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Here is the expensive NASCAR:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266402927518
Davey Allison 1986 #95 Miller Action Historic Series 1:24 scale Stock Race Car
Also, this was a surprise homerun at the same sale. I thought these were interesting and the set was only $1. These old books can sometimes be lucrative and I had a good feeling. My good feeling was more like maybe $50-80 though.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266402912596
UNCLE ARTHUR’S BEDTIME STORIES Volumes 1-5 Maxwell Complete Series Set 1950
I did get a few big ticket items this weekend.
-Picked up 2 OEM car radio head units. These are higher end ones. One for a Suburban/Tahoe and the other for a BMW X5. Both will sell for $300+ if they pass my tests. Usually car dealers buy these OEM head units from me. I will look up the wiring diagrams and power them up on my test bench to test all the features.
– At a yard sale some Nascar boxed collectible cars caught my eye. Normally I avoid these like the plague. A couple of them were heavy, which was unusual. My scavenger gut said I should get these. I got 4 large cars and 1 smaller ( heavy) die cast semi truck and paid $30. Now it should also be noted that in scenarios like this were I am speculating I always hedge my purchase. My hedge at this sale was a stack of older Hayne’s manuals. These sell great for $10-20.
So long story short – did my unresearched gut feeling on items I KNOW are typically worthless? YES! One of the cars is of driver Davey Alison. He died in a helicopter crash. That car is worth $150. One of the other cars is worth $75. The other two were duds at about $15 each and will take forever to sell. I haven’t research the semi yet but it doesn’t matter – my scavenger radar was proven to be reliable again.
– last item is one of these:
https://www.ebay.com/p/8034416276?iid=276002790665
Paid 100 at a yard sale. It is new open box. It will sell easily at $400.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266289254795
Delta Shopmaster 18V 18 Volt Diagnostic Battery Charger Model CL180C
Sold for full price $40. Paid $1 at a yard sale. You can’t go wrong with tool battery chargers. I always test them with my multimeter to make sure they are outputting the correct voltage.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266371665669
Reebok Marshall University Basketball Track Suit Vintage Size XL Lined
Sold for $75 on offer pretty quickly. I’ve sold so many pieces of athlete issued clothing over the years from the local university. If you live near a university that plays division I sports you should keep an eye out. Marshall has a pretty devout fan base so the market on my items may be a bit skewed. Go Herd!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266282739231
Bette Davis Collection – Volume 1 (DVD, 2008, 5-Disc Set) – New Sealed
This one caught my eye at a local pawn shop. Occasionally I stop in on my lunch to see if they have games or DVD’s that they missed the value on. It takes all of 5 minutes to check. This particular day they had 3 dvd sets – all valued at $40-50. This was one of them. Paid $7.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266361651248
Vintage Satin Jacket Black Bluegrass Cardinals Graphic Men’s Size M
I got a message from a buyer regarding this jacket. Said they were a fan of the band and was curious about the history. So I told them the truth – I bought it off an old man at a yard sale in my neighborhood in WV and I had no idea if it was his or not. They paid full price. I paid $1 at the sale.
I’m not posting my hoarder sales here as there really isn’t a story with them other than what I’ve already shared. Feel free to look at my solds on ebay if you want to see the big ticket hoarder sales!
The secret? Putting off a TON of honeydo projects around the house. My neighbors probably hate me since my yard and porch don’t look as nice as theirs.
Also, I don’t talk to my neighbors – no time! Lol!
The library sales in my area are nothing like big city library sales! My local library actually maintains a wall in one of their meeting rooms with a perpetual library sale.
Last summer the library near my day job had a big sale. Hardly anyone was there. The idea of a line at opening is hard for my small town brain to even comprehend! I walked in on my lunch hour and scored multiple boxes of good stuff – Vintage star wars novels, manga. I need to get those books listed now that Ahsoka is out and they’re gonna be dropping more and more Expanded universe stuff in (Thrawn baby!).
My hopes are high for them dropping some serious nerd stuff from the 90’s books.
Items in Store: 2574
Items Sold: 30
Total Sales: $937.00
COGS: $128.00
Total Profit: $809.00
Average profit: $26.97
Average sales price: $31.23
New Listings: 65
Items scavenged: 14
Listing 2023 weekly Avg: 40Had a wonderful vacation. It was nice to disconnect and have a good time! I kept my store on time away with extended handling time. We got back home on Friday and I was able to finish up the listings I drafted as well as create a few new ones. I had to do some inventory management and then start the process of shipping a TON of items from the extended time away.
Here was my post where I set out my summer listing plan:
https://www.scavengerlife.com/forums/topic/the-numbers-april-30-may-6-2023/#post-100005
I officially COMPLETED my 1000 item summer listing goal! WOOT!!! My final tally was 1019.
Last summer I listed 620 items and sold 342 items for $10343.
The summer of 2020 (which is an anomaly year), I listed 191 items, and sold 370 items for $13533
This summer my final numbers were 1019 listings, 404 sales for $17833.
I said at the beginning of summer I wanted to crush 2020 and I did!
Now for the rest of the year I think my plans have shifted. The September/October vacay plans are caput as I’ve already taken vacation and I don’t have enough days left to take an October one due to some unplanned sick days. With my listing at work strategy I think I can list 50 items a week pretty easily the rest of the year. Instead of not listing after Thanksgiving I think I’ll just keep my listing to only at work on my breaks/lunch and have my kids do photographs at home. At 50 items a week the rest of the year I would hit 2287 new listings. Eh, I can do better than that! I’m setting the goal post at 2500 new listings in 2023. That’s an average of 62 over 18 weeks – 1113 new listings.
I may flame out in the winter once the time changes but at least I’ll have ran hard by the time that point comes. I’m hoping by front loading in Sept & October I can coast to success in the last 6 weeks.
Premium hoarder update:
Sold 7 items for $201. No homeruns this week just the bread n butter. I started a spreadsheet to track my profit on this sale. My investment so far is $6400. I set up the spreadsheet to deduct Final value fees from my total to get a closer idea of when I hit my break even point. To date I am at $5353.34 total sales MINUS FVF’s. So $1000 more in sales and I’ll be in the green. Sneak Preview – I’ve had a great start to this week. I’m at 8 hoarder items for $800 after 3 days so I’m hoping to officially be in the black by the next time you hear from me.
As the dude says: “well that’s like, her opinion man!”
I don’t think that one is even worth responding to.
you could always do a thoughtful owner response acting as if maybe there was a misunderstanding. Recently I had a crappy buyer on eBay leave me a poor feedback because I wouldn’t give her a 75% discount and let her keep the item. eBay wouldn’t remove it so I replied to the feedback. I got several glowing positive feedbacks over the next few days that definitely felt like they read that feedback and were clapping back at her feedback.
another thing you could do is introduce yourself and simply offer to clean up for her if you are there when she is. She may go back and revise it.
I did a little bit of yard sales and checked 2 thrift stores this weekend. Didn’t find a whole bunch, but one item noted below turned out to be a homerun after I researched it yesterday.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266390193862
Wilson Electronics 801201 3G Wireless Cellular/PCS Dual Band Booster Kit
Paid $1 at a sale this Saturday.
Other items of note:
5 pair of Allen Edmonds shoes at local Goodwill for $3.99 a pair. It was nice to see shoes marked up at reasonable prices at this goodwill again! A few weeks ago they would have had these at $10-20. I hope this is the start of a trend. I just started drafting them today at lunch. They will sell for between $30-70 each.
A Star Wars Remote control droid for $4. Figured it would be worth $50 or so. It turns out it is a Galaxy’s Edge Droid Depot custom droid and will sell for $150. Nice! I’ll get it tested and listed this week.
On vacation with extended time away and had 30 sales and almost cracked $1k this week. I call that a rousing success!
Here are some of the highlights:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266353526623
MISS RODEO USA by ACME Red Fringe Boots – Cowboy Boots Size 6.5 M
Sold on $50 offer. This one was notable due to the negotiation at the yard sale. Lady tried to be firm on price at $20 when I offered $10. I inadvertently used the silent treatment to get the price way down to $7 from my initial offer of $10 by bundling with another item. I was actually trying to find a couple loose dollar bills in my pocket and couldn’t find them all while wondering where I may have dropped them. I realized my silence was getting to her so I just leaned into it a while longer. I did find the dollar bills stuck to my wallet so double score!
Never underestimate the silent negotiation. Some people will do anything to make it end.
Ugg…ebay is jacking up looking at sold listings if they are a catalog entry.
Sold for full price $40. I bought this for $7 at a pawn shop I occasionally stop to look at on my lunch break for video games and DVD’s. With the way streaming is going, DVD/Bluray sets are going to see a resurgence. The pipedream of always having access to everything all the time has been burst by Disney and HBO. With the bloodbath of content removals. Disney also announced DVD box sets of multiple Star Wars and Marvel shows which does not bode well for their continued streaming availability.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266312077293
Denby Blue Jetty Water Rice Bowl 5″ England
Yes you read that right – $50 for a SINGLE rice bowl. I’m well into the profit on this denby stuff and I’ve only sold 3 items!
https://www.ebay.com/p/4012044162?iid=266370510740
RCA U1000 Unison 4 Line Corded Telephone with Digital Answering System – Black
Sold for $85 – paid $3 at a yard sale 2 weeks ago. I’ve sold many business phones over the years. They tend to sell fairly quickly. When I picked this one up I assumed it would sell for $30-50 with no research. I was pleasantly surprised to see it sold for MUCH more.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/265784268540
Fisher Price Loving Family Victorian Grand Mansion Dollhouse House Only 2008
I’ve had this listed for a year. This was technically a leftover as I’ve sold off all the dolls/furniture that came with it for a nice profit. It sold for $100 full price. Yay! I’ll make $20 on shipping by using UPS instead of Fedex. Yay!. I have to find/make a box and ship it….BOOOOOO!!!! I’ve sold multiple loving family dollhouses in the past. The right box has a way of magically showing up at just the right time.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/265707738810
Mcdonalds Play Food Vintage 1980’s Lot of 15 pieces fries Nuggets Burger
Paid $1 for this at an independent thrift store. Back when I got this, they also listed a COMPLETE 1980’s McDonalds drive thru play kitchen with a ton of parts/accessories. Saw it on their fb page and wrote them. I was ready to leave work as soon as they opened. Sadly, it was already gone. Oh well, at least I still have this sale!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266334304583
Frye Harness 12R Men’s Size 10.5 Black Leather Pull On Boots 87350-1 Made in USA
From the premium hoarder sale. Sold for $200. Paid $10 as these weren’t part of the shoe haul – just out in the regular sale.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266322755125
Star Wars Endor Commando Snapback Hat Heroes & Villians Mesh Patch
Sold for $30. Paid $3. I bought this at a yard sale a couple weeks ago without researching it. My gut just told me it was awesome and that somone would pay me at least $30. My gut was right!
Items in Store: 2539
Items Sold: 32
Total Sales: $1,038.00
COGS: $139.00
Total Profit: $899.00
Average profit: $28.09
Average sales price: $32.44
New Listings: 0
Items scavenged: 0
Listing 2023 weekly Avg: 39Got a bunch of listings drafted and went on vacation on Thursday. Didn’t get everything done that I wanted to prior to leaving but that’s ok.
Sold 6 premium hoarder items for $350 – the highlight being a $200 pair of Frye boots.
This was a $400 bat new. The rules on baseball bats are alot more complex than they were when I played baseball. This bat is not allowed in any Little League. It is only good for travel ball.
I figure this will be a spring sale but you never know!
I got it at goodwill back when they charged flat rates for purses. I would have paid $3.
I’m always on the look for painted leather bags after I sold one many years back for $100+.
High quality leather always catches my eye.
That’s pretty clever to take photos to do your research prior to the 50% off day.
I was doing that at an estate sale earlier this month and the lady running it told me I could put in silent bids slightly above the 50% off price and if it was still there at the end of the day prior to the 50% off day they would pull those items and hold for me if I was the high bidder.
I got all the items I wanted and didn’t have to show up until the end of the day.
I wonder if that was an option here?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266344461422
Affliction Denim Killers USA Made Straight Jeans Mens 40×34 Leather Cross
So these are the jeans I tried an auction on because I saw an identical pair in terapeak go for over $1k on bid. Other sellers told me the terapeak auction was likely a glitch and not real. There were no other comps higher than $70.
I got not action on bid so I listed at $150. Countered several offers at $100 and sent several offers to watchers at $100. Someone came along a paid full price. Would this have been that magical buyer that would have paid the $1000 at auction? Maybe. We’ll never know. I’m happy with my $150.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266361660260
Jeon Los Angeles Genuine Leather Shoulder Bag Jazz Theme Large 15x13x7
I had to list some death pile stuff to clear off a shelf in my listed inventory shed. This has been sitting in a bin on a shelf for YEARS. Sold within a few days for $125 sent offer.
3 quick examples of premium hoarder shoes that sold this week:
$250 – https://www.ebay.com/itm/266367737056
