Ep. 3014 - STORY: Accountant Earns $233,751 Reselling Items He Buys at Walmart
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
A young accountant learns the art of reselling, purchasing textbooks, dental floss, and Cheerios from retail stores in bulk—then earns hundreds of thousands of dollars in profit by selling it online.
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| 1:19.5 | Accountant earns $23,000, $23,751 to be precise, reselling items that he buys at Walmart. I love this story. It's just so fun to work on. |
| 1:33.2 | This is actually an archival story from our first year, actually the very beginning of the second year of the podcast. |
| 1:38.9 | And we are bringing back some of those greatest hits this year in remixed form. They're all completely |
| 1:43.7 | re-recorded. Sometimes we |
| 1:45.1 | have some new updates and such. And as I said, this one was a really fun one because I often share |
| 1:50.1 | reselling stories. And sometimes people who don't know this world are like reselling. Well, that's |
| 1:54.7 | great. You can make like $100. I'm like, well, okay, actually, sometimes you can make a lot more than that. And in this case, |
| 2:01.3 | I mean, the headline kind of gives it away. Like he bought some stuff at Walmart and was able to |
| 2:05.5 | resell it and make a huge profit. Now, he did much more than that. I'll tell you all about it in |
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