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I wasn’t listing on eBay at all last week, but I still spent a good chunk of my time hunting through auction listings as I do every week. My eBay store is tiny, and sales can be up and down, but my consignment sales pay my bills and I keep that inventory moving in part because I am always hunting for deals, willing to add to that inventory, looking for new opportunities.
Lately I have been focusing on star players cards in quantity because they are quick and consistent sellers. I’m not sure I’d want to build an entire inventory around Shohei Ohtani Leaf rookie cards because Leaf is not the best brand, and one injury means the cards will take a while to sell, but as a supplement to my existing inventory it’s great. I won the lot of 20 copies of this card for $87 and after consignment processing fees, my COGS will be around $5 per card. The current low price for the card is $10.51 on sale, $11.65 base price (which is what shows on eBay) so this should be a fairly easy $100 profit unless Ohtani has a rash of injuries or any sort of controversy. But what are the odds of something like that happening?
I should do better with some oddball 1990s basketball cards of two other people who definitely never, ever did anything wrong: coaches Bobby Knight and Rick Pitino. My COGS is just over $1 a card which is exciting. Despite the notoriously poor quality of obscure vintage cards like this (check out those perforations!), I love selling them because it’s a little bit of trading card history that gets preserved. How many of these magazine insert cards are possibly left after 30 years? There are zero active listings for these cards under $50, so my goal is to sell (1) in the $20 range and then I’m completely in the money. These would be good cards for a curated team lot, too.
I didn’t really intend on winning six separate auctions for sealed copies of Pokemon Battle Academy (2022 edition) but they all went for $0.99 because of the absurd shipping charge on the listing. But the shipping charge on my 31 item order was only $38, which included all the cards above plus others like PSA graded 1960s Pittsburgh Pirates team photos at about $3 each and a few 1/1 stamped cards from a Topps Transcendent VIP party which will net me at least $10 profit on each since the title on the original listing missed the key element, the One of One stamp. So I don’t need Pokemon Battle Academy to be a big seller to make a nice profit on this order, and considering there are too many active listings in the $12/free shipping range, it isn’t going to make me much money. I actually think I will do better trying to sell these to the local gaming store in town, or maybe if I do a flea market table for the first time in a few years. They were cheap enough that I’m not concerned. But I didn’t realize how bulky they were! Kind of getting in the way of my spring cleaning!!
What did you find this week?
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Of course I had my bread n butter shoe/clothes items, but the true scavenge of the week was a Harley Davidson Power Wheels. These tend to sell for big bucks.
I will likely list for $300-400 and I have the advantage of being willing to ship. Most people just do local pickup.
I have a history with Power wheels. When my oldest kids were young, I got into power wheels modding. I still have their power wheels but rarely get them out. I did custom paint jobs. I would modify to parallel battery arrangements for LONG ride times (over an hour of full power riding). Turbo setups that could swap my parallel battery setup to series for a turbo boost. Full lighting setups (Headlights, tail lights, reverse lights).
I would buy power wheels for cheap at yard sales, repair them, put in new upgraded batteries and sell them for big bucks.
At one point all the neighbor kids could come over and they’d all be cruising in my collection of power wheels.
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I shopped three Goodwills in Seattle, and boy, is that a tough town for picking things that have not already been found and priced up. For a city that size it seems like there are not a lot of thrift stores. Also without a car it was a challenge, but I did it. I went to 2 regular stores and the bins for an hour (only clothing only unfortunately and closed early). Some of the haul pictured I will list online, some I will save for my pop up vintage market booth dream, and a couple of things I am keeping for myself. I listed some of the picture 2 items right from my Airbnb.
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