YouTube makes private picks look like a cheat code: walk into someone's garage, pile up stock, hand over cash, leave with a month of listings.
The useful question is whether they actually beat thrift stores once you track the money.
Matt pulled every bulk buy on Flippedit from roughly April through July: seven lots, one or two a month. Not vibes. Sold-through profit.
What the last seven picks actually did
Sorted by profit in the video:
- $2,000 lot, 240 items at $8.33 each. 170 of 240 sold. $2,482 profit on top of getting the $2,000 back, with 70 items still to sell. Cash-in so far about $4,400.
- $1,000 lot already $547 profit with about half still to sell. On track to roughly double.
- $250 Facebook Marketplace PS4 buy: $129 profit. Fine, not a home run.
- $175 Marketplace bundle: $41 profit, one item left.
- $300 Facebook bundle: still in the red by $64 with six items left. Likely a small profit at the end. One of the weaker buys.
- $1,200 JB Hi-Fi Blu-ray deal: $172 from break-even, 13 left. Strong.
- $1,200 private pick (July 9) at $24 average: $355 from break-even, 24 listings left. Matt's guess at the end: close to $1,000 profit.
Not every lot doubled. A couple were mediocre. The pattern still holds: one afternoon of sorting beats a month of $3 thrift-store singles, and the good lots throw off cash while leftover SKUs keep selling.