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Whoo Hoo! There is a court near me that has a street sale once a year and i missed it last week working.
It poured rain so i wasn’t too upset.
Yesterday while driving by the street at 3pm i noticed someone having a yard sale there and i thought why not check it out.
Driving slowly by i just about crashed the car.
Vintage Greatful Dead tees and more hanging from a fence!
I did ok grabbing 8 shirts(3$ each) but the seller said she had a rack full the previous weekend(Shit!)
The most intriquing shirt is a Jim Morrison Doors tee.
Paper thin 50/50 single stitch ringer with an very old label.
A hipsters wet dream!
The original owner(RIP)was a smoker and the shirts were stored for years.
After doing some cleaning research as some of these shirts are 150 plus this is the process that worked great.
Half fill a sink with cold water
cap full of vinegar
cap of detergent
maybe some oxyclean powder for white shirts.
Mix up and handwash water will get dirty repeat as nessary
Rinse with cold water well.
Lay flat on a thich towel and roll it up squeezing out water.
Air dry.
NO DRYER!
I would only do this with big buck shirts(for Jay ;0)Same thing happened to me this morning sold vaccum tubes Ebay refunded buyer and i kept my money.
WIN/WINExcellent topic.
My insites?
It’s all about the Tag-Learn your brands Screen-stars,Giant,Artimonde etc…
Learn about 50/50 blends and single stitch.
Remember to photograph the date that is in tiny always faded print under the graphic
Don’t worry too much about damage on valuable shirts they still sell!
As already mentioned if time is a factor with practice you could vet 100 shirts in minutes just concentrating on Black and Neck Tags
And one more —-if you find one great shirt it’s time to roll up the sleeves and go deep they often come in lots and there are more for the scavenging.Great score!
When hesitating going all in a question i ask myself if it is a solid buy to grab one or two why not the whole ball of wax?
Pluses?
Easy to list and photograph
Shipping is predictable
You can always lot
Neg’s?
Boring boring boring
What if you over estimate demand?
What is there was a bad reason the item was donated?Damaged/Recalled etc….
What say y’all?Something that had caught me once(maybe twice) is defects on new items.
That great with tags item sometimes has a razor slash stain or other issue.
As far as electronics i have a small test kit in the trunk.
Batteries(AA/AAA) a cassette tape CD Disc etc….Saved me some bad buys.I’m with Jay.Call and close the case to protect yourself and tell them you are now unable to send another label.
Rules are rules and it pays to follow them.
If they decide to go to the post office and deal with it fine but don’t waste anymore of your time.My job has Masons that for some reason climb the ladder quickly.
I’d let these secret handshake WOO-WOO club bullies pound sand before letting them intimidate me.
Jays mantra fits once again ” Go Silent”My solution for higher priced items that would benefit from lots of pics is use.com
You can insert as many pics as your heart desires and is FREE!
Here is the last auction i used the use.com to sell.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/112953454528Not about India but i just got back from a week in Cuba.
I decided to close-up shop and i’m glad i did.
Seems the communists don’t appreciate E-bay and you cannot access it no way no how.I agree Jay the stuffing and fiddley work is probably unnessary for a 19.95 t-shirt.
but…
The easy stuff ie.folding in the sides and being a bit more detail oriented i believe will be noticed and set you apart from some of the dreck people pass for auction pics.
If listing a higher priced shirt the extra 2min once you get good at it will make you stand out.
These people are pros for a reason….Every little bit of knowledge for free helps yo!If i’ve sold an item before and it’s no brainer then gut all day.
Otherwise my process at the thrift is to throw everything interesting in the cart and
find a quiet place and vet the items for condition/price/resale.
It’s a funny thing but you could be in the quietest section of a dead thrift and some asshat
will always come down the aisle and ask you to move to look at that one dish towel you are blocking them from inspecting.Grrr.Great score!I love me some hats.
Easy peasy to ship First Class goodbye.
Great to get your kids involved i did the same with both of mine and it probably taught them more then a business degree!
Great advise here so far and i do agree take more pics it isn’t that hard as part of the process.
I would set a goal to list X amount a week and do your best to stick to it.
The biggest one time score i’ve processed was 110 vintage tshirts and after photographing them all flat lay in one day i could hardly move the next day.Ebay injury!
Don’t do that!
Question? How do you ship them?
At one time i would put some cardboard under the brim a square of large bubble in the folded back and poly bag it.
I now box them up my old process made me nervous but it never resulted in a damaged hat.Wow that is crazy and awesome all in one.
Recently i made a shirt buy that was much smaller(90+)
Being a part time solo seller i tried to streamline my process.
First thing i did was sort according to band/size.
Used a lay flat on white backgound photo setup.
Placed a tape measure pit/pit top bottom in pics.
Placed then in clear plastic bags and numbered them with permanent sharpie.
Then when listing i used this template and sell similar.
Notice the small id:81 number on bottom for when they sell.
Maybe you have a better process but this was the best i could come up with and so far so good.Rush Snakes and Arrows 2008 World Tour Rock Concert T-Shirt
Front: Rush Snakes and Arrows Art Graphic
Back:Tour datesMaterial: 100% Cotton
Color: Black
Tag size:Mo Knits XXL (see measurements below)
Short sleeves
Machine washableMeasurements (laid flat):
Chest (pit to pit, then doubled): 25/50″
Length (bottom of collar down back to tail): 32″Condition: Pre-owned, no rips/holes/tears/stains. Please enlarge the images above for a closer look.
Listing many XXL/XXXL Rush Shirts.
Check out my other items!
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