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Post your What Sold video in the forum>>[See the full post at: What Sells On eBay: Hood scoop, Stratoscope photo, Mailbox, Carhartt vest, Amplifiers, Crescent moon shadow box]
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Steve,
Great sales, thank you for posting, I regret not picking up a big hodgepodge trailer load of movie reels. Cheap but dirty and I was too lazy to deal!
Nothing like our dogs to get us away from computers and devices, always cool to see your pups!
Below are some more sales coming in from an 80’s toy/novelty shop storage partial buyout.The most interesting sale for me last week was a one page b&w paper flyer ad of some cheap knock off toys copying madballs, a popular 80’s toy line featuring vinyl balls with gross monster faces. It was a simple old school copy from a small distributor to a store, advertising their imported ripoff balls called ‘Yuk balls’. I listed the ad for $20, it sold in minutes, and immediately another buyer begged for me to email him and his friend a copy and was ready to pay $40. I declined. It is the buyer’s property now. Honor among the Knock Off toy community… When I listed the ad, I showed only parts of it, knowing it did have value and would more than likely be copied rather than purchased.
Three more cheap made for dollar stores action figures to one buyer. I gave him a deal, $375 for all. I believe the top price paid for one of these loose was $150, and that was mine about two weeks ago, more than paying for the entire buyout. Serious toys.
A return buyer from Hawaii bought a total of five assorted plastic water guns for a total of $145. Here is an example.
This 80’s shop partial buyout has been a lot of fun and making good money. I’ll share another rusty hook multi item purchase from Etsy on another post.
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A return buyer on Etsy purchased 4 rusty hooks and a block/tackle/rope with hooks assembly for a total of $158. The purchase cost of all was $20.00. In the past this buyer has purchased smallish rusty boat anchors from me. What is interesting is he pays full shipping for these rusty items and never communicates. I was able to squeeze this latest lot of hooks into a Priority large flat, and refunded him the serious shipping overage. The rope with hardware sold for $75, the remaining single hooks between $15 – $30 each. This is probably a scavenging area most of us have not tapped into, and it too comes with the usual learning curve. I have similar success with long (and heavy!) lengths of rust chains.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/625828447/hooks-block-tackle-double-pulley-rope?show_sold_out_detail=1
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Steve – I bought a Carhartt vest a month ago in the same style as the one you sold. The one I have is tan and in a size large. I didn’t have it listed as high as yours, but I just increased the price. The temperature has gone down since I listed it, the solds seemed to have gone up.
Anyway, I had a slow week. I have two sales I thought I’d mention:
I saw this rotary phone at a garage sale this past summer, and I initially passed it up. I went home and decided to look at solds, and then drove back to buy it. I paid $5, and it sold for $64. It was a novelty retro phone back in 1973, but what would you call it now? Retro antique?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/183216434473I only mention this sale because of a discussion elsewhere on the forum about collectables that haven’t held up their value. I bought these Precious Moment figurines in an auction lot with other items. I paid about $0.70 and sold for $20. So you can sell collectables! Just not for much.
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Kind of slow after a few weeks of not listing. Sold this vintage nos blanket for best offer $200. I could have sold this several times for $200, but I kept missing the offer notification and would later see it expired. Paid $40 at indy thrift and got great feedback from a gift giver.
Sold this Mexican sun face pottery for best offer of $60. Paid $7 at indy thrift.
Gotta love the right Christmas craft kits. Sold this Bernat kit full price. Paid $3 at thrift store.
Let’s hear it for death pile items moving out! vintage frig book, Starbucks mug, pyrex lid lot. Some of the less desirable pyrex isn’t really worth much and is a pain to ship, so I just lotted up the lids and sold the casseroles on facebook.
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As always, thanks to Steve and all who post what sells. I learn a ton from looking and reading about your experiences. I was on vacation last week in Moab and the week before had some sort of glitch so could not post on SL. Here are highlights from my last week:
Different regions have different stuff available. Here in Colorado, there are probably a lot more ski/snowboard jackets than other parts of the country. I picked up three jackets for $20 at a garage sale and sold one for $29.95 last week: https://www.ebay.com/itm/192683522237
On researching this small bronze of a gladiator, I came across “Grand Tour” collectibles and put the price appropriately high. I took a best offer of $145 https://www.ebay.com/itm/192682112721
Never buy DVDs unless I want to watch them myself. That is the rule I live by, except when I came across 18 different complete seasons of various Korean language television shows for $14 at my local thrift store… I took a chance and these have been bringing in dividends like this one: https://www.ebay.com/itm/192690076182 which sold for full price and ships by media mail.
A yard sale in my own neighborhood turned up half a dozen vintage carbon steel knives from a farm butchery. I got them all for $10 and this one just sold for a best offer of $52.11 https://www.ebay.com/itm/192644215784
Best estate sale I ever went to had two boxes of gay-interest books and ephemera of the 1950s and 1960s. These catalog photos sold overnight for full price the day I listed them: https://www.ebay.com/itm/192692315918
I borrowed the idea of game parts from Steve (Thanks Steve) and sold these tokens from a Rudolph monopoly game: https://www.ebay.com/itm/192685775626 I really liked this because I bought the game for $1 and did not want to store or ship the whole thing, so selling tokens made it a good flip. (I wouldn’t not do this if it was a rare or old game).
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I didn’t mean to be vague, but my allusion to grand tour collectibles does not give much to search for.
Grand Tour article on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Tour
Collectibles are the bronze miniatures bought as souvenirs by young people on their Grand Tour https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=m570.l1313&_nkw=grand+tour+bronze+miniature&_sacat=0
Here are several Grand Tour bronzes: https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/five-grande-tour-bronze-articles-lot-1942706264
Miniature of Emperor Trajan: https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/small-antique-18th-19thc-bronze-roman-1940115059
Miniature of a Michelangelo: https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/19thc-bronze-michelangelo-moses-1387400754
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Another type of Grand Tour collectable is the plaster cameo. I made the mistake of buying four in a frame a couple of months back, without knowing what they were. Made in Italy, from plaster forced into engraved moulds which portrayed classical themes, they were intended to be mounted in books. The ones I bought didn’t have the card surrounds, and they were rubbing against the glass of the frame- so bad buy!
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