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So, recently I have started a small side hustle of selling a certain secondhand item, I bought that item from a person (let's name him A) who is a good friend of mine. A has a massive supply of the item due to his father and he gets it practically for free. What I have been doing is buying the item from A and selling it to other people, though it's a relatively non-scalable side hustle it has a 10-20% margin. When someone requests the item I buy it from A and sell it (with no chance of loss from my part). For a few months, it's been going great!
But A realized that even though his item was selling, he was losing due to my margins (keep in mind that he gets it mostly for free, even if it costs him sometimes it will be like a 50% margin) so he has started giving out the item for a very low margin and telling people that I used to buy from him. This has hurt my sales and it is ruining my reputation. What should I do to keep both my margins and my reputation? He doesn't really have a good reputation so people don't trust him as much as me. But his reputation is growing too. I need both him and the public to be happy to keep my hustle alive. I have really been stuck in this problem for a week and every day i am losing customers.
But A realized that even though his item was selling, he was losing due to my margins (keep in mind that he gets it mostly for free, even if it costs him sometimes it will be like a 50% margin) so he has started giving out the item for a very low margin and telling people that I used to buy from him. This has hurt my sales and it is ruining my reputation. What should I do to keep both my margins and my reputation? He doesn't really have a good reputation so people don't trust him as much as me. But his reputation is growing too. I need both him and the public to be happy to keep my hustle alive. I have really been stuck in this problem for a week and every day i am losing customers.
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