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Good advice. Having deep knowledge is extremely valuable. To be fair, it sounds like you have a deep knowledge of lots of different items. So you’re kind of a deep knowledge generalist 🙂
Usually I’d say send it out, but this is an $800 purchase and not sure if a complete set is what makes it so valuable.
Danger is you mail it, but the buyer eventually says they don’t want it because its Item Not as Described. You’ll need to accept a return and pay the GSP shipping both ways.
 I understand many collectors now are mainly curators of decorations (can’t count the number of times I see someone with a killer piece displayed that knows nothing about it other than it looks cool),
This is a very true statement. I’d say we fall into that category. I don’t have any inclination to collect, but enjoy finding cool pieces that add visual beauty to a room.
I’d call ebay to get the case closed.
I always thought that once a case was closed, the buyer couldnt open another case.
 In August, three of my sales alone totaled $10,600.00.
–what kind of items are selling for such high prices?
–Where (generally) are you finding all these items that sell for so high?
This is where we pull our numbers from: https://www.ebay.com/sh/performance/sales
Yeah, I’m with you on prices being so much higher for items now. It’ll be very interesting to see if the days of a “truckload of junk” for several hundred bucks is over.
We thankfully had a big backlog of items, plus the boxes of stuff we can still find cheap.
Ultimately it does seem to be about listing.
Retro, looks like you definitely got off lucky catching COVID without the vaccine.
The couple who called themselves the Alabama Pickers both died recently of COVID: https://www.al.com/news/2021/09/alabama-pickers-couple-known-for-reselling-and-vaccine-opposition-both-dead-of-covid.html
Lots of videos on Youtube about them, but I think their channel may have been removed?
I feel there’s a whole sub-genre of stuff you could sell on eBay just from scavenging outside. Animals skeletons, wasps nests, etc.
We sold a couple abandoned bird nests but then realized its a no-no since you limit bird births.
Wonder why they limit searches. Maybe they were having issues with people writing scripts to ping their databases thousands of times a day.
250 searches seems arbitrary.
Hey, if you’re posting to an online forum, things must be looking up!
Is your job sticking by you? I assume you have a longish recovery before you get back to work.
