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I’ll keep an eye out for the clock radios with the flip numbers. thanks!
I’ve had some good sales over the past two weeks and one amazing one. here is a good sampling.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/193923893006 Vintage Tape Measure
Scored several vintage tape measures at an estate sale for $1 to $2 each. Sold this one for $20https://www.ebay.com/itm/193750685959 Book of Beatles sheet music
this was in the two big bins of books I won for $4 total in an online auction. I’m probably up to about $250 total with plenty more to sell. this Beetles books of sheet music went for $15https://www.ebay.com/itm/193927684213 Vintage set of Bisque figurines
Due to the snowmaggedon-freeze that we had here in Dallas in Feb, we had a busted pipe and some flooding. Had to take some boxes out of the closet (for the first time in 12 years) and found a bunch of stuff my mother packed for me to take when she was downsizing 20 years ago! part got thrown away, part I gave back to her and part I listed. sold these for $45!https://www.ebay.com/itm/193908088169 vintage Architectural book
Got this in a bulk buy from an estate sale. Sold this one for $40. Paid $30 for about 80 books. p to about a $100 on the whole lot so far.https://www.ebay.com/itm/193772626840 Old Panasonic clock radio.
believe I paid $4 for this and sold for $20. I think I’m done trying to flip these things. I’d say over half of them I get them home and find something else wrong with them even though I try to look them over thoroughlyhttps://www.ebay.com/itm/193908187071 Vintage Limited Art Show Portfolio with three prints.
This was my amazing, likely once in a decade find! found this at an estate sale and while there tried to look it up on ebay. I couldn’t find anything other than these artists did have some prints with some value to them but couldn’t find these exactly….but for the huge price of a dollar i thought it worth a shot. I start doing more digging a few days later and discovered that each print was worth several hundred or more. Sold this to an art dealer in NY that now has them for sale on her website. Very exciting!I ended up submitting a counter to her offer and she accepted. so we’ll see!
I see some of you all post stories of people filing claims on things, trying to return things but at the same time try to also sell them., etc.
I know for the first few years while I was ebaying in the late 90’s I’d hear stories from other comic dealers talking about buyers with no feedback and staying away from them.
so just curious of the current thinking as I had been away from this world until the past couple years and only in the past 12 months or so have started doing more selling.
Thanks
love the videos of what sold. great ideas from seeing what others are having success with.
Here are a few recent sales.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/193942806429 Quilting book bought at an estate sale for one dollar. grabbed a few of these at a sale and sold two of them so far. I was at another sales yesterday and happened upon a half a closet of these things and grabbed about a dozen of them for a dollar a piece.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/193925669001 Vintage dominoes set in a rare green color. A really quality set, picked this up at an estate sale for two bucks. Had an offer on it within one hour of listing it. Countered his offer and it sold.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/193860390606 Small Batman logo ceramic pot. tiny thing at 3″ tall by 3″ wide. I’ve had this since I was a kid. picked it up somewhere and somehow kept it for the past 40 years!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/193883066591 Vintage metal advertising sign with thermometer…which 10 minutes after listing it the thermometer fell out and broke while moving it. So I edited the listing and mentioned several times the thermometer was gone. Also cut the price by 60% but still sold. Believe I paid four dollars.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/193923874479 Marshall university ceramic mascot bobble head. grabbed this at an estate sale during the 50% off day, paid $3.50 after discount. shocked no one else bought it before me. had several real quick offers but I declined them and still sold within a couple days.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/193883057403 1940’s comic strip collection. this was a great find. Grabbed this at an estate sale of a guy who had been a senior govt economic adviser on South America. really cool looking through all of his stuff. I found this book in a cabinet in his garage under some dusty magazines. paid a dollar for it. ironically this sold to a comic dealer I know back in MD.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/193855266876 art deco? extending desk lamp. found this at an estate sale, believe after the 50% discount it was three dollars. had it up for several months, sent a number of offers. I priced it high as I couldn’t find another online anywhere.
Still enjoying this which for me it’s a side gig/hobby. I’m trying to find a balance of not bringing in more stuff then I’m selling. Also trying to find more quality items with the goal of having fewer higher dollar sales as opposed to numerous lower price items. I really don’t want to bother selling something if it’s under $7.50 and I’d like to get that number up closer to $20 if possible.
I have to admit I sent one of these emails myself not to long ago. I sell a fair amount of books and there’s nothing more deflating than looking up a book, seeing several prices in the $40 to $60 range and then one person selling it for Five dollars! and half the time they’ve got shipping for a couple dollars or free!
So I decided to email the seller who had numerous other books for sale at $5 and nicely ask why do they do that. As in, how can you afford to spend the time listing a book so cheaply and make money? Why bother?
Not to mention if everyone is $30 higher why go so low?
I did not get a reply :/
I sell artwork, although it’s all what you would consider professional. I sell comic art pages and sketches. Most are things I have acquired for my personal collection and now downsizing. I do see quite a few people selling their own comic art on ebay (or “amateur” art). I suppose the main difference (aside from price) is that the professionals have published work. They have worked for one of the mainstream comic book publishers and that gives their art a sense of worth.
I’ve noticed the amateur folks seem to do a lot of self promoting through facebook. I’m a member of a couple FB comic art pages and these folks will pop up from time to time with some of their art. Usually to not break the group rules of “advertising” they’ll post a piece asking for opinions or critiques. or in one group there is a “Wonder Woman Wednesday” tradition and artists will post their work that includes WW. They’ll usually add a link to their FB page and website as well.
Best of luck!
Long time Comic Book seller over here 🙂 For book/paper storage, dark, cool and dry is very good….humid, warm and sunny is the enemy. Especially the humidity, very bad.
If you unearth any comic books and have questions feel free to message me or email at jsmithbull@yahoo.com
I’ve been selling on Ebay for years and today was my first day even looking at Poshmark.
Rhianna…I was going to private message you but it doesn’t seem like that function exists on this website.
Do you sell used clothes? new clothes? how does it work?
Thanks
love reading about peoples sales. the past couple holiday weeks have been pretty good for me.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/193746044293 — Thrift store find, New Zealand military helicopter mug. Picked it up for a couple dollars and sold for $19.50
https://www.ebay.com/itm/193785219538 — mini wooden high game bowling pins. won a couple online auctions. these were in a “lot” with the contents of several shelves on a wall.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/193798494904 — This is a Spiderman drawing from a comic book artist. I’m the original owner, got this from the artist direct at a comic con back in the 90’s.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/193772761851 — Got this Westminster Abbey guide book in a box of stuff from an estate sale. Found an entire box of tourist stuff (maps, guide books, postcards, touristy crap) at an estate sale and bought the whole box for ten dollars. Probably 40 to 50 things worth listing as I work my way through it. This guide book sold for $12.50
https://www.ebay.com/itm/193811265863 — Vintage coffee pantry canister. found this in a garage at an estate sale. it was being used to hold roofing nails. bought for two bucks and sold for $18
https://www.ebay.com/itm/193756391311 — another law book from the two big bins of books I won in an online auction. This book sold for $25… paid a few dollars for the entire lot. think I’m at about $150 in sales so far for these books.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/193807297946 — Makers Mark mini cocktail shaker – got this in the lot with the mini bowling pins!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/193827473350 — 3rd printing of Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. got this for $2 at an estate sale and sold for $58.
several other items sold from my own collection of toys and collectibles that I’m downsizing. trying to be consistent with listing things. currently at 170 listings, hoping to break 200 by the end of the weekend.
several sales last week and two returns?! I suppose it was bound to happen with the returns as I really haven’t had any yet.
Sold an electronic backgammon game that I have had for 20 years and since it was new. Sold with travel case and instructions. Purchaser says no instructions showed up and said it will only show an open screen. Despite explaining she needs to press the reset button on the bottom and asking her to look again for the instructions Ebay says I have to accept a return as the buyer is claiming it doesn’t work.
Also sold a book and the buyer asked to return, even though she admitted she bought the wrong one. I went ahead and said yes as she will have to pay the shipping.
Items that sold:
Vintage radio- https://www.ebay.com/itm/193742543515
I picked up for a few dollars in an online estate auction. This is going somewhere overseas as it’s being mailed to a reship place.Model Plane- https://www.ebay.com/itm/193800982996
Bought this and a couple other at an estate sale. Surprised these were still there even on a sunday when everything was 50% off. Got 3 of them for $21 after the discount so happy with more than doubling my money on one of themPottery Barn shot glasses- https://www.ebay.com/itm/193708357152
found these at a thrift store for a couple dollars. still sealed in the package!Deck of playing cards from England – https://www.ebay.com/itm/193728274116
Estate sale item for a dollar. I only buy the playing cards that are still sealed and no more than 2 bucks.Kansas Jayhawk Hotel ashtray – https://www.ebay.com/itm/193805191447
Picked this up at an estate sale for a dollar! saw it and immediately grabbed it as it had some college football logo and looked vintage. The hotel it’s from closed years ago and in case it’s some kind of replica I caveated the description saying that while it was purchased from an estate sale of an elderly couple I couldn’t make a claim as to the age.Huge Nat Geo Atlas- https://www.ebay.com/itm/193785225472
Couldn’t pass this up at an estate sale for a dollar.Wooden travel game set – https://www.ebay.com/itm/193744748931
Estate sale item bought for a couple dollars. This one went to Puerto Rico and amazingly got there within 5 days!Super Powers Superman action fig- https://www.ebay.com/itm/193785233060
Another estate sale find. grabbed this dude for two bucks. Would’ve been worth twice what I sold it for but it had a reproduction cape attached to it. Still in awesome condition and a great flip from two dollars to twenty five.I also sold a few comic art sketches that I’ve had for about 25 years. more purging!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/193798504542
https://www.ebay.com/itm/193796348475
https://www.ebay.com/itm/193796056449Overall a great past 2 weeks of selling and for a couple days had finally broke the 150 mark for listings.
I don’t see it, but I’d imagine you all are some sort of professional seller? I’ve only got about a 135 listing and sell maybe 10 to 20 items per month.
i thought about making business cards got myself and leaving them with the estate sale companies when I go to the sales. Basically offering to buy large amounts of X and offering to cart away the left over Y and Z.
I’m just outside Dallas TX and there are a ton of sales every weekend.
nothing like a hoarder next door. I have a hard time not stopping when I see a pile of stuff out at the curb.
It’s even worse with an open top refuse bin at a construction site or commercial business!
The best thing about your videos is seeing what sells. I’m fairly new to buying with the purpose of reselling. I’m still selling off my collection of comics, toys and comic related stuff but really enjoying the buying and selling.
I’ve been hitting estate sales in person and some online auctions.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/193721538748
Got several of these Who’s Who Among American High School Student books in an auction lot. I bought the lot for some electronics and got 4 or 5 of these. Sold this one for 14.95https://www.ebay.com/itm/193712267397
Have about a half dozen college Chinese language textbooks from my son who left them here with a note to donate or whatever…so I ebayed them! This is the second set of text and workbooks sold. This set for $18.00https://www.ebay.com/itm/193742564337
Picked up two perfect condition vintage “Cassette Library” holders at an estate sale for I think $2 each. Hade one up for sale at $25, got an offer of $15 and countered with $25 for two of them and they sold.https://www.ebay.com/itm/193708308857
While in San Francisco for work in August I packed an extra duffel bag since I had a free checked bag allowance and hit a bunch of thrift stores. Picked up this new in box Starcraft mini figure for $2 and sold for $16https://www.ebay.com/itm/193756169695
Really excited about this lot of books I won in an online auction. Ended up being two big tubs of books. I got the entire lot for $3 which was surprising but most of it in the online pics looked like a bunch of religion books. I bid because there were several coffee table type auto books I could see in the pics. The huge bonus was all of the Law books! I’ve sold a couple so far with this one being the big winner at $55.00! I’m up to about a hundred dollars total on the books from those bins.https://www.ebay.com/itm/193746178785
found this french coffee press at a thrift store for $2.00. Sold for $15.50. Only hitch is I didn’t charge enough for shipping. I think I spent an extra $5 on shipping so lesson learned.I believe I’ve got about 12 sales in the last week or so with about half of those being things I’ve bought to resell. the rest is more of my collection.
