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Over the last month, I’ve gotten a lot more selective about what I buy and it really seems to be working well. This was an exciting week of scavenging with some great pickups for my card consignment business and my eBay store, from $1 purchases to larger buys. Summer can be sneaky like that.
My big buy of the week for the consignment business was this low-grade 1911 T201 baseball card at about $25. These tend to do very well on consignment through auction or regular listing, and it should be an easy $25 to $50 profit. I love finding cards like these during my weekly purchases because the profit for one big card covers the submission fees for 50-100 smaller cards!
In the same order, I won a bunch of auctions for signed postcards and index cards of old baseball players, like this Billy Urbanski with a nice inscription. These are a little trickier to sell on consignment as the processing fees are $4/card for oversized, but winning a bid for $1.25 makes it a lot easier to send these in. This Urbanski will likely do well at live auction since it says right under the signature when he played, no research required from the hosts!
A couple oddball items for the eBay store, starting with this AAGPL (girls pro baseball from WW2 era) signed display which I got for a song — $0.99 winning bid, and the shipping for my whole order was way low at $20. So let’s call it $7 all-in. I don’t love photographing large items like this, or listing them, or storing them, or packaging them, but this is easily a $50 to $100 item and a type of sports history (very niche) which I love the most. So I had no choice.
From the same order, this mini hockey helmet signed by Rangers K’Andre Miller should be a quick $8 to $25ish. I’ve seen a few of these go up for auction from this seller over the last few months as hockey season has wound down, and this was the cheapest sold by quite a margin.
The big buy of the week, both in terms of dollar amount and in terms of trying something new, was this lot of 11 early 20th century baseball photos with very specific identifying info on the back of them for about $100 all-in, basically $10 a photo. Not a type of item I’ve ever sold raw (ungraded or unauthenticated), but if I’m going to sell sports collectibles, I may as well give everything a try. And Terapeak solds for this specific photographer looked pretty good. I’m excited about these photos. I don’t need to do a ton with eBay to make my reselling business works, but it sure is nice when I get a pile of $50+ items to list.
What did you find this week?
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Did not pick up much this week at the flea. I do love the $1 guy though. I bought a few Pottery Barn shams and a couple of tees for myself. I also found another like new Ikea duvet for R&J.
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