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https://www.ebay.com/itm/266106152421
My wife’s rich Aunt sent this my way to sell, so technically I didn’t scavenge it traditionally. I priced WAY high since the 90’s are super ‘in’ right now and this is NWT from 1997.
Nothing else too exciting. I did pick up a vintage pair of Rollerblades that are in the original box with very little wear and all the plastic/rubber is in excellent condition. I’ll sell that for $100. I’ll get it listed this week.
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If you have any tips for scavenging wife’s rich aunts, feel free to share.
You do such a nice job with the photography of your items, you highlight the items condition so well. I like the Apple II manual you listed this week, amazing to find that still sealed after all these years.
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I picked up 20-odd tobacco tins from the junk market, with someone’s carefully-curated collection of small wood screws in them. Sellotaped labels on two sides of each tin stating the dimensions.
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I picked up 20-odd tobacco tins from the junk market, with someone’s carefully-curated collection of small wood screws in them.
Was your interest in the tins, the screws, or both? And which has more value? Once or twice, I’ve purchased a small collection of early 20th century tobacco cards and they were shipped in the original tin. Always wondered the story behind how those end up amongst a consignment seller’s thousands of listings when they would be much more at home on a flea market table…
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The market’s basically a huge pile of junk, on the ground in boxes, and I just grab stuff and fill up a shopping bag, and show that to the stallholders. Also, it’s 7 a.m., dark and cold- that’s my excuse! So it’s a bit of a small-time gamble; 10 pounds for 18 tins and some useful household stuff- I didn’t know what was in the tins. Turns out one tin had some small engineering taps and a couple of dies which are saleable, and I can use the screws myself. The tins are pretty filthy, and the plating’s worn from the base, so I’ll give them a clean and use them for storage.
The big manufacturer of screws here in the UK was Nettlefolds, which became Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds. There’s a lot of listings for NIB screws by them.
I bought a framed set of cigarette cards a couple of days ago, for £2. They’re a set of 50 Players Territorial Army uniforms from 1939; attractive, but not worth much.
These were “professionally framed” in a card matte with 50 cutouts. To prevent the gummed back of the cards from sticking to the hardboard backing, a small piece of sellotape was placed along the middle of the back of the cards. Then each card was attached to the matte with some kind of plastic tape top and bottom. These cards were in mint condition before the “framer” got hold of them!
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https://www.ebay.com/itm/234871858732
I bought this on Goodwillfinds.com. for about $6 plus shipping. No dimensions were given and it was much larger than I expected when it arrived. Some of this potter’s larger bowls (more colorful) have gone for hundreds and they are mostly auctions starting at $9.99. I don’t really trust auctions having been burned before so I started at a pretty high price and haven’t got any bids. Still, should be a good profit when it eventually sells. For $1.49 I promoted the auction but that hasn’t resulted in many additional views.
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Goodwillfinds.com huh? You may have found the deal of the year on that site, considering the deals there are often the opposite of bargains. That’s a nice looking piece of pottery in really good shape considering how many opportunities it had to get damaged before it got to you.
If your auction doesn’t sell, try scheduling the listing to start/end on a Sunday/Monday night. These are the most active nights for auctions ending among the big trading card consignment sellers and there must be some logic why everyone has the most auctions ending on those nights. Thursday is probably the third most popular night.
I have been doing monthly auctions for the last three or four months, and every month I think about messing around with promoting some auctions or making subtitles or shipping discounts or complicated volume pricing. Then I just create the auctions, add best offer with a minimum slightly above my BIN price, and move on. Quick and easy. But it might make sense to experiment with some of these new features and see. What works for me will sometimes be very different from what works for you. But the only way we really get to find out what works best for our store is to try these different features. We’re fortunate to be selling on eBay at this time when we have so many different options to sell items faster, or at a discount, or to reach buyers in different ways.
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