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03/15/2017 at 3:09 pm in reply to: What Sells On ebay: Casio keyboard, Vintage Desk lamp, Gnomes, Hat stretcher, Bed tray, Bumper sticker. #14565
Killer stuff as always Steven! Love those garden gnomes.
The week has started off really great, hope to keep the momentum going thought the weekend:
1986 SEALED NEW TDK MA-XG Type IV Metal 90 Min Cassettes
To quote Jay a couple weeks ago on my listing, “$120 for one cassette?!?!?!” Well, got an offer and jumped on it immediately – $90 each for all 5, $450 total. Bought off of Craigslist for $16 each.c1930s Tiffany 8 Day Folding Travel Clock
Actually had it up for $175 initially, but did some research on the movement maker and found it was pre-WWII instead of post as I initially thought. Raised the price up to $250 and sold for best offer of $200. Bought at an estate sale for $30 in January.Vintage BEST Lock “Property of ESSO S.O. Co.” without key
Just got this (and 2 others) at a sale this past weekend. I know old locks are are a score, but I didn’t know if I could sell these without keys. Did my research and they absolutely sell without keys – bought the three for $1 each and sold all three for a total of $90 within hours of listing.(12) 1990 Verbatim Datalife 3.5in Floppy Disks
Listening to the shows, I hear so many great things about old & outdated technology. Obviously I know this holds for cassettes as seen above, but I took a stab ad floppy disks. Bought for $1 at a sale, sold for $20.1980 Lake Placid Olympics Official Logo Poster
I’ve had this for a while, close to 2 years. I bought it and another 1980 Olympic poster at a sale for $5 each – the other sold nearly immediately for $125 because it featured the mascot of the Games. This one sat and I jumped on a $90 offer.(9) Star Wars First Ten Years 1977-1987 Buttons
Surprisingly had these for a while too. Bought them at a yard sale for like $5, based on research they were handed out at the first Star Wars Celebration in 1987. Just sold for $42 best offer.-
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Yeah, Journey has definitely seen a significant uptick since 1) The Sopranos finale and 2) more recently being inducted into the R&R HOF this year. And as for my prices, just like R&J say, price high and take offers. I admittedly priced them aggressive and many sell for full price – but also have no problem taking 25%-30% off offers because the margin is so high.
Do you know estatesales.net? Super useful tool for me and if you have the mobile app you can even make a map of the sales you want to attend. 🙂
Exactly! One of the sales I was at this weekend is with a company that I frequent a lot. I know the lady just had a baby and it was number two for her & her husband (that owns the company). At checkout I simply asked how the baby was doing and how the first child (only like 2 years old) was handling the new addition. My total then had a 35% discount from prices as marked without even asking 🙂 !
If the blizzard comes, hopefully people just hunker down with their computers & hot chocolate and shop all day!
Estate sales are my go to, simply because of my location – just outside of NYC I can easily hit dozens of sales per day and not drive 30 miles. The variations of types of sales are exactly what you describe though – so wide ranging. The super nice high end sales are great, and the hoarder ones can be good for kooky & rare stuff if you’re willing to dig, and then my favorite are the 1950s/1960s homes that the same family lived in the whole time – vintage toys, clothes, incredible bric a brac, old electronics, and more.
Can’t wait to listen in the morning! I had a pretty good week too, but you guys with 82 sales all together is simply amazing! Can’t believe you had enough time to do all that other great stuff instead of just packing & shipping!
Store Week March 5-11, 2017
Total Items in Store: 874
Items Sold: 23 (3 Amazon)
Cost of Items Sold: $150
Total Sales: $967.89
Highest Price Sold: $199.99 (1960s Red Sox jacket)
Average Price Sold: $42.08
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $300
Number of items listed this week: 32Great week of sales for me, multiple higher dollar items, multiple items selling same day as listing – plus I’ve already had a $245 Sunday (not included in the above numbers). Other than the Red Sox jacket, other great sales included three vintage Best locks without keys ($90 total, $3 COGs) selling within an hour of listing, 1980 Lake Placid Olympics poster selling for $90 ($4 COGs), $200 worth of records ($15 total COGs).
Estate sales on Saturday were also very fruitful. It was bitterly cold, so maybe that scared some of the crowds. From one sale of an obvious world traveller, bought a book of 500+ postcards with their original 1925 itinerary (John/Spinacheatr was kind enough to give me a few pointers after I contacted him), a photo album of a family trip to Wales, a box of another 270+ postcards (1950s/60s), and a photo of a civil war soldier (bought for $20, put it up for $200). Another sale a guy was just pulling things out of a basement as he was cleaning it out, no attachments and everything was for sale. There were only 3 of us there at the time and the other two guys were fighting over old tools – I dug around and found some nice old tobacco pipes, a box of Christmas decorations that were only Waterford ornaments, a box of old Zippos, and then a set of old tarot cards. Pretty good little weekend!
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I’ve been picking up old Walkmans & Discmans a lot lately if they’re cheap. Any should sell for $20-$30, but I’ve been able to score big twice (got a WM-7 Walkman for $3 that sold for $250 and a D-88 Discman for $5 that sold for $185 in non-working condition).
Yeah, that’s what I thought too when researching and pricing. There were no NOS Webers from that era, so settled on $100.
Yeah, I pick up pipes anytime I see them, especially in cheap box lots or something. Rarely do I find a NOS version like this and was pretty pleased that it was only $10. As a collector, did I let it go for too low? The buyer was ecstatic to find it and for this price… called this model his “white whale” that he could never find/get.
Killer D&D game sale, Steven!
My interesting sales this week:
c1960s Boston Red Sox Warmup Jacket
Bought this 2 weeks ago at an estate sale for $10. I knew it was nice on the spot, but didn’t realize what I had until researching. Made in the USA, Twin Enterprises, and the style of the logo dated it to the mid 1960s. Sold for full price, $200.(4) 1968 The Beatles Yellow Submarine Buttons
Bought these for $20 because they were in pristine condition and thinking because they were true vintage that they’d go for more. Sold for $40 best offer.1984 Prince Purple Rain LP SEALED
First of that cache of records I got this past weekend that sold. Went for $30. Sold 2 more this week as well. 70 more to go!NOS Vintage Estate Tobacco Pipe Weber 70/s
LOVE NOS pipes. They sell incredibly well. Bought this for $10 at an estate sale, priced at $100, sold for $80 best offer within a month.Vintage Meyers Make Ladies Gloves Green with Ruching
Another type of item I pick up at estate sales all the time for $1 or so. These don’t sell fast, but they do go for $25-$35 all the time – sometimes around Halloween, sometimes to costume/production houses. These are headed to a playhouse in North Carolina, but have sold similar gloves to Amazon/The Man in the High Castle, and NBC/Aquarius.03/07/2017 at 11:55 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 300: Our 300th Episode!! Now let’s talk taxes… #13998Our accountant took 3 days from the time we gave all of our paperwork until he filed. We anticipate our refund to come in within 10 days. Our accountant is actually a longtime family friend/accountant of my wife’s parents. Not sure if that gets us priority access, but your experience does seem like a long delay.
03/06/2017 at 2:33 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 300: Our 300th Episode!! Now let’s talk taxes… #13940Probably mileage then since I didn’t have all of the gas receipts. Mileage I definitely tracked in GoDaddy Bookkeeping. I turned everything into the account and let him weed out what was useful and what we could do.
03/06/2017 at 12:57 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 300: Our 300th Episode!! Now let’s talk taxes… #13927Did the buyer email you through eBay messages or direct? If they mailed direct, you can search your sales by email address and see if they bought anything from you. If they messaged through eBay, should be pretty easy to look up with their user name.
03/06/2017 at 12:55 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 300: Our 300th Episode!! Now let’s talk taxes… #13926What was the item, if you don’t mind me asking? I know that some things have restrictions by country. For example, perfume can be sent to most of the world but I had restrictions when an Israeli buyer purchased a vintage bottle.
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