Woman Turns Flipping $250 Bag on eBay Into $500M Luxury Resale Empire
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- â˘Sarah Davis started Fashionphile 25 years ago after flipping her first $250 Louis Vuitton bag from a DC thrift store.
- â˘The company has sold 2 million luxury accessories and expects $500 million in sales this year alone.
- â˘Luxury resale is outpacing the original luxury market, projected to hit $317 billion globally by 2027.
- â˘Davis advises buying classic black or brown styles like the Louis Vuitton Speedy for best resale value.
Back in 1999, law student Sarah Davis bought a Louis Vuitton red Epi bucket bag for $250 at a D.C. thrift store and flipped it on eBay like a proto-crypto NFT trader. Fast-forward 25 years, and her company Fashionphile has sold 2 million luxury accessoriesâincluding those same red Epi bucket bagsâwith a cool $500 million coming in this year. Sarah says the secret to #BagGains is classic styles, black/brown colors, and digging through thousands of listings for 70-80% off steals. Yes, luxury handbags are now the adult version of 'investing in PokĂŠmon cards.'
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Flipping a $250 thrift store LV bag on eBay turned into a $500M empire. Who knew resale was the new retirement plan and leftover filthy laundry is cashmere?
Sarah Davis turned thrift store trash into haute couture cashâ2025âs real treasure map is designer purses, not Bitcoin.
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Source: Businessinsider | Published: 11/30/2025 | Author: Madeline Berg
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