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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.
What do you think your average time per listing is? Do you track your time?
For the dinner chime I believe there were some terapeak solids close to $400 when I listed it.
i had the box and condition was pretty good so I mooned it out.Pokémon tcg is just too much for me. Junk to quality ratio is bad. Lots of fakes. Sooo much to learn.
Pokémon came out when I was in high school and I missed it. Now on the other hand, digimon was DOPE!that was must see TV.
and on that note, digimon is a major BOLO. The action figs are big money. The original handheld digivice are hundreds of dollars.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266892004241
LRS Long Range Systems T7400 LCM-G restaurant 6 pagers 5 Holsters & Charger
Paid $5 at a church yard sale this summer. took a while to get it listed – sold quickly for full price once listed.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266322286526
Pokemon Chikorita & Premier Ball Exclusive 8-Inch Plush Set GameStop
Plush can do well. I bought a bunch of pokemon plush a yard sale last summer for cheap. It has slowly sold off.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266887134862
Levi’s 541 Athletic Fit Jeans White Denim Stretch Men’s 40 x 32 NWT
Hoarder item. Sometimes levis can be good money. The buyer wanted these shipped express and was willing to pay. My shipping discount added another $20 to my profit! Shipping discounts have gotten so high that I cover all fees plus some extra profit on many items now.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266822618441
Soundstream VR-1032XB 2-DIN 10.3″ Detachable LCD Car DVD USB Stereo w/ Bluetooth
Bought at yard sale this summer for $20. Sold on offer for $120. Nice!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266858601266
Burberry Brown Leather Nova Check Canvas Bridle Brogue Knee High Boots Size 38.5
Burberry that wasn’t at the hoarder sale for once. I picked these up at a rich person yard sale a couple weeks ago for $15. Sold on offer for $200.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266438109817
Vintage Deagan Dinner Chime Model 206 With Box & Mallet
Premium hoarder item. I think I paid $5 for this. It was basically a throw in I saw when I was waiting for my items to be tallied up. Wow! What an amazing item. Sold for full price.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266677715285
GH Bass Jeremy Weejuns Men’s Size 9 D Leather Loafers Black Kiltie Tassel
Just my weekly reminder that Bass Weejuns are always a BOLO. Sold for full price. Some of the nicest, well made shoes you will find, and I’ve handled ALOT of high end shoes.
Items in Store: 3035
Items Sold: 32
Total Sales: $1,625.00
COGS: $184.00
Total Profit: $1,441.00
Average profit: $45.03
Average sales price: $50.78
New Listings: 28
Items scavenged: 2
2024 weekly new listings Avg: 35
2024 avg gross weekly sales $1,418.04
2024 Avg weekly Items Sold 33
2024 ASP $43.54
2024 projected total sales $73,737.86Our newest bundle of awesomeness was born at 12:38 AM on Wednesday night/Thursday morning! Mom and baby are doing well. I’ve been doing a lot of napping since, and of course getting all the housework done. It is soooooo nice to be off work for a month!
I’ll keep up with ebay shipping and do some listing/organizing when I have a little bit of extra time. I was able to go out and do some inventory management this morning before it got hot since everyone was asleep and I was awake. I’ve pretty much maxed out my inventory bins with the massive amount of listing I did last week.
I’m going to have to take a break from listing hoarder items and focus on some “list in place” stuff. As in, list it and put it back where it came from. I have two rolling carts I want to do this to.
Looks like I got scammed on a pair of shoes last week. The person was very communicable and even congratulated me on the pending arrival. They requested I ship to a different address than on the shipping page. I’ve done this for many people and the way I understand it is that if it is documented in messages I’m protected. I also ship these high dollar shoes with signature confirmation – the person did sign with the name on the account.The person got the shoes and almost immediately filed a claim with their credit card that they didn’t recognize the transaction.
I filed my evidence that I followed through on the case and then messaged the buyer. They said they did not reach out to their CC company, and said they would ship the shoes back since the credit card co would likely screw me out of the money. Then the next day I get a message from ebay that the transaction was cancelled and they buyers account was closed for suspicious activity.
So…yeah. Worst case I lose and I’m just out the $20 and shipping costs. Oh well. I’m gonna write this one off and just be pleasantly surprised if the funds are released.
Premium Hoarder update:
Sold 10 items for $918.
A big ticket item was a vintage train dinner chime for $500!
I had a person make me a $1050 offer by message. I changed the BIN price to 1050 and told them I’d leave it there for 2 hours.
I guess they really didn’t want to buy since they didn’t buy or message me again. I had a feeling it may be someone just wanting to tie up my listing for 4 days with an unpaid offer.
