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I am staring at a box sitting on the hardwood floor apartment as I write this. The box is about two times the height of the full postal bin next to it and about the same length. The box was light for its size, which made it a nice base for the full postal bin as I carried both home on my daily-ish 3/4 mile walk from the local post office that I love so much, and most of the time the post office people love me back, I hope. Maybe a little less on the days I show up at 4:55, but I never forget my SCAN form at least! This walk is one of the best parts of my day, very meditative.
The box has a bunch of cards in it, my usual assortment from the thousands of auctions I browse every week and bid on, hoping for steals to send off to consignment with the rare special card set aside for my eBay inventory. It also has a few autographed photos which will go into a death pile (June’s battle, or at least that’s the plan) and this signed Miami Heat … cloth? in it. The listing for this item says shipping would be $25, which scares away bidders, but the shipping for my entire 23 item order was $25, and now you know why I have so many death piles! I think I have a few other Miami Heat photos and maybe I’ll put together a flat rate lot with some cards, if this cloth/not-cloth thing is not worth listing on its own.
I cleared out a full USPS bin of signed and unsigned jerseys last week, and continuing with my constant theme of going full steam as often as possible, I decided to start filling another one up. I don’t really plan things like this out, but sometimes I win some auctions at unexpectedly low prices because big consignment sellers make mistakes and/or bidding is weird. I’ll do well with authenticated signed jerseys of West Virginia David Sills and South Carolina Mario Anderson because the original listings were very weak, missing key identifying information of the team (wrong in the title of the Anderson listing and not in the Sills listing at all, even the item specific is wrong). From the same seller, I picked up a lot of jumbo 1996 Upper Deck SP rookie cards for just $20, and I’ll probably double my money with Kobe and Allen Iverson alone. These types of cards (rookies of Hall of Fame players, especially oddball ones like these oversized cards) do really well on consignment. Card buying tip: 1996 is around the time where manufacturers really started marketing cards to adults, so it’s when all the rare/special cards pop up (serial numbers, inserts, autographs, jerseys). If you find cards like these for sale at a flea market or garage sale, you may have something. Be wary of condition: hopefully they’re stored in hard sleeves or soft (thin) plastic sleeves at a minimum.
A few cards for my eBay inventory this week, as long as condition is up to my standards:
This Emmitt Smith card has a piece of the ball from the Cowboys Super Bowl 1996 game. I absolutely love cards like these, as companies have gotten rarer and rarer about tracing provenance of relics over the years, and I was thrilled to win this for $25. I believe this will sell fairly quickly for a BIN if I price at $100, even if its condition isn’t perfect. But if the card looks really good, since it’s a 20 year old set and there is just one other listed (at $250 with 4 watchers), I might start at $200 and see if I get any nibbles.
No question on the condition this Chet Holmgren metal artist proof card, as he’s the 22 year old star for Oklahoma City Thunder basketball and cards have changed a lot since the days of Emmitt Smith game used ball cards. These artist proofs are available for purchase for a limited time on Topps website, and get shipped directly to you in a special case before they enter the resale market or (less likely) you keep them. The regular base card is usually about $10 and the limited, nicer artist proof cards are either special random inserts or much more expensive. Same goes for autographs or cards with jersey in them. This consignment seller had six of these Chet artist proofs up for auction last week, probably all from the same consignor who bought them during initial release and held hoping that Chet would pop off, like he’s been doing lately in OKC’s playoff run. Or else the consignor bought them piecemeal over the years because they were collecting Chet, or trying to flip him, just waiting for the right opportunity. But with six artist proofs ending in the same night, hammer prices were inconsistent. I was outbid on three of the proofs, including the nicest one (in my opinion), but I won the other three for prices of $30, $23 and $15 including the cost of shipping. Lots of Terapeak solds in the $100 range, and I’ll likely try to move one now and price the other two slightly higher. If they sell over the next month, great, and if not, there is always next season.
What did you find this week?
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Even though it was raining, yard sales were good this week.
The highlight was a Sega Saturn and a Sega Dreamcast I got on an ask. I paid $100 and will net $500-600.I got a bushnell range finder for $5 that sells for $75-100. Two camcorders that sell for $50-75 each.
a pair of sennheiser wireless headphones for $5 that sell for $50+ with a 200% 90 day STRA pair of wrestling shoes that sell for $75
A box of full of Xbox controllers for $10
porter cable cordless combo tools.
And at goodwill I scored two roller coaster tycoon “big box” pc games from the 90’s.
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https://www.ebay.com/itm/335380562680 Always great to find a good selling item again when you’ve already sold it. Bought three pieces from this Crate & Barrel line.
I went to my first real neighborhood sale and got a lot of really random things, some just to keep. No real home runs but it was super fun to cruise the neighborhood and find so many sales. I walked parts of it. Prices were really good.
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