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My best scavenge this week was a large order accumulated over the course of a week from one of the biggest card consignment sellers. It had a little of everything I like to buy and sell in it.
The big profits will come through bulk rookie and pre-rookie card lots of star players, something that’s become a bigger part of my consignment business over the last year even if I don’t find it particularly exciting. With college basketball March Madness coming up, I should do well with this 10 card lot of star Duke freshman Cooper Flagg as he has had some real highlight plays in the last few weeks. I would have loved to pay $4/card, but I think these will sell for $10 to $15 in a few short weeks, and I was willing to pay up on my hunch.
I like to double my money on these bulk lots, but I should triple my money (or more) on this lot of Caitlin Clark WNBA rookie cards since her rookies sell pretty consistently for $5 or more individually even right now in the WNBA offseason. These Panini Instant cards are print on demand for a few days, so they’re not from a “set” like your traditional cards in a foil-wrapped pack or plastic wrap sealed box. Every card in this lot is unique, no duplicates, so I’m happy about that.
I won’t necessarily make a tremendous profit on these 1880s Kinney military tobacco cards since they are pretty niche and some of them are in rough shape, probably even too rough to send to consignment. But the nice ones from each lot (I won a few of these lots) should more than cover my costs, and maybe I’ll get one or two of them graded through consignment if I’m feeling really frisky.
I’ve done well with 50 card sets of one player from the Topps Transcendent VIP party (the “epitome of luxury in baseball card collecting”) through consignment before, so I was thrilled to win this Alec Bohm 2021 set for less than 50 cents per card. I’ve sold these exact cards between $5 and $10, and even at $3/per this will be an easy $100 profit.
I did find a few oddball items in between buying all these cards. The first was a few bucks for this ticket from the first season of the Israeli Baseball League, no clue on its value but for $2 I couldn’t resist. The second oddball was $7.50 for a set of Japanese baseball tickets commemorating the home run record of legendary slugger Sadaharu Oh. Last week, I sold one of his relic cards for $50, but this was more of a $20 find. I think I have one more Oh relic card. Maybe I will do something different and sell the card with the tickets as a bundle for something like $75. Not sure that I need to color outside the lines like that to sell either item, but maybe I’ll do it anyway.
What did you find this week?
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Picked up a small plastic organiser at the flea market, which was stuffed full of dried-up modelling glue, small metal files and other tools for making model kits up. When I emptied it out I found two black velvet bags stuffed with gold chains.
Turned out to be gold-plated junk (I used a magnet and an eyeglass- no “.375” mark, and half the chains stuck to the magnet).
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What a roller coaster of a find in three sentences! Hopefully the small metal files are the perfect size for cleaning out all the dried-up modelling glue from the nooks and crannies of the organizer.
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I think I may have lost a post or put it on the wrong thread. I scored a bunch of nice MCM pottery from a person selling his dealer friend’s items. Finding a person selling someone else’s stuff at the flea is key to good pricing. I helped him unpack and he gave me a good discount.
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Christine, how early are you getting to the flea market that you’re helping someone unpack? How does the situation come up where you see someone unloading their vehicle and decide, I’m going to help them? What kind of discount does this get you? Tell us the full story if you would, please…
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@Craig it’s a smallish market that starts at 8. I get there about 8:30-9 because I”m there for the late one-off people and the $1 clothing guy who doesn’t get there and unpack until 8ish. A few dealers show up really early but not worth it to me.
I was digging in boxes and unwrapping things to look at them. He was a chatty fellow so we were talking and then he started offering. He offered to other dealer early birds and they declined. I knew there wouldn’t be many booths cheap enough to buy things from so I stuck around. In the end I got about 15 quality pieces at less than $5 each and pretty much first pick, so definitely worth it. I’m following him on insta now. You never know what being nice and forming relationships will get you.
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No thrifting this week but I saw a post on fbmp for ps2 games. I agreed to buy those and asked if she had anything else. I got 30 ps2 games, a psp, 4 gba games, a sega game gear game, and two carry cases for $80. The psp and one single game covers the $80. Everything else is gravy. I’ll list the games worth selling separate and lot up the sub $10 games.
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I have sorted out the game haul and have just started listing it. When I get a lot of games I will scan them with pricecharting app. Anything that I can list for $15+ shipping or greater I will list individually. Everything else I will lot up and sell for a price equal to $4-5 per game.
Surprisingly 20 of the 30 PS2 games were worthy of individual listing. The best game was $40 with the average around $18 each. The PSP has been tested and works great. It even had a game in it – a crappy one, but still a game! It sells for about $60.
The surprise gem of the lot was the metal carry case for the PSP. I figured it was worthless, but ended up being the BEST item – surprisingly desirable and sells for $50-60 like hotcakes!
List price for the whole lot is right at $600 – $250 better than I guesstimated when I agreed to buy it all.
I did go to Goodwill Saturday while waiting on a home viewing appointment (nice house, but won’t work for us). I had to make it a quick scan trip.
I got a Daytona 500 jacket like this one:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/395387446788
I also got a pair of vintage Florsheim beatle boots. I’ve sold a ton of these over the years – one of my favorite repeat shoe pickups.
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