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I’m down to about 500 items in my eBay store, with a nice backlog of stuff to list and good income coming in from the other selling platform (trading cards) that I use, but sometimes there are weeks like this past one where I only sell 20 items. Makes it harder to find a sale of the week!
I’ll go with this John McCain autograph for $65 which is a nice sale to discuss because of how long it had been in my store. It must be at least four years because the shipping price on the listing is $2.99. I’ve raised that price to $3.49 and $3.99 in the last few years so it’s kind of fun to see such an old listing. I’m sure I received higher offers on this autograph a few years ago, but I had my minimum offer settings higher. Recently I’ve been cutting the prices on older listings to make room for newer items in different niches. It’s rewarding to move forward and make a little money, too.
What did you sell this week?
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I had alot of great sales this week!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/265844448905
So this past summer while out at yard sales, I went into detail to my wife how I was no longer going to buy coats/jackets and was going to liquidate my coats inventory at the end of the year. We finished up this convo as we pulled up to a yard sale where I….bought 5 jackets/coats! This was one of them. They were all high end womens harley jackets for $5 each. How could I NOT buy them!!!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266121102479
Since we’re on Harley, I bought these a couple weeks ago at a local antique mall. This was the first week of applying my new sourcing rules. I could have bought a bunch of items that day, but just walked out with these for $10. They sold within a day of listing.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/265088042184
Sold this for a best offer of $150. One of those purchases where there is no established sales history but you just know it is special and has to wait for the right buyer. It’s been listed for close to 2 years.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266103252797
More copier supplies sold. Both of these sold this week. One of them was cheap to ship, but the second went to Los Angeles CA. It never fails that large free shipping items will go to FAR west coast. Forunately, I priced/planned for this. The semi-local sale was icing on the cake. Hopefully this surplus place keeps restocking their $10 toner section. I’ll go back in about a month and see what they have.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266122525796
This toner was actually from my local goodwill and not from the surplus. It is also my scavenge of the week. Goodwill had a whole shelf of CLEARLY used empty return toner cartridges. I don’t know what they were thinking putting all those out. Then on another shelf I found this one for $7. STR showed it would be an instant sale. Bought it on Monday, listed on Tuesday, sold over night for full price. An EASY $100 sale.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266100941146
A few years ago Dick’s Sporting goods expanded to include Field n Stream. It was basically a budget Cabela’s or Bass Pro. Then they got out of the business of selling pistols and AR’s. In this area, it was only a matter of time the Field n stream side went out of business.
I went up there when they started putting the good clearance prices out. I picked up 10 of these crossbow cranks. I sold 5 of them this week. Multi quantity, $100 sales price, EASY to ship. These are a scavengers dream pickup. I paid $30 each.
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My sale of the week was a lot of 3 different size mess hall or officers club plates marked with the US Army 26th Infantry Division logo from the WWI era. I thought about selling them individually but I reasoned that the buyer I wanted would pay up to get them all. They were $3 each at an estate sale and the lot sold for $100 plus shipping on a best offer. https://www.ebay.com/itm/275600492499
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So did you know what those were when you saw them, or research the front and back info?
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I have to admit that when I first saw them, I did not recognize the logo. It seemed very familiar to me but I couldn’t place it. Google lens wasn’t coming up with anything but the Bedford China backstamp with a Boston retailer address and how they looked and felt I knew that they were old. I figured it would have to be something interesting that I could sell them for more than $3 each. I put them away but as it turned out, I happened to be looking at a lot of military shoulder patches and there was a 26th Infantry Division patch with the YD logo on it (it stands for Yankee Division; originally all New Englanders) in the lot and I finally remembered.
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It’s kinda weird how estate sales are basically a shrine to the person who lived there. All of their career, hobbies, interests, how they dressed, etc are on display. Then it is broken up among a bunch of people to be dispersed, sold, collected, etc to other people and again become items in future estate shrines.
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https://www.ebay.com/itm/334587732610 Paid a super low $11 for this new item last year online RA. I haven’t been seeing that kind of pricing so far this year but will keep checking through March. I think I even got free shipping.
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