#2469 - TBT: Action Figure Fan Sells GI Joe & Transformers
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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In this week’s “Throwback Thursday / Where are they now?” segment, we hear from an action figure seller who actively buys and sells hundreds of GI Joe, Transformers, and other classic brands every month.
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| 0:00.0 | What toys did you play with when you were a kid? |
| 0:13.6 | What toys? |
| 0:14.6 | What games? |
| 0:15.6 | I was a big video gamer as I've talked about from time to time, but when I was a little |
| 0:20.1 | bit younger as a kid, I was also playing with lots of action figures, including Transformers |
| 0:25.2 | and GI Joe. |
| 0:26.2 | I don't know if anybody remembers that, maybe different for different listeners in different |
| 0:30.9 | parts of the world, and of course, different ages and generations and such. |
| 0:34.8 | But today, I was thinking about it because, well, guess what, Crazy Coincidence today's |
| 0:39.5 | side hustle story, a Thoroughback Thursday story, in fact, an update comes from an action |
| 0:44.0 | figure seller who actively buys and sells hundreds of GI Joe Transformers other classic brands |
| 0:49.7 | every month. |
| 0:50.7 | So this is, as mentioned, the Thoroughback Thursday segment. |
| 0:54.3 | Last week, we heard from a parking lot striper who has built a seasonal recurring business |
| 0:58.7 | keeping parking lines looking spiffy for less than five hours a week on average. |
| 1:02.9 | He's earning an extra $2,500 a month. |
| 1:05.4 | And today, of course, we're going to look at that reseller and action figure seller specifically. |
| 1:10.7 | And he's selling those brands I mentioned, GI Joe Transformers. |
| 1:13.6 | I was also into some others actually liked my little pony, which was kind of weird for |
| 1:17.8 | a little boy. |
| 1:18.8 | At least when I was a little boy, thankfully these days, it's a little bit less critical. |
| 1:23.6 | You can play with whatever you want, which is cool. |
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