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I spent quite a lot of time scavenging inventory for the trading card side of my business last week, and had a really good week there, but I didn’t find much else worth bidding on, let alone buying. I did pick up an American League Championship game used baseball for a steal price of $18.50 and I expect that to be a nice, quick, easy flip with $50 profit, maybe more.
Here’s a fun one — I won a few board games for $5 to $7 each. A bunch of two player indie games. Carcassone was the one I’d heard of. I know (in theory) that piecing out board games can be profitable. I’m not sure I want to devote some of my limited and always too messy inventory space to board game pieces, but for this buy-in I couldn’t resist putting them in a bin for winter listing madness. My local thrift stores don’t even price games this cheap, and usually all they have are mass-produced games
What did you find this week?
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Parting out games really depends on the game. And now with high quality 3D printers alot of these parts can be made on demand, or made even better than the original! Heroquest and mall madness are great games to part out. I’ve made $300+ on a single incomplete Heroquest in the past. Very high demand and alot of good parts. One of my best part outs outside of those was a lord of the Rings Risk. The game was only worth like $35 but I think I made close to $100 in parts.
I probably won’t do it much more though as at this point I’d rather just sell the incomplete game and move on.
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I pretty much struck out at normal yard sales. The only thing I picked up is a wireless dog fence. I’ve sold these in the past and they sell very well for good money – paid $25.
The hoarder collection lady invited me over to show me some stuff I haven’t seen before. I bought a couple pieces of clothes that I passed on previously, a couple odds n ends, then went through the man’s sunglasses collection. I think what I picked out is real – there were some fakes mixed in. I had a suspicion that was confirmed with talking to the folks that have the stuff – the man who had the collection kept the REAL, high end stuff at home and he would tend to wear fakes when going out. For instance, he had an insane Rolex collection but he also had some fakes he would wear in public. I saw the same scenario in sunglasses. There were some awesome ones that as far as I can tell were very real, and plenty of fakes as well.
The highlight was a pair of Louis Vuitton Evidence Sunglasses. If they aren’t real then they are the absolute best fake I’ve ever seen.
Also this week my wife wanted to go to Goodwill so I went ahead and looked. I haven’t been to a Goodwill in 7 weeks and I really didn’t want to go anytime soon. I ONLY wanted $50+ good STR items. Dang it, Goodwill provides! Some lady emptied her closet of really nice shoes to Goodwill- most brand new. They are getting listed for $50-100 each. Also found a pair of Nikes that have a 100%+ STR at $60-80. I paid $5-6 a pair for the shoes.
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I love how you have a few different irons in the fire, so if you strike out one week on yard sales, you have all these other different ways you can pick up inventory.
It’s interesting (but not surprising) that a serious collector would have fakes mixed in. But it makes perfect sense. It’s not like he (or anyone) would have a drawer labeled this is the fake junk for going out!
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I bought a collection of 50 postal stationery items (they’re the type where the postage stamp is printed on the card or newspaper wrapper) from a thrift for £5. They’re from Gibraltar, mostly Queen Victoria. Prices on eBay are all over the place; one stamp dealer has a “GIBRALTAR Queen Victoria 1886 to 1898 A Unique Collection of Postal Stationery” on offer for £100, but the listing’s so confused that it seems to be either the six cards shown or the thirty or so cards and wrappers mentioned in the description. Given that other sellers’ listings for individual cards are in the region of £10 to £20, and some of the cards had a print run of less than 2,000 in the 1880s, seems odd.
Maybe I should ask them if the cards are FAAAKE?
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Well I got a quick reply- apparently there are thirty-odd but eBay “does make it hard to make multiple images.” Huh?
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I found the Queen Victoria Unique Collection of Postal Stationery listing and I’m just as confused as you are. It’s always odd to me when you get sellers who are clearly pros (complex listing template, thousands of feedback) and they make listings where it’s not clearly what exactly you’re buying. I mean…I love it. I’ve built a lot of my inventory this way. But it’s also a bizarre quirk of eBay.
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