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[Habnab]

Here are a few of my thrift-shop BOLO items. I might have mentioned these before, in the old format:

Monroe Salt Works Pottery: I found my first piece of this discontinued pottery at the dump, and have since found several other pieces at various thrifts. http://ebay.to/2iWZZLz

Old Spouter Pottery: I mention this because although a lot of it looks sort of kitschy and therefore might not catch your eye, it’s got a rabid following: http://ebay.to/2iWRUqg

Marblehead Pottery: I’ve only found one piece in the wild, but it’s a good name to know: http://ebay.to/2iuDCMr

[Liz]

I’m not sure if this is in the right sub forum; apologies if it needs to be moved!

I recently sold an not-very-old Perfection game, (remember those? With the timer and the pieces that pop up?). Selling price was $40 + shipping, and that was with a slightly beat-up box. I think we paid $3 or $4 for it at Salvation Army.

Apparently, a new Perfection game is selling for almost $60 at Toys R Us and Walmart. WHAT?! For a spring-loaded plastic box and timer?

As for Mouse Trap, the game was redesigned in 2014 into something that looks not-very-fun: New Style Mouse Trap Game

Prices on ebay for older Mouse Trap games from the 80s are about $40. The more recent Mouse Trap games are about $20, but I would expect those prices to go up, when more parents realize the great game they had as a kid only exists on the second hand market.

[thrifty2]

I bought a NWT item on which the new seller (3 positive feedback) had $5.00 with make offer. What the heck, I offered $4.00 and she immediately accepted. Yay me! She charged me $7 for USPS priority shipping, no problem.

She actually sent the item first class and pocketed the extra $3.40 which really irritated me.

I sent her a very nice message thru ebay explaining why sellers can’t do that and please just refund me the difference in postage cost. Her response was that ebay automatically charged me priority so that was that and after all I got the item very cheap.

I replied again very nicely that sellers can’t sell something cheap and then make up the difference by bait/switch on postage. Her response to that was ‘come on! you got it cheap enough’!

After the 3rd time I nicely requested the overage, she did not respond. I wrote and re-wrote a dozen different feedbacks scenarios for her. I really did not want to damage a new person’s feedback score, but her dismissive attitude really burned me.

I posted my dilemna onto a Facebook group and I got some commiserating comments but also got quite a few haters over it. THE worse thing a fellow seller can tell me is to ‘quit wasting your time, you could’ve listed xxx number of things while worrying about it’, because my time is MY time. (I’m 61 years old, and I can waste time if I want to just like I can eat a piece of bologna without putting it into a sandwich) My final response to the haters who said why waste my time over a few dollars was that if she does this to say 200 buyers that’s quite a bit of nice switch/bait cash she’s gotten.

I finally gave her a negative, which brought her down to 75% but immediately it went up a bit because someone gave her another positive.

A week later she started messaging me that she was trying to refund me the difference but ebay wouldn’t let her, etc etc. I had nicely walked her through it all during my 3rd message during our original exchange, so I just referred her to that message.

Finally she refunded me the $3.40 and said ‘now remove the negative like you promised’ (?), which I was want to do because at that point she appeared like she just wasn’t ever going to ‘get it’. (I also had to tell her 2x that I couldn’t just go in and revise it, she had to send me a request through ebay) HOWEVER, for some reason I decided to look at my feedback first, and she’d left me a false positive saying what an uncooperative can’t please customer I was.

Ebay removed the comment immediately but left the positive. I revised my feedback for her to positive (stated that the item was as described), and then messaged her one last time saying it’s against ebay’s rules to leave false positives and ebay removed it within 3 minutes but they left me her positive. (yes, the 12 year old in me came out, but not snarky, just the rolling of the eyes)

This is a long drawn out typing session and half-way through I realized that but was already committed to finishing it, plus I am procrastinating listing which I can do as it’s MY time.

Thanks for reading, happy 2017 to all, and thanks for the podcasts.

• This topic was modified 9 years, 5 months ago by thrifty2. Reason: corrected spelling

[Linda Shields]

J&R, that is SO awesome that you found all those paint by numbers for a dollar. Amazing. I recently found one at the local thrift–they are so rare–and while researching it to list I was amazed to see how much some of them sell for. In the hundreds. Not mine, but still I will always BOLO them now.

[Brian Treasures from Grandmas]

Store Week Nov 27-Dec 3, 2016

Total Items in Store: 777
Items Sold: 19 (1 Amazon)
Cost of Items Sold: $82.00
Total Sales: $681.45
Highest Price Sold: $195 (Starrett Caliper)
Average Price Sold: $35.87
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $140
Number of items listed this week: 45

Pretty good week for me. Lots of smalls that will likely be gifts, lots of weird & quirky things, and then the big sale was the Starrett Caliper. Several years ago I picked one up cause I knew tools sold well and I had never seen something like this. It sold immediately and for way more than I anticipated, so it was added to my BOLO list. I’ve bought several over the past 3 years, this one I picked up a few months ago for $15 and it sold for the $195 (http://www.ebay.com/itm/191867257194).

May have gone out for my last pick of the year. We’re having our master bathroom gut renovated so we’re living out of the second bedroom which is also my eBay room/photo studio. Good thing I have my death box so I can at least list something to keep the pipeline full.

Listening to the podcast now!

[Sharyn]

I bought a box of ceramics in May that had mostly Pinheiro plus some Italian stuff. All the Pinheiro sold, and some for really good money. It is now on my BOLO list, and I bought the bowls at a garage sale about a month ago. I also bought some platters at an estate sale in Sept, but they have not been doing as well partly because they each have a chip or two.

[Beverly – Far Out and Fabulous]

Thanks, Erik … I looked up Tieks ballet flats and was stunned. Geez and they don’t even have arch support. Thanks for the BOLO.

[shortandstout]

I picked up some plastic car model kits at an auction and they sold quickly for about $30 each. So BOLO for vintage model car kits that haven’t been completed with all the parts. Both of the ones I got were from the early 1980’s.

[Jeff Smith]

Love your videos, Steve. Very interesting and educational – and a great source of “BOLO” info. THANKS

[Simon]

My father worked for 40 years at the same firm. I guess I always grew up expecting to work in a regular 9-5 job. My dad was a bit of a tightwad and I think I inherited some of that tendency from him. I didn’t learn my about finances from my parents but I’ve always been interested in money and I’ve learned a lot about personal finance over the years.

Here are my numbers for the week. From a sales $ perspective, this was the best week I’ve ever had since I started selling on eBay about 18 months ago:

Total Items in Store: 1196
Items Sold: 34
Total Sales: $1274.3
Cost of Items Sold: $114.85
Average Price Sold: $37.48
Average Cost of Item: $3.38
Highest Price Item Sold: $349.95 4ft Pickett Slide Rule – bought at an estate sale for $10
Number of items listed this week: 53
Average age of items in store (in days since listing): 197
Average number of days between listing and selling this week: 79
Median age of sales (in days, between listing and selling): 16
Sell-through rate: 2.84%
# of Hats Sold: 18

Here’s one for the BOLO list:
Las Vegas travel brochures from the 70s – sold quickly for $34.95

[BourbonTrailBazaar]

Since this is a small community, I do not have near the reservations about adding advice and niches to look out for that I would on a place like Reddit.

My big BOLO are Edison Blue Amberol Cylinders. I look for these ALWAYS. Like most things, many of them are common and only bring a few $$ a piece. The great thing is they are all numbered! The low numbers are the common ones (though things like Christmas carols, patriotic songs, and other rarer titles still command good money). The real money is in the 5000+ series, and especially 5400+. Those were made as the cylinders were being phased out for records. They were made up until 1929. Anything above 5400 will command good money. If you can combine the number with a popular artist like the Georgia Melodians, then you will likely have a several hundred $$ item. The best one I found was Edison Blue Amberol #5713 My Sin – Fox Trot by Golden Gate Orchestra. There were only 109 ever made and that was in 1929!! it sold for $758 on auction. I probably could have made $1000+ if I listed it as a fixed price.

On top of selling, they are a really cool piece of history!!

Hope this helps someone and good luck!

Joshua

[Brian Treasures from Grandmas]

Just checked those out… “My Spiritual Reading Cards”. Added to my BOLO list if they’re going for $30-$40.