or may not apply in your unique situation.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

THINGS YOU NEED TO GET STARTED

WHAT TO ACQUIRE

WHAT TO AVOID

ACQUIRING MERCHANDISE

GET READY FOR SALE

PRICING

WHERE TO SELL

APPENDIX 1

APPENDIX 2

APPENDIX 3

CLOSING THOUGHTS

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

INTRODUCTION

Let’s start this off with a question. And it's a question that you should really consider before you answer. The question is this: How secure do you feel right now? Come on, be honest. Let me tell you a story.

A few days ago, I drove over to one of my favorite restaurants to have a cup of coffee with a friend. He got there about the same time I did. We were the only cars in the parking lot and there was a sign in the window. It said Thanks for 24 great years. It turns out that the owners had lost the restaurant. After 24 years.

There wasn’t anyone around to ask but you can probably guess what happened because it has likely happened in your area, too. Business fell off because people were worried about the future. Small businesses all over were going under and no one had any money to spend on restaurant food. Does that sound familiar? When was the last time you ate out? Or went to a movie? Or had a date night with your sweetheart? Or were able to afford a college education for your kids? If you are like most people, the answer will probably be something like, It has been a very long time.

Today, it seems like everybody I talk to is feeling insecure. They’re insecure about their families; they are insecure about their jobs, their ability to keep their homes, pretty much everything. I won't go into how we got here or whose fault it may or may not be, because everyone has a different opinion on that one. And, frankly, there is probably some right and some wrong in most of those opinions. But rather than drive ourselves crazy with trying to choose who or what is responsible for the problems we find ourselves in today, let’s try to figure out a way to get out of these hardships and get back to living our lives. I think we can all agree that each of us needs to take some kind of personal responsibility for our situation and right now, take some action to make things better for ourselves and our families.

So let me tell you a few things about this. This is no nine-to-five job. You are the boss and you go where you want, when you want. If you feel like taking Tuesday off because it is your anniversary, be my guest. In fact, this may be one of the best husband-wife opportunities available. Not married? Your spouse is in another line of work? That’s perfectly OK. You can work solo or with a different partner as you choose. Personally, I like having a partner, but not all the time. So I do my own thing when I feel like it and have a partner when I feel like I need two extra eyes on what is going on.

So what is this opportunity that has everyone so excited from Maine to California? Simple. I like to call us pickers. Why pickers? Actually, the work picker has a lot of different meanings. You can be a fruit picker or a lock picker or a lot of other pickers. What we do, according to Webster’s Dictionary, is to select, to cull, and to gather. We go through all the stuff that people want to sell, don’t want anymore, or have just forgotten about, and we harvest the valuable items, the gold that is sitting there for us. Have you ever heard the expression, One man’s trash is another man’s treasure? Well, that is how we earn a living. We buy and sell. We trade with others. We may buy and sell with the same person at the same time. But no matter how we do it, on every transaction, the goal is to turn a profit. And until you have tried it, you have no idea how satisfying it is.

So, you say, what do we buy? What do we sell? And what do we trade? The answer is simple, yet very complex, and here it is: Anything and Everything. Let me say that again. We buy, sell and trade anything and everything. Let me modify that just a little for you: Anything and Everything, So Long as It Turns a Profit. And that can easily