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Have you ever looked around your room and wondered what you could sell for some extra/much needed cash? Did you look in your small-laundry items drawer? Maybe you need to.
The used-bottom fashion trade is a flourishing industry where sellers can make up to $75 a pair, and routinely between $15 and $30. By sellers, I mean average women (some very average) who are selling their tush-covers to pay bills or even buy wedding gowns. Don’t ask me how I know this. But if you’re interested in earning a couple hundred bucks a month for doing something you’re probably already doing for free, here’s what to sell and where to sell it.
Who can sell their fundees?
Women of all shapes, sizes and ages seem to be finding willing buyers. Men also can sell their worn grape-smugglers, but they are much less in-demand (although men in women’s garden tarps is a niche market). The average pair of knick-knacks goes for around $20, and occasionally as high as $50. Star hanky-blank sellers (veterans with lots of satisfied customers offering rave reviews, just like on eBay) can earn up to $75 a pair.
Where do I sell it?
As with any product, you want it to be seen. However, due to the nature of the item, you can’t exactly create a Facebook fan page or Twitter account. Many sites are out there to connect buyers and sellers. Here are the most popular choices among first-time and veteran sellers.
Craigslist: You can always try posting your ad in the personals section for free, but you run the risk of it being flagged, and very quickly. In the adult section (for a $5 fee), you can sell your skidmark containers without hassle. The catch is, you have to filter through all the “non-buyers” and their suggestive email requests.
Ebanned.net: This is a great mature person website dedicated only to selling the things you can’t on eBay. You create a listing of what you want to sell, someone buys it and you ship it—simple as that. There’s no fuss of back and forth with the buyer. The downside is, your listing runs alongside many others for the exact same thing. To give you an idea, there currently are around 300 listings for used victoria’s secrets. Ebanned charges a listing fee of 40 cents, along with extra features like $1 for bold headlines, $3 for highlighted headlines, etc. Pay the extra dollar for a highlighted background—it’s always worth it.
Used (roupa interior) portal.com, AKA CulotteHog: Since eBay put the kibosh on selling unterwasche (or not wasched, in this case), dozens of other similar websites have popped up, and these sites are a bustling hive of forums, tips, and hints. If you want the most out of your selling experience, CulotteHog is your new best friend. Posting is free, and there’s an array of hosting options, like “About Me” pages, helpful info for first-timers in their “Used Hanes University” section, interviews with pros and most importantly, a free seller directory. Sometimes the level of involvement is a bit much when all you want is to wear the diddle bits and get paid, without getting to know your buyer and his plans for your product.
Can I sell my granny’s prized heirlom private wardrobe items?
You can, but cash-cows have bows, ribbons, zippers and buttons. And less is more when it comes to fabric. By less, I mean whale tails, which usually bring in $25-$40. Lacy boycuts come in at a close second at around $15-$25 and string Spongebob’s hometowns take third with average earnings of $7-$15. Stock up at Marshall’s or JCPenny, which tend to have clearance bins where cute ondergoeds can run $2 a pair.
Typically, trunks for yo junk are advertised as having been worn for one to three days. Buyers will sometimes request longer or more “specialized” wears. This gets as cringe-worthy you can imagine. It all boils down to your own level of comfort: If you don’t want to do something, someone else out there will. So stick only with what you’re okay with.
Wait, I have to post pictures?
Yep. Just like with selling things on Ebay, Etsy, or Craiglist, you have to show the merch. Stay away from blurry, phone camera pictures. The customers want to see the product in clear view. Beginners don’t usually show their faces—the important part of the picture is you in the valuable asset up for sale. It helps to have a few drinks first, then set up that self-timer and get to work. Be mindful of the background. Kids’ toys—or an actual kid—might be a turnoff.
The most important in this step—to keep yourself from backing out of it, that is—is to think of the money you’ll make for doing zero extra work, save going to the post office. What you DO NOT want to do here is think of the men you’ll be sending your wedgie-makers to, or all the things they might do with your pan….NO, stay away from that. Just take a sobering look at your bank account/credit card bill/student loan and commit.
What happens next?
You’ll need to set up an account with Alertpay so you can get paid. Yes, there are many other online account options, but AlertPay is the only one that officially allows the transaction of happy thoughts and hugs for your perfectly legal grownup thundergarments. If Paypal finds out that $35 transfer was for your ladywear, they’ll fine you up to $500.
After all that set-up, don’t get discouraged if you don’t get 18 bidders in the first 10 minutes. If it doesn’t sell, list it again. Like any small business starting out, it takes some time to make a name for yourself, but then you do and the money starts rolling in. You also could sell your first pair right away, and in two days have $30 you didn’t have before. You just never know until you try. A good seller writes her buyers thank-you emails. You want to turn those first-timers into repeat buyers. They can and will become a steady source of income.
Can I sell my socks too?
Yep, along with melon slings, L’Eggs, adult, uh, dye pers, etc. If you can think of it, there’s probably already a niche market out there.
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This is possibly the greatest Brokelyn post ever. Nina, you rock.
Woah.
Excellent job brokelyn! Way to think outside the box; very informative and entertaining!
This helps me out a bunch for my project. Thank you!!!!!!
Puts me in mind of that MTV ad where they had a used-panty assembly line:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aoix4J4H8Bw
Why buy used, check out our underwear it is clean and we accept PayPal and major credit cards.
Great. Yet another way women are objectified in our society. This is GARBAGE.
This was really fun to read. I had no idea there were all these websites. Crazzzzzy. I can’t wait to see the next article from Nina! I am gonna start stealing my grannies diapers and sell them all smellbay.com.
Sick, sick.
OMG! Great idea! Thanks
Hell yeah, women are my favorite objects! Next to women’s panties of course. They have vending machines for that in Japan. Its no wonder my preacher spends so much time over there.
Love it! I had a stifled work giggle with the kid in background part..
*gag* That’s right, don’t think of the pervs who’ll be buying your soiled undies, and definitely don’t think about what the creeps are thinking as they do whatever-it-is-they-do with your undies.
Don’t think about what this says about women in our society, what it allows MEN to think about the women in our society, just SELL SELL SELL. Today your undies, tomorrow your photos, then your body, and your soul… oh wait, women don’t have those! They’re just objects, silly.
This edit is the funniest thing ever!
I’m so glad I read the original post, because it makes this edited even more hilarious.
The original was great, but the edit is borderline brilliant.
Anyone know if you can still find the unedited article online?
I’m afraid the only unedited version is in our hearts, thanks to that son-of-a-{redacted} Google Adsense.
Nice, but you actually missed the largest community/adult auction site for um, hamper fillers (myusedpantystore.com) We’ve got an average of 1200 listings open at any time and an average of 500 successful sales a month. Happy sellers, happy buyers, what recession?
Whoa! is actually wonderful giving. Thank you a!
Thank you for this article !!!! :) I`m really excited to turn my lacy funky panties into a direct deposit. ;)
ebanned charges for this service… bannedbids.com is free for all who use it!
. . an explanation for those that think having women’s used undergarments is terrible or perverted. Some men will never get to have the closeness of another woman in their lives. . . for various reason . . shyness, never met the right one, or anyone. There is still a need for the sense of smell in human attraction and sexuality. To think of going a lifetime without the smell of the opposite (or attractive sex in your case) is very difficult and you might not understand unless you haven’t experienced intimacy in many, many years. I personally haven’t in years and might not have intimacy ever again. I might like to try this idea but am very apprehensive. I just miss the smell of a normal healthy attractive woman . . . and I quite possiblely will never experience that again.
Great article filled with awesome advice! :)
I posted my first pair of panties on ebanned a few days ago. I love this site probably as much as all my current bidders love me! <3 If you're turned on by sexy, Spanish athletes, then come and give me a taste… xoxo Tenniscutie ([email protected])
I also would like to sell my undies