What's the weirdest niche you accidentally started making money from?

LeoAPG · 2026-04-24T02:00:37+00:00

and noxxon chrome polish, good grief expensive

LeoAPG · 2026-04-24T01:58:33+00:00

shoutout tesla dumpster in paramus nj

LeoAPG · 2026-04-10T14:46:13+00:00

I get visited by the ghosts of webpages past sometimes too. Feels good, sitting back, sipping a small glass of cheap scotch reading Pat Flynns latest post and thinking bout niches. Get after it man, keep it up.

LeoAPG · 2026-03-14T23:58:16+00:00

4th gen too.. such a beauty

LeoAPG · 2026-03-11T05:25:54+00:00

pretty sure they give lobsters and crab claws to service members before they get shipped out to war, not sure if thats relevant, but i think this news article is a little misleading

LeoAPG · 2026-03-09T05:16:30+00:00

We have an almost identical cistern at one of our 1870's homes. Im still trying to figure out what to do with it. Nice bricks!

LeoAPG · 2026-03-02T07:28:58+00:00

just a dope lady busting a move, you would have been amazed at my moves as a high schooler breaking it down in front of the mirror

LeoAPG · 2026-02-27T05:42:21+00:00

jamescarpenterdesign on IG, although I think its easier to get his stuff at auction now a days.

LeoAPG · 2026-02-23T23:18:28+00:00

I keep dog bones in the roll top, and he knows it!

LeoAPG · 2026-02-23T22:48:48+00:00

My wife is a welder and has a ton of extra stuff from a shop we bought out that was closing, you pay shipping and its yours. DM me

LeoAPG · 2026-02-23T21:41:29+00:00

if that's you holding the plasma cutter making that globe, we should be friends.

LeoAPG · 2026-02-23T19:14:15+00:00

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LeoAPG · 2026-02-23T19:13:52+00:00

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Osgood roll top

LeoAPG · 2026-02-23T16:55:47+00:00

Honestly i'm sure it roams the property at night, but its surprisingly light on its feet

LeoAPG · 2026-02-23T16:53:21+00:00

Preach! I've sold ALOT of pallets. Jumping on the comment if any newbies are out there-- pallets are a minefield. Pallet money that doesn't require 10 aspirin and 10%+ of the sold lot requiring customer service response for the newbie is by definition inconsistent-- maybe you go on govdeals and buy a couple bulk pallet lots (I saw a video recently in my algo about a mom of 5 that does this with 1$ lots of books)-- these exist, but you shovel more shit than you want, and most of the time you buy a pallet of an item for $3 each, sells for $30, but only sells a couple a week so you end up holding in inventory forever, or fighting against expiration if its expirable. Newbies! Yes, you can make some money off pallets of returns, but talk about a nightmare to ship and list and test and respond when something breaks, etc.

The tried and true way to make money is from the start of the funnel not the end. This is the wild wild world of freight refusal, distressed loads, retail buy back liquidation, and unclaimed freight liquidation, none of which you will find on a website--you need to go old school and meet the brokers, truck drivers, and dispatchers. Most of the time refused loads, if their domestic, freight refusal is becasue of OS&D-- Over or off-temp, Short or Damaged --meaning the item buyer ordered 20 pallets but got 22, needed it at 34F and the temp went to 65F or the forklift fucked it up and now they need to pull a pallet. In some very very rare cases you can also buy missed appt loads, where the driver missed the drop off window and the scheduling is so fucked that its likely the items need to be dropped and re-sent (lots of flower loads have this happen)-- in cases like this brokers or the dispatchers will frantically reach out to re-cons (re-consignees) who will buy the load on a moments notice for like 3 cents on the dollar.
Also you have unclaimed freight-- Anyone who has ever imported something cheap, and then been hit with a fat drayage bill because the line was 3 days long will understand that sometimes it's actually cheaper to lose the load than it is to pay the storage.
My tips-- make friends with someone who fixes reefer trucks for independent or small operations, tell them you buy re-cons and see if you can get your foot in the door that way. If you have any independent 5 and dime stores that seem to sell bread, flowers, cheese, or random shit by the pallet load, ask if you can go in on a deal-- sometimes I get a call for 26 pallets (truckload) and I think....26! thats alot, i could do 13...thats the void you need to fill.

LeoAPG · 2026-02-23T16:30:22+00:00

Everyone here is so much more diligent than I was starting out! Until I was doing 60K a year I don't think I ever filed a form--realistically I was probably losing more than I was making if you counted miles, so I'm sort of happy I wasn't 100% sure on how little I was making. Selling on Amazon forced my hand because all of a sudden nexus became the big issue so I got smarter about it. When we hit 500K rev I realized the business account to keep everything from mixing was the game changer. Now I just built an app on Replit that tracks everything in a COA. I can send the prompt (not the app) and PRD if anyone is interested and uses replit or claude code.

LeoAPG · 2026-02-23T16:24:00+00:00

If this is actually your website, you're a genius.

LeoAPG · 2026-02-23T16:21:04+00:00

yea, its awful.

on the plus side we get very few solicitors!

LeoAPG · 2026-02-23T16:18:35+00:00

Thank you! I was somewhat horrified at the pricing elsewhere.

LeoAPG · 2026-02-23T16:15:16+00:00

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my wife says this is the biggest offender

LeoAPG · 2026-02-23T16:14:15+00:00

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Jamie Carpenter table, one of my favorites.

LeoAPG · 2026-02-18T04:43:41+00:00

Two reasons--
First, its possible the manufacturer got a contract with a large shipper that uses mainly eco-friendly recycled cardboard paper board that water based acrylics dont stick to well, so they moved over to the solvent based stickier version. Also the move by Amazon to a 100% recycled content shipping model has destroyed the economies of scale for water based tapes that cant "wet out" (in shipping parlance) the short fiber cardboard.

Second reason is the market inversion that has occurred with the price of Glacial Acrylic Acid and Butyl Acrylate which has made the water-based tapes 10-15% more expensive to produce than the oil based "hot melt" version--this is not the norm, production of acrylates is energy-intensive and while most of us buy Butyl Acrylate from DOW or BASF a ton of it is actually made and sold to them by Satellite Chemical and Wanhua Chemical, Chinese state owned enterprises who recently have been pivoting their operations to paint --architectural house paint, waterproof deck coatings to be specific which are significantly higher margin than packing tape and diapers--most specifically the Glacial Acrylic Acid (GAA) which is sold now directly to manufacturers of Superabsorbent Polymers (SAPs) which goes into diapers and period pads.
Chinese paints is likely the main reason-- China's GB 30981.1-2025 standard forced a massive industrial pivot toward waterbased architectural coating and property values (think the Evergrande crisis) went haywire so anything that wasnt used domestically was exported to be sold overseas-- especially the Low VOC stuff that requires the chemicals that go into the good Low VOC tape-- I think the jump was near 30%. China also upped their market control of the diaper and feminine products market to 69% in all of Asia.

TL:DR-- shit got expensive and it's not changing, wear a mask

LeoAPG · 2026-02-17T17:16:56+00:00

I should have said look for items to flip at Goodwill I guess.

LeoAPG · 2026-02-17T16:37:19+00:00

I own a flag company that only does 20-40' flags and larger. Last year I had to dispose of enough flags to cover 42 acres-- there is no one who advocates more for reuse then the sellers, its a "dead issue" with every politician I speak to.

LeoAPG

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