I sold three items over the past weekend. This is many more than I would expect to sale in a typical period, but the computer-based items moved quickly like I thought they would. Also, I sold an item, the advertising magazine, I have had for a while in addition to two of the mice I bought. It looks like I took it off previously when it was bought and not paid for. I re-added it to the inventory to show it.
The items that sold all at least double the money that I had paid for them. The first mouse made $10.24 on $8.11, the second made $18.00 on $8.11, and the magazine made $7.69 on $2.17. Overall, $35.93 on three items which cost me $18.39 and turned into $54.32. This almost tripled the amount I put into these three items overall. The return on these items was 295%.
The annual return for the two mice can be calculated but is so ridiculously high the number received doesn’t make any sense from an annual return basis, because to be able to find something which will sell every nine days in excess of doubling is part luck and part skill in flipping. To understand this the annual return on the mouse which I paid $8.11 for and made $18 in profit would be the following calculation. $18 divided by $8.11 equals 2.26 times the cost paid. 365 days divided by 9 days equals a turnover rate of 40.55 times in a year. The turnover rate is the part which is unobtainable on a consistent basis. This would then assume you could reinvest the new amount and make 2.26 times at each turnover. You would be able to increase your $8.11 to an amount that would be worth more than everything in the world currently, $1.8 quadrillion.
To understand this further look at how quickly the $8.11 grows in just ten flips.
| Starting Amount | Profit at 2.26 times | New Ending Amount | Flip Number |
| $8.11 | $18.00 | $26.11 | 1 |
| $26.11 | $59.00 | $85.11 | 2 |
| $85.11 | $192.35 | $277.46 | 3 |
| $277.46 | $627.06 | $904.52 | 4 |
| $904.52 | $2044.21 | $2948.73 | 5 |
| $2948.73 | $6664.13 | $9,612.86 | 6 |
| $9,612 | $21,725 | $31,337 | 7 |
| $31,337 | $70,821 | $102,158 | 8 |
| $102,158 | $230,877 | $333,035 | 9 |
| $333,035 | $752,659 | $1,085,694 | 10 |
Having $8.11 grow to over $1,000,000 in ten flips would require so much luck to be able to make this happen. Add it that you would do this in 90 days, or three months then you can understand how unrealistic this is. The higher the amount of the item you are trying flip the harder it is to get a multiple like 2.26 times your investment and the higher the risk you are taking to make this amount of return that quickly. It could happen to get this type of return, but it would take longer for this to happen.
I am currently underinvested by $38.92 and will update once I’ve got new items to replace this. This was a good week for flipping for me. I went from being overinvested by $17 to underinvested by $38. The power of flipping small amounts keeps on being shown over time. I be at $171 of inventory once I have the new items, I need which puts me at an inventory of 4.7 times my initial investment. It looks like I will have 5 times the amount I started with when less than one year is done since I started.
Current Inventory
| Item | Cost | Date Purchased | Sold | Profit |
| Ireland Puzzle | $3.45 | 6/27/22 | ||
| NFL Puzzle | $2.37 | 6/27/22 | ||
| Animal puzzle #1 | $1.18 | 6/29/22 | ||
| Animal puzzle #2 | $1.18 | 6/29/22 | ||
| Iowa Puzzle | $1.18 | 6/29/22 | ||
| 3 Hole Punch | $1.18 | 6/29/22 | ||
| Serving Dish and Bowl | $9.29 | 7/20/22 | ||
| *Star Wars Puzzle | $2.37 | 7/25/22 | ||
| *2 Hot Wheels | $2.10 | 8/3/22 | ||
| Star Wars Puzzle | $1.18 | 8/31/22 | ||
| Animal Puzzle | $1.18 | 8/31/22 | ||
| Animal Puzzle | $1.18 | 8/31/22 | ||
| *2 Coca Cola Puzzles | $6.91 | 9/13/22 | ||
| *Christmas Coffee Cup | $1.18 | 9/13/22 | ||
| *Stapler and Stapler remover | $.54 | 9/26/22 | ||
| *Floral Plate | $2.71 | 9/26/22 | ||
| *Advertising Magazine | $2.17 | 9/26/22 | $7.69 | 2/19/23 |
| *Old Spice Cologne bottle | $3.25 | 9/26/22 | ||
| *Wood block set- kid’s toy | $2.17 | 9/26/22 | ||
| *Japanese Stein 1 | $3.25 | 9/26/22 | ||
| *Japanese Stein 2 | $4.33 | 9/26/22 | ||
| *One, two, three infinity | $1.07 | 10/19/22 | ||
| *Satellite Puzzle | $2.37 | 11/28/22 | ||
| *Snowglobe | $3.45 | 11/30/22 | ||
| *Tealight | $2.37 | 11/30/22 | ||
| *Board Game | $3.78 | 1/4/23 | ||
| *Music Equipment | $43.30 | 1/4/23 | ||
| *Painter’s puzzle | $3.78 | 1/30/23 | ||
| *Roblox characters | $5.94 | 1/30/23 | ||
| *New Hard Drive | $5.94 | 2/9/23 | ||
| *Logictech Wireless Mouse 1 | $8.11 | 2/9/23 | 2/17/23 | $18.00 |
| *Logitech Ergonomic Mouse 1 | $10.27 | 2/9/23 | ||
| *Microsoft Ergonomic Mouse 2 | $8.11 | 2/9/23 | 2/17/23 | $10.24 |
| Underinvested | $38.92 | |||
| Total inventory amount | $132.25 |