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This thread is to share your craziest, most outrageous sales. I get such a kick out of selling the most off the wall things I can. Mostly, I go for run of the mill used and vintage items, but once in a while I sell a real goodie.
I picked up 3 grocery bags of construction magazines someone posted on the Nextdoor app in my city for free. I love that app! Among the magazines was a 4 page brochure from a local regional big box hardware/lumber store, Menards, on building and framing best practices. It’s the kind of document you’d probably pick up from their contractor’s desk. I sold it for $3, thanks to Steve who said instruction manuals sell well.
I laugh about that every time it crosses my mind. What are some of your most incredible, insane sales?
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Picked up a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle action figure for ~$6. We got it from a local store that carries used books, with random odds and ends on the back shelves. Thing sold for $108 at auction. Apparently it was a super-rare action figure. I can’t remember which one it was … maybe Donatello? or Raphael?
Here, I think this is the one: https://www.amazon.com/NECA-Childrens-Teenage-Turtles-Raphael/dp/B01MYNBFFN/
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Found a Disney cap in my garage, left by the previous owner (he left a lot of junk.) It had a broken snapback. Called in to SL and Ryanne said price it high. So I did. Sold for $170.
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Ok, so my husband went out thrifting, and brought home a box of silicone breast “enhancers”. First off, I am, ahem, very well endowed, and do not need this product, so I have no understanding of whether or not used fake boobs are in demand or how to determine size, and secondly, there were 3 boobs in the box. Three.
I just looked at him, like, what the heck, dude? What in the world am I going to do with 3 (!!!) fake boobs. I understand wanting 2, but what do you do with the 3rd???
Sold them all to a lady-boy in Thailand. I try to limit my husband’s thrift store trips now.
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Linda,
It was the Disney Epcot Figment dragon
https://img0.etsystatic.com/116/0/8749504/il_fullxfull.1016697870_gjgg.jpg
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Well, I guess most people would consider the video game poster I sold for $2500 pretty crazy. Here’s a link to one of the fan sites that covered the sale. The reason it sold for so high is that this was a cult game from the 90s that sold poorly and was overlooked until people became obsessed with it in the 2000s. I was a big fan of the game from the original launch and had a big collection of swag and promotional items for it that I sold to this same buyer, the total came out to like $5k. I got the poster for $20 from a mistitled Ebay auction.
http://www.sealedvideogames.net/2012/03/20/earthbound-poster/
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hmmm i think one of the craziest sales was a single sandal sold as “amputee” Ariat sandal. first lady returned it, thinking “amputee” was the style name of the shoe! but the 2nd person that bought it kept it.
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LOL, I also sold an “Amputee” high heel sandal – (I bought a pair of sandals from a thrift store and the tag was strategically placed over a broken strap rendering the other shoe un-wearable.) Why would an amputee be wearing a dangerous stiletto? I had someone interested who wanted to buy it for an art project, but it fell through.. I eventually did sell the single shoe – and made $5.00 profit. Who knows what they were using it for, but there is a market for “One Shoe only” – amputees and replacements and just perhaps weird collections or designers.
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It’s good to know there is a market for single shoes. I hadn’t thought about amputees looking on ebay. That makes a lot of sense.
Ebaymom, maybe they needed it for pictures, like for a wedding or something? Some people prefer to look as “normal” as possible in pictures. My step-mom was on oxygen at the end of her life, and was adamant that no one photograph her with her O2 tank at my wedding.
I remember one of my high school teachers telling me about someone in his family that had polio back in the day, and thus had 2 different size feet. They joined a pen pal club for shoes, and you’d get buddied up with someone that needed the same size shoes as you, but on opposite feet. Both pals would buy shoes, and send each other the shoes for the other foot. I always thought that was such a clever, friendly way of solving a problem and making a new friend.
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One of my favorites was a sticker for $525.
My wife bought a box lot of random ephemera (newspapers, pamphlets, maps, etc) at an antique auction for $5. When we went through the box, there was an unused 1951 National Park Pass sticker (you’d stick it on your car window to show that you had paid). It was cool, so I researched it a bit. Found similar ones that had sold around $500, so I listed mine for $725obo.
After some back and forth, settled on an offer of $525. For a sticker. Albeit a cool, old, collectible sticker, but a sticker nonetheless.
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At a garage sale, I bought a cloth zipper pouch with 3 holes punched in the side, designed to store your school pencils inside a 3 ring binder or trapper keeper. It had a big Nike Swoosh on it. I remember everyone having similar zipper pouches when I was a kid in the 90s.
I bought it for a quarter. I searched eBay and couldn’t find any sales or active listings for a vintage zipper pouch.
I put it up for $40 and it sold in a few weeks. That is probably one of my favorite sales, as I sold it at a good price on what was a total hunch on a weird, mundane item. Shoot, it couldn’t have cost more than a few dollars when new. Name brands and nostalgia sell.
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What fun!
I sold a doorknob for $375. I got it in a huge lot of items that I purchased for $40 off a friend who was selling off the contents of her antique booth. She had the doorknob priced at $26 in her booth and it sat there for over a year. I thought it looked really cool, it was chrome and had a ribbed edge, and a lock with keys attached. I went to list it and did some research, turned out to be from one of those old AirStream campers, and highly sought after. Took only about a week for it to sell.
Needless to say, now I look for them everywhere I go!
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