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One of the most fun things about scavenging, at least for me, is there is so much to find, and you can find cool things in places you’d never expect.
I took a drive this past weekend to one of my favorite library sales (one of my favorite scavenging places — everything is cheap and the book scanning people overlook a lot), and I took a different route there than I usually do. About 5 minutes from the sale, I passed a thrift store which I had never seen before. I guess they opened at some point during the pandemic I like thrift stores more for myself than for things to sell, probably because I specialize in a few niches and mostly stick to those items. And I spent most of my scavenging money at the library sale. But I decide to stop on my way home anyway.
I got lucky browsing the books section and found a bunch of Bella Grace magazines. The paper stock was nice quality, so I looked at sold listings and then I bought the whole pile. Even saved 50% because of the tag color. Bella Grace’s marketing slogan is “find magic in the ordinary.” I’m not going to read their magazine, but that’s a great metaphor for scavenging.
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https://www.ebay.com/itm/234700322267
I hardly ever find Scandinavian glass around here. I love these but will pass them on. Only one other listed so I matched that price. A larger lot of balls sold for more but again, not many listings for price guidance. Paid $5.99 at GW.
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I stopped by the local library today as they just started their book sale. They had a TON of vintage EU Star Wars novels in paperback and hardcover. I bought them all. Many of them I had as teen as I was a big Star wars nerd. How big? Lets just say I spent time in AOL Star Wars Chat rooms and regularly participated in ‘raids’ to Star Trek Chats to proclaim our superiority. Ahh, 90’s internet was awesome…
Anyways! I sold ALL of my star wars books around 2010 in a yard sale for pennies. Ouch…
Anyways, I’m not sure of the value of everything yet, but at 50 cents to $1 a book it was a no brainer even if I just re-read them myself. I figure $300-400 profit with no research at all and should have a quick STR.
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but at 50 cents to $1 a book it was a no brainer even if I just re-read them myself. I figure $300-400 profit with no research at all and should have a quick STR.
This is the price range where I almost always pull the trigger with no research and figure it all out later. But the key is to get this kind of stuff listed at a price where it will sell, hopefully quickly, because there are always more 50 cents to $1 items out there.
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I won a few really unique items this week from one of the eBay seller whose auctions I check every week. Usually most of the sellers I buy from focus on trading card listings, but they are consignment sellers so they will sell whatever their customers send them. Sometimes that includes some unique items.
First was this LeBron James Nike recruitment book. I won the auction at $52, so it wasn’t cheap, but this seems to be a really unique item with the potential to go for big bucks to the right collector. I’m not in a huge rush to get it listed but I’m excited to have it.
Second was this signed Portland Winterhawks minor league hockey jersey for a total of about $15 including the shipping. I buy a lot of items from the same sellers every week, and combine shipping over the whole week, usually ending up paying the rate of a large flat rate box. I don’t deal in jerseys much, but there were a few players signatures that I recognized, and the final hammer price was much lower than my max bid.
Finally, this Emmitt Smith glass plaque with a piece of his game worn shoes in it for $11.01. The high shipping rate on the auction ($25) scared off a lot of bidders, plus this Absolute Glass set was a very niche “trading card” set which will probably be longtail even though Emmitt Smith was one of the best running backs of all-time. There is a similar Emmitt plaque from this set listed at $90 and that’s about where I will price this one when I get it listed.
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