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I just opened two boxes from our garage and they are full of a mess of tangled, AC/DC adapters, old cordless phones, dead routers, 15 year old car chargers, old USB cords, few old dead keyboards, tons of old telephone hard wire connecters, etc., etc.
I see some people sell these for $4-5 bucks each. BUT.. even lotting them is there any real use or value given the time it takes? I see tons of cables and adapters at thrift stores and they are $.50 each.
What’s some opinions, just throw the whole tangled mess into a box and donate and take the small deduction? I see J&R have some in both of their stores.. but really do they move or have they just sat there for years??
I spent about 20 minutes trying to untangle some of them and I just felt like “Looking for a match”..LOL :-). Any support here on just dumping it all or am I crazy for not wanting to take the time to untangle and do the “listing dance” for acheap adapter?
Just a polling question..
Mike at MDCG in Atl
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Too bad you are not closer. I would have given you all of the stuff from the old Antique booths and still have a death box [not a pile] of just plain old, press molded glass. I would almost drive up just to give it to you..but what would you do with it yourself.
We have certainly learned from our “Ooopsies” through the years.
Went to a large Estate Sale yesterday and came home with 28 pices. But pieces we knew about, were in good shape, no chips, flea bites, cracks, NO REPAIRS, everything fine and we know what we can sell them for and what we had to pay for them and got the estate manager to hit our price. Years ago we would have loaded the car up with all that junk and walked out with 100’s of item. Not any more. trying to use our heads and not our backs :-).
Well back to sorting. Our daughter came to visit a few days back and she was in let’s go and be a tourist mode. Nope. had to list. She asked, don’t you ever stop.
Answer: .. NOPE.
Catch ‘ya on the flip side…
Mike
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We’ve sold chargers before. The ones we really look for are the weird, older ones to “obsolete” models. Usually someone is trying to restore an old computer or electronic equipment and cant find the charger new because the item is no longer supported.
Like anything, it might be worth doing an hour of entering in charger numbers to see what you have. It wont be big money. Has to be something you enjoy doing.
If not, just donate.
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Yeah, I am biting the bullit and working on untangling them. I have about a dozen chargers.
Also a ton of old phone jack cords and am dumping those. Also about 6 audio [white red, yellow, blue] cords. So maybe dump the junk and just keep the adapters and audio-video cords.
I did find an old Palm Pilot along with an attachable keybord, stand and charger. So maybe worth finishing it of.
Thanks… mike
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Are you sure that the old phone cords are worthless? I have a bunch of old ones, and I had been planning to lot them up to sell (checking to make sure they work). We are pretty tech savvy, but my husband and I never signed up for VOIP. We insisted on keeping the old phone lines working. During Superstorm Sandy, about 5 years ago, we had no electricity for over 5 days, but we have phone service the whole time. All our neighbors were SOL.
Anyway, I have a bunch of cords from all the auctions I go to, but I haven’t checked the going price. There are plenty of folks out there with POTS (plain old telephone service).
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Regular, plain phone cords RJ11 [male to male] are so cheap. New ones in 4 ft. to 10-12 feet cost next to nothing, new at Walmart 50 ft. for $8.00. Sellers from China are selling them for $1.00 each and Free Shipping. I don’t think there is nothing special about a plain phone extension cord. You can buy a whole spool in 50 ft. or 100 ft. lnegths, buy a bag of connectors that snap on and u cut to length. These I will dump.
But now the power supplys, adapter and converters another story I guess. AC/DC to converters from 110 house volt current to various step down voltages. Those I am up to about a dozen or so and am seeing some in the $12 to mid- $20 range. We may just lot those together. These days we don’t like to list items for much under $25 and don’t take offers on items much under $29.99 and in some cases about $35.
We got 28 items yesterday at an Estate Sale for $175 [$6.25 each. So far the two bigger scores which we knew as soon as we saw them was a Satsuma 2 pc. set and a Moser decanter, look these up and then be on the look out for them. The rest we will all list at 10 times ++. So about $1,600 on those plus the two treasurers total listed at about $2,500. BUT these 3 dumb boxes of adapters are in the way on top of our incoming inventory tables since we pulled them from the garage and figure, we need to be cleaning up and working on the stuff from the Estate Sale not worrying about 4 ft. plug in phone cords, but we know a $10 dollar bill is still a $10 dollar bill. But since we specialize more in Asian Decor and original limited edition art prints, more eclectic home decor and such, hard to get my heart into a box of tangled adapter cords. 🙂
But I will have them all sorted out by this evening, get them processed and out of our way, then move onto our estate sales stuff.
But inventory is Inventory. Another last consideration is we are at about 940 items on our Premium Store. When we hit 1,000 we will then start going over. But that’s no big deal.
Anyway onward to finish up the adapter / cord sorting.
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I’m not sure lotting up adapters will make sense unless they are very similar.
I guess I’ll donate my phone cords.
I bought a Patti Playpal yesterday. I’ve sold one about two years ago, and the interest in it was very high. I hadn’t seen one in good shape since then, and I was surprised that it was still available at the end of the estate sale.
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Yeah as Jay said I will have to just check them out. Some repair guy may want a bunch of assorted ones just to have around. Or if I find they have some value, will then just bite the bullit and list them.
I did just find about 8 old cell phones in the bottom. Old Motorola flip phones from way back when we first got our first cell phones [after using pagers for years] and 2 BlackBerry phones. Have to look those up also. Maybe some value. Maybe the “scrappers” will have some interest if there is any gold parts in these models.
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Mike,
I would not get rid of those flip phones any time soon especially if they are working. There is much discussion about going back to flip phones that just make calls due to the extensive disconnection and high level of tracking that occurs with the use of smartphones.
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WoW! Thanks AdE. Never thought of that. After condensing down all of this stuff I am down to just 3 small shoe box sizes boxes. Think I will just slide them up and under our incoming inventory tables. That at least frees up that surface for us to start working on the new estate buys. I can double back on the stuff later when we are caught up with the higher end stuff. In no rush.
But very interesting about a phone that just makes calls and not tracked and hacked like the SmartPhones.
Thanks for the heads up … mike
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A quick tip for old AC / DC adapters. Before tossing them out be sure to look for brand names. Nearly every adapter for video game consoles have value as long as they are original. An original power adapter for the super nintendo will fetch $20 easily.
Also look for Bose, laptop, and printer adapters.
If you find an old “microsoft natural keyboard” a.k.a. ergonomic keyboard they can be valuable too. I once found an old MS keyboard like this new in the box and it sold for $90 within a couple days.
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For what it’s worth, I have a box full of cables, power adapters etc. I put like items, RCA cables, Ipod cables etc in Ziplock bags. That way I can easily find what I’m looking for and I no longer have the dreaded tangled mess. If it’s not obvious, I’ll put a small tag inside of the bag, with the name on it.
This is for personal use, but could easily be done with sale items too.
Good Luck
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