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In shoes there are some formerly HOT brands that have died completely
The two biggest are:
TOMS
Sperry Top Sider.
5 years ago they were insta-sales and for really good prices. You can hardly give those brands away now.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266674769464
Harley Davidson 6″ side zip Lace Up motorcycle boots Men’s Size 10 black leather
Harley boots are a BOLO boot. They always sell. This is the cheapest pair I’ve ever sold at $40. I’ve sold many at $75+.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266672457857
BJU Press Spelling 5 Teacher’s Edition with CD & Student Work Text
Another free homeschool set from local library.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266407126512
Dilbert by Scott Adams HUGE lot of 21 books softcovers
I let all these sit on a shelf for years before listing. I just listed them as one big lot and they sold for full price in about 8 months. YAY! Paid $1 per book at Goodwill many years ago.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266371666350
Dockers Khaki D3 Classic Individual Fit Pleated Black 32×34 New Iron Free
I always keep my eye out for NWT pants at Goodwill. They are always a good seller for $25-50. Pants are normally priced at just under $5 with tax included.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266505253238
Alegria Navy Blue Leather FRE-622 Ankle Strap Clog Shoes Comfort Sandal 39 /US 9
Another good shoe brand to be on the lookout for. Sells well for $30-50. These sold on offer for $35. Paid $2 a yard sale.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266328578140
Cross Century II Fountain Pen Black matte 23 carat gold appointments
This was a hoarder miscellaneous pickup for $1. Sold on offer for $50. Cross is pretty much a defunct brand now.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266471318268
87-91 Ford F150 F250 F350 Bronco OEM Right/LEFT Head Lamp Light PAIR
Picked up for a few bucks at a yard sale. Sold on an offer to buyers for $160.
At lunch I went through more of the transformers. I hit MAJOR paydirt with one of them:
This one is very nice and has the missile so I’ll be pricing at $200.
Another one I pulled out but isn’t worth a ton is a G1 Scattershot. Anytime you find a G1 in the wild is a great day! He…uhhh….well…. he has a “special” transforming feature that he was setting in when I pulled him out of the box.
Bonus – there is a button you can press where that “part” explodes open. Oh boy…
I got a couple neat things at yard sales this weekend. I didn’t do my full loop though due to time constraints.
at a church yard sale I got a small box full of Thomas the Train engines. These can be big money for the older wooden ones. I’ve done an initial run through and there are 5 worth $15-20 each. Then a lot of lesser value wooden ones. Then a pile of trackmaster and minis.
At the same sale I got the old pager system from their nursery. It sells for $250 on ebay. Paid $5.
At another yard sale I got a box full of transformers toys for $1 each. Google lens makes identifying these soooo much easier! At the same sale I picked up a nice vintage Silver dinnerware collection for $20. Sold comps were in the $200-300 range. I’ve sold silver sets before – they can take a while to get the big bucks.
It’s because of ebay that when my wife said “I want this” I was able to just throw it on a cart without having to crunch a budget. That’s why I do this.
$100 total for both. I also bought a tub of Xbox controllers for $10 that will MORE than cover the entire purchase. That was a good price for him untested, and a great price for me that I didn’t even need to consider negotiating.
Items in Store: 2842
Items Sold: 28
Total Sales: $1,035.00
COGS: $140.00
Total Profit: $895.00
Average profit: $31.96
Average sales price: $36.96
New Listings: 0
Items scavenged: No clue
2024 weekly new listings Avg: 26
2024 avg gross weekly sales $1,510.28
2024 Avg weekly Items Sold 34
2024 ASP $44.28
2024 projected total sales $78,534.44Spent most of my free time gardening with the family this week. We completely redid the flower gardens – adding a fountain, some ponds as well as all new plants. It was quite the undertaking!
The fountain is pretty sweet!
I put in a pond along with a small waterfall feeder pond above it. The filter discharge in the bigger pond is routed up to the waterfall feeder. Both ponds will get rimmed with slate this week. It will look like the tree fountain is feeding the ponds.
It was raining all morning Saturday so yard sales were…actually quite good! There were plenty of sales that were in the garage or under pop up shelters. I scored some really cool stuff. The highlight was a Sega Dreamcast and a Sega Saturn VIA the power of the ask. The rule I go by is if I see signs of cool stuff, I ask if there is more cool stuff. For example, if I see a video game I’ll ask if they have the system too. You’d be surprised how many times this results in a bin of more stuff coming out. In this case I overheard another buyer buying some loose dreamcast game case art. After he left I asked the owner if he had any more video game stuff. That’s when he brought down the systems. The dreamcast came with a new sealed VMU, which is $80-100 itself. I love that I can get cool toys & electronics at yard sales for cheap. Toys and electronics rarely show up at thrift stores now and if they do, they are priced to the moon.
Still no new listings added to ebay but my draft bank is up over 140. I’ll be busy most of May but then things will calm down a bit. And of course I’m looking forward to that 4 weeks of paid paternity leave later this summer. I’m quite surprised that even without new listing activity I had the best April ever by a WIDE margin outside April 2020. April 2020 is such a WILD outlier, anything that wasn’t bolted down was selling for top dollar!
I’m 4 days into the current week and I’ve started getting stuff in inventory and photographing/listing. Baby steps – just a couple items a day put into inventory and photographed.
Regarding the rest of the premium hoarder stuff I haven’t secured, I haven’t heard anything from the owner. Last I heard the estate consignor still hadn’t done the auction on all the outrageous hardgoods that I shared on here.
I’m kind of out of room right now so I’m not in any hurry. I’ve adopted the position that I will wait for them to reach out to me. I may just cherry pick once the time comes. I’m pretty confident I already have the best stuff, so if nothing else comes from it I can live with that.
Premium Hoarder update:
Sold 7 items for $473.
You can do some pretty amazing stuff with the consumer ones, but you do need to get into the $2k+ range to do the REALLY cool stuff. I did some trials just using an FDM printer to do casting patterns but it doesn’t work well with cast steels and will contaminate alloy steels. The resolution is bad and the build times are SLOW. It works pretty darn good for casting aluminum or bronze in a home foundry.
look up lost PLA on YouTube for some examples.
For finished solid products there are many manufacturers starting to use printer farms to make parts.
rapid prototyping jigs, tool holders, molds, you name it.
The Toyota plant near me has a huge room full of consumer grade FDM printers that they keep running constantly for production support.3d metal printing is in its infancy. Aerospace is going all in on 3d printing metal. The government is throwing a lot of money at gearing up additive to support legacy parts manufacturing for DOD.
We’re also in the running for an additive/subtractive machine that uses a direct laser deposition process to build up layers of metal and then machine it to final size. Again, aerospace is heavy into this technology. It’s another million plus machine. My colleague at work is now on the ASTM committee for additive metal technologies and will get to help shape the standards going forward.
I’ve been invited to join the American Foundry Society additive technology committee.
Your links don’t work. You need the links that just have ebay.com and the item number
A sampling of solds:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266681812327
Mountain Hardwear Heavy Duty Hiking Pants Cotton Green Mens 36×32 Built In Belt
Mountain Hardwear is a BOLO clothing item. Picked this up for $5 at Goodwill
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266447341464
Danner TerraForce Hiker Men’s Size 11.5 EE Hiking Boots Leather Waterproof
Danner is a BOLO boot. Every Danner I’ve ever picked up has been big bucks.
Sold this on a sent offer of $80. Bought at a yard sale for a couple bucks.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266415258104
Bose Solo 5 TV Sound System Sound bar 418775 with Remote & Power Adapter
Sold for $80 on sent offer. Picked up at a yard sale last summer for $10. This took ALOT longer to sell than I thought it would.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266556646471
Dickies Men’s Bib Overall 42X32 Hickory Stripe Pants NWT
There can be good money in bib overalls. I’ve sold some over the years for $100+. I picked these up at Goodwill NWT for $9.
Even though it was raining, yard sales were good this week.
The highlight was a Sega Saturn and a Sega Dreamcast I got on an ask. I paid $100 and will net $500-600.I got a bushnell range finder for $5 that sells for $75-100. Two camcorders that sell for $50-75 each.
a pair of sennheiser wireless headphones for $5 that sell for $50+ with a 200% 90 day STRA pair of wrestling shoes that sell for $75
A box of full of Xbox controllers for $10
porter cable cordless combo tools.
And at goodwill I scored two roller coaster tycoon “big box” pc games from the 90’s.
Man the orioles DESTROYED the reds in their series this weekend. They look like the real deal…or the reds just realized they actually suck.
I see you are listing again. Did you hire a new ebay helper?
If you have the listings going you should totally do a yard sale day for a couple hours, for old times sake!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266514538656
Jeff Hamilton Collection Mark Martin Valvoline Nascar Jacket Mens Racing 4XL
I picked this up last summer at a yard sale for $5.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266534237101
Speech Boot Camp Public Speaking With Andrew Pudewa DVD Set
My wife picked up some homeschool stuff for free at the library. This one turned out pretty well!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266534151166
Vintage Reversible Wool Plaid Cape Shawl Style Coat
Another yard sale pickup from last summer. Paid $6. I was hoping to get $75+, but at this point just wanted a sale. Sold for $40 on offer.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266560220617
Burberry Body Men’s Lounge Pajama Pants Charcoal Size XXL Cotton Wool Blend
Sold on offer for $150. This was a premium hoarder piece that was $10. Man, some people just LOVE their burberry!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266672452202
BJU Press Geometry Subject Kit Grade 10 4th edition COMPLETE NEW
This one is a bit of a wash. I bought the full year kit for our homeschool but we use another program for math. It was cheaper to buy the entire year set than to pick/choose subjects, so I sold this one which just lowers my overall curriculum cost.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266524932950
Nerf Official Lazer Tag Phoenix LTX Tagger 2-pack Multiplayer Laser Tag
I’ve bought/sold these lazer tag guns several times over the years. They are awesome. Recoil, magazine reload, shields. They have it all. I have a couple more ready to list I’ve picked up since I listed these.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266604181678
Polo Ralph Lauren Lounge Pants Drawstring Made in USA Vintage NWT Size L
It must be expensive lounge pants purchasing week. Another premium hoarder item which sold for full price.
Yard sales were great this week.
I bought a huge lot of vintage camera equipment. I have created alot of the listings but none are live yet. Here’s a couple comps to tide you over.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/176286649534
https://www.ebay.com/itm/116027123219
https://www.ebay.com/itm/305521131204
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266617906336
https://www.ebay.com/itm/116071839819
Another cool thing I picked up is one of these:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/166660894460
Dud of the week – I was able to buy some good shoes at Goodwill on Saturday – two big bags full.
Somehow either in the parking lot or at the baseball field parking lot I set one of the bags on the ground outside my van and left it there. Boo!!! I did a count and it isn’t too bad – I lost 4 pair.
