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Over the last few months, so much of my day-to-day reselling life has become about maintaining my card consignment inventory that I’ve found it hard to figure out what my scavenges of the week are. There’s a point in your reselling life where your scavenges of the week are the pipeline that keeps your business flowing next week, next month, next year. But my card inventory is large enough now that I can make good money focusing on that, and anything else I buy or sell is gravy.
My find this week was this set of 1970s wargaming magazines for a couple bucks each from a seller who also runs card auctions who I buy from every week or every other week, depending on what they have up that week. I had already won some card auctions, so decided to throw a bid on this and won it. There is some nice data in Terapeak for these magazines, but who knows how longtail they are or what the condition will look like. Still, I’m happy to add something different to one of my to-be-photographed bins.
Here’s something very different for the $1 opening bid, an NBC press credentials tag from the 1951 Columbia vs Navy game. I don’t know whether something like this has value, and I’ve only just started to poke around in Terapeak, but if nothing else this will give me a little education about something different. Who says you can’t get anything for a buck these days…
My favorite card from last week’s orders was this card of the Philly Phanatic from Alex Pardee’s Brightmares series. One of the things that came out of the pandemic in the card industry was a huge surge in artists and illustrators releasing specialty cards of different players and teams through their websites or social media. There have been off-brand and unlicensed cards for decades, but in the past they were typically low quality. But a lot of these ultra modern artist cards are really nice. Alex Pardee is one of my favorites. Doesn’t hurt that these typically sell in the $25 range and I only paid $10.
What did you find this week?
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As long as you are still excited about it, that’s what counts.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/235921146983 I love this MCM set of Denby dishes. Goodwill had the larger plates priced at $7.99 per so they sat and the manager just repriced them for me. Plus it was Monday so I got an extra 25% off.
My daughter, her friend and I went to the bins this week and I found the following for about $20-25: a vintage Franklin Quest leather organizer barely used, an expensive small leather bag that needs cleaning, a Fossil small leather wallet, a Bona hardwood cleaner pad refill, a couple of vintage frames, a dog bed for the pup (now sanitized, but barely used), an Oneill sport bag that looks new, 2 BMW whisky glasses, a set of placemats and napkins from World Market, a Pottery Barn sham, and a hardback book for staging. Lots of randomness. I’d like to try the bins in the morning on the flea market day (during the work week). I think many of the bin pickers flip there and might be missing? It was less crowded this time but the bins also seemed emptier.
The flea was fun but didn’t buy too much.
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@christiner That’s the good Denby!
Had an original Glyn Colledge piece once- the glaze was flaking off. He was the main designer back in the 1950s. The hand-signed stuff (mugs and plates) is hand-decorated in varying designs. I don’t see much of it these days- doesn’t sell.
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(none of it mine)
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@christiner I think the heaviness of the stoneware depresses the prices. Not exactly dishwasher friendly!
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Six plastic sacks of Machins.
I can paint a rainbow.
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