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I had a nice pair of music memorabilia pickups this week for $12, signed guitar pickguards by country singer Eddy Arnold and folk singer Bert Jansch. No solds on Bert Jansch signed anything, and there’s an Eddy Arnold signed pickguard in Terapeak which sold for $999 in December 2023. That seems to be…an unlikely price, but I’m sure I can get $100 for the pair with a bit of patience, and I love selling signed smalls like these.
In the same order, I grabbed this Washington Federals USFL sweater for $4 with combined shipping. I’m not big into selling clothes, in fact I haven’t done much of it beyond the odd sports jersey here and there, maybe a band shirt or two. But I love memorabilia of defunct sports teams (defunct anything really), so I had to throw out a $0.99 bid and surprise, that was enough to win the auction. Looking forward to seeing how long it takes me to get around to listing this, let alone how long it takes to sell.
What did you find this week?
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Scavenge of the week was an estate sale I went to at the very end of the first day. I have known this company to be a bit too expensive for my taste, but the lady was exhausted and the house was super full of less valuable stuff. She said “I”m going to give you the deal of the day” and it was $20 for everything. I had a full Ikea bag and a brand new Pottery Barn jewelry box – Arabia and Le Souk pottery/ceramics, frames, Pottery Barn linens, a few collectibles. This seems to be one of the cheapest and least professional families running our local estate sales. They are pretty lazy about pricing things in the less fancy homes. They do a lot of pile eyeballing and don’t really organize things. I’ll keep checking in on them.
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@ChristineR That sounds like the dream estate sale company honestly! If you start getting deals from them regularly, that might make it easy to get in a groove with creating new listings…
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@Craig we’ll see. Their prices were higher at a different sale. There was nobody around when she gave me that big bundle price so I think it may have been kind of the timing – or the fact that the house was so packed and lower end. We’ll see. It’s not a bad strategy to go later on a packed house since I have my piles. I feel like I have enough knowledge to find things I have sold before or know about. On other houses it would be a complete waste of time.
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I had a nice estate sale scavenge last week. Found a bunch new old stock Mercedes car parts. Most were still in the original packaging and unused while a few were in packaging but I think were used.
I’ve run across this before with what I assume are older mechanics. They’ll change out a car part and put the old part they took off into the box of the new part they just installed and keep it. Learned that lesson the hard way so now I really look these things over. I guess their thought is maybe at some point they can recycle that old part or get some smaller part off of it.
Anyways….I got about 25 items to sell for $72.00. I’ve got close to a thousand dollars of listing value out of it and so far have sold 3 items for a total of $350.00 (before ebay fees).
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@jaepete I don’t really know anything about cars, let alone car parts, but new old stock is like music to my ears. Pretty great score if you’re up $200 after fees already! How do you handle storage on these parts? In my mind, car parts would be easy to mix up but if you have the original packaging, that makes the whole thing a lot easier.
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@craig-rex I had a vague idea eBay UK doesn’t permit the selling of car parts without the seller having an environment permit number, Turns out that only applies to used car parts; new or NOS parts are okay.
The Environmental Permitting Regulations stop businesses turning the land they occupy into a toxic dump.
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@craigrex… fortunately, it consists of mostly small parts. Almost nothing larger than a softball and everything was in a box or bag with a label. The one “large” item I got, a transmission valve body, is about the size of a shoe box. At the moment it’s all stored in two cloth grocery bags and eventually will end up in a plastic storage bin.
and yeah, I love running across new old stock. especially when it’s all smaller component items like the radio controlled airplane parts stock I found.
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