$100 start
The $100 eBay test, month 3: what sold, what sat, and the hourly rate nobody posts
We sourced from three thrift stores and one estate sale. Media and small electronics carried the month. Clothing did not.
Honest numbers on ecommerce, website flipping, reselling, affiliate, investing and crypto. We tell you what paid and what didn't.
Pick the one that sounds like you. Each path ranks methods for that situation.
Methods that trade time for money first: freelancing, reselling, digital templates.
See 9 methods → $1K+Buy something that already earns: a starter site, a small store, inventory at scale.
See 7 methods → ExitNiche sites and stores built from day one with a buyer and a multiple in mind.
See 5 methods → GrowIndex funds, dividends and the accounts to hold them in, with the risks spelled out.
See 6 methods →Every method gets the same six numbers, so you can compare them side by side.
Fees, prices and multiples checked against public sources on Oct 10, 2026. Income ranges are estimates built on those numbers. Results vary. Earnings disclaimer
Seven categories. Each hub ranks its methods by cost, time and payout.
We sourced from three thrift stores and one estate sale. Media and small electronics carried the month. Clothing did not.
Traffic up 2.4×, one new affiliate program, and a pruned archive. Breakdown built from the seller's shared analytics, with their permission.
Revenue looks fine until you subtract the ad spend. The niche that worked was the one we almost skipped.
A 3-year-old site about home coffee gear, bought at 33× monthly profit. We've cut hosting costs, rewritten 14 posts and added one affiliate program. Revenue is up. So are the hours.
Read the month 3 reportRun the numbers, read the review, then spend a dollar.
Most small content sites trade at 28 to 42 times monthly profit. Sites under two years old usually sit at the low end.
Every Tuesday: the numbers that changed, one method broken down, and one deal we'd actually look at. Five minutes to read.
Brian, a reseller and site flipper who documents his own experiments with real numbers, including the ones that lost money.
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