This is a one-stop source book into the field of buying and selling merchandise from garage sales, estate sales, auctions, etc., preparing it for resale, and reselling it for substantial profits. The book covers everything from the things you will need before making this into a business, the best, and the worst, merchandise to acquire for resale, the best places to find bargains, how the various sale types operate, how to tell between fake and authentic merchandise, how to clean and repair merchandise to ready it for resale at maximum profit, how to know the selling price of an item before you even buy it, where to resell your merchandise to achieve maximum return, even a super-secret business opportunity guaranteed to increase profits. This author of this book knows hardship as well as anyone having been downsized out of two jobs in the last ten years. It is his hope that everyone who has been laid-off, terminated, had their hours cut, or anyone who just needs extra income in hard times can make use of this book and change their lives for the better in the spare time.