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I didn’t have much time for eBay this past week, so the items that sold for me were all from my bread and butter niche, trading cards. Despite a lack of time and focus, I had a nice week of sales thanks to a repeat customer with expensive taste (link is to one of three cards, all $50 plus, which were purchased in the same order) and enough low dollar sales to get a few packages out the door most days. I’ve had some success lately with selling pop culture adjacent autographs, like this autographed card of Gabi Butler, who is one of the stars of the Netflix show Cheer. I’ve never watched the program. But these autographs are a reliable and quick sell at around $15 so they’re an easy buy for me around $5. Not the greatest profit margin but it’s nice to get fast sales sometimes.
What did you sell this week?
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BACKGAMMON SET Vintage Tournament Complete in Portable Leatherette Case 18×23
https://www.ebay.com/itm/265250179375
Backgammon sets can be good pickups. If you’ve never seen them before, check out vintage crisloid bakelite backgammon checkers:
I found an incomplete crisloid bakelite set years back and sold them for like $200. I think it was only like 12-15 total checkers too.
Corral Wings & Cross Snip Toe Western Ride Boots 8 M Black & Red Leather A1996
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266130455854
These boots aren’t even in great shape and still sold for $80 on best offer.
While I don’t buy nearly as many shoes as I used to, they will always be a sizeable part of my business. Shoes are probably the easiest commodity to source and maintain a $50+ ASP. Super easy to ship too.
6 of my 21 sales this week were shoes. My ASP was $43 ( 2 were blowout clearance old items which drove my ASP down)
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Great advice on the shoes. I have found a local thrift I really like, and I mostly stick to searching the junk I know (books, movies, music, board games, maybe some kitchen items that I usually end up keeping), but I’ll have to give the shoes section a try next time. I have a decent eye for quality. Those boots are real nice. Do anything special to clean them, or just photograph and send them on their way once the right buyer comes along?
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This kind of teapot (modern Yixing or similar) keeps on turning up at thrift shops, and I kept on buying them. So I cleared out all the coloured ones to this auction and kept the ones that actually look like they’re intended to brew tea. The Japanese kettle is some rusty old thing from the 1960s- paid £40 for it, which I shouldn’t have done! Made a small loss on that lot.
Mix of old and new Oriental stuff.
The little round plate is from the Tek Sing wreck of 1822; has a sticker on the base. The cinnabar vase and the celadon vase are modern; the square plate’s probably old- no marks on the base, and the Satsuma bowl is better quality than the normal dreck, Still kitsch though. Made about £10 on all that,
Weighed altogether 9 ounces. The ’12 loth’ indicates a purity of 75%, which gives a total silver weight of 6.75 ounces. The salts had a reserve of £100, so I guess only one person bid! Cost me £8. There were initials engraved on the bases, which probably worked against them, also the auction house couldn’t list a weight for them because the purity marks weren’t distinct.
Total sale price £220; after the auction house’s fees, £172.
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Shame they were a net loss but I love those teapots, hopefully will find one lurking in a dusty old thrift someday.
I will have to start taking a closer look at platters and serving dishes as I’d pass most of those by without much of a glance. I love researching antique and intricate items even when they’re worthless, so it’s really very helpful to see your lot auctions with so much detail about what affected the hammer price.
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@craig-rex I gather from reading about Yixing teapots on the net that Chinese restaurants in America in the 1920s and 30s served tea in those types of pot. So there may be some dirty tea-stained pots out there, undiscovered and worth a fortune!
Prices here seem to be running at about 250-300 dollars for a mid-20th century teapot.
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