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I have been all-in for the last month on restocking my card inventory for what I expect will be an even busier Q3 and Q4 in my consignment port than last year, when I sold over 1000 cards every month from October until March and basically made enough money that eBay became more of a side quest. My process doing this is a numbers game. I spend hours and hours every week searching through auction listings from consignment card sellers of various sizes, and sometimes this leads me to other bargains. This past week, I won two authenticated signed hockey jerseys for the $0.99 opening bid: retired Maple Leafs great Dave Andreychuk and a Team USA uni of current player Ryan Suter. My shipping for the whole order, which also included a bunch of profitable cards, was $22. The jerseys are cheap overseas fakes, but the autographs are real which will make for an easy $20-$30 profit on each jersey. I’ve been enjoying listing items like this lately. I am still waist deep in my spring cleaning, but I’m pretty sure a future more organized inventory room will have a space for a shelf or bin of signed jerseys.
What did you find this week?
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I found a Numatic Hetty vacuum cleaner in the street- it’s pink and has eyelashes but otherwise is the same as a Henry. Unfortunately whoever dumped it had been running it without a dustbag, so the motor was corroded and gummed up. I took it to the recycling depot, chucked it in a ten-foot-deep dumpster on top of two out-of-reach Henry vacuums which were probably working when they were dumped.
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Yard sales were great this week.
I bought a huge lot of vintage camera equipment. I have created alot of the listings but none are live yet. Here’s a couple comps to tide you over.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/176286649534
https://www.ebay.com/itm/116027123219
https://www.ebay.com/itm/305521131204
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266617906336
https://www.ebay.com/itm/116071839819
Another cool thing I picked up is one of these:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/166660894460
Dud of the week – I was able to buy some good shoes at Goodwill on Saturday – two big bags full.
Somehow either in the parking lot or at the baseball field parking lot I set one of the bags on the ground outside my van and left it there. Boo!!! I did a count and it isn’t too bad – I lost 4 pair.
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Happy for you @Retro getting back to the outdoor sales.
Not really anything too excited that I can post a link to this week. I see these Mola crafted items pretty frequently here. A lot of times they are just panels and the thrifts price them up. But, at my favorite thrift the linens lady is awesome and prices things to move so this was just $3 and they seem to go for $35 and up on Ebay solds. https://www.ebay.com/itm/335362770863
That same linen lady will go in the back and check for you and unlike the others is pretty quick to restock her area during the store hours. She got in a whole rack of Indian hand stitched linens, which I know nothing about. I bought one for $20 that was larger and in really good condition. It’s about the size of this one, not big enough for a bedspread. https://www.ebay.com/itm/145746484953?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=jfPNeRSOSjW&sssrc=2047675&ssuid=myJLfI4aREG&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY Here is more information in case anyone is also interested in learning about this textile work. https://hindikrafts.com/banjara-embroidery/
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@christiner Thanks for that link. I have seen that kind of embroidery on occasion so now I know!
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