687: $200/Flip: Inside the Return Reselling Side Hustle

The Side Hustle Show

Nick Loper

Business, Education, Entrepreneurship, How To

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

What if you could build a systematic reselling business that averages $200+ per item, gets inventory for free, and has the potential to become a full-time income? Meet Matt and Hannah Lee, who've been doing exactly that for the last eight years through Sharetown, a platform that connects return item pickup reps with direct-to-consumer brands. Unlike the treasure hunt of liquidation pallets, this is a more systematic approach with lower transaction volume but higher profit per item. But these items are big, bulky furniture, mattresses, and exercise equipment that require proper transportation and storage. For the last three years, Matt and Hannah have turned this into a full-time income, flipping 40-60 items per month and averaging $200-250 profit per item. Listen to Episode 687 of the Side Hustle Show to learn: How Sharetown's business model actually works What it takes to earn $200+ per item consistently Marketing strategies that build repeat customers Full Show Notes: $200/Flip: Inside the Return Reselling Side Hustle New to the Show? Get your personalized money-making playlist ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! Sponsors: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Mint Mobile⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ — Cut your wireless bill to $15 a month! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Indeed⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ – Start hiring NOW with a $75 sponsored job credit to upgrade your job post! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠OpenPhone⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ — Get 20% off of your first 6 months! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Shopify⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ — Sign up for a $1 per month trial!

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0:00.0	Here's a business in a box side hustle that's got the potential, the possibility to turn into a full-time income stream.
0:07.7	Let's call it reselling return items, but not like the treasure hunt of liquidation pallets or something like that.
0:14.0	This is a little more systematic. It's got lower transaction volume and hopefully a higher profit per item.
0:20.2	And it's got the ability to get inventory
0:22.2	for free, which is pretty cool. The catch is that these items are big, they're bulky, their furniture,
0:28.4	their mattresses, their exercise equipment. So you've got to have a way to transport them,
0:31.7	you've got to have a way to store them. Today's guests have been doing this for the last eight
0:34.7	years, the last three of which has been a full-time income,
0:37.9	flipping anywhere between 40 and 60 items per month. Matt and Hannah, welcome to the side hustle show.
0:44.4	Thanks for having us. Yeah. So this is all facilitated through a side hustle app called ShareTown,
0:50.3	which we've covered before. But my hope is this will be the deep dive because you guys have
0:55.1	been in it since almost the beginning. Hannah, you mentioned you found out your brother had a friend
1:00.6	who was doing it. But Matt, what's your reaction when you hear about this random side hustle?
1:05.7	You can make money reselling semi-used mattresses, mattress returns? What's your gut reaction here?
1:11.3	Just one of those things where I was like, is this a joke? It just sounded kind of out there,
1:16.4	and it sounded too good to be true. And I think when I got started, before we got started,
1:21.8	it also was like, well, how is this logistically possible? Because like, you think about a mattress
1:26.1	and it's pretty big. it's like how am I
1:28.5	going to be able to do this so I think I went through all of the ways it wouldn't work and then it
1:33.5	was like well let's just give it a shot kind of that was the decision process but I had a full-time
1:38.4	job you know it was busy already we had little kids and I had a career and And so it was like, but at the same time,
1:45.0	we also had debt. And so it was like, let's figure out ways to pay that off. I was game to try it out.
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