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For the lower value items, you may want to just stuff a USPS Flat Rate padded envelope with all that will fit and call that a listing.
You can do the same with the flat rate boxes.
You can also sell it by the pound, like some of the bulk Lego sellers do.
Retro Treasures WV has great ideas above. The key is to sort and determine value as quickly as possible.
This may turn out to be an unexpected pipeline.
Good Luck.
I’d sell the books or DVD’s in groups of like items. I generally group 3 to 6 books together and have done well.
As long as you can get $20 to $30 plus shipping for each group, it’s usually worth it.
It’s not as easy as just scanning bar codes though.
Sharyn is correct. Voided label can take up to two weeks or so to get refunded. They need to make sure it doesn’t get mailed, before they will process the refund.
You just need to void them on the computer. It happens all the time.
In the meantime, you can print a new label and move on.
The rates we pay on Ebay are frequently less than the retail rates. The people at the Post Office don’t have access to our rates. A change in the weight may affect the retail rate but not the Ebay shipping rate.
I encourage you to get a digital scale for weighing postage. It will pay for itself over and over again.
I do most of my listing on my laptop. It’s easier for me to work with than the App.
Good Luck.
12/03/2019 at 9:25 pm in reply to: Porch Pirates on Steroids. 297 packages left outside closed Post Office stolen. #7133390,000 packages or about 15% of total deliveries lost or stolen.
Wow, that’s a lot of loss to absorb.
I guess the economy is doing much better than I thought.
Here’s the link
I just saw that myself on the TV this morning.
It’s great, they tell you the COGS, the selling price and basically nothing else.
The Amazon seller fills a cart and says there’s about $300 here.. not bad for 30 minutes.
I agree, I’m exaggerating a bit.
Happy Sunday.
It looks like a turn signal housing to me.
I don’t know mustangs that well to verify it fits.
Good luck.
Wow, you found those in a thrift store.. that’s surprising.
A few years back, while scouting yard sales, I got in a conversation with a guy who had a box of old hot wheels and a bunch of tracks. I ended up buying the whole lot for $80. The cars weren’t quite as old as yours, but there were a lot more of them and 5 were still in the original packages. I still wish I’d kept a couple of those.
It took about a year and 25 listings or so to sell the lot, but I did pretty well and learned a lot.
I still have two wall display cases with the remnants of my own collection. I made a conscience decision a few years ago to trim it down to something reasonable. These have been in storage, since I moved, but might be time to put them back on display.
If you do sell them, I hope you get your price. There’s nothing wrong with keeping them either. The best part of the conversation is that you’re only into them for $25.
I can’t believe a thrift store sold them for that price. I’d make it a point to go back there on a regular basis and see what else they have.
JOE
Mine is left automatically as they pay.
“A+ Buyer..Thank you for your Purchase from Uncle Joe’s Vintage Emporium.”
I don’t think it ever hurts to get your store name out there.
Mine is sent out automatically once they pay.
A Picture is certainly worth a thousand words.
Very cool stuff and certainly original.
The stuff that brings the really big money is generally in like new condition or super rare.
The funny cars are the Snake and Mongoose. You may want to sell them as a pair. The chrome Camaro is one of the “mail away” cars and pretty cool. It’s amazing that after all these years, the surf boards for the Deora never disappeared.
Offhand, I don’t see anything super rare or expensive, but I have a deeper knowledge of Matchboxes than Hot Wheels.
I think you’ll find plenty of solds on Ebay to help with your pricing. You might be looking at closer to %500 than $1500, still a very good return on your $25.
Thanks for posting the pictures, it really made my day. The curiosity was killing me.
Ok Great.
It sounds like you’ve got a handle on these. I didn’t mean to rain on your parade. I’m officially jealous.
$1500 is very possible or even more. Do you have a white Camaro or a Beach Bomb..(VW Bus) ?
Good Luck with them.
Hi Mark,
Congratulations on picking up the Redlines. They can be worth an awful lot of money.
You may already know this, but the date on the bottom of the car is generally the original casting date. In other words the base may say 1969, but the car may have been made and sold in the 1990’s. Also, over the years, Hot Wheels made and sold “Vintage” replicas of the original cars, generally with color variations. The newer replicas are generally only worth a few dollars each.
I’ve gone down way too many rabbit holes, researching Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars.
If yours are truly the genuine vintage cars, you made a huge score. Everything counts on these. The color, condition and the country they were made in.
Take your time, before listing them as there are some variations that are really valuable.
Click on the post above this one with the pink shaded area.
Toyota use to make a 3.0 V6 engine from like 1989 to 1994. There was a recall on the head gaskets and they were replacing them for years. Some of the forums (for motorhomes) say there are dealers still replacing the head gaskets even now on some of them under recall.
That is just one of the reasons Toyota sells to so many repeat customers.
Getting to cruise around in a new loaner truck for w while… Cool.
Great Podcast as always.
Wow.. Toyota is paying for a new frame for your 10+ year old truck. That’s HUGE. Just the labor cost on that is probably close to the value of the truck. Toyota is a company that really stands behind their product and reputation.
Insulating the house is almost always a homerun. When the former owners of my house, had it built, they used 2X6 studs (instead of 2X4) and really paid attention to the insulation.
I am reaping the rewards of their design. Last summer, July and August were 100 degrees almost every day and I never used the air conditioner. I do use a swamp cooler and the hottest it got inside my house was 80 degrees. In fact, unless it gets past 92 or so, I don’t even use the swamp cooler.
What’s the future of Ebay.. who knows, but it’s smart to keep all options open. Ever since I moved, my account has been very passive. Geographic arbitration was the best move I’ve ever made.
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