#290 - Sneaker Fan Flips Shoes For $1,000 A Month
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2017
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
A trip to the mall at age 10 turns into a long-term hustle buying and reselling popular sneakers.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello greetings, what's up welcome back it's Chris Killebo for Side Usal School |
| 0:12.0 | bringing you stories every day of people creating a little bit more freedom and also some extra |
| 0:16.4 | money that's good too for themselves. |
| 0:19.5 | Today's story is about a guy who has been buying and selling sneakers since he was 10 |
| 0:23.0 | years old. |
| 0:24.0 | Now he's an adult but he's still doing the same thing. |
| 0:27.1 | The story is about that classic business model of by low sell high. |
| 0:31.0 | This model is not going anywhere. |
| 0:32.6 | It's how I got my start 20 years ago not buying and selling sneakers but learning how |
| 0:37.0 | I could buy things and then resell them for a profit. |
| 0:39.4 | I'll tell you all about how this guy does it after this quick shout out to our sponsor. |
| 0:50.0 | Chris Kassaday has been obsessed with sneakers since he was 10 years old. |
| 1:00.0 | When the rest of his peers were playing video games, trading baseball cards for watching |
| 1:03.3 | cartoons, he'd be pestering his dad to take him to the mall to look at shoes. |
| 1:07.4 | But even then he wasn't looking for the sweetest kicks to stand out in the school yard. |
| 1:11.0 | Instead he'd found a way to turn a profit. |
| 1:13.6 | Stumbling across a rare pair of shoes in his local mall, Chris used $125 of money that |
| 1:18.5 | he'd saved up to buy the shoes for himself. |
| 1:20.5 | But instead of wearing them, he took them home, put them up on eBay, and within 5 minutes |
| 1:25.0 | he'd sold them for $325. |
| 1:27.8 | As a 10 year old he thought that was pretty cool and spent the rest of his pre-adolescent |
| 1:31.1 | free time trying to replicate that success. |
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