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Saturday was partially rained out so not a ton of new items. I don’t need a ton anyways.
I did pick some vintage cabbage patch doll stuff for $50. I don’t know exactly what I have, but I do know one single piece with a high STR gets me back the $50 almost instantly when I list it. The rest is gravy. That’s the best pickups – when you know one item earns back the entire investment you can really do some damage. One of the items was a vintage clothing trunk think packed to the gills with clothing and original paperwork. Everything is so mint that it looks like it just came off the shelf.
At the same church sale ( it wasn’t a real church sale – I assume the church was selling spaces as alot of ‘pro’ sellers were set up with ‘pro’ prices.) I got 5 pair of high end women’s boots. I paid $80 total, but each pair will sell for $100+.
Oh I didn’t get the rude messages until today – 5 days after I explained my handling time.
Message of the week right here!
buyer was upset that after they took 4 days to pay that I didn’t ship immediately even though I have 2 business day handling time.
“
Lowlife you’re not even worth the food to eat your money worshiper that’s why when you pass away you’re not gonna take one dollar with you you a hole
“
it should be noted that this buyer also tried to talk me down on price AFTER purchase. LOL! I was really looking forward to that unpaid cancellation.
Items in Store: 3143
Items Sold: 30
Total Sales: $1,657.00
COGS: $141.00
Total Profit: $1,516.00
Average profit: $50.53
Average sales price: $55.23
New Listings: 92
Items scavenged: 16
2024 weekly new listings Avg: 38
2024 avg gross weekly sales $1,465.97
2024 Avg weekly Items Sold 32
2024 ASP $45.17
2024 projected total sales $76,230.32So I had this big pile of vintage toys and randomness I got from a guy who used to have a vintage toy/card shop. I decided to list ALL of it this week. I still have a few things to photograph, but I did get all the listings created. It felt good to get it all done, but at the same time it kind of frustrated me to put more low dollar items into my store. Will I make a bunch of money? Yes. Did it really take that long? No. When I’m in the zone I can research, organize, and list things very quickly.
Here’s an example:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266932019678
Homies Palmeros Italian Figures You pick
I had a giant box of these guys in vending capsules, with a few random other things mixed in. Initially I thought it would be a monumental task to deal with these. I pondered a few paths on how to tackle this.
Finally I decided to sort it to see what I had. It only took 20 minutes to remove them all from capsules and sort into unique pieces. I only had one complete set of 24 and someone flooded the market recently with cheap complete sets. So listing individually was the best path. I found a website that had the names of each of the 24 characters from this set and created a spreadsheet to assign quantities and to have data to cut/paste to build my variance listing. Then I flew through my photos real quick and got the listing created. Total time of work was about an hour. It will take a long time to sell them, but profit will be amazing. It would have been real easy to analyze this lot to death and spend multiple hours. I could have also just listed the whole lot for $100-150 unsorted and been done with it.
I also listed a HUGE amount of vintage mcdonalds toys. Once it was all said & done…I kinda wish I wouldn’t have picked them up. They were dirt cheap though and I was hoping there were some valuable ones there…there weren’t. But again, my regretful buy will still score me hundreds of dollars over time.
The other thing that bums me is I was hoping to develop a contact through that buy I’ve tried to establish communication with the guy but no response. Oh well.
Yard sales were weak this week due to some rain, but I did score some vintage cabbage patch dolls and a bunch of high end women’s boots.
Next weekend is the huge city wide yard sale near me. There will be 140+ sales along my normal route.
I have the store going in the right direction approaching Q4. I’ll just keep plugging away and I’m really wanting to hit $80k sales this year. I’m in a prime position to get there.
Premium Hoarder update:
Sold 1 items for $65.
Strange week. Nobody wanted my premium items but I sold a bunch of high dollar non-premium items. It would have been an EPIC week if I could have done both.
Items in Store: 3106
Items Sold: 30
Total Sales: $1,622.00
COGS: $156.00
Total Profit: $1,466.00
Average profit: $48.87
Average sales price: $54.07
New Listings: 97
Items scavenged: 22
2024 weekly new listings Avg: 37
2024 avg gross weekly sales $1,459.60
2024 Avg weekly Items Sold 33
2024 ASP $44.86
2024 projected total sales $75,899.20I’ve almost cleared out my draft log – I’m down to 16 items that need cleaned before I can photograph. Some of them are grungy hats. Typically I don’t buy dirty sweat stained hats, but these are valuable. One is a Vintage Seinfeld hat worth over $100!
I listed 378 new items in July. That is my highest monthly listing total ever. Suhwheet!
I really don’t have a goal this week. It’s so friggin hot out that I just can’t bring myself to do any major organization. I’ll just do….something. Maybe list another shelf in place. I probably won’t get as many listings done this week.
Premium Hoarder update:
Sold 6 items for $673.
I had another shoe sale of $375 that the buyer didn’t pay. They did respond and say they would… I told them that the sale cancelled after 4 days. Oh well. We’ll see if they re-offer or message me back.
Wow that’s an amazing find!
How do you plan on selling this? Here in the US you cannot sell any currency (US or other countries) for scrap. of course I’m sure plenty people do.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266464047409
Whirlpool Dryer Blower Motor Assembly 279787 WP697772 W1088146 8538263 Maytag #3
This is from my old dryer that I got tired of repairing. The element went out again so since I knew every other part was good I parted it out. This was the last remaining part. I made enough to cover the cost of the NEW dryer! That’s kinda messed up isn’t it?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266669794282
BMW OEM E38 E39 E53 740 750 540 M5 X5 WIDE SCREEN NAVIGATION RADIO MONITOR GPS 2
I bought this at one of the local thrift chains in Columbus. I stick to Goodwills typically in Columbus as the other chains like Savers or Ohio Thrift are insanely priced. I take it as a challenge when I go into a store like this. I’m going to find something that they missed, and this item was that thing. Sold on offer for $160. Paid $15.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266920366363
ELNA Compact Lotus TSP sewing machine No Foot Pedal Vintage Untested
One of the list in place shelf items. It sold very quickly on offer for $150. Not bad for untested. I paid a couple bucks at goodwill.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266420776322
Vintage Doctors Head Mirror In Box Bausch And Lomb
Sold for full price. This was from a big lot of vintage doctor’s equipment I got last summer at a yard sale. i still have a giant bin of this stuff I haven’t listed.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266859686139
K-Line K721-5101 O Gauge Coca-Cola Operating Searchlight Car #7215101
Paid $1 for this item. Sold for full price. I enjoy selling train stuff, but I don’t come across it very often.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266691906608
SALVATORE FERRAGAMO PARIGI DRIVER LOAFER BUC SUEDE SIZE 10 E Green Alloro
A pair of hoarder shoes. Sold on offer for $375.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266920370667
Panasonic RX-DS45 Boombox CD Cassette AM/FM & Aux. Stereo No Remote Tested Works
Another list in place shelf item. Sold on offer for $75. It is equal parts happiness and frustration when an item that has sat for many years on a death pile shelf sells within a day or two after listing. I have LOTS of high value items like this unlisted…
Oooh, I’ve been looking forward to this post since Saturday. I had one of my dream yard sales!
It was one of those sales that typically my wife would tell me to keep driving. It was one little rack of clothes, and one little table inside a garage with one guy sitting behind it. As always, I already made the effort of getting to the sale so what is one more minute to go on in and take a quick peek.
well firstly, I got a $100 pc game controller (battletech style) for $5. Then a Star Trek board game, a vintage toy recorder, some valuable hats.
Then I turned around and saw a vintage Metallica t shirt…and another…and another! I got 8 shirts in total – 6 are 90’s Metallica – for $1 each.I listed the Metallica shirts high since they are XL. They ranged from $200-500. I expect to make about $1500 off the 8 shirts.
go to my store and search Metallica and you can see them all as I wasted NO time getting these beauts listed.
“I already said I’m in, you don’t have to sell me!”
lol!
just this morning I tested, listed, and cleaned a sewing machine, two manual typewriters, 2 vintage radios, and an electronic battleship.
And people pay me to do this! What fun!
My big question is how do you source that many quality patches? the big benefit to being an everything seller is that everywhere I go I can find quality items. I can count 0n my fingers the amount of times I’ve seen patches at yard sales.
Ah well the key was that I started at 7:30 and was back home by 9:45 with Tudor’s breakfast for everyone. My yard sale loop typically takes about 2 hours unless there is a ridiculous amount of sales.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266893649770
Color Street Nail Polish Strips Sealed In Package Lot Of 315 Mixed Lot
Sold on offer for $1050. paid $100 at a yard sale for the lot. Man if I could just find an item like this every weekend I’d be set!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266891999873
Nikon Nikonos 35 Underwater View Frame Finder With Case Japan
This is a camera piece from a big vintage camera equipment lot from earlier this summer. I still need to photograph a bunch from this lot – the listings are ready. Cost was pretty much nil.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266819799714
Precision NuWave Pro 30352 Induction Cooktop Kitchen Burner With Portable Case
Sold for full price. Bought at a yard sale in June for $10.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266464196295Land yachtz Battle Axe Cthulhu longboard Skateboard
Sold for $125 on offer. Paid $5 at a yard sale. This took way longer than I expected to sell and for much less. Look at me complaining about a $125 sale. For shame!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266824202140
Magnavox 13 Inch CRT TV DVD Combo Gaming Television AV MWC13D6 NO Remote
Sold for $68. Paid $3 at goodwill. I love selling old tv combos.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266388871267
Just Cavalli Men’s Jeans Brown Straight Button Fly Size 40×36
a pair of hoarder jeans. Never heard of this brand before. I’ll happily take the $100 sale.
Items in Store: 3039
Items Sold: 34
Total Sales: $2,461.00
COGS: $271.00
Total Profit: $2,190.00
Average profit: $64.41
Average sales price: $72.38
New Listings: 38
Items scavenged: 34
2024 weekly new listings Avg: 35
2024 avg gross weekly sales $1,454.00
2024 Avg weekly Items Sold 33
2024 ASP $44.57
2024 projected total sales $75,608.00The week started off great with a $1050 sale on those nail kits I got last week. Still selling off old cheap items – I had 10 low dollar sales of old stale items for $14 or less.
I’m quite busy taking care of everyone in the house and getting all the chores done. I haven’t been able to do much ebay listing, thankfully the listing backlog has let me keep new lisitngs going. I did list pretty much everything I sourced at yard sales Saturday. Just a few more SNES games that I’m waiting on replacement batteries to come in. I like to fully refurbish the games with cleaned contacts and new save batteries to list at top dollar.
I am making some progress slowly ‘listing in place’ and listing the big items on a shelf in my garage office. $100 items that have just been sitting there for years. Sad!
Premium Hoarder update:
Sold 8 items for $787.
A good mix of shoes and clothes this week.
I had quite a few awesome scavenges this week.
At one yard sale I found a bunch of ps2/ps3 games among some DVD’s. 5 for $1. They were dirty and not in great shape, but there were some winners in there. I have the listings all drafted and will make about $225.
when I went to pay I asked if they had any other video game stuff like nintendos, handhelds, etc.The lady brought out a bag with an NES, and 12 snes/nes games for $20. The power of the ask wins again. I’ve cleaned all these up and just need to replace batteries in a few of them to maximize value. Selling as cleaned, tested, and battery replacement lets me ask a premium price.
At another sale I bought a bunch of authentic coach and fossil purses for $50. Nothing crazy, but will net about $250.
then on a goodwill run I got a few big ticket items that sell for $100+:
a new in box grillbot.
a pair of car headrest dvd systems
A cuisinart stand mixera vintage RCA Victor 45 desktop record player.
a pair of $60 cleats.I didn’t want big things but I just couldn’t say no.
