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Post your What Sold video in the forum>>[See the full post at: What Sells On eBay: Funky lamp, Hot Wheels launcher, Western Airlines cards, Record player]
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I bought this wood frame along with some other items in an online auction, maybe last year, for only $1 or so. Sold for $44.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/185434393504
I’ve been listing Christmas stuff as fast as I can. A buyer asked me to take these two new stockings out of the boxes so that they could be shipped First Class. Sold for $23. This is a commission item.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/185639677993
My neighbor found a large collection of match boxes that his wife had been saving. I’ve decided to put those aside for now, but I put up this match box album, which sold for $17 on commission. Match boxes aren’t terribly valuable, but I will be able to sell them in large lots. Many in the collection seem to be from the 50’s or earlier because they show only five digits for the phone number.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/185626313808
These are sheets to record genealogy from before ancestry.com and such. It came with a book lot from an online auction. I can’t remember what I paid, but it was very little. Sold for $28.
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This vintage US Naval Academy plaque was a family item and sold for $66.21 plus shipping on an offer to watcher, down from a $78 listing price. It took a while to sell but there’s always a ring-knocker out there somewhere who needs one of these for their I-Love-Me wall.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/275507992205
Distant relatives clearing an estate in Texas let my family go through and pick out stuff we wanted after all the close relatives had their pick. Among other things, I found this Dietz railroad lantern with red globe in barn-find, rusty condition and missing a few parts. There’s quite an active market in lanterns but condition is important so I put it up at auction starting at $35 plus shipping and it sold for that.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/275521168950
Another Texas find: A local indy thrift there has a separate guy-stuff building full of tools, hardware, and miscellaneous junk the ladies don’t want in their nice-stuff building. This Tektronix pulse generator piece of test equipment was out there for $10. It didn’t have a cord but I found one that fit in their cord bin and it powered up. I channeled Simplicio and bought it. I thought about trying to test it after getting it back to Jax but it was beyond me. I put it at up auction strictly for parts or repair for $99 with free shipping to test the waters and it went for $102. Waters tested!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/275521172574
This BMW E36 (1990’s) on board computer check control box was a remnant of my son’s first car, a 1994 325i bought running but it needed enough stuff to keep him busy with me helping him sort it out. These OBC’s go bad but there’s a cottage industry of people that repair and resell them and you can buy some of the restoration parts for the unit so I thought a broken one would be worth putting up. I was right; it sold for $25 plus shipping on a best offer. I have another one to put up – both were free. (We bought two on eBay that were sold as used functioning but were both DOA and the sellers just refunded without sending a label.)
https://www.ebay.com/itm/275518454464
The wife of one my challenge coin/militaria consigners goaded me into taking her Longaberger basket “collection” on consignment. It seemed like there was an active market but most buyers are looking for the special editions with the cloth liner and all the bells and whistles. She didn’t have any of those. They’ve been sitting. This 1997 Longaberger large rectangular serving basket finally sold for $24 plus shipping on a best offer down from $29.89.
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Alpha Industries Flight Jacket: I priced it competitively and it had a few watchers and sold within a week. I bought it for $17 and made about $28. Not too bad for a quick turn-around.
Patagonia Bunting: This was a good sale where I made about $58. Obviously anything Patagonia is hot, but snow buntings are still worth a look if they are down-filled and sized 12 months and over. Non-hot brands with those benchmarks will sell for about $20-25 plus shipping.
Boy’s Ralph Lauren Polo Shirt: This was a weak $5 profit where I bought it because thought I was going to turn my money over sooner (expected it to sell during the back-to-school rush).
Boy’s Ralph Lauren Christmas Sweater: I bought this on eBay for $12 over the summer. Profited $10 but I probably need to stop pulling the trigger on items which eat a lot of capital and take a couple months to sell. Still, it’s hard for me to resist an underpriced Christmas sweater lol
Theology Book: Personal collection, downsizing.
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