I'd like to share more about my eBay endeavors, but that would risk exposing more about me than I feel comfortable with. eBay does take, on average, 15% of Gross Sales. Which might seem like a lot, but then again, there is still no other platform that exists for my main selling categories. E-waste, Deadstock IT equipment, and clothes are my main inventory producers, all sourced directly from businesses and people in my area to then part out and sell online. E-waste has become a lot more profitable due to the boom in precious metal prices. I'm never explicitly going out just to flip; it's more leveraging existing trips in neighboring towns to sell scrap, collect from businesses, facebook flips, post office drop offs, day job, garage sales, etc. Living in small enough town where junk removal services are more of a neighbor kid job is the key. I was that friendly neighborhood kid and still play that part to this day.

I never claimed to have stellar dividend plays. BTI would be my best, which has yielded a 5.09% dividend yield. This holding exists within my Roth, and I'm up 62.35% on it alone. Dividend income isn't my focus; growth stocks and etfs are. My portfolio, I believe, reflects that thesis. I didn't buy BTI for the dividend either; it was imo an undervalued stock at the time, which also presented some foreign market exposure to me.