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I believe it was a “grown mid-30’s kids get your crap outta my garage” sale at the parent’s house.
If there ever was a time to do yard sales, it is now. I’ve been doing yard sales for many years and I’ve never seen the quality stuff I’m seeing this year ever. It’s the great post-pandemic “I bought too much crap online the last 3 years” purge.
….also unfortunately because many people died and their stuff is being dispersed through family.
Well the big scavenge of the weeks goes without saying…
I had actually lost hope on that sale. They never called me and I didn’t see a yard sale sign out Friday evening. We set out to yard sale, feeling kinda bummed. I checked 2 other sales in the neighborhood and decided to drive past the premium hoarder house before leaving the neighborhood…and they were out having a sale! As we got out of the van I heard the guy tell his wife “there he is! There he is!” Apparently she misplaced my number as she had wanted to call me. Lol! Now we have firmly established communication.
I spent $5500 at that sale Saturday. Whoah!!!!
Other sales were no slouches either. $100 items were laying around like plastic eggs on Easter.
Let’s see what I can remember off the top of my head of the bigger items. Yes there are so many good items that I forget them until I empty my van throughout the week.
- Xbox 360 250gb and a stack of games on an ask – $20
- Cars Lightning Mcqueen DVD/TV combo, CD player, alarm clock, and a bin of die cast*
- Rock Crawler RC Truck for $100 – sells for $300
- Bose Cinemate surround sound for $40 – sells for $150
- England Doc Martin Boots
* I’ll be back to the Cars sale in August as they have an entire closet packed full of Pixar Cars Die cast. All in mint condition. I’ve bought a massive collection of Pixar cars diecast before and it was incredibly lucrative. The die cast cars can be worth a TON.
Tomy Pokémon Plush Lot of 9
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266322285791
I didn’t make much on this listing, but it is the first listing that my daughter did for me on her own. All the research, listing, and photographs. If I’m gonna make it through the premium hoarder haul I’m gonna need her help making listings.
Sunpak 120J Auto Pro TTL Flash with Bulb Reflector TR-Pak II Cables Carry Case
https://www.ebay.com/itm/265787329073
This sale rules as I initially thought this was a low value item. I bought a large lot of photography equipment at goodwill last summer this was part of. I was making money on the other items in the lot so this was a massive unexpected dollop of icing on the cake.
Polo Ralph Lauren Silk Sweater Hand Knit Men’s Size L NWT
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266328557760
The first sale from the premium hoarder haul. Sold for $145 offer quickly after listing. This sweater is amazing. It has such an interesting texture.
Polo Ralph Lauren Clayton Button Down Shirt Cotton Men’s Size XXL White NWT VTG
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266328719110
Another premium hoarder sale for $70 best offer. Man I really hope I start selling 5-10 of these items a week! I sold 3 this weekend. Gotta keep that train fueled and rolling.
Ghost Party Board Game Complete Vintage 1992 Ravensburger
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266292593962
Always keep an eye out for vintage board games. They can be lucrative.
Lots more. Sooooo much. There is a packed apartment they are slowly unloading to a house in my neighborhood.
it was an eccentric family member of theirs. They know it is extremely valuable stuff, they just don’t care. The sellers are loaded too.
The back row of seats is down and packed to the ceiling.
I’ve already found 2 original receipts in 2 random boxes I checked.
some were bought brand new at stores. Others were bought at high end boutiques in NYC.
Some bought from vestiaire collective.I got curious and did the listings for the Spyder coat and bib overalls. They’re worth a bit more than $150. More like $300 for the pair. Nice!
2 Broke Homeschoolers Update
Items Purchased 21
Items Listed 21
Items Sold 8
Gross sales $144.96
Inventory Cost $42.08
Shipping Labels $42.82
Fees $20.58
PROFIT $39.48
Withdrawals $0.00
Available balance $59.48
Active Listings 13
Active List Value $285.87They have sold 3 items in the last week. They also finally got back on track and spent some time getting their purchased items listed. They are starting to see how things are compounding. While they officially have tripled the $20 into $60 cash in hand, they have 13 more items listed worth almost $300 that are already paid for. They really get the compounding nature of reinvesting their earnings.
Also this weekend I let my daughter do some listings for me 100% on her own. The key was having something she would REALLY be interested in researching – a trash bag full of pokemon plush dolls. She did a great job, and I was able to guide her to figuring out what to list on its own vs what should be lotted up. She didn’t want any money for the work. She just wanted ‘pick of the litter’ of the plushies to add to her personal collection. Yes, I think that works for me. Lol!
Well being the early bird got me some big fat worms again this saturday!
There was a sale in my neighborhood that had no clothes- just awesome hard goods.
At that sale I bought:
- an Embroidery sewing machine (sells for $150)
- A Nikon DSLR with 3 lenses (sells for $200+)
- 2 Coleman camp stoves ($50 each)
- A Spyder convertible snow suit set (sell for $150)
- A Firestone Ride Rite Airbag kit (listing for $300 as it is used)
- https://www.ebay.com/itm/266322756892
- https://www.ebay.com/itm/266322365456
- And the best item: https://www.ebay.com/itm/266322366931
I paid $200 for everything. There were a couple more odds n ends in there as well, so value over $2000.
The DJ laser show systems were only $5 each. There aren’t alot of comps but $500 is based on what I could find.
At another sale I asked about video games and the guy brought out a box with a complete Wii with games and a bunch of XBOX360 controllers and games. Paid $20 for that. I have the wii listings ready for photos – list price for the system with some junk games and a few good games listed separately was $150. The Xbox stuff will sell for about $75.
Never be afraid to ask for stuff that isn’t pulled out. You never know what else could also be for sale.
Items in Store 2256
Items Sold 25
Total Sales $541.00
COGS $69.00
Total Profit $481.00
Average profit $19.24
Average sales price $21.64
New Listings 97
Items scavenged 22
Listing 2023 weekly Avg 29Yeah it is slow, and it gives me cold chills to think of how bad it would be if I wasn’t listing frantically!
Some decent scores this weekend at yard sales. Plenty items got listed. I’m in full on ‘nose to the grindstone’ mode right now and just want to keep going full steam until my vacation in August. I’m wanting to hit my 1000 listings goal a week earlier so I need to list even more.
I can’t control sales right now but I can keep listing and sourcing high dollar items.
No big sales this week, so I’ll focus on the quick flips. All of these items sold in less than 24 hours.
Mundi My Big Fat Wallet Red Croc Print Flap Clutch
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266320386423
My wife actually got this for herself for $1 at a yard sale and decided she didn’t want it. Turns out it is quite a desirable wallet/purse. Unexpected score!
ENO Singlenest Hammock Olive/Green with ENO straps Atlas Suspension System
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266320387148
Paid up at $10 at a yard sale, but this one just felt right. Bought it without research and trusted my gut. Paid off with a lightning quick sale.
Sony PlayStation 2 PS2 Slim Black Console Only PARTS / REPAIR Does Not Read Disc
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266319449000
Bought this with a stack of games as part of a ‘pile’ offer so my COGS was about $15. Unfortunately the disc drive won’t read. These are repairable…but not by me! I parted out the controllers and cables an listed the console for parts/repair. Sold for $25 quickly which is the going rate for a parts PS2. Bummer it wasn’t working, but take the money and move on!
Capresso Jura Infinity 560 Conical Burr Coffee Grinder FOR PARTS
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266312089461
Another bummer listing that turned a nice profit on a quick sale. I tested this and couldn’t get the darn thing to run. I was going to just toss it, but decided to list it for parts. It sold within a day for full price.
Denby Blue Jetty Covered Butter Dish England Stoneware
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266312073730
Sold quickly after listing. Hopefully more of this dinnerware starts to sell. The potential profit on this lot was insane!
Man everybody must be super busy with summer stuff on here.
So far I’ve created 27 drafts for a list price of $3000. I know there are plenty more of the big unicorns in there so I’m feeling confident my final list value will be over $8k, possibly $10k on the “premium hoarder” sale.
I haven’t made it live yet, but one of the items was a sealed Queer as Folk complete DVD set. I got it thinking that it would be worth an easy $50 as it looks like a very premium style box set. Well it’s way better than that! I’m kinda stuck on deciding where to price this one. I was going with $250, but there is a comp from 1 year ago that sold for $450. I think there may be some differences in variance in the box sets. I may bump it up to $399 and see what happens.
Items in Store 2184
Items Sold 15
Total Sales $353.00
COGS $54.00
Total Profit $305.00
Average profit $20.33
Average sales price $23.53
New Listings 68
Items scavenged 100
Listing 2023 weekly Avg 26Twas a slow week for me. This week things are looking better as I already have 11 sales for $285 through 2 days.
It rained pretty much every day last week so I didn’t get to do some of things I wanted to, ebay or home projects.
Scavenging was EPIC! Read the details in the scavenge of the week thread.
I’ve started creating listings for the epic clothing haul. Now many of these items I don’t have perfect comps for since I pretty much bought the farm of unicorns…
I’m shooting for the moon on many of the listings and will see how the offers shake out.
So far I’ve created 14 listings with an average list price of $120. My average buy cost was around $7. I’ll know for sure once I’ve counted everything. Yeah there was so much that I didn’t count – I think there is around 80-100 items. I was just handing arm load after arm load to the ladies adding it up. I’m just taking it one item at a time and plugging along.
I’m creating the listings out of the back of my van during breaks and lunch at work. Then I’ll do measurements and photos at home.
The highlight for sure was the NWT Coogi sweater. I mentioned in the other thread that there were receipts and original bags. The sellers loaded up my purchased goods in the original store bags. The bag I finished listing today was a Nordstrom bag. In the bottom were two receipts from 2007. One was for a bunch of $20 a pair underwear (Lol!) and the other was for a piece of clothing they paid $185 for.
The next two bags I will do are gucci store bags. I hope there are receipts in those bags too – I’m going to save every receipt I can find to prove authenticity. It’s cracking me up to even post that absurdity of walking out of a yard sale with Gucci bags. It also dawned on me the actual bags are worth money…
https://www.ebay.com/itm/285318259307
…Yep!
I haven’t been able to buy any shoes yet, but here is an example of some of the shoes I saw in the garage that likely came in those bags:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/142914502656
Gucci, Prada, Ferragamo, etc. Man I REALLY hope I can get a decent price on the shoes if I buy everything.
I don’t really want to be a youtube reseller, but if I was ever going to do it this would be the time if this deal goes through. Maybe I just flip the whole lot to one of those youtube people and take the quick cashout. We’ll see. The possibilities are wide open.
In other news… I was able to finish getting the big lot of Denby dinnerware listed. I also did all the sorting/organizing of the 250 piece NWT scrubs lot I bought. They are sorted by color, style, and size so I can quickly and easily create listings this week by color/style and have the size as a variation.
I have a 4 day weekend coming up and I hope to get a TON of ebay listing AND organizing done in prep for round 2 of the epic designer sale.
Bumping this one as I finally got that Denby China listed this weekend.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266312073730
I sold the butter dish for $70. One single piece…$70. Amazing! My listed price for everything was almost $1600!
Oh man… I hope they create a tool for us to identify and fix these listings.
…also I hope said tool doesn’t break all of our listings….
…and I hope the change in general doesn’t break all our listings…
….who am I kidding – they’re definitely going to break everything one way or another.
Nothing of special note today – my ebay store was DEAD. June is never spectacular, so it is what it is.
The Walking Dead Graphic Novels Volumes 1-8 Comics
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266297116006
One of my yard sale pickups recently. I took an offer of $40 just to get a sale. I basically negotiated these in for free when I built a pile at a yard sale.
Adidas Mens Tubular Shadow BB8974 Brown Running Shoes Sneakers Size 11.5
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266282861376
This sale is a textbook example of my sourcing rules – good STR and $50+ item. I took an offer of $50 – again just because my store was so dead all week. They would have sold for full price if I had waited a few more weeks. I did pay up at $10 for these since the local goodwills just get more and more expensive and individually price shoes now. As long as the numbers make sense (Sale price and STR), the COGS really don’t matter.
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<div>https://www.ebay.com/itm/266288308189</div>
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