A TEENAGER who started a side hustle while still in school revealed he’s now earning £100,000 a year – it cost him just £2 to start.
Evan Sellick has tapped into the second-hand clothing trend, which 60 per cent of millennials now prefer to buy.
The 19-year-old from Cwmbran saw a rise in demand after Vinted – an online marketplace where users buy and sell clothes – turned a loss of £17.4million in 2022 into a £15.1million profit in 2023.
Evan started his business at just 16 in his nan’s spare bedroom.
His nan would wash the clothes for £2 and he’d keep whatever profit he made from sales.
Within months the teenager had bagged his first one hundred pounds and he never looked back.
Evan admitted that he “always had the hustle mindset” and explained how he would make and sell loom bands and phone cases to fellow students.
“I was fortunate it was lockdown during the pandemic so my grades were predicted for me and they were okay,” he added.
“When I was 16 I bought a pair of Ralph Lauren joggers for a tenner and sold them for £20 and I loved that buzz.”
Once his business outgrew his nan’s bedroom, Evan decided to upscale and rent a warehouse for £900 a month.
Evan said his nan is a “godsend” and still pays her to wash the clothes.
Every day the teenager arrives at his warehouse at 9am to unload a new batch of clothes shipped from Pakistan.
After washing and taking photos of the items, he begins flogging them online until the early hours of the morning.
He sells the clothes on Tilt where people buy and sell second-hand clothes in an auctioneer-style live video call.
Evan claimed he once made over £250 selling 15 items on the site in just one hour.
He revealed that his business model only works because he’ll never buy anything he couldn’t sell for at least double.
The teenager was named among Wales’ top young entrepreneurs at the Great British Entrepreneur Awards.
The nineteen-year-old was not shocked at Vinted’s recent figures which saw its revenue grow by 61 per cent from 2022 to 2023.
In the last 18 months, his business has rocketed and he now makes £100,000 a year.
“I felt like I wasn’t making any money until 2023 and now my turnover is six figures,” he added.
Despite not being a huge fan of social media, the young Welshman reinvested a portion of last year’s profits in a TikTok expert and photographer.
Evan currently pays an “algorithm specialist” to run his account on the platform and sees instant results.
He now mentors a group of ten people who saw his work on TikTok and want to learn how to buy and sell clothes like him.
They pay him hundreds of pounds for access to advice, supplier information and one-to-one coaching.
Evan admitted that he wished he had support business organisations and is thrilled to be able to offer help to young entrepreneurs which wasn’t available to him.
It comes after a 17-year-old has revealed that her side hustle business makes a whopping £320,000 a year.
And a teenager says he makes thousands of pounds each month through a lucrative side hustle – which he started from his bedroom.
