Flip this junk?

[KotOD]

I'm in one of my regular watering holes this evening sitting next to a guy I don't know and I've never seen before, which is rare considering this is almost a regulars-only type of place. I'm talking to the bartender and he asks about work -- I tell him that we're doing more business than we can handle and it's insane. The guy next to me pipes up and in a thick Chicagoland accent asks me what I do. I figure that he's not offensive in odor or appearance and he's not tanked, so I can get away from him if the conversation goes awry. I explain to him what I do and he says, "Sound good. I couldn't take the office anymore, so I started garage sales." My first instinct was that he sold garage doors, or he sold additions for a contracting company. Man, I was way the hell off.

He launches into a story about how he quit his job as a loan officer and started into professional garage sales. He drives through older and poorer neighborhoods and suburbs in the Chicago area, scoping out garage sales or yard sales and buys up all kinds of stuff. He inventories everything with price paid and notes about the item and packs it in a moving truck that he bought. He then takes his truck to upscale neighborhoods and suburbs and finds people that have "For Sale" signs in the yard or that have already cleared out. He contacts them and offers them a percentage if they would allow him to hold a moving sale or garage sale on their lawn or driveway over a weekend.

Once he finds a site, he sets up his tables and tents and throws a 30% markup on everything that he's purchased and puts it up for sale for "rich people". He described in detail how the selling season is spring and the first half of summer and the buying season is fall. Second half of summer is no good because rich people go on vacation. He claimed that he made almost six figures the last two years doing this.

After he left, I couldn't figure out if the dude was a habitual liar, completely serious, completely delusional or something that I hadn't considered. There were so many times that I wanted to call BS on him, but I couldn't figure out if he was legit or not. If it was a lie, it was a Costanza lie -- he had everything covered. Has anyone ever heard of anything like this?