What Sells On eBay: Vintage Coleman cooler & Lantern, Polaroid cameras, Military parka, Halloween costume, models, Magnavox console

Thank you, Steve, for your awesome videos! I’m now on the lookout for model cars and Coleman lanterns. I didn’t make a whole lot of good sales last week, but here are some notable ones.

I got this green glass ball in a box lot. There were three sellable items from the lot that I paid $30 total, so this came to $10. I brought it home and did some research and found out it was a glass fishing float. It was missing the rope or twine that was normally wrapped around it, but it had a cool makers stamp on the bottom. So I listed it for $50 and took a best offer of $40.
Green Glass Fishing Buoy Float

I’m always on the lookout for Tumi brand bags or luggage, and when I spotted this leather luggage tag at a thrift store for .50 cents, it was a no brainer. Unfortunately, it was one items that got caught in the flood but I was able to clean it up alright. It had a bit of wear afterwards, so I listed it for $20 and it sold overnight.
Tumi Luggage Tag

Here’s a unique little thing. It’s a brass nameplate off of a piece of heavy equipment in an old paper factory. It came in a box lot of all kinds of metal goodies. It was one of those buys that you don’t really know the value of the stuff in the box, but it looks fun enough to gamble. I paid $12.50 for the lot and this came out to be $1.56. It took maybe two weeks but it sold for $20.
Brass Paper Company Machine Nameplate

Here’s a bit of a BOLO that you may or may not know. People love old hardware.. I always buy this kind of stuff if it’s cheap enough. When people are restoring furniture or whatnot, they want the real thing, not some old-looking new stuff from Ikea. And I’m happy to provide, for the right price. And often enough, it’s the old, weathered looking pieces that sell the fastest. Here’s an example that I sold on Saturday. Before I was a believer, I would have thrown this away if it came in a box lot. But it was the first piece to sell from the huge lot I listed a few days earlier. Just a simple spring latch that looked like it spent most of it’s life outdoors. But it’s authentic, and that’s what they want. I paid .23 cents for this particular piece (the box lot came to $12.50) and I sold it for $17.
Weathered Spring Latch Hardware

I can’t believe you sold a console, let alone for $700! Congrats! I see these on the side of the road constantly and drive by them – didn’t know they had any value.

I’ve tried to find decent Coleman Vintage Coolers but they always have a odor to them that turns me off and scares me to send them to someone because of the size and potential INAD cost for the smell.

This week I sold 5 Sony Playstation 2, and 2 Sony Playstation 1 consoles that I’ve had up for a few weeks. Just really odd to sell that many in a week.

I bought four lamps on auction for $6. This mission style lamp works, but has a bunch of marks and doesn’t come with a shade. Nevertheless, it was the first to sell at $23, bought for $1.50.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/182768632432

I’ve mentioned that I sometimes can get lots at an online auction for the minimum bid of $1. I’ve already sold one vintage software package from a $1 lot, and here are two more that sold for $23 & $20.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/182687562094
http://www.ebay.com/itm/182687780114

At one of the live auctions I go to, the minimum bid is usually $5, but, if they come to the end of a table and can’t add more boxes, they will sometimes go down to $2.50 (+ 15% premium). This vintage crate was combined with something else I haven’t listed yet. Paid $1.75, sold for $25. It is headed back to CA.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/182770350668

Sort of ironic, but these Christmas salt & pepper shakers were combined with a box of Jewish stuff I wanted at auction. I paid $0.50, sold for $27.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/182570192887

What sold July 9-15

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Thanks, Steven. Your videos always make me smile. The doggies do too.

Congrats on the Magnavox console sale!!!

Hey guys, here’s my What Sold for all of August. I guess I won’t be making one for September because I only sold 3 items. I’m not sure what happened in September but selling that few of items is very strange for my store, especially when I did list stuff. Hoping for a better October.