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craig_rex….sounds like a nice week of sales!
I had a decent June 22 to 28
Lot of 2 Brodix Cylinder Heads decals. https://www.ebay.com/itm/197146674386
I bought a pack of these at an estate sale, guessing maybe 40 or 50 total. Been selling them in sets of 2 for $7.50 with free shipping (envelope and a stamp). I’ve sold 5 sets so far. bought the whole stack for $5.Rookwood Pottery vase: https://www.ebay.com/itm/197258062824
Took a best offer on this of $105.00. got it for free! hoping I packed it adequately so it doesn’t break.The Mask #4 comic book: https://www.ebay.com/itm/194711828875
Sold for $15.50. I’ve had this for a couple decades, part of the comic collection I’m clearing out.I’ve got nothing going in the scavenging game for last week…. but probably for the best as I’ve got plenty of stuff to list.
I had picked up about 30 international travel guides a couple weeks ago and just finished listing those.
and actually my wife kind of had an awesome scavenge a couple months back. a lady she used to work with, and whose mother passed away a while back, was helping to clean out her mom’s house. She put a bunch of pottery and books in a couple bins and tried to sell them to a couple antique stores but no takers. She knew I did some part time selling so called my wife and offered them to her for free. Turns out it was some good stuff!
Got a couple Rookwood Pottery vases, another hand painted vase from a known designer and few other things. Currently sitting at $480.00 gross revenue for this free stuff!
looking back June 15 to 21 was pretty slow for me with 3 items sold. I’ve been lax with listing new stuff which always seems to slow things down
Planters Cocktail Peanuts can with lid: https://www.ebay.com/itm/194828839351
sold for $14.00 and paid $2Clymer manual for Kawasaki KZ650 motorcycles from the 70’s: https://www.ebay.com/itm/195975334049
Listed at $20.00, paid $2Coasters: https://www.ebay.com/itm/193785243286
had these listed for a few years, $12.00 and paid $3just catching up on the forum and threads. I didn’t realize this website was on the verge of being closed. I just posted on the scavenge of the week, although had to add to an older thread. Only a few sales this particular week.
Interestingly, I had my Away notification turned on for 11 days while in a work/vacation trip and sold a bunch of stuff?! 11 items during that time frame which for me is quite a bit. weird.
6/15/2025 to 6/21/2025
Total listings: 482
New listings this week: 12
Items sold: 3
Gross sales: $46.00
Net sales: $43.00 (aasume this is selling price minus cost of the item?)
Average sales price: $15.33
High sale of the week: $20.00 a Kawasaki repair manual https://www.ebay.com/itm/195975334049
this scavenge is from this past weekend. my wife and I hit a few estate sales. we were about to leave the first house with nothing but I decided to look through some stationary size boxes on a top shelf in a bedroom closet. Among some opened mail, mostly greeting/holiday cards, I saw some gift cards. I’ve run across this before. Some of the older generation like to keep everything financial including used gift cards…..but these appeared to have the pin numbers still hidden behind the scratch off material. So, even though they were old cards I bought a few boxes of this old mail, unused stationary and a bunch of gift cards mixed in.
Well….we hit the jackpot. almost $900 in unused gift card balances. most were for a specific business (Target, Starbucks, southwest airlines, etc). A few were visa gift cards and even though the card was expired the funds don’t expire so waiting on replacement cards or checks. and then a couple from defunct companies such as Borders Books and Zoeys Kitchen
So not a bad scavenge for ten dollars!
Thought I’d try to participate in this one again:
Week of Mar 2 – Mar 9
Total Items in Store: 486
Items Sold: 2
Cost of Items Sold: $15.00
Total Sales: $310.00
Net: $286.00
Highest Price Sold: eBay $250 (Mercedes Gear Box Valve Body)
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0 — I didn’t get out to any estate sales last weekendvery slow at the moment. selling this fairly expensive car part helped. I definitely notice better sales when I’m more consistent on listing. Need to work on that.
only two sales for me for Feb 23 to Mar 1. hopefully more to come this week.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/197061583661
This is one of the Mercedes car parts I recently purchased. It’s a steering column lock. Believe most of the parts I bought are for older Mercedes vehicles. This one sold on an offer at $45. It’s being shipped to Europe through ebay at a cost to the buyer of $63.00!https://www.ebay.com/itm/196932355440
and sole another plastic desk model airplane. This one is Reno Air and was missing a piece of the tail. Sold for $14.00. I made all my money back on the airplane collection months ago.@craigrex… fortunately, it consists of mostly small parts. Almost nothing larger than a softball and everything was in a box or bag with a label. The one “large” item I got, a transmission valve body, is about the size of a shoe box. At the moment it’s all stored in two cloth grocery bags and eventually will end up in a plastic storage bin.
and yeah, I love running across new old stock. especially when it’s all smaller component items like the radio controlled airplane parts stock I found.
I had a nice estate sale scavenge last week. Found a bunch new old stock Mercedes car parts. Most were still in the original packaging and unused while a few were in packaging but I think were used.
I’ve run across this before with what I assume are older mechanics. They’ll change out a car part and put the old part they took off into the box of the new part they just installed and keep it. Learned that lesson the hard way so now I really look these things over. I guess their thought is maybe at some point they can recycle that old part or get some smaller part off of it.
Anyways….I got about 25 items to sell for $72.00. I’ve got close to a thousand dollars of listing value out of it and so far have sold 3 items for a total of $350.00 (before ebay fees).
a pretty decent week for me with 6 sales.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/197011794579
this is a Radio Controlled Transmitter. I got this in a good sized lot of r/c aircraft parts and manuals from an estate sale. Sold this one for $12.25https://www.ebay.com/itm/196999044562
these are some new in the package r/c aircraft wheels and tires. Sold for $18.50. I paid $50 for the entire lot of manuals and parts and at this point I believe I’m almost at the break even.https://www.ebay.com/itm/196762056708
this is another desk top model airplane from the big FB Marketplace purchase from a few months back. Sold this one for $45.00. Believe my average cost per plane at this point is around $5.https://www.ebay.com/itm/196900738165
sold yet another 1960’s college class schedule booklet from North Texas State University which is now the University of North Texas. Sold for $9.65. I’ve done quite well with these. This came from an online estate sale auction where I bought the entire contents of a large closet full of books. Believe I paid about three dollars for everything. Filled up the back of my Suburban, ended up throwing aaway about a third of it. I’ve probably made a few hundred over the past few years and still have more up for sale.thanks for the info! any brands that you like to watch out for? I feel like I see cameras at estate sales but no much knowledge on which ones sell. I’ve tried to look them up while at the sales but I seem to always grab the ones that have no real value
@retro…. curious how you test the camera’s that use film? I know the obvious way is to add film, take pictures and get developed. wondering if there is a quicker and less expensive way to test.
this will be a combo post since I missed the last one.
I was out last week and bought a few small tubs of radio control Airplane parts and manuals. I had some luck with these before but these parts are all newer so we’ll see. I paid $50 for 3 tubs of parts and one tub of manuals. So far have sold one manual for $20
this past weekend I made an offer to buy a plastic tub full of transformers. none are really that old, I just thought it would be fun to go through them and see which ones are good. not to mention play with them 🙂
and I found a steiff bear in the original box from the 70’s. was priced at $125 and it was 50% off day. I made an offer of $50 which they took. https://www.ebay.com/itm/197027029548
Initially I only saw two listed and neither with the box or all the tags. of course after listing it Ebay decides to show me a listing with the box! damn ebay….. even if I have to knock off 20% on my listing I’ll still do well.slow scavenge week for me. two ho-hum estate sales this past week and only bought one thing. Grabbed a Willy Nelson concert series bandana….yawn
at the moment doing more listing and scavenging from my own garage.
and @sharyn… I was today years old when I found out you can sell the guts from your old dishwasher!
@Chrisstine…..I had no idea vintage stationary was a thing! I feel like I’ve probably walked past tons of those at estate sales!
@Retro… love the ghostbusters sale! I sometimes think about grabbing clearance toys at Walmart and Target (I love toys, this ebay selling started with selling off my personal collection). my concern is having a bunch of money tied up in inventory and storage room.
here’s a few of my good sales.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/196943971964 sold this quite large and heavy diecast airplane. No original box or packing materials so my big concern was mailing this so that the propeller doesn’t break. It shows delivered and no complaints so fingers crossed it got there ok. I sent something similar and it ended up going to Australia and showed up broken. Best I can figure out is Australian customs opened it and didn’t repack it at all. and sold for $55 and cost is about $4.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/196795874114 another plastic airplane model. A Malaysian Airlines B747. I like these as they are just snap fit so they can be taken apart and wrapped really well with virtually no chance of breaking in transit. Sold for $36 and cost is about $4
https://www.ebay.com/itm/196387456289 sold this new with tags Orvis flannel shirt. I don’t sell a lot of clothes to the point I keep some of it hanging in my closet. I pulled this out literally the day before it sold and thought about just keeping it. I even tried it on, almost yanked the tags but didn’t. Hung it back up and it sold the next day! Sold for $29.75 and got it for a few dollars at an estate sale.
