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I ran a batch of auctions last week so I had over 60 sales. It’s a lot to ship but easy to find a couple good things for sale of the week.
A Goonies DVD box set and board game for $25 plus shipping to Canada. I was a little surprised this wasn’t worth more considering how nice the set is.
Also to Canada, but to a different buyer, a trading card of arm wrestler John Brzenk for $10 plus shipping. There are hundreds of modern trading card sets produced annually for each sport and most of them are a predictable mix of the top players, rookies and the stars of the past. Collecting or flipping cards is all about each individual card. A card’s value basically comes from three things: the player on the card, the features and rarity of the card (like a serial numbered autographed rookie) and the quality of the brand or set.
A few sets are throwbacks to the old tobacco cards of a century ago, and the subjects of these cards can get pretty weird. Like this card from a few years of arm wrestler John Brzenk. Apparently he’s a big legend in the arm wrestling world, and this is his only trading card.
So that’s why even his regular base card can sell for $5 or $10. This rarely happens with athletes cards in more popular sports, unless the player is very obscure and only received cards in 1 or 2 sets out of the 40 or so that are made each year.
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https://www.ebay.com/itm/265525859599
This was an end a sell similar listing. I took a best offer without a counter since it had sat for 3 years without a sale. This came from buying a huge tub of lego at a yard sale for $10. Rule #127 for yard sales – even if the sale looks like a bad one during the drive by, take the 60 seconds to go take a look anyway. I was gonna drive on by this sale, but decided to give it the quick look. The tub was hidden behind a table. I spent a couple hours sorting the tub with my kids. I really enjoy sorting bulk lego. It really pays off too as I made several hundred dollars on this tub of lego.
You have to have a process though. Mine is:
- Set aside partial assemblies and unique pieces for research.
- Sort by types (Technic, bionicle, standard blocks, minifigs, star wars, specialty piece groups)
- <span style=”text-decoration: underline;”>Throw away all megablocks!</span>
- Complete sets from partial assemblies if possible
- List unique pieces separately individually or by lot. (unique pieces can bring $20 each!)
- List partial assemblies if worth it.
- List rest in sorted lots by bulk weight.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266109817047
Catcher’s equipment is one of my favorite items to source. I’m a bit partial though since I spent my childhood wearing the stuff! Full sets always sell for $100+ and I typically pick up full sets for $20 or less. Some nicer individual pieces such as helmets can sell for $40+.
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One more interesting sale:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266091625250
This was my oldest listed item. It sold by using sell similar and repricing. Oh boy, photographing on the fireplace mantle with no photography lighting. That listing is OLD! Definitely a 2015 listing.
I’m selling several of my sell similar listings each week now, so yay!
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About 2 weeks ago the youtube algorithm decided that I might be interested in arm wrestling videos….
…and it was 1000% CORRECT as always! Lol!
This all culminated in a wonderful connection with my childhood. I loved watching Stallone’s Over the Top when I was a kid. Every time it cracked me up in the final act seeing the mild mannered preppy dork in the polo shirt in the competition. He looked so incredibly out of place with all the pro wrestling style contenders.
I saw a video of John Brzenk wrestling Devon Larrat for the first time and I thought “hey, that dorky polo wearing dude looks familiar!”
Sure enough I learned that the polo wearing dude in Over the Top was John Brzenk and he could legit beat everyone there in the movie. He was Stallone’s inspiration for his character and was invited to cameo in the film. -
Congrats Retro on selling your oldest item. https://www.ebay.com/itm/334568304552 I sold my daughter’s used baby tee for double what we paid. Nice. Not really exciting sales this week, especially vintage.
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Great posts @retro-treasures-wv. Always enjoy it when the sell similar trick works. Skeptics take note!
Bulk lego prices are wild to me. But considering the price of new sets, and rarity of some of the out of print stuff, I can understand it.
The Youtube algorithm makes it a little more tolerable not having the podcast to get me through marathon listing sessions.
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