Editor's pick — Selling & flipping
Repair and resell vintage sewing machines
cost <$100first $ weekspart-timeceiling side incomeanywhere
All-metal machines from the 1950s to 70s sell cheap because they're dirty, not broken. Cleaned and oiled, they fetch several times the price.
Individual buyers, mostly quilters and hobby sewists, pay you a one-time price per machine through Facebook Marketplace, eBay or a local pickup. You keep the spread between what you paid plus parts and what it sold for.
The margins are real because the supply is other people's basements and the demand is sewists who want a machine that will outlive them. The repair is mostly cleaning.
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