Next Year Investments for Flipping

jaredseiders · 2013-12-17T19:07:12.000Z

Right off the bat, I want to be clear. This thread is addressing selling for next Christmas, not buying and holding for 2 years or EOL. That's a great way to make huge amounts of money, but flipping at Xmas time just works best for me as it is funding my investments in sets to hold for a long time. I don't have the capital yet to only buy sets for holding and never sell anything. Flipping funds my investments in a sense. So anyhow: I think next year, throughout the year I will be focusing on building a rather large inventory of a multitude of the Architecture sets whenever I can get a coupon deal for BN or other discount and Friends sets whenever I can find them on sale. Both of these themes, for the most part across the board, were very good items to sell for a HUGE profit at Christmast time. I don't think there were many individual sets in the theme that did not sell out on Amazon and as a result sky rocket. Getting double retail price on an item you got for 20 to 30% less than retail is outstanding in my book. I really wish that earlier in the year I was focusing on Architecture at TRU during BOGO 50% off and Barnes and Noble more often. I really dropped the ball. During the later part of the year I was buying Architecture at full retail and still making a profit of 30%+. I'm not saying that any of the other themes were not good themes to work on flipping items. Personally I will invest in anything that will make me money. Minecraft was huge. But there were specific winners for flipping and definite losers for flipping in most of the themes. Friends and Architecture were just the ones that had across the board performance. Christmas time next year I will have a HUGE stockpile of Friends and Architecture just waiting for Amazon to be sold out for. Anyone else agree? Or if you disagree, any other ideas?