Like many other's have said.... "FLIP THINGS", buy low and sell high.
I used to do this at your age in particular on 2 things along with many other hustles... I have always been a car guy. So what do kids your age do to their first few cars?
INSTALL STEREO'S, AFTERMARKET WHEELS, PERFORMANCE PARTS, ETC.
How do you make money off these things while creating a " WIN WIN" situation for your friend's, people you flip items aka buyers and yourself??????
When you are older OR simply when you upgrade your car... 99.9% of the time those upgrades will actually DECREASE THE VALUE OF YOUR CAR! So your friend has let's say a Ford Explorer his parents passed down to him. From the factory this Ford Explorer (depending on the year) has a LCD display for the radio/GPS/bluetooth/etc. and even if not then just like when I was a kid at your age there wasn't "touchscreen monitors built in the dash" but say on a Ford Explorer it likely had a 6 disc cd changer unit wired to a double din factory head unit that would show "calculator style text in green" of MAYBE the song titles or radio stations... Kid's immediately pulled that factor head unit out which was usually a hassle to reconnect to the factory 6 disc CD changer in the rear hatch where they wanted to sit some HUGE BOX with two 12 or two 15 inch subs plus their massive amp to power those subs... At the same time my friends would be working part time jobs saving up for these things I would seek out others who were trading there Ford Explorer in to get a new car (aftermarket stereo again decrease the value) so these people seek factory components, some people may have bought or been given the base model/lesser equipped model of a Ford Explorer with just a basic cassette tape deck along with AM/FM radio that would LOVE TO HAVE A 6 DISC CHANGER PLUS THE EDDIE BAUER "Bose double din factory head unit" your friend is looking to DITCH ASAP... Sell those items for your friend simply by finding a buyer which nowadays with the internet, craigslist, eBay, local Facebook classifieds, or simply word of mouth... Create a profit so your friend can apply the profit to his "new stereo" even sooner than expected, provide a buyer with a nice factory system upgrade for a price unbeatable compared to OEM parts from car companies, and you take a small cut for arranging the sale....
I used to make a TON OF MONEY on wheels... For example, I searched for a Acura Integra Type R for almost a year before I gave up and went to my second my favorite car during some of my teenage years, which was a 99-00 Honda Civic Si. If you know anything about cars the Honda Civic Si made only in 1999 and 2000 has been the most sought after Civic ever produced (even Jay Leno has one of each 3 colors they came in his huge garage)... They were not extremely fast but they handled insanely and were SUPER CLEAN LOOKING because of the body lines, lip kit, and wheels from the factory SI package...
Those 1999-2000 Honda Civic SI wheels TODAY (I know this because I saw multiple ads on craigslist in the "WANTED SECTION" along with other places) in the year 2017, are still being sought after with no tires just the 4 factory 15 inch rims even with some "curb rash" not MINT CONDITION for $400-600 ALL DAY LONG IN ANY CITY! I used to capitalize on this over a decade ago knowing kids who had 1999-2000 civics OR any other car with highly sought after parts... 95% of the time kids with Civic Si's either wanted aftermarket "fast and the furious" looking wheels OR already had no wheels... So you again, arrange a sale if they currently have those wheels (or whatever your flipping which my example applies to many cars today), you find a buyer who will pay $600 for their existing wheels and tires with not much tread lead on them pocket $100-200 and make a deal with your friend he gets $400-500 cash to apply as a nice chunk toward the wheels he wants....
If you have even just $10-20 and your TRULY HUNGRY... WILLING TO BUST YOUR @ss.... Then send me a private message for some products nobody thinks of flipping and honestly I need to start outsourcing/hiring an employee or two simply to list items in different places for myself along with taking pictures... It's not what people consider here as a "fast lane" business but I need food/money to live on where I'd rather spend 1/10 the time "flipping" items with no risk with every fee/taxes into my price I pay for an item then knowing how much the market value is which I ALWAYS undercut the lowest prices even if my item is in much better shape or worth more...
Don't sit around trying to squeeze an extra $10-50 out of something by taking say an "extra 7 days on an eBay auction" where if you buy at the right prices as I do... Before I can finish listing just a few items majority of the things I uploaded sold within minutes if not that will or have in no less than 24 hour max.
HUSTLE MY MAN!
I used to do this at your age in particular on 2 things along with many other hustles... I have always been a car guy. So what do kids your age do to their first few cars?
INSTALL STEREO'S, AFTERMARKET WHEELS, PERFORMANCE PARTS, ETC.
How do you make money off these things while creating a " WIN WIN" situation for your friend's, people you flip items aka buyers and yourself??????
When you are older OR simply when you upgrade your car... 99.9% of the time those upgrades will actually DECREASE THE VALUE OF YOUR CAR! So your friend has let's say a Ford Explorer his parents passed down to him. From the factory this Ford Explorer (depending on the year) has a LCD display for the radio/GPS/bluetooth/etc. and even if not then just like when I was a kid at your age there wasn't "touchscreen monitors built in the dash" but say on a Ford Explorer it likely had a 6 disc cd changer unit wired to a double din factory head unit that would show "calculator style text in green" of MAYBE the song titles or radio stations... Kid's immediately pulled that factor head unit out which was usually a hassle to reconnect to the factory 6 disc CD changer in the rear hatch where they wanted to sit some HUGE BOX with two 12 or two 15 inch subs plus their massive amp to power those subs... At the same time my friends would be working part time jobs saving up for these things I would seek out others who were trading there Ford Explorer in to get a new car (aftermarket stereo again decrease the value) so these people seek factory components, some people may have bought or been given the base model/lesser equipped model of a Ford Explorer with just a basic cassette tape deck along with AM/FM radio that would LOVE TO HAVE A 6 DISC CHANGER PLUS THE EDDIE BAUER "Bose double din factory head unit" your friend is looking to DITCH ASAP... Sell those items for your friend simply by finding a buyer which nowadays with the internet, craigslist, eBay, local Facebook classifieds, or simply word of mouth... Create a profit so your friend can apply the profit to his "new stereo" even sooner than expected, provide a buyer with a nice factory system upgrade for a price unbeatable compared to OEM parts from car companies, and you take a small cut for arranging the sale....
I used to make a TON OF MONEY on wheels... For example, I searched for a Acura Integra Type R for almost a year before I gave up and went to my second my favorite car during some of my teenage years, which was a 99-00 Honda Civic Si. If you know anything about cars the Honda Civic Si made only in 1999 and 2000 has been the most sought after Civic ever produced (even Jay Leno has one of each 3 colors they came in his huge garage)... They were not extremely fast but they handled insanely and were SUPER CLEAN LOOKING because of the body lines, lip kit, and wheels from the factory SI package...
Those 1999-2000 Honda Civic SI wheels TODAY (I know this because I saw multiple ads on craigslist in the "WANTED SECTION" along with other places) in the year 2017, are still being sought after with no tires just the 4 factory 15 inch rims even with some "curb rash" not MINT CONDITION for $400-600 ALL DAY LONG IN ANY CITY! I used to capitalize on this over a decade ago knowing kids who had 1999-2000 civics OR any other car with highly sought after parts... 95% of the time kids with Civic Si's either wanted aftermarket "fast and the furious" looking wheels OR already had no wheels... So you again, arrange a sale if they currently have those wheels (or whatever your flipping which my example applies to many cars today), you find a buyer who will pay $600 for their existing wheels and tires with not much tread lead on them pocket $100-200 and make a deal with your friend he gets $400-500 cash to apply as a nice chunk toward the wheels he wants....
If you have even just $10-20 and your TRULY HUNGRY... WILLING TO BUST YOUR @ss.... Then send me a private message for some products nobody thinks of flipping and honestly I need to start outsourcing/hiring an employee or two simply to list items in different places for myself along with taking pictures... It's not what people consider here as a "fast lane" business but I need food/money to live on where I'd rather spend 1/10 the time "flipping" items with no risk with every fee/taxes into my price I pay for an item then knowing how much the market value is which I ALWAYS undercut the lowest prices even if my item is in much better shape or worth more...
Don't sit around trying to squeeze an extra $10-50 out of something by taking say an "extra 7 days on an eBay auction" where if you buy at the right prices as I do... Before I can finish listing just a few items majority of the things I uploaded sold within minutes if not that will or have in no less than 24 hour max.
HUSTLE MY MAN!
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