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If the size label has worn off, I just don’t get those shoes. Too much hassle, and too much other good stuff available.
YES!! This would be really great. Should already be on the list from the early feedback.
I would use it to give a thumbs up to this OP. 🙂
I, too, hate the Walmart/Target/Forever21 yard sales, but I’ve had some luck at them recently, so I’ve decided not to knock them as much anymore. At one, amid all the commodity crap, was a lightly worn pair of Vasque hiking boots that I purchased for $5 and sold for $88 (Thanks, Steve S – but these on my BOLO list after seeing them on your videos). Then, at another “crap” yard sale, where I was getting annoyed at how far I drove to get there, I found a pair of what turned out to be genuine fur after ski boots – for $5, sold for over $100. Then there were two others where I got like new doc martens (one pair at each) for $3-5 each. So, I’ve decided to try to just scan everything quickly, keeping an eye out for the 1-2 possible treasures, and try to zone out the crap.
11/01/2017 at 8:59 pm in reply to: What Sells On eBay: Carhartt coveralls, Utah speakers, Ecco Boots, Marlboro Bag, vintage vacuum, Apple IIe computer. #24751Here are 4 items that sold over the past year or so that I got from my favorite hospital thrift store’s free section. It’s extremely rare to find stuff this good on the free rack, but once in a while, I hit the jackpot. I think it probably happens when something good comes in that is out of season and they are running low on storage space. Shipping is NOT included in the sale prices below.
#1 Bill Blass wool/llama blend winter jacket. Sold for $44
#2 Donegal Irish handwoven tweed skirt with beading. Sold for $33
#3 Teak 5-inch diskette rolltop storage box. $11.99
#4 US navy pea coat. $33
10/30/2017 at 9:25 pm in reply to: Buyer claimed spot on coat, I offered return, she ignores me for a week…. #24598Thanks for the update. Glad it turned out well in the end.
>People don’t get that it isn’t an easy flip selling on eBay!
I think that’s the crux of the problem. They just don’t know, and they really have no way of knowing. I certainly didn’t know how much work it would be until I tried it for myself. Seems like it would make an interesting newspaper or magazine article to describe the real day-to-day life of a scavenger/reseller, but then again I’m biased.
It’s fun to hear other people’s stories – thanks for sharing, Vintage Lacy.
Sounds like that guy wanted his privacy, too. At the last rummage sale in my town, the lady who lives right next door to the post office (and sees me there frequently) was at the sale and saw me purchase a vintage 90s neon ski jacket, and said “Wow, we’re sure going to see you coming from far away when you come down to the post office during the winter.” I’m like – “errrr… mm-hm, oh yeah, ha-ha.” Maybe by the winter I will have “discovered that it didn’t fit” or something. 🙂
Hi Sigal,
I coincidentally just saw one of these caddies at a garage sale today! It was new in box, and it said it was *silver*. I think it’s silver plated, meaning not solid silver. You might want to add those two words (silver plated) to your title and description. And I would remove all mention of the metal being “dull” – that doesn’t sound very appealing. It’s just tarnished/oxidized silver that can be easily shined. I don’t sell much silver myself, but this is what I use to shine silver when I need to on occasion:It’s really easy – no liquid polish to deal with – just rub the cloth on the silver and it’ll quickly shine up quite nicely.
Good luck with the listing.
Terri,
What we meant was *for GSP countries*, you can either have it set up for GSP or non-GSP, not both. But you can also ship to non-GSP countries even if you have GSP set on a particular listing.You can’t. For any particular country, each listing can only have one or the other. What I do is have GSP set, and then once in a while I get a buyer request to ship direct via First Class International, and if I agree, I go into the listing and change it to non-GSP and then they buy it.
I’m with jay on oak.
I have no idea whether this is Samsung would or wouldn’t do. But check the wikipedia definition of OEM and you’ll see that it’s something companies do all the time. I have personally worked at companies who did this, though not in the battery space.
Here’s an example of two large companies doing it.
http://www.crn.com/news/storage/300072930/no-surprise-ibm-to-stop-reselling-netapp-storage.htm“IBM and NetApp in 2005 signed an OEM agreement under which IBM resold much of NetApp’s storage hardware under the IBM N-series moniker. The storage systems sold by IBM under that agreement were essentially identical to the same models sold by NetApp except for the logo.”
I’m not saying your transaction isn’t fishy. I’m just saying that slapping another logo on top of a big company’s product is not necessarily fishy in and of itself.
>I have seen this in Jay’s response and approach over the year’s here. He just doesn’t get his shorts in a bunch over anything.
Very good points there, Mike. Thanks for reinforcing these SL lessons. I have to say, though, once in a while I get a hankering to see one of Jay’s ebay message threads from the early days when he *did* get into long back-and-forth discussions/arguments with customers – he mentions those from time to time. I bet those must have been something, as I imagine he is a worthy opponent in an email argument. 🙂
Thanks Jay & Ryanne for helping me learn from your early mistakes much sooner than I might have otherwise.
>Their clunky website is the biggest turn off to new buyers IMHO.
Agreed!
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