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I’ve been having great success lately loading up on individual cards for my consignment port and the custom team lots I make. A couple reasons for that:
1. The National card show was in late July, and a lot of inventory is released by manufacturers specifically for the National — most of which is making its way to eBay. I think a lot of sellers get highly motivated to sell after the National, as well. Either way, I am finding great deals left and right.
2. eBay recently changed its cap on invoices from 40 items to 100, which means I can save a little more on the margins as far as combined shipping and, more importantly, get a little more strategic as far as loading up on cards from one seller over a particular week of their auctions if they have a lot of listings of the types of cards I like to buy and sell.
Interestingly, I am really not winning much at all in terms of the oddball items I like to discuss in this thread. I am not even seeing any of those auctions from the regular sellers I buy from! Probably just a temporary blip, the normal ebbs and flows of selling on consignment, but we’ll see if it continues this week!
I did win a couple full sized basketballs last week, this one signed by UConn Huskies Hassan Diarra and this one a commemorative from the basketball Hall of Fame. I’m at around $10 COGS for each with combined shipping, maybe $15 if the consignor charges me the higher end of shipping. That may well happen since I haven’t won much from them besides these items, just a few oddball cards, so when they invoice me I might end up paying $40 shipping for 20 items. Or they might charge $20 for 30 items. It’s all a mystery. I know from selling a signed basketball earlier this month that the shipping will eat up my profits, but they’re quick to photograph and list, and at these prices, I couldn’t pass them up.
Here’s a new type of item for me: 1870s vintage bank notes. I tried (and failed) to look these up on Terapeak, so I put a lowball bid on the auction and surprisingly won. Something tells me this is gonna end up being an item that looks cool but isn’t worth much. But maybe I’ll be pleasantly surprised once I receive them and have more time to play around with the research.
What did you find this week?
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I put most of my finds this week in the main thread. aside from that though, I got a few classic “retro treasures”
I got my original start with vintage toys. I picked up a 1990 GI Joe Retaliator for $1.
its incomplete so I drafted the listing to sell for $30
I didn’t have many GI Joes as a kid. I sure did enjoy making them so the splits though.
I also picked up a vintage Sesame Street playset with figures for $4. It’s worth $35-40.
at the same church sale where I got the full bin of book & tapes, I got a Sony camcorder that will more than cover the entire purchase.
and another purchase I didn’t really want but the STR AND ASP got me to buy was a set of three crock pot “hookup” units. These sell for $50-60 each used. Pretty neat little setup for a party but not much else. I paid $20 for all 3.
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@craig-rex Internal Revenue 2-cent stamps on those cheques- one here.
I bought a tool chest with eighteen wooden moulding planes for £30 from a thrift. Turned out to be a complete set of hollows and rounds, property of one J. Dolman. There was another empty chest in the shop, so I guess his chisels and anything else recognisable as a modern tool got removed.
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I went in deep on some Mid-century paintings from an estate sale. A friend is going to give me some cleaning tips. https://www.instagram.com/p/C_4ARfJS5Jb/ I have about 9 of these now, and if they are left at the end I’ll get a good deal on the rest.
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