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I bought a MASSIVE haul of vintage toys and electronics from a guy who used to run a toy/hobby shop locally.
the McDonald’s toys were in strawberry “flat” boxes if you’ve ever seen those. 5 of them overflowing for $20. But it was likely less than that as I did a bulk price for a pile. I was hoping for more of the desirable toys, but it ended up a lot of them were less desirable. I’ve already sold several of the bigger bulk lots along with some singles and smaller premium lots. I think I’m just over $150 on the McDonald’s toys and I have a TON left.
Koosh balls were da bomb when I was a kid. All the cool teachers used a koosh ball to call on kids for questions in school back then.I had a surprising amount of sales this week considering I was on time away for a few days for a business trip.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266925935327
SEVENDUST 2000 Tour T-SHIRT Size XL Metal Rock Band
Sold on offer for $70- paid $1 at a yard sale.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266884837713
Gucci Leather Sandals Slingback Mens Size 11
Sold on offer for $95. Hoarder item.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266420776776
Vintage Sklar Chrome Sterile Medical Caliper
Slow sellers but the vintage medical equipment haul from 2 years ago really pays off over time.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266960902806
Hugo Boss Mens Black Wool Striped Suit Set 40R USA
Will I ever buy suits again? Probably not. Do the right ones sell well? Yes! This was one of the items my kids listed 100%. They get a 10% commission on this sale, so $7 on top of the $2 they got for listing it.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/267002811568
Saxon Homeschool Math 6/5, Student Text Book
A surprisingly high dollar sale for a book from a free lot my wife picked up at the library one day.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266743629989
Nike CTR360 Libretto II FG Soccer Cleats 454344-104 Women’s Sz 9.5 Men’s Sz 8
Sold on offer for $75. Paid $8 at Goodwill. Loves me some cleats sales. I sold 3 pair of wrestling shoes this week too.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266471309564
Paperboy Arcade Original Manual with Schematics
This was from my personal collection. I used to have a Paperboy arcade but I sold it about 6 years ago. I bought the original machine non-working for $50. The fix was stupid easy – one connector was bad. Of course, knowing how to identify that one connector is the trick. I sold this rare machine for $2500! It’s worth even more than that now. I hope Arcade1up does a paperboy some day. I love our Tron arcade 1up – another machine I used to own and sold for a stupid amount of money.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266560752226
Banana Republic Brown Chunky Lug Sole Leather Wingtip Lace-Up Shoes Sz 11 D
Quality shoes sell for good money. These are some really well made shoes and they sold on offer for $65. Paid $5. I am forever indebted to Jay for turning me on to used shoes so many years ago when I stumbled onto Scavengerlife. It was a game changer! I have around 1000 active shoe listings now!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266299669293
Another pair of shoes I paid $5 for and sold on offer for $70. Paid $5 at Goodwill.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/267046845632
Sega Smash Pack 1 & 2 Twin Pack PC Windows Sega Activision – Sonic Shining Force
I keep an eye out for games at Goodwill but they rarely turn up. This one was decent. Sold on offer for $18 and sold quickly. Paid $3.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266894184374
My Little Pony MLP Toy G3 Lot of 20 2002 2004
I got this big bag of My Little pony at Goodwill for $8. I did a quick search to check for any rares or standouts, and decided to list it as one big lot. Took an offer of $70.
A couple sales from the last week in October
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266464424243
Lindahl Bellows Hood Vignetter System Double Slot 3″ 4.5″ filters lens adapters
This was part of a big lot of photography equipment I got a few years back. Sold on offer for $35. It was basically a freebie in the lot that I didn’t factor in when I bought it.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266992704741
Polo Ralph Lauren New York Rugby Jacket Skull Crossbones Men’s XXL Black Zip
Sold on offer for $150. One of the cooler sweaters I sold this week. My COGS on this one would be $10.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266698422302
RAICHLE Boots Hiking Mountaineering Heavy Duty Leather Mens US 6.5-7.5 Vintage
Heavy duty is an understatement on these boots. I think you could run them over with a tank and they’d be fine. Sold on offer for $80. My COGS is $5.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266932839473
McDonald’s McDonaldland Circus Parade Happy Meal Toys Lot of 27 1989
Took a $15 offer and I’m happy to part with it! This was part of my overall strategy when I listed a HUGE lot of vintage McDonalds’s toys. I didn’t want to sit on these forever and sell them for $3 each and take years to sell, if ever!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266595323213
Koosh Catchers Game With Looped Ball Complete 1997 Vintage 2 Catching Mitts
The key to this awesome sale is the ball. Noone ever has the ball. I got this at Goodwill for $3.
Items in Store: 3100
Items Sold: 32
Total Sales: $1,938.00
COGS: $208.00
Total Profit: $1,730.00
Average profit: $54.06
Average sales price: $60.56
New Listings: 41
Items scavenged: 52
2024 weekly new listings Avg: 38
2024 avg gross weekly sales $1,607.09
2024 Avg weekly Items Sold 35
2024 ASP $46.37
2024 projected total sales $83,568.73I sold stuff. Yay! I sold a pair of sunglasses for $600 but the buyer flaked and never paid or responded to messages. Boo.
Halloween week was super busy at home as we did a haunted house. Normally we only get up to 5 trick or treaters at our house as we are in the VERY back of a pretty spread out subdivision with big lots. This year we had 75-100 trick or treaters who made the trek out to see the haunted house. Here’s a link to a walkthrough of what we did this year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9eH6WRjN8o
Please drop a positive comment if you watch the video. That’s my kids youtube channel and they really get a kick out of getting comments.
I’m the Among Us character. I had a remote inside my costume to control some special lighting all around the room that didn’t come through very well in the video. It was like 87 degrees on halloween – I sweated my butt off in that costume!
It was alot of hard work as we expanded from a single room and a walking graveyard to add another 10×10 shelter AND a 10×20 shelter this year! Next year we’ll keep the same footprint but change out some rooms and (hopefully) have the last 2 rooms actually complete.
Premium Hoarder update:
Sold 11 items for $1384.
I sold alot of premium sweaters this week. Hopefully they keep selling as winter moves in!
I went out yard to yard sales this week and there were surprisingly more than a few. I quit after 3 though as I bought a lot at the third. At the first the coolest item was 4 sealed posters from original Star Wars movies. I haven’t researched them yet.
The third sale was a big church sale where multiple folks set up in the parking lot. There was a guy who runs a paddle board class business in the area selling. He had a TON of cool surfer/skate clothing and shoes. I explained what I do and he was cool with it. I bought two huge bags worth of stuff for $200 and he’ll likely reach out to me to sell other stuff as well, wet suits and stuff like that.
the “non” scavenge of the week was an HD DVD player. For years I’ve wanted to find an HD DVD player. I’m just fascinated by obsolete AV technology. I’ve found HD DVD’s but didn’t buy them because they are worthless. So today I FINALLY found that player. It wasn’t really worth much so I just took a moment and practiced “catch & release”. LOL!
160 Purple label items. JEALOUS!!! You ever get tired of that consignor make sure to send them my way!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266956356167
Axis and Allies Revised Edition 2004 Avalon Hill Board Game
Picked this up for $2 at a yard sale this summer. Sold for $25 on offer. Note that this actually was an easy to list item as the previous owner had everything well organized. I didn’t count anything – just laid it all out there and took photos.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266926779853
Metallica Ninja Star Stripe Hat 90’s Giant Baseball Cap Snapback
Sold on offer for $45. Paid $1 at the yard sale where I got all the vintage Metallica concert tees. Now if I could just start selling the T-shirts too! I have them priced VERY high though, so just waiting on decent offers.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266436523180
Polo Ralph Lauren Fireman Clasp Canvas Barn Chore Horseman Jacket Coat Red Sz XL
Sold on offer for $180. This is one of my favorite premium hoarder items. I’m shocked it took a year to sell, and not nearly for as much as I wanted to sell it for. I REALLY wanted at least 200, but a sale’s a sale, espcially since I only paid $7 for it.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266390193862
Wilson Electronics 801201 3G Wireless Cellular/PCS Dual Band Booster Kit
Sold for full price. I paid $2 at a yard sale this summer. My gut says this one will come back to me on a return. We’ll see. I hope I’m wrong!
Items in Store: 3091
Items Sold: 24
Total Sales: $1,045.00
COGS: $147.00
Total Profit: $898.00
Average profit: $37.42
Average sales price: $43.54
New Listings: 0
Items scavenged: 0
2024 weekly new listings Avg: 38
2024 avg gross weekly sales $1,599.40
2024 Avg weekly Items Sold 35
2024 ASP $46.06
2024 projected total sales $83,168.56I was on time away until Friday of this week. Ugh…I have alot of shipping to do this evening. I’m actually quite happy with these sales! We were at the beach in SC and the weather was absolutely PERFECT all week last week. Beautiful blue sunny skies, 78 degrees, and picturesque sunrise and sunsets all week. Booking vacations in hurricane season can be risky but when it works out there is no better way to go to the beach. Hardly any people so you can do whatever you want whenever you want with no wait. Sit in whatever chair you want, and sit wherever you want on the beach. If you’re staying at a place with alot of amenities, you basically get them all to yourself. In our case, lazy river, pools, gas fire pit, etc. There are typically a few Canadian families there this time of year that our kids play with in the pools and on the beach. If you’re a dog person you can even bring your dog on the beach after labor day.
This week we have our haunted house to finish. After that is done my two oldest kids will be helping me list a bunch of commodity clothes. I’m wanting to go BIG on listings goal for the remainder of the year. I’m talking 1000 new listings in the last 9 weeks of the year – mainly clothes. Is it doable…meh, probably not. Especially with my kids track record of sticking with a task. But even if I’m 50-75% successful of that goal that will be a huge increase in business.
Premium Hoarder update:
Sold 7 items for $635.
I had one cancellation because a person didn’t understand that Louis Vuitton shoes are always in UK sizing so they bought the wrong size. $150 sale vaporized. Ow…
Items in Store: 3116
Items Sold: 31
Total Sales: $1,133.00
COGS: $189.00
Total Profit: $944.00
Average profit: $30.45
Average sales price: $36.55
New Listings: 0
Items scavenged: 0
2024 weekly new listings Avg: 39
2024 avg gross weekly sales $1,609.02
2024 Avg weekly Items Sold 35
2024 ASP $46.03
2024 projected total sales $83,669.24I turned on my time away Thursday to go on vacation and it definitely turned off the faucet. Something felt awful familiar about how sales took a nose dive this october. I went back and revisted my numbers from 2022. October ’22 had the worst sales of my entire history on ebay. This same week in 2022 I had 12 sales for $212. I see minor app changes and minor changes on the website and I think the same thing every year – why in the WORLD would ebay be tinkering in Q4? They do it every year. Blows my mind. Who knows that changes that we can’t see.
Premium Hoarder update:
Sold 8 items for $510.
My library had a bunch of those great courses sets for $1 each. I passed on them because the sell through was sooooo bad.
Items in Store: 3143
Items Sold: 22
Total Sales: $832.00
COGS: $119.00
Total Profit: $713.00
Average profit: $32.41
Average sales price: $37.82
New Listings: 0
Items scavenged: 0
2024 weekly new listings Avg: 39
2024 avg gross weekly sales $1,620.63
2024 Avg weekly Items Sold 35
2024 ASP $46.24
2024 projected total sales $84,272.98What a rough week. I’ll chalk it up to the Southeast having shopping on ebay as the LAST thing on their minds, as well as election stress/burnout. Looking at my traffic metrics there was more than a 20% drop compared to the previous week. That’s a pretty severe drop off!
It was a busy week outside of ebay. I’ve also just not been “feeling it” when it comes to ebay. I did get back to my roots and clean a bunch of items like shoes and toys but didn’t get a chance to photograph them. It felt good to do a task I haven’t done much of in the last year or two. The rest of this month is pretty much a wash but I do hope to find some time to photograph this week and at least get all my drafts live.
Also of note, is anyone else getting a TON of late shipment defects from ebay? I ship on time (mostly) and use USPS ground advantage for most of my packages. Without fail, ground advantage is 1-3 (or more) days late. Even Priority is also a day late pretty often.
Keep an eye on your shipping metrics. If you’re getting a bunch of late shipment dings you can request to remove them here:
https://www.ebay.com/sellerhelp/defect
I submitted 12 requests this morning for items I shipped on time but USPS delivered late and all were approved.
Premium Hoarder update:
Sold 4 items for $250.
Mid premium sales to match my low budget week. My kids like to call things “mid” or “low budget”. Their modern slang cracks me up.
Oh man this week SUCKED! My sales fell off a cliff. Here are the highlights.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266917452395
Nobull High Top Camo Mens Size 7.5 Sneakers Shoes Canvas Green
Nobull is a great BOLO shoe brand. Sold for full price to an overseas buyer.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266945982435
1979 Dale Earnhardt Chevrolet Monte Carlo Rookie Of Year NASCAR Action 1/24
Sold on offer for $45. I bought a big lot of Earnhardt die cast stuff at a yard sale this summer for $30 for the whole lot. I’m into the profit after selling 2 items so far.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266717050190
TOYOTA AVALON RADIO STEREO RECEIVER 09350209 00-04 CD Changer
Sold for full price. I picked this up at a thrift chain I don’t really like going to in Columbus. They’re super high priced, but I found 2 car head units there that I made great money on. This one and a BMW one I made over $200 on. I paid $12.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/267004498061
Lauren Ralph Lauren Lexington Men’s Windowpane Plaid Wool Blend Blazer 44R
This is a Ralph Lauren NWT jacket I actually got at Goodwill, NOT at the hoarder sale. Took an offer of $54 since I was so hungry for a sale.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266945985678
Rawlings Renegade Catchers Mitt Glove 32.5″ RCM325BB Left Hand Throw Black
Another item I took a lower offer on of $50 since I was desperate for sales. I picked this up at a yard sale where I bought 2 bats I’ve already sold along with this glove. Paid $10 for it.
Man ebay turned off the faucet on me this week. Sales took a nose dive overnight on Sunday. This week will not be good unless something drastic happens this weekend. I’ve only had 12 sales this week so far and they’re low dollar.
I don’t understand what in the world these smaller online markets are thinking with having the buyers pay the fees. That’s crazy!!!
If ebay execs have a single brain cell in their head they will jump ALL OVER this with advertisements saying “Come on over, we don’t charge you to shop at our site”.
The reality is that some bean counter at ebay will think “Hey, we can charge the buyer 5% extra too? SWEET! More profit!”
After all, you have to “be in alignment with current market practices”.
