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I passed up a few in-person library sales this week — two of my favorites, actually — in order to keep my head down and spend more of my time on doing the work the right way. Consistently listing new, good quality items. Keeping my inventory organized and my space clean. Figuring out a plan for unlisted inventory and not letting old stale listings take up too much real estate. I’ve always struggled badly with these things. But I’ve improved at them a lot this year and I’m really proud of that.
I did some online scavenging as usual, nothing too exciting and almost all sports cards. Well, it’s probably not exciting to you. But I get excited to win auctions like this 1992 Carl Banks Pro Line autograph for $1.50 with shipping because I’ll send the card to my consignment port and list it there for $10. Maybe it sells at that price, maybe it doesn’t sell until I run a sale to drop the price to $7 or $5. But I’ll make a few bucks on the card regardless, and I won a ton of other autographs from this set from the same seller. They’re a big consignor, so someone must have broken up a collection. $0.99 auctions not always the best way to accomplish that, but that’s just how most consignors do business. 1992 Pro Line was one of the earliest certified autograph sets. Not a lot of cards with huge value 30 years later, but fairly consistent $5 sellers because the set was huge, and a lot of the players don’t have other autographed cards or very few.
$2.50 to $6.50. I’ve built a business out of sales like this, just done it over and over and over and over again. It’s a house of cards, if you will. Well, for now it’s still a small apartment. A much cleaner apartment now that I send cards like this to consignment instead of messing around with 3000 eBay listings! But one day, probably a lot sooner than I think, I can start messing around more consistently with bigger stuff. I’m sure I’ll still sell cards though. I mean, it’s clearly working well for me so why not, right?
What did you find this week?
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I didn’t do much scavenging this week – just one Goodwill trip. I wasn’t even going to do that but my wife wanted to stop by (She’s an enabler I tell ya! LOL!)
One of the items was a Rock Band Drum set. I’ve sold these before and they can go for good money. They are a pain to ship. Unlike past rock band drumsets I’ve bought (I….may have 2 more sets in my death piles unlisted…) I will get this one listed this week…and those other ones as well I suppose. I do need to test them, which I have the capability to do now that I have an Xbox.
This one will sell for $150.
Other than that, just a few pair of shoes in the $50 range each.
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I did more scavenging than usual since the auction is over; however, I still have tons to list. I really didn’t need to buy anything.
I went to our town library sale. There wasn’t much, but I did buy 6 CDs/DVDs for $5, and four of them are sealed. I figured those would be very easy to list. They were, but I forget how little they go for. Not worth it.
Then, I went to a town-wide yard sale in a town near me. I didn’t buy much, but my favorite is a set of 8 glasses from Culver for $4. They are a vintage brand that people seem to like and/or collect, so the value is always there. There are no tall glasses for sale on eBay right now, but a set of 2 (see photo below) sold for $40 two years ago. A set of 7 also sold for $45 in June. So, I just need to figure out how I want to sell and for how much.
I also bought a Winnie the Pooh VHS set for $3. Looks like I can get between $20 and $80. I need to clean it up, but the tapes are still sealed, so I might go for $50 or so?
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@Craig good for you. I need to curb shopping as well as I’m doing a little carryover from the week and not getting back to my piles.
@Sharyn those are cute glasses. I’m always looking for the patterned juice glasses. Strangely I never find patterned glasses at all, at least not a set.https://www.ebay.com/itm/235251537649?
A fun thrift find this week for $12.
At the flea market I also found three interesting wooden signs from the 1970s but apparently didn’t get them up before I left home. I don’t know what the seller was doing with them since all her other stuff was new. I negotiated paying $6 for all three. Here’s someone else’s listing.
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