Turnover Tuesdays - Sourcing from Slickdeals Works but Everyone Else is Doing it too

For those who are not familiar, I started a series a while back called Turnover Tuesdays. Every Tuesday I like to highlight one item that I have resold. This will include profitable and non profitable sales. I hope that there is always something to learn.

Week 1 - First attempt at reselling

Week 2 - My second straight fail

Week 3 - My iPad mini collection

Week 4 - Bed Bath and Beyond

Week 5 - An iPad Idea for Your Staples Gift Card Collection

Week 6 - An iPad Idea for Manufactured Spending

Week 7 - The Great iPad Deal that Wasn't

Week 8 - Lenovo Tablets

Week 9 - iPads at Staples

Week 10 - Loving that Groupon iPad Deal

Week 11 - iPads on Sale at Sears

Week 12 - Roombas at Bed Bath and Beyond

Week 13 - My Sam's Club iPad Collection for the $20k Challenge

Week 14 - Best Buy Gift Cards Fail

Week 15 - Staples Ink Recycling and Staples Rewards

Week 16 - What Happened to My Surface Pro 3?

Week 17 - Dell - Love that AmEx Offer

Week 18 - XBox Saves the Day

Week 19 - Using Amazon Chat and the Importance of Organization

Week 20 - The Impact of Returns

Week 21 - Apple Watch is the Best Watch

Week 22 - Headphones, Lots of Headphones

Week 23 - Storage Fees - I Don't Like Heavy Items

Week 24 - Some Companies try to Bully!

Week 25 - An iPhone is not an iPad

Week 26 - Patience vs. A Quick Hit and Fewer Deals Coming!

Week 27 - Competing Against Amazon

Week 28 - Toys and Retail Arbitrage vs. Online Arbitrage

Week 29 - Check Your Listings Carefully - My Big Fail

Week 30 - Killing it at Walgreen's!

Week 31 - Sometimes You Need to Stop, Refocus and Reprice
Week 32 - Target Cartwheel and other Coupons can have a Major Impact
Week 33 - Got a Return?  You Might need to Reprice
Week 34 - Sometimes Returns Can be Very Profitable
Week 35 - Best Buy Gamer's Club

Week 36 - Reselling in Earnest Has Hurt My Credit Score

Week 37 - A Purchase Just for the Points

Week 38 - Don't be Afraid to Recall Your Inventory

Sam's Club Plus Membership on Sale at Living Social - $45 with a $20 Gift Card

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Update: Use Promo Code 15OFFLS for an additional 15% off.  Thanks Marc.  Promo code no longer working.

Living Social is selling a Sam's Club Plus Membership for $45 (this is normally $100) with a $20 Sam's Club gift card and $22 in vouchers for food.  I have diet restrictions and my local Sam's Club gave me $42 of gift cards instead of the food vouchers. That is definitely YMMV.

Sam's Club gift cards can also be used at Walmart.

This is a no brainer if you are a reseller.

Free $5 in Shop Your Way Rewards by Signing up For Mobile Text Enrollment

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Sign for mobile text enrollment with Shop Your Way Rewards and you will receive $5 in Shop Your Way Points to use for a purchase later.

Tex SURPRISEME to 73277, accept enrollment and click on the link to add 5,000 points to your account (worth $5).  You can then stop any texts by responding STOP.

You do not need to be a new member to earn the points.

Buy $25 Walmart or Target Gift Card and Earn $15 of SwagBucks

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Update: This deal seems targeted as some are reporting that they don't have the offer on their Swagbucks account.


You can earn 1,500 Swagbucks (worth $15 towards a gift card through SwagBucks) when you make a minimum purchase of $25 or more on Dlyte.com.  You can buy a $25 gift card to Walmart or Target and you will qualify for the 1,500 swagbucks.


Here is how to do it:

Log into Swagbucks and go to this link.  Locate the Dlyte.com offer.  Create an account at Dlyte.com and make a purchase of $25 or more.

2,100 swagbucks will allow you to buy a $25 eBay gift card through the end of June and you can earn free swagbucks by running videos in the background of your phone that can push you from 1,500 to 2,100 by the end of the month.  You can usually earn about 80 swagbucks a day with the videos.



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$20 of $100+ at BuyDig.com with Visa Checkout

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Use promo code VISADADGRAD20 and save $20 off a $100 purchase at Buydig.com with Visa checkout.

Excludes Canon, Garmin, LG, Nikon, Samsung, Sony, Tamron, Vizio, Weber and Yamaha products.

Valid until 6/25 or until 5000 customers use the code

You can use any credit card to pay as long as you register it with Visa checkout (PayPal competitor).

According to Cashback Monitor, you can save up to 2.4% with My Deals and Coupons (never heard of it before) or 2% with Top Cashback

Terms and conditions:

*Offer excludes orders under $100 and items from Canon, Garmin, LG, Nikon, Samsung, Sony, Tamron, Vizio, Weber and Yamaha products. Visit www.BuyDig.com, place your order and enter the coupon code during checkout. Spend $100 or more at www.buydig.com and receive $20 off with coupon code VisaDadGrad20(“Offer”). Offer valid from 06/10/2015 - 06/25/2015 or while supplies last. Limited to the first 5,000 customers per Offer. Coupon valid on regular, promotional and/or clearance priced items. Not valid for purchases using a payment method other than Visa Checkout. The coupon amount will be subtracted from your subtotal product purchase (not including shipping and applicable sales tax). Not valid for purchases of Canon, Garmin, LG, Nikon, Samsung, Sony, Tamron, Vizio, Weber and Yamaha products, not valid on prior purchases. No cash value. Some restrictions apply, see site policy for details. Coupon is good for one-time use only, not for resale or auction and cannot be combined with other coupon offers. Beach Trading Inc. reserves the right to limit quantities sold to each customer and to extend, modify or discontinue this Offer at any time without notice. Coupon void where prohibited.

$100 eBay Gift Card for $95 on eBay - Limit of 2

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PayPal Digital Gifts is selling $100 eBay Gift Cards for $95 each.  That's 5% off.

These gift cards can be used to buy other gift cards. When you purchase non eBay gift cards you will also get eBay Bucks.  eBay gift cards are not eligible for eBay Bucks.

Start your purchase at Top Cashback and you may get an extra 1.1% cashback.  Terms and conditions exclude eBay gift cards from 1.1%.  One time I didn't get the 1.1%, but lately I have been getting it.

Use a Chase Ink Business Credit Card and you might get 5x points per dollar spent at eBay on items sold by PayPal Digital Gifts.

There is a limit of $5,000 in eBay gift cards that can be used in 180 day period.

Turnover Tuesdays - 2nd Straight Fail on the Sale + a Valuable Amazon Purchurser's Tool

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For those who are not familiar, I started a series last week called Turnover Tuesdays.  Every Tuesday I would like to highlight one item that I have resold.  This will include profitable and non profitable sales.  I hope that there is always something to learn.

Week 1 - First attempt at reselling
Week 3 - My iPad mini collection
Week 4 - Bed Bath and Beyond
Week 5 - An iPad Idea for Your Staples Gift Card Collection



My first resale ever resulted in a loss of $10.68 and almost 1,600 southwest miles that have still yet to post.  The most significant point of this sale is actually something I learned to look out for when buying on Amazon.  You can scroll to the bottom for that.

Here comes my second sale:

Best Buy - $799 for Apple - MacBook Air (Latest Model) - 128 GB Storage - 4GB Memory - Silver

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Best Buy is offering $200 off the Apple® - MacBook Air® (Latest Model) - 13.3" Display - Intel Core i5 - 4GB Memory - 128GB Flash Storage - Silver

Price is $799 - Compare to Amazon at $994.  Limit of 1 per person

You will also earn $15 of Reward zone gift certificates good towards your next purchase (or amazon gift cards)

Not a good resell item on Amazon since it can't be listed as new. 


Start your purchase from Discover Deals and you will get 5% cashback as well.  Start from Southwest Rapid Rewards Shopping and you will get 3x miles per dollar spent.  Check out Cashback Monitor for more possible deals.

You can also buy a $50 coupon from eBay for $5.  I've never done that before so I can't be sure it works, but I don't see why not.  The coupon will be delivered in 2 days so it probably won't help for this deal, but it is something to keep in mind for the future.

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If you got a targeted offer for 3x miles at computers and electronics stores from Citi (like I did), now is a good time to use it.  Keep in mind that you can only get 3x on up to $1,250 of spending.  I don't recommend buying expense items like these with gift cards since you lose a lot of protection if you don't use a credit card.  American Express and Visa signature will also add an extra year to your warrantee for free.

Free Movie Rental from Target Ticket

Update: 1/19/2015 - Dead!

Sorry for the long break, but it is has been extremely busy at work and I don't forsee much of a change in the next couple of weeks.  In the meantime, here is something small for free.

Free movie rental from Target Ticket.

Use Coupon code XBOXRENTAL.  Promo code works on any rental, regardless of price.

Sign Up here for Target Ticket for free

Expires January 31st or the first 20,000 redemptions.

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Wreck It Ralph - Free with Disney and Vudu Accounts

Wreck It Ralph Free when you Connect your Disney and Vudu accounts.  Both accounts are free.

One of my favorite clips from the movie - Bad Guy Therapy

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Chase Freedom - $300 Sign up Bonus

Update: dead!  Bonus is now $100

Chase Freedom is a great secondary card to use for its 5% categories and they are now offering $300 if you spend $500 in the first 3 months.

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