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Pure Hustle Podcast

They Destroyed Reselling and Goodwill Secrets

Pure Hustle Podcast

Pure Hustle Podcast

Entrepreneurship, Business:entrepreneurship, Business

4.8857 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Join the Discord and Partner with us via Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/purehustlepodcast MY RESLLER GENIE - USE OUR CODE “PUREHUSTLE” all in caps: https://www.myresellergenie.com/?ref=purehustle We’re celebrating 500 episodes of the Pure Hustle Podcast — halfway to a thousand! In this milestone episode, we reflect on our journey, from early technical struggles and unreleased episodes to building a community that documents real reselling life. We react to a viral video where an experienced reseller calls out influencers and podcasters for “ruining” the industry by sharing sources, purchase prices, and tips. Should we move in silence and gatekeep everything, or keep educating while protecting key honey holes?We break down her arguments, share our own experiences with hate comments, and discuss when sharing helps versus when it hurts the reselling space. Then we go behind the scenes at the massive downtown Seattle Goodwill — the main hub for 23 stores — to see how donations are processed, how they separate items for online sales vs store floor, and the jaw-dropping AI pricing system that scans items in real time and sets “good/better/best” prices automatically. We also cover their eBay-style online operation, cross-listing, authentication, and what this means for resellers going forward.Plus, we share our latest Hustles of the Week, including incredible thrift and estate sale flips like vintage Rainbow Brite dolls, Jordana eyeliner pencils, sealed voice recorders, Portland Trailblazers vintage shirts, and bulk rubber weight plates scored under 50 cents a pound. We talk adaptation, why reselling is far from dead, and how we must evolve as the game changes.We also spotlight MyResellerGenie — our favorite bookkeeping software made by resellers for resellers. Use code PUREHUSTLE for 15% off your first month (or two months free on an annual plan) and check out their new bookkeeping course.If you’re into eBay reselling, thrift store flipping, garage sale sourcing, or just want real talk about the current state of reselling in 2026, this episode is packed with insights, laughs, and actionable advice.Timestamps:00:00 – Welcome to Episode 500 + Our Journey So Far00:00 - Intro00:04 – Reselling Drama: Sharing Sources vs Moving in Silence00:06 – Reacting to the Viral “Influencers Ruined Reselling” Video00:27 – Behind the Scenes at Seattle Goodwill (Part 1 – Processing & Donations)00:30 – Goodwill Online Sales, eBay Operations & What They Pull for Online00:39 – Hustle of the Week: Amazing Reseller Wins from Listeners & Us00:49 – AI Pricing Revealed at Goodwill – The Future of Thrift Pricing?00:54 – Is Reselling Dead? Our Honest Take + How to Adapt & Win Drop your thoughts in the comments — do you think resellers should move in silence, or keep sharing? Have you noticed AI pricing or major changes at your local Goodwill? Let us know!Subscribe for weekly reselling tips, BOLOs, and real talk. New episodes every week.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Pure Hustle Podcast. I'm Mike.

0:08.0

And this is Orlando and we are on episode 5-0-0.

0:16.0

That's right. 500. Half a thousand.

0:20.0

Half a thousand is a good way of looking at it we're halfway

0:22.1

to the point where uh we would be at a thousand okay that was a terrible way to but anyways 500

0:31.3

episodes in that's pretty crazy it is pretty crazy like i told somebody today and they're like

0:35.3

congratulations like 500 episodes like to think that you and I, I mean, we're actually, this is episode 503 if we, you know, go into the archives because we had those first three that we recorded and we never released. Do you remember those? Yeah. And that was a, that was, we had technical difficulties. We've grown a lot along the way. I'd honestly say, I think we were just ashamed of the first. No, no, there was, there was some issues with the audio. Yeah, I learned a lot. The audio on the video wouldn't sync up and I was using the wrong audio equipment. So we got that fixed. But yeah, those first handful of episodes that we did uh after that we're trying to like remake

1:12.1

the feeling and it just wasn't the same you know when you try and like redo something you

1:16.7

I mean it still happens so from time to time we'll start a recording and something will happen

1:20.1

and we'll have to restart over and it just the the second take is never as good as the original

1:24.6

but man 500 episodes in I'm so thankful to all of the listeners who've been with us from the beginning. But I'm also just as thankful for the people who found us along the way because I can't tell you how many people reach out to us and say, hey, I found your podcast like a few months ago and I've binged all of them or I'm listening from the beginning and I'm already up to episode 300.

1:44.5

And it's just so cool to see that, you know, we've, we've left this like history, this log.

1:49.5

I mean, Orlando always says, you know, we're not gurus.

1:52.2

We're not trying to whatever.

1:53.2

We're just documenting.

1:54.4

And that's true.

1:55.4

We are just documenting.

1:56.3

But we're also, you know, we're hopefully educating and entertaining and all of those things along the way

2:01.8

as well. But we can always go back and people can go back and listen to earlier episodes and

2:07.1

kind of see how the reselling world has changed throughout, you know, the last, what has been

2:11.3

like seven or eight years now. So it's been truly incredible. And yeah, so thank you. So thankful for all the people who are, you know, with us now, with us from the beginning,

2:21.9

or joined anywhere along the way.

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