Buy low at thrift stores and garage sales, sell high online.
Time: Weekends sourcing, evenings listing
Canada's secondhand market runs on Kijiji, Marketplace and eBay — and the gap between thrift-store prices and online resale is often 3–10x. The skills are learnable: spotting underpriced brands, photographing clean, and pricing to move. Start with $200 of inventory in one category you understand (vintage denim, tools, electronics, books), and let profits — not savings — buy the next batch.
Vintage clothes, power tools, board games, books, electronics. Knowing what a brand is worth is the whole edge — start where your knowledge already is.
Value Village 50%-off days, estate sales, garage sales and thrift-store outlet bins. Learn the restock days at your local stores; fresh racks are where the money is.
Clean item, bright window light, plain background: full front, detail shot, tag/label. Same template every time — it makes your listings look like a shop, not a garage sale.
Facebook Marketplace for local no-ship sales, Kijiji for the same in smaller cities, eBay.ca for shippable items. Cross-posting triples your exit speed.
Price at 40–60% of retail comparable and accept reasonable offers. Inventory sitting in a closet is dead money; turn it into cash and rebuy.
Keep a simple spreadsheet: buy price, sale price, fees, time. Kill categories that make under $15/hour of effort and double the ones that work.
Canada's biggest local resale channel — zero fees on local pickup.
Still dominant in many Canadian cities, especially outside the GTA.
Best for brand-name and collectible items that ship; check sold listings for pricing.
Fashion-first marketplace — strong for vintage and brand-name clothing.
Price anything by what it actually sold for, not what sellers ask.