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If you are a Top Rated Seller, Priority Mail insures for free up to $100.. otherwise just $50.
If I’m at all concerned or it’s a high dollar item, I generally ship it Priority Mail and insure it directly through the Post Office.
I recently shipped two separate items, each about $200 in value. Even though they paid Smart Post, I sent them Priority Mail fully insured. It cost me a few dollars extra, but was worth it to me.
Better safe than sorry.
This week, someone was giving away thousands of very large semigloss sheets of Paper. I really thought about taking a ride to get them, for packing.
You can’t get everything. The time to get them and the space to keep them becomes as valuable as the money you are saving. A couple of weeks from now, I’ll be wishing I got them.
2002 for me. Lots of cashier’s checks and Bidpay. I didn’t get a Paypal account until many tears later. Most of my items shipped Fedex Ground.
Back then the sold items seemed to stay on Ebay forever. You could see what other people were buying on and possibly watching. It was a different world.
Yes.. been there done that.
Last year I bought over 1500 NOS T-shirts, hoodies and jackets. There were over 20 full boxes. It was months, before I had inspected them all, never mine listed them…. Later, I bought two sizable lots of books, many of which are in the German language.. I’m almost done with those.
Once you start your research, you’ll be purging quite a lot of the books.
Good luck..
It’s been a few days now since you’ve scored your cache of “FREE” books and other items. Is it “It doesn’t get any better than that”..or.. “Be careful what you wish for.”
Have you done a lot of listing and purging yet, or is it all sitting there. The first time you do something like this, it can be a bit overwhelming. In the long run it’s all good.
Any Diamonds in the rough.. or gold bars ?
02/15/2018 at 1:43 pm in reply to: What Sells On eBay: Pioneer Reel To Reel, trucker hats, vintage game parts, 8mm home movies #33085Here’s a few of my recent sales.
I bought for 75 cents, an opened box 3/4 full of laundry detergent. Over time, I used the detergent and recently sold the empty box for $16.95 plus shipping. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Ivory-Snow-Laundry-Detergent-Box-Giant-Size-32oz-2-LB-EMPTY-Mom-Baby/132451893091?hash=item1ed6bf7f63:g:nIAAAOSwNchaRwZL
Another vintage book from a large lot I purchase a while back. Sold for $49.99 plus shipping to a buyer in Norway. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Mahler-by-Henry-Louis-de-La-Grange-1973-First-Edition-1st-Vintage-Hardcover-DJ/132445238975?hash=item1ed659f6bf:g:-n8AAOSwc2FaP0Mx
I went to a last minute estate sale. Sheriff was scheduled to come in the morning and evict them. Bought this box full of gold plate flatware for $10. I sold the empty for for $25.95 plus shipping. The 12 piece set has been broken up into numerous listings and is currently listed. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Wallace-Walnut-Silverware-Flatware-Chest-Box-Extra-Large-16-Settings-Brown/142666533565?hash=item2137968abd:g:xHYAAOSwY7taZ~65
Paid $1 at a rummage sale for 600 NOS Rolodex cards. They sold quickly for $32.50 plus shipping. I probably should have asked more, but hey.. sold is sold. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Genuine-Rolodex-600-Blank-Rotary-Refill-File-Cards-3-x-5-C35-White-Lot-Sealed/142681160580?hash=item213875bb84:g:438AAOSwGHJaeKRo
Thanks All..
No sale yet, although I did receive some information from an Ebayer, telling me my can isn’t worth much. He referred me to this site on vintage spray paint and I’m passing it on, in case others will benefit. http://capmatchescolor.com/about/
Wow.. it was never planned that way. It doesn’t sound like a bad way to go in the beginning though.
I just list each book according to what I think it is and where my buyer will expect to find it.
Maybe this way is better… https://www.ebay.com/sch/Books/267/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from=&_ssn=joe24658
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So Cal Joe.
There you go..
Just for fun, pretend in your box lot, you found a “Gone with the Wind” book, printed 1936 by Margaret Mitchell. Look it up on Ebay, then look it up on Amazon.
What’s it worth? It varies greatly.
You can see the Amazon listings don’t have as much individual details as the Ebay listings, so researching Amazon prices may not give you the information you need for a book like this.
You’ll also need to know what edition.. first, ok what printing? What is the date of printin? Is the dust cover included? Have the corners been cut from the dust cover. What is the condition of the book? Does it have writing in it.. etc etc etc.
Many of the books I sell fall into the category Jay is referring to. You look it up or scan it. You look at the for sale and the solds and come up with a price.. Done.
If there are not a lot of examples for sale, or the only examples available were printed much later than yours, you may have to do a little more research. If its an obscure book of an obscure place or event, you may have to do a little more research.
Much of the research will enable you enhance your title and description. If you want to get a premium price for your book, you need to be able to tell the buyer why it deserves it. Sometimes, I’ll research the subject or sometimes the author.
I found a very old Bible in a box lot once. It was dated 1830.. Wow. This is Pre Civil war. Andrew Jackson was the president. There were no cars or telephones or even electricity. Slavery was legal and widespread in this country.. I’m sure the stories in this bible are not that much different than the ones in bibles printed today.. but believe me, I needed a different buyer.
Somehow, this fragile paper bible ended up in my box lot.
When I’m listing a book, I try to get a feel what the world was like, when it was written. was it Pre WW2, The Kennedy Assassination, Watergate or even 911? Was it written before television, microwave ovens or the internet existed? Were there equal rights, birth control and twitter?
Did this book change the world?.. Did it make Truman Capote a household word and later Audrey Hepburn a timeless icon of beauty and fashion.
I think it just comes down to treating the books the same as anything we sell on Ebay.. proper research, good descriptions and great photos are the answer.
You are more than welcome to look at my listings. They are fairly concise, but I feel complete. some of the older ones aren’t so good, but the more recent ones follow a standard procedure.
Try to keep it fun. Books can be ever so boring.
I buy packing tape on Ebay. Generally they are 2 inch 110 yards (1.8m to 2 mil). They come in cases of 36 rolls and I usually pay $33 a case or less with free shipping.
I’m not going to pretend the quality is equal to Scotch or the like, but considering the price, I’m more than happy with the deal. I go through a fair amount of tape.
I guess it all depends on who you’re selling the book to. Amazon tends to deal with books as a commodity. There aren’t a lot of details or photographs. I guess people are buying them to read. Selling books on Amazon, may be similar to selling… I Phone cases.? It’s all about price.
I try to present books as much more. What edition is it and what makes it special. Is it signed.. and by who? What was going on in the world when it was printed. It’s hard to compare a first edition printed in the 1930’s to a current printing of the same book. It becomes a matter of finding the customer that cares for the original and presenting it well.
Then you take what’s left and try to group them in lots of 2 to 6 books, that will sell for at least $25. It’s work.. sometimes a lot of work.
What’s left go back into the donation pile.
It looks like you scored..
Good deal,,
Now is the fun, listing the cream of the crop..
After that is the work…
It will take a while to work your way through it all.
Keep us advised on what gems are in the boxes.
Way to go.
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