First 100 Flips

Flip the everyday things people walk right past, with just your phone.

I built a $300,000 eBay inventory from estate sales and storage units, with a phone and a system. First 100 Flips is that system written down — every piece of it, as a day-by-day plan.

New to this? Week one you flip things you already own — $0 spent, no picking skills — before you ever source a thing.

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Sold by Finest LLC — a public eBay store, running five days a week.

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Read this first

Most of the new resellers I've watched quit by week three.
It's never a talent problem.

I've watched it happen a hundred times: buy a trunkload on gut feeling, write listings nobody finds, let inventory rot in boxes, walk away the first slow week. None of them lacked talent. They lacked a system. First 100 Flips replaces every guess with a checklist and every "maybe" with a number. You bring the hours — the plan already knows what to do with them.

Daily

A plan, not advice

You don't get tips. You get orders: today you source here, research this, list these, ship by this time. Open the calendar, do the day.

Math

Numbers, not vibes

Exact buy prices, minimum profit floors, sell-through thresholds. You'll know an item is profitable before it touches your wallet.

Loop

Profit funds profit

Every flip funds the next two. By flip #100 you're running entirely on the house's money — never your own.

Honest

No income promises

The numbers on this page are my results, not a forecast of yours. What you earn depends on the work you put in, your market and what you find.

Receipts, not promises

Fifteen of the biggest, itemized.

Every item below came out of an estate sale or a dig — tap any photo to see the sold screenshot. Most were spotted in the sale's own listing photos, from my couch, before I ever showed up. That method is Module 4, and it's why this page doesn't need stock photos.

ItemPaidSoldReturn
Sold: 1656 Martin Luther German Bible, Endter Nuremberg folio
1656 Martin Luther German Bible — Endter, NurembergFolio · antique Biblia · eBay · Jun 9
$1,750350×
Sold: Antique 45 Star American Flag
Antique 45-Star American Flag, 59×117Sewn stars, Utah era · eBay · May 30
$1,79912×
Sold: Antique 44 Star American Flag
Antique 44-Star American Flag, 46×106Hand sewn, double appliqué · eBay · May 26
$1,25025×
Sold: Slipknot clown mask
Shawn Crahan #6 Slipknot Clown MaskRudel, West Germany · eBay · May 28
$1,22549×
Sold: AAGPBL photo archive
AAGPBL Original Photo ArchiveWomen's baseball, 1940s–50s · eBay · Apr 25
$55055×
Sold: 1930s Kellogg's cereal store display rack
1930s Kellogg's Cereal Store Display RackMetal countertop shelf sign · eBay · Jun 12
$94524×
Sold: 1947 Linares bullfight poster
1947 Linares Bullfight Poster — ManoleteOriginal 21×42 · eBay · Mar 16
$50025×
Sold: Sheboygan tin sign
1890s Sheboygan Mineral Water Tin SignAntique advertising · eBay · May 22
$53536×
Sold: Fulton J. Sheen signed portrait
Fulton J. Sheen Signed Portrait"God Love You" · framed · eBay · Jun 5
$50017×
Sold: Nikon S2 rangefinder camera
Nikon S2 35mm Rangefinder CameraNikkor-H.C 5cm f/2 · eBay · May 24
$42411×
Sold: Stetson Open Road fedora
Stetson Royal De Luxe "Open Road" FedoraTan, 7⅜, the LBJ hat · eBay · Apr 24
$40033×
Sold: 1930s McCormick's Map of the World Selling Spices advertising sign
1930s McCormick's "Selling Spices" Map SignAdvertising · 19×22 · eBay · Jun 24
$39920×
Sold: Broksonic CRT TV VCR combo
Broksonic 9" CRT TV/VCR ComboTested · 1998 retro gaming · eBay · May 15
$33517×
Sold: WWII M1 helmet
WWII U.S. M1 Helmet & LinerNamed · 1st Infantry Division · eBay · Apr 15
$30410×
Sold: sea captain oil painting
Signed Oil Painting — Sea Captain PortraitVintage 8×10 · eBay · Jun 2
$2554×
Fifteen flips, Mar–Jun 2026
$11,17121×

Six of the fifteen are shown here on phones. All 73 receipted flips in the Sales Log average 10×; these fifteen average 21×. They sit on top of 2,500+ sold listings — all public. Verify them on my eBay store, Finest LLC →
Browse the full Sales Log — updated with every big flip →

I'm at estate sales five days a week, working the exact circuit this course teaches. My store is public, my sold listings are public, and everything in this course is something I did this month — not something I read about.

I didn't start with money or connections — I started with a phone, a car, and whatever the nearest estate sale had in its photos. Flip by flip that became Finest LLC: 2,200+ live listings, $300,000 in inventory, and a circuit I work Wednesday through Sunday, every week. The store came first; the course exists because the system behind it turned out to be the most valuable thing I own. I only teach what I still do — when something stops working at the sales, it comes out of the course.

Byron — Finest LLC Watch the work happen on Instagram and TikTok · See the Sales Log

How I went from selling cars to this: read Module 0, free (12 min) →

Storage units

The $270 storage unit
that paid about $30,000.

These are the auction photos I bid from. The unit looked like bags and boxes — I bid $270 because of one duffel bag with a Call of Duty game sticking out of it. Inside: roughly 250 grams of gold, silver coins, and jewelry. The short clip of this unit passed two million views; the full 40-minute clean-out is below. How I read units before bidding is Module 5 of the course.

Gold jewelry from the $270 storage unit on a kitchen scale reading 157.8 grams: chains, bangles, a pocket watch, brooches and pearls
The jewelry pile on the scale: 157.8 g
A cookie tin from the unit holding silver Peace dollars and Mercury dimes
A cookie tin of Peace dollars and Mercury dimes
Everything spread on a table: jewelry box, pearls, gold chains, pocket watches, silver half dollars and dollars, silver certificates
All of it on the table: watches, silver, silver certificates
The full clean-out

The full dig, on camera — 40 minutes, mostly unedited, from the first bag on.

The newest unit — $360 in, over $10,000 sold in the first month.

The storage unit auction listing photo: duffel bags, luggage and boxes, with the duffel bag marked
The auction listing. The duffel bag marked in gold — with a Call of Duty game sticking out of it — is the reason I bid $270.
Auction app screenshot: Extra Space Storage unit in South Holland, IL — final bid $690
Another unit, same read: final bid $690 — $10–15K in sports cards inside. See what was inside ↓

The winter unit

$690, bought in the middle of winter. Inside: a unit full of cards.

The auction photos showed bins and boxes. Inside were sports cards with autographs and patches, Pokémon cards (some from the early 2000s), signed helmets and seven pairs of Jordans. Both signed helmets have already sold on eBay: the Davante Adams for $255 and the Herman Edwards Chiefs helmet for $135. I sent four 2019 Charizards to PSA: two came back PSA 10, one PSA 9 and one PSA 7. I collect Pokémon myself, so most of those cards are staying in my personal collection. That's why you haven't seen them for sale.

Cards from the winter storage unit laid out on a table: Pokémon cards including Charizard and Pikachu, and sports autograph and patch cards
Part of the card haul, laid out on my table
Seven pairs of Air Jordans and storage bins pulled out of the unit onto the snow
Seven pairs of Jordans, pulled out in the snow
Long boxes full of sorted trading cards from the unit
Boxes of cards, sorted
Signed Davante Adams Green Bay Packers helmet with a Beckett authentication sticker
Signed Davante Adams helmet, Beckett authenticated. Sold $255 · Dec 2025 · eBay sale ↗
Herman Edwards signed Kansas City Chiefs helmet from the unit
Signed Herman Edwards Chiefs helmet. Sold $135 · Feb 2026 · eBay sale ↗
Reading units is Module 5 — in the course →

The five skills

Master the full flip cycle.
Nothing skipped.

Everything you've asked the internet and gotten half-answers for — covered completely, in the order you'll actually use it.

No. 01

Source

Estate sales, storage-unit auctions, thrift stores, marketplace, and curb finds — ranked by profit-per-hour, with the reading skills that decide what to buy before you touch your wallet.

No. 02

Research

The 60-second comp check that tells you what anything is worth, how fast it sells, and the most you're allowed to pay — from the store aisle.

No. 03

List

Keyword-stacked titles, the 8-photo formula, item specifics that rank, pricing strategy, and which platform wins for every category.

No. 04

Store

Two battle-tested systems — category bins and numbered SKU bins — zero death piles, any item found in seconds, scales from one shelf to a storage unit.

No. 05

Ship

The cheapest label every time, damage-proof packing with free supplies, and the 48-hour rule that builds a five-star reputation.

The 90-day plan

You will always know exactly
what to do today.

Four phases. Every phase has weekly targets and daily checklists. Print the calendar, put it on the wall, check the boxes.

Phase 1 · Days 1–14

Sell what you already own first.

The House Audit pulls 15+ sellable items from your home. You learn research, photography, and listing on inventory that cost you nothing — so every mistake is free and every sale is profit.

  • 15 items listed
  • First sale shipped
  • $0 spent on inventory
Phase 2 · Days 15–35

Your first sourcing runs — on the house's money.

Phase 1 profits become your sourcing budget. Guided thrift and marketplace runs with the Buy/Pass framework, strict price caps, and beginner-safe categories only.

  • 30 total flips
  • 2 sourcing runs a week
  • 100% of profit reinvested
Phase 3 · Days 36–65

Build the daily loop: source, list, ship, repeat.

You install the operating rhythm — listing quotas, the SKU storage system, batch shipping days, and the send-offer routine that clears stale inventory automatically.

  • 65 total flips
  • 10-second item retrieval
  • 48-hour ship rate
Phase 4 · Days 66–90

Flip #100 — and the data that tells you what's next.

Your tracker now holds 100 data points. Module 11 reads them with you: which categories print money, which to drop, and whether your next move is niching down, scaling up, or going full-time.

  • 100 flips complete
  • Top 3 categories identified
  • Next 100 planned

Inside the system

Thirteen modules. Zero filler.
All execution.

Thirteen modules and four appendices — the supply list, the AI prompt library, the 90-Day Calendar, and the Flip Tracker. Open any module; nothing is hidden behind a curtain.

Module 0The Contract+
Who I am, the dealership model that changed how I buy, the two speeds of buying, flip math, the six rules you sign, and why the gym is in a reselling course.
Module 1The House Audit+
Your first 15 items for $0, room by room — the on-ramp that pays for the course before you ever source a thing.
Module 2Research+
The 3-tier comp system I actually run at speed — Lens, sold comps, WorthPoint — plus my exact AI deep-comp prompts, word for word.
Module 3Sourcing+
Every channel ranked by profit-per-hour, the auto-buy list, the trap list, the Big Pile negotiation, and the nostalgia heuristic.
Module 4The Estate Sale Playbook+
Pre-scouting sales from their photos before you leave the couch, the real line protocol, interview-the-line, the dig, and discount days.
Module 5Storage Units I — Reading & Bidding+
How I read a unit from three photos: the bags tell, the cases, dust vs droppings — with my REAL auction screenshots and both clean-out videos, including the $270 unit that returned $30,000.
Module 6Storage Units II — The Clean-Out+
The 48 hours after you win: the Nextdoor dumpster play, the donation strategy, the $50 rule, and broom-clean discipline.
Module 7Listings+
The photo system, title architecture pulled from my real sold titles, and my verbatim ChatGPT listing prompt.
Module 8Pricing & Platforms+
When to auction and when to Buy It Now (from my own bid data), the Best Offer game, promoted listings, and the markdown engine.
Module 9Storage & Retrieval+
Both systems — my category bins and the numbered SKU upgrade — plus the one rule that kills death piles forever.
Module 10Shipping+
The cheapest label every time, damage-proof packing for the weird stuff, free supplies, and the Mon/Thu batch rhythm.
Module 11The Review+
Reading your first 100 flips of data, taxes without the panic, and the three paths to scale.
Module 12Ethics & Reputation+
Personal documents, urns, firearms, facilities, and conduct — the rules that keep this business paying for decades.

Get the system

Everything. One price.
No upsells.

No "premium tier" hiding the good stuff. This course, my storage-unit playbook, and my beginner's guide were three products — now it's one course with everything inside, for less than the old course alone.

Buyer reviews

Verified purchase · $189

“Great system! It has totally expanded my point of view with what to buy to flip and it does a great job setting up a lean reselling business.”

Peter Lopez@petersvault · Bought First 100 Flips · Sep 1, 2026
Verified purchase · $198

“I’m currently on flip #25. What not to pick was helpful… I think your system is clean, lean, full of discipline. It’s gonna take time to get better and hard work. It’s a process.”

George Ihara@Georgie1729 · Bought First 100 Flips · Aug 7, 2026

Both bought the course on Gumroad — prices are what they paid at the time. Published with permission.

Don't take my word for it — verify on my eBay store ↗  ·  browse the Sales Log — $24,340 in flips, a receipt on every one →

The System — 64-page playbook

Thirteen modules, zero filler — each one ends in a non-negotiable action step.

The Field Kit — 8 pocket cards

Print them, pocket them — every buy decision runs through the cards.

The 100-Flip Tracker

Auto-math profit columns — your first hundred, logged like the Sales Log.

Instant download, yours for good — the system, the printable field kit, and the tracker. Lifetime updates as platforms change.

One price · everything included

First 100 Flips

Sold separately, until now$287.98

These were the Gumroad list prices until August 24, 2026, when I merged the three into one course.

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No income promises

I don't guarantee earnings of any kind. The system works if you work it — buying it doesn't make you me. Your results depend on your effort, your market, and the items you find.

Straight answers

Questions, answered honestly.

Will I actually make money?+
I won't promise you that, and you should be suspicious of anyone who does. I don't guarantee any income. This works if you work it — the numbers on this page are my results, not a forecast of yours. What you earn depends on your effort, your local market, and the items you find. What I can promise is the full system: every step I use, written down, and updated when something stops working.
Why $189?+
Because it's everything I sell, in one place. This course, my storage-unit playbook, and my beginner's guide sold separately for $287.98 — I merged all three and priced the whole thing under what the course alone used to cost. It's structured so Phase 1, selling what you already own, starts paying it back in the first two weeks.
What does "failproof" mean? Be real with me.+
It means I removed every failure point except one: not doing the work. Research is a formula. Buying has price caps. Listing is a template. Storage-unit bidding has hard rules. Every day has a checklist. The system handles the thinking. You do the reps.
Do I need money for inventory?+
No. Phase 1 sells items you already own. Those profits fund Phase 2 sourcing. The plan is designed so you never put outside money into inventory — and you don't touch a storage-unit auction until Phase 3, with house money and hard bid ceilings.
Is this video or written?+
Written modules plus printable PDFs and the tracker — you can read a module in 20 minutes and execute the same day. And the storage-unit modules link to my real clean-out videos, shot inside the actual units from the case studies, including the $270 unit that returned around $30,000.

100 flips in 90 days.
The plan is above.

The system works if you work. That's the only fine print.

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