Jump onto the workshop floor

From the resale workshop

The sale made money. Did the whole trip?

Count driving costs and all active work, not just the minutes at the checkout. Use your actual vehicle-cost assumption, never a tax mileage rate.

Use the bench in three moves

  1. Check product safety, permitted saleability and actual terms first.
  2. Fill every applicable cost; keep unknown assumptions labelled, not silently zero.
  3. Read the method and exclusions, then change one assumption to test the downside.

Use actual costs or clearly chosen scenarios. Enter zero explicitly where a cost does not apply. Our application does not send or save these entries.

Read the tape

No sale modeled yet. Enter the costs above.

Method and boundaries

Vehicle cost = miles × your cost per mile. Pre-tax operating surplus = receipts − all entered non-vehicle costs − vehicle cost. Active hours = sourcing/travel + testing/listing + fulfilment/customer care. Hourly surplus = surplus ÷ active hours; zero hours gives not applicable. Inputs cover one chosen batch or trip, not an annual forecast. Do not count vehicle costs twice. This is neither an IRS deduction nor a tax calculation, wage, promised income or valuation of passive waiting time; include ongoing overhead and return work where relevant.

Worked example · hypothetical, not an actual seller

Count the whole chosen trip

Receipts $180, non-vehicle costs $112, 30 miles at a chosen actual-cost assumption of $0.40/mile, 2 sourcing/travel hours, 1 listing hour and 1 fulfilment hour. The mileage amount is not an IRS rate.

Vehicle cost $12; surplus $56 across 4 active hours, or $14/hour before income tax and omitted expenses. This is an example, not achieved earnings.

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