One Interesting Way To Profit From The Olympic Fever

This man has found a fascinating hobby that has provided him additional tens of thousands each year and a trip to every Olympic games since Atlanta! Find out what he is doing and how it is so profitable here!

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Ask Scott Reed how many Olympic pins he has, and he will tell you about 2,000. The 55-year-old specializes in the pins that national Olympic committees give to their athletes, so-called NOC pins. He keeps these framed on the walls of his house in Atlanta. Talk to Reed a little longer, and he will tell you about the time be bought 1 million pins from a dealer in Tucson and had them shipped to his house in two 24-foot trucks. “It makes me sound obsessive,” Reed says of the 2005 bulk purchase. “I do this as a hobby.” He paid “a few pennies per pin,” he says, and sold about 100,000 for $1 each in the course of a year—via the website he set up, Everypinsadollar.com—until the chore of packing and shipping got to be too much. He keeps the remaining stash stacked in shelves in his basement.

Reed is part of a roving band of collectors who appear every two years in Olympic cities to swap the small, tin-and-enamel pins that commemorate the Games. In London, the pin-trading hub is a tent inside Olympic Park set up by Coca-Cola (KO). Traders like Reed and his 19-year-old son Jeff set out their wares for four-hour shifts at one of a few tables inside. (Getting a spot, says Reed, required an interview with Coke and a background check.) Coke markets a variety of 2012 pins there, featuring the Tower of London, Westminster Abbey, red phone booth, etc., for around £8 each. Collectors are only allowed to trade.

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