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On a week when eBay was so slow, I am especially grateful for my consignment income which allowed me to (mostly) scavenge as normal. Volume is the key to my business, and the whole process from sorting through auctions to bidding to sorting my inventory is very meditative for me. So, it’s nice to be able to do that even when eBay was dead.
Particularly since I got some cool stuff this week! One of my larger buys this week was this lot of 23K gold cards from the late 90s, cards which have seen a resurgence in interest recently because of live streams. I would have never bought cards like these a few years ago, since they’re not to my taste and have never been particularly desirable. But it pays to know your niche. These 23K gold cards sell well through consignment and have been really hot in the lives over the last month, with enough going in the $50+ range that I am confident their value is higher than $2/card. These cards will all go in my boxes to ship around June 1st. I’ll be thrilled to sell them all by the end of the summer and it should net me a $200+ profit even if some only sell for a few bucks.
In 2021, Topps made a set which celebrated the 1986 Mets, and they also released some specially encased artsy cards as an online-only companion to the set. The regular cards originally cost $19.99 and the metal framed artist proof version $99.99, but I paid $6.50 for the uniform and $6 for the plane. I won’t get anywhere near $100 for these, but an easy $20 profit on each for sure. Love cards which straddle the line between art and cards like these do.
I bought some big envelopes a few months ago, and I’m building a nice pile of big signed photos to fit in the envelopes. At $30, this Cy Young winners photo is one of the most expensive ones I’ve purchased, but it will be a no-brainer profit with 21 signatures on it. Like most stuff I buy, it’s all about finding the right price within the secondary market — the original MSRP on this photo in the MLB shop was $300 (probably less with their near-constant coupon offer) and the current low listing on eBay is $99 with $15 shipping. I can undercut that and still make a nice profit, or wait it out and maybe net closer to $100.
Finally, a little golf, which is a sport that I know very little about. But $15 for all this memorabilia from 1978, including a badge graded PSA 8, was too good of a deal to pass up. The ungraded badge has a surprising number of solds in the $5 range, so I should double my money with it in a slab at an 8, which is a pretty solid grade for something from the 70s. No clue on the value of the daily tickets, but I’m sure they’re worth at least a few bucks as a set. I’m thinking about doing a flea market sometime soon, and I think items like these daily tickets could be a nice way to fill the table and expand my pool of buyers.
What did you find this week?
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Hello! I finally am back in town and going to the flea today.
Weekend before last my friend’s husband bowed out of a Beyonce concert in Los Angles and near their house was a cool estate sale. The daughter had kept the mother’s Midcentury art priced too high to flip but it was super fun to look at. Crazy packed house with an ocean view. We both picked up a lot of cleaning products and I got some large seashells, small figurines, etc. Picked up two originals by another artist. https://images.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search;_ylt=Awr90o0XMy9oUKIvSlk2nIlQ;_ylu=c2VjA3NlYXJjaARzbGsDYnV0dG9u;_ylc=X1MDMTM1MTE5NTcwMgRfcgMyBGZyA3locy10cnAtMDA1BGZyMgNwOnMsdjppLG06c2ItdG9wBGdwcmlkA3VjczlILjlHUW5PMHc0dlB5VXdaQkEEbl9yc2x0AzAEbl9zdWdnAzEEb3JpZ2luA2ltYWdlcy5zZWFyY2gueWFob28uY29tBHBvcwMwBHBxc3RyAwRwcXN0cmwDMARxc3RybAMyNgRxdWVyeQNlYmElMjBrb2xvc3ZhcnklMjBzY3JlZW5wcmludHMEdF9zdG1wAzE3NDc5MjM3Mzk-?p=eba+kolosvary+screenprints&fr=yhs-trp-005&fr2=p%3As%2Cv%3Ai%2Cm%3Asb-top&ei=UTF-8&x=wrt&type=Y149_F163_202167_081020&hsimp=yhs-005&hspart=trp#id=1&iurl=https%3A%2F%2Fmir-s3-cdn-cf.behance.net%2Fproject_modules%2Ffs%2F414cef9874589.560dba4cc44d5.jpg&action=close
She had three cool backyard fountains but it would have been a PITA to get them home. My goal is to find one used, as they run about $500+ new
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