The short answer
What clothing brands sell fast on eBay?
Brands that move fast on eBay include Tommy Hilfiger, Kangol and Wrangler. When this video went up in Feb 2023, a new-with-tags Tommy Hilfiger wool cargo pant sold for $28 plus shipping, a Kangol hat for $28, and Wrangler jeans for $10. One sale is an anecdote, so check sold listings before you price.
- Tommy Hilfiger new with tags sold for $28 plus shipping when this video went up in Feb 2023. I pick it up unless it has stains or holes.
- I pick up wool of any brand. A new-with-tags Brandini wool coat sold for $22 plus shipping.
- Wrangler jeans cost me 15 cents to $1.50 each and sold for about $10 plus shipping. Buy common brands cheap.
- Plan where the non-clothing in a bulk buyout goes before you buy it, or it will clog your system.
Chapters (8)
In this video from Feb 2023 I walk through what was selling in my store that week, where a lot of my clothing came from, and the systems I was building around it. Every price here is from when the video went up in Feb 2023, not today. The sourcing and organizing lessons still hold.
What sold in my store that week, and for how much?
Most of what sold was common brands, new with tags, for $9 to $28 plus shipping, with one outlier. Here's the list from the video:
| Item | Sold for (plus shipping) | What I noted |
|---|---|---|
| G-Star RAW rip-stop cotton jacket | $150 | New with tags, from a bulk storage unit buyout |
| Tommy Hilfiger wool cargo pants | $28 | New with tags. I pick up Tommy Hilfiger unless there are stains or holes |
| Kangol hat | $28 | New with tags. A good average sale price for me |
| Brandini lightweight wool coat | $22 | New with tags |
| Simply Vera by Vera Wang women's sleepwear, top and bottom | $15 | I pay under 50 cents to $1 a piece for this brand |
| Wrangler men's jeans | $10 | I paid 15 cents to $1.50 an item |
| Andrew Marc women's puffer vest | $10 | Listed about a month earlier, took a best offer of $10 |
| Columbia fleece full-zip sweater | $10 | Listed a couple months earlier, took a best offer |
| Alternative Earth t-shirt | $10 | New with tags |
| Carol Anderson vintage dress | $10 | A vintage piece |
| Old Navy women's activewear top | $10 | I only pick these up under $1 and in good condition |
| Urban Outfitters cropped knit sweater | $9 | Listed three days before it sold |
One sale is an anecdote, so don't treat any of these as a guarantee. Each number is a single sale from early 2023. Check sold listings for your brand, size and condition before you price anything.
A home run for me is a $20 sale. I'm not chasing designer names. I'm chasing common items that lead to common sales, like Levi's, Carhartt and vintage Wranglers.
Where did this clothing come from?
Storage unit buyouts gave me volume, and volume is what keeps an inventory-heavy store moving. In August 2022 I bought about 10,000 pounds of clothing from a storage unit buyout, sorted out about 5,000 pounds that I kept, and was still working through the rest when I filmed this. Clearing that unit also meant I stopped paying $150 a month to keep it, but only once I had the space to process what I brought in.
The catch is everything you don't sell. Buyouts come with kitchenware, glassware, canteens, mugs, Pelican cases and knickknacks I can't price or describe well. Before you buy bulk, decide where the non-clothing goes. I wholesale it to reseller friends in my area, and I staged about 20 extra-large U-Haul boxes for that so it doesn't clog the line.
What do I pay per item?
I pay very little per piece, and that's what makes the common-brand math work. These were my typical costs when this video went up:
| Brand or item | I paid per item | Sold for (plus shipping) |
|---|---|---|
| Wrangler men's jeans | 15 cents to $1.50 | $10 |
| Simply Vera by Vera Wang sleepwear | Under 50 cents to $1 | $15 |
| Board shorts, swim trunks and chino shorts | 50 cents to $1 | About $8 |
| Andrew Marc puffer vest | Under $1 | $10 |
| Old Navy activewear top | Under $1 | $10 |
My cost depends on how much I'm buying at the time, so treat these as ranges, not promises.
How do I decide what to pick up?
I pick up brands I know and walk away from everything else. These were my rules in early 2023:
- Wool, any brand. I pick it up no matter the label, because the material is sought after.
- Tommy Hilfiger. I pick it up almost regardless, unless it has stains or holes. It's a foundational brand for my business.
- Kangol and Columbia. Decent sellers. Kangol hats have a good average sale price.
- Wrangler, Levi's and Carhartt. Common items that sell steadily, as long as the condition is good.
- Old Navy. Only under $1 an item, and only if the jeans and activewear are in good condition. I pass on most of the rest.
- Shoes. Only if they're new or need no cleaning.
- Coats. Coats that don't fit my shelving go on numbered racks, about 50 per rack, so I can find them when they sell.
How do I keep the pile moving without losing orders?
An organized system is what keeps clothing from getting lost, and it's what keeps the next order from shipping to the wrong address. I number my inventory bins and keep everything in sequence, so I can pull any item quickly. My shelves were about $140 shipped to my house and hold up to 3,000 pounds. Husky shelves are sturdier and cost more, and plenty of resellers use them too.
The math is simple. I sort roughly 7,000 to 10,000 pieces of clothing a month to find around 1,500 items to list, which works out to about 50 listings a day. That only works if the sorting is fast, so I move pieces through in stages: processing, stacking to press out wrinkles, photographing, then listing.
For shipping, I use 8x8x32 boxes, bought in bundles of 200, to hold pending orders in the order they come in. Consecutive sticker labels keep the inventory in order too. When it's time to ship, I check the number before I pack, because shipping the wrong order is a good way to get your account shut down on eBay. Keep packing tape, bubble mailers and labels stocked so you're never out mid-shift.
What do I do with the clothes I won't sell?
Clothes I won't list go one of three ways. I wash stains and simple problems weekly. Anything still not good enough goes in a reject box, and I arrange a textile pickup so I don't have to drive it to a Goodwill drop-off. The program I used told me the items go to insulation, secondhand stores and rescue centers. Keeping rejects out of your store matters, because a full inventory of things you won't sell slows down the good stuff.
The bottom line
This week, pull one bin or one bulk pile and sort it against a short list of brands you know. Pull the matches, check what they sold for, and list the ones you can price with confidence. Keep orders in order, check each number before you ship, and move the rest out of your store.
Once you've found one, EasyFlip writes the listing from a few photos. More sourcing notes like this are in the newsletter.
Questions people ask
How much do Tommy Hilfiger wool pants sell for on eBay?
When this video went up in Feb 2023, a new-with-tags Tommy Hilfiger wool cargo pant sold for $28 plus shipping. That was one sale, so check sold listings for your size and condition before you price.
Are storage unit buyouts worth it for clothing resellers?
They can be, if you can sort the clothes and find a home for what you won't sell. In August 2022 I bought about 10,000 pounds of clothing, kept about 5,000 pounds, and wholesaled the non-clothing items to reseller friends.
How do I tell which clothing brands are worth buying?
Start with brands you already know sell, and check their sold listings. I always pick up Tommy Hilfiger and wool of any brand, and I pass on most Old Navy unless it's under $1 and in good condition.
How do I keep bulk clothing organized for shipping?
Number your inventory bins, use consecutive sticker labels, and keep pending orders in order in numbered boxes. Double-check the number before you ship, because shipping the wrong order can get your eBay account shut down.
What should I do with clothing I can't resell?
Wash stains and simple problems weekly, and send what's still not good enough to a textile pickup instead of driving it to a thrift drop-off. Anything outside clothing, I wholesale to reseller friends.
Sources
Prices are eBay sold listings, and every fact below was checked on February 3, 2023.
Read the full video transcript
what do I exactly do in this warehouse for 40 to 60 hours a week well in this video I'm going to be going over some of the strategies that I'm implementing this year to help me achieve over two hundred thousand dollars in sales reselling used clothes on eBay so I have been up to a lot of things here setting up shelves picking up more inventory to help process through this system and I'm bringing you along with me today to help show you what items that are selling in our store right now and giving you some updates onto some of the changes that I'm doing here in this business to help me achieve my goals this year but build for the future for the next five ten years so let's get right into it so the first thing that sold was this g-star raw jacket sold for 150 plus shipping if you are not familiar with
g-star raw I would be because this is a great brand to be picking up for reselling this was new with tags and it was part of a bulk storage unit buyout but happy to get rid of these jackets before it starts warming up it is a rip stop cotton jacket nothing special about it but like I said this brand is really good to be on the lookout for if you're able to find that brand there there we go so just this week I cleared out a storage unit that I had many of my items sitting in just because I didn't have the space and now that we've moved to this Warehouse I'm able to start processing some of these items but as with buying storage units and items in bulk you are left with items that you don't usually sell you know things like uh canteens um mugs uh kitchenware glassware I mean there's there's
stuff like you name it you know um pelican cases you know as cool as it is to sell that stuff you know I'm a used clothing seller I don't sell that stuff or I do have other reseller friends that are in the area that would be interested and I just basically wholesale them anything that I don't resell because it would take me a lot of time to be looking up these items to be able to price them accurately to be able to come up with the proper keywords for these items to create titles so they get sold and you know if you are buying bulk that is the downside is you really need to figure out where are these items going to be going because you don't want this type of stuff clogging up your system you know so we have about 20 extra large U-Haul boxes here that are going to go to are
reselling friends and this space is going to be cleared out here and it's going to be a processing area for future bales of clothing that are going to be coming in if you see right behind me here this is the clothing that came from that storage unit that have yet to be processed so I bought about 10 000 pounds of clothing last August and I sorted through I'd say about 5 000 pounds that I kept so that is all this here still needing to be processed but thankfully I'm not paying that 150 a month for that storage unit so you can see here's just full with clothes that are waiting to be processed and ready to go so just wanted to give you an update because there has been a lot going on here and I wish that I could jump on to update you guys more I do want to be showing you more
behind the scenes as far as how things go around here this here is just processing all this is processing area processing processing this is waiting to be photographed here on the photo station this is more processing here I usually have about 400 500 pieces of clothing that get stacked up so it helps get some of the wrinkles out if you want to know the types of brands that I'm on the lookout for on a weekly basis you can check out the free ebook down in the description down below where it goes over my top 50 brands in 2023 to resell on eBay included in that is the current sell through rates in a brief description of each brand so you know what types of categories that that brand specializes in so you can be on the lookout when you're sourcing you can download it straight to your phone so you're able to just quickly look
through to see if that brand is on my brand list and you can get a good idea of what the generalized sell through rates are so like I said you could check it out in the linked comment down below and I'm sure it can be helpful for you especially if you are a new beginner reseller and hopefully you can find some of those Brands as well I don't pick up this brand very often but the brand is brandini hopefully you could see that it's a wool lightweight coat so for 22 dollars plus shipping new with tags anything that is wool I'll always pick it up no matter the brand just because I know that the materials are sought after the old inventory system you know D6 d8 D9 looking through that yeah I don't miss doing that but unfortunately you know I have to keep them in these bins so they stay organized all of
these items are on 50 60 70 percent off on eBay just looking to get these items moving and grooving out of here so I could clear up more space for more inventory coming in here we have coats about 50 coats per rack so about 200 coats and those are items that can't fit in my inventory shelving and I have to go on racks and a majority of these coats are uh you know just mixed Blazers soft shell coats there's some dress coats there's some hoodies just anything that wouldn't fit on these racks will go on the coat rack and just make sure that they're organized you know rack one rack two rack three and so forth so I'm able to find those coats when they do sell shoes I don't pick up too many shoes anymore but here's the shoe rack I will only pick up shoes if they're new or need no cleaning and
that's how I'll pick up shoes but otherwise I'm really not a big shoe reseller mainly just women's pre-owned clothing and men's pre-owned clothing that's it so and here's the shipping station kind of looks a little crazy right now but really having an organized spot is the key to be able to make sure your items are going from point A to point B you don't want these items to be getting lost in the mail you don't want to be running out of packing tape and bubble mailers and the things that you need to be able to fulfill these orders so we have 29 orders going out today totaling 612 dollars hopefully you can see that and you know just really keeping things organized is key for me so I know where things are and I know what tasks I need to complete it to be completed next so this brand is hit and miss for me
but I do pick it up if the genes are in good condition it says Wrangler men's jeans so for ten dollars plus shipping a lot of these items I'm paying anywhere between 15 cents an item to a dollar fifty an item and that's usually just kind of the average depending on how much I'm buying at the time this is a lower end brain for me these vulcum shorts sold for nine dollars plus shipping I pick up their board shorts swim trunks and Chino shorts between 50 cents to a dollar turning that into eight dollars plus shipping I'm happy with that this is Simply Vera by Vera Wang this is some women's sleepwear a top and a bottom sold for 15 plus shipping I pick up this brand if it's less than 50 cents to a dollar that's kind of my price point for this brand here these Tommy Hilfiger wool pants car cargo sold for
28 dollars plus shipping they were still new with tags I always pick up Tommy Hilfiger really no matter what unless it has stains or holes it's a foundational brand for my business having a like reject station this is where clothing gets washed here all this uh gets washed on a weekly basis you know stains some simple stuff like that and then I also have a reject box where there is a program called just portrait I'll put a link right here and they are a family-owned business that has expanded all through the West Coast awesome story but to get right to it they just basically run a a clothing recyclable company where they come and they pick up your clothes to be recycled to avoid clothing going into landfills it is awesome to find someone where they can come pick up your clothes that you don't want and you know that they're going to be used
for insulation they're going to go to secondhand stores they're going to go to rescue centers you know this is a great option to be able to avoid having to drive to Goodwill to drop off all this stuff I'm having to process about seven to ten thousand pieces of clothing per month to be able to find my goal of 1500 items a month I list about 50 items a day on eBay so that means I need about 300 to 400 pieces a week of clothing so basically I'm needing to sort through about seven thousand pieces of clothing to be able to find fifteen hundred pieces to be able to resell on eBay and that's sticking to my brand list those are picking out items that I want to resell and then looking for homes for the place for the pieces that I reject and that I don't want so just portrait is just a way that
I can discard a lot of the items that I'm not going to be selling and not wanting to put in my eBay store so there's a lot to go on here a lot to catch up on um you know really just wanting to fill you in on what's going on and uh you know having more behind the scenes and and teaching you more about what it is to what it takes to run a six-figure clothing reselling business you know I don't sell anything fancy or anything special you know just simple Levi's Carhartt vintage Wranglers you know stuff like that and it's it's just the common items lead to Common sales guys it's nothing special for me a home run is twenty dollars a twenty dollar sale for me is a home run so I'm not looking for the Gucci I'm not looking for the Louis Vuitton though it is great I'm looking for common items
to lead to Common sales this Kangal hat sold for 28 plus shipping it came from that storage unit buyout new with tags Kangol is a definitely a decent brand to pick up when it comes to their hats a good average sale price happy to get these things moving there is the brand one thing that's been helpful for me is buying these boxes they are eight they are 32 by 8 by 8 and they hold my pending orders that I get you know through the through the day I you know line them up in order to make sure that when it comes to shipping that they remain in order so I don't mess up any orders and ship items to the wrong address so these boxes are awesome I buy them in bundles of 200 on Amazon you can find it linked in the description down below and if you're looking for some quality boxes that
ship to your house quickly all right so this alternative Earth t-shirt sold for ten dollars plus shipping not too familiar with that brand but it was new with tags it's 76.21 this is what I love about this inventory system you just it's all in numerical order so we're at 77.19 7685 we're looking at 76-21 so we are down here there we go 76 21 got it double check that the order is correct the last thing you want to be doing is shipping the wrong orders to the wrong places that's a good way to get your account uh shut down on eBay and there it goes right into the box in order and I just pull the orders how they come in on eBay so that way when I go to the shipping screen it's all set for me so this next one is 11.73 I want to know how is your sales going how is
your reselling business going what are some strategies that you're putting in place today to help you make progress you know this is an awesome opportunity to be reselling online so I want to know what things are working for you and what things aren't working for you because we're all in different situations I want to hear from you all because my true passion is helping people get going when it comes to reselling so there's 11 723 we are close up here 11743 I got it this is uh just a Ralph Lauren pullover sold for 11 dollars nine dollars plus shipping had this listed a couple days ago so I've just been really accepting pretty much all offers unless it's like a dollar I've been accepting a lot of offers lately and I've noticed my store has woken up sales have been slow um but you know the thing that we can control about slow sales is
listing finding better product finding quality product lowering your cost of goods becoming more efficient those are the things that we can control the thing we can't control is forcing people to buy your items don't worry about the things that you can't control rather initiate the changes that you want to see in your business and you'll see things will happen don't lose don't lose Faith that's the one thing is you can either be in fear or in faith you either believe or you don't all right so this other sale here is we have this Urban Outfitters crop knit sweater sold for nine dollars plus shipping just listed it three days ago uh eleven five hundred so wondering what you guys do for your inventory system you know what what are you putting in place how do you have your inventory organized we just hit 5700 listings and I'm just going to continue to rock this way
just till till we go to 100 000 items this is the best inventory system the best way to or keep things organized is very very very rare that I lose items you can check out these shelves in the link in the description uh simple shelves they're about 140 dollars shipped to your house they hold up to three thousand pounds that is the nice part and they are sturdy or you can go with those husky shelves that work well for other resellers too though they are a little bit more spendy stuff like this that came from that storage unit buy out you know this is just like a simple box uh made out of really nice wood but then when you turn it over holy moly 180 for a box and that's the type of stuff that was in that storage unit just a bunch of like knickknacks and stuff like that would take me years
to just find keywords to describe it you know I sell clothes so I stay in my Lane I'm not going to go sell toasters and VCRs and subwoofers it's like I don't know anything about that stuff so if I'm buying bulk I'm definitely going to be looking to wholesale some of that stuff out so I can keep things moving this is like a an assembly line you know I don't want things that I don't sell to clog up this process so living in the Pacific Northwest I find this brand all the time decent brand but you don't expect to make millions off of it it is a Columbia fleece full zip sweater so for ten dollars plus shipping and it was listed a couple months ago and took a best offer this brand does decent for me this is an Andrew Mark women's puffer vest so for ten dollars plus shipping I came from that
bulk buyout I did back in August buying all of those clothes and I'm still sorting through a lot of those clothes so you never know what I may find and if it's a brand like Andrew Mark I know that I paid less than a dollar for it and I know that they have decent sell through rates for the decent average sale price so I listed this maybe a month ago and took a best offer of 10 bucks so let's pull this item here ten three ten five three nine can't talk ten five three nine down here oh man it's ten five nine it's way down here ten five three nine it might be all the way on the other side ten five three nine this vintage Carol Anderson dress sold for ten dollars plus shipping this is an Old Navy activewear top for women sold for ten dollars plus shipping I will only pick up
Old Navy if I'm paying less than a dollar and if the jeans are in good condition and if the activewear tops are in good condition otherwise most of the items in this brand I will pass on and if you're looking to see the types of items that we're selling on a consistent daily basis you could check out this video here where it goes into more of what is selling in our store right now and you can check out what those items are selling for take care and have a blessed rest of the day
