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Eager to hear about the slide sales, especially when you list/sell the one shot specials for big $$$. I have a small batch cherry picked from a big batch of commonish ones sold off awhile ago.
In there, is a Kodachrome of a little boy hanging upside down by his legs off a playground horizontal bar, wearing one of those clown costumes. The coloring, lighting, background all weirdly perfect.
Thanks! I would have forgotten to list it!-
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9/23 – 9/29/18
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Total store items: 618
Number of items sold: 7
eBay sales (not counting s/h): $343
Cost of items sold: $25
Consignment payouts: $67
Highest price sold: $150 – 1:18 scale Diecast car
Average price sold: $49
Returns: 0
Money spent on new inventory: $14
Number of items listed this week: 17
STR for the week: 1.1Etsy store Oldfleatoymarket
Total store items: 615
Number of items sold: 11
Etsy sales (not counting s/h): $235
Cost of items sold: $19.50
Consignment payouts: $5
Highest price sold: $50 – lot of 5 vintage boys adventure books
Average price sold: $21.36
Returns: 0
Money spent on new inventory: $12
Number of items listed this week: 8
STR for the week: 1.8Thank you again for the podcast, never loose your motivation! You both play such a big part in mine (ours)!
10/01/2018 at 11:14 am in reply to: What Sells On eBay: Boots, Record Player, KC Chiefs hat, Pyrex, Canoe Paddle, Turntable #49399Then you have Barbie friends. Here is a FRANCIE dress I have listed for $35:
Here is an obvious Barbie dress, yet a rare one. A HUGE barbie collector bought it for best offer $50, asked to cancel shortly after since she discovered she already had it. I did not flinch in cancelling.
Here is an example of piecing together a fashion around a labeled large item, the kimono. You can see the little hair pieces which could stand alone in separate listings. Honestly, this lot should have been pieced out with the hair pieces priced at $40 each, the fan $30, shoes $30, and all the rest of it! I’m surprised this has not sold yet!
So, happy to provide just enough info to make you dangerous, and ready to dive deeper once you buy up a lot. Me, I’m hoping to find a big lot of old plastic toy soldiers or GI Joe, yet I have a feeling more Barbie is a coming!
10/01/2018 at 10:47 am in reply to: What Sells On eBay: Boots, Record Player, KC Chiefs hat, Pyrex, Canoe Paddle, Turntable #49395Hi Daniel,
The b&w Barbie label is the big hook. Sometimes, through laundering the label is worn off. So you research the piece. Telling Barbie from clone and handmade, it is mostly experience, yet I’m sure the real doll people would have more to say on that. On smaller items, like a pair of shorts, there may just be a worn Japan tag, worth knowing the fashion, because it might fetch $25. Shoes, pocketbooks, and most little accessories have no marking generally. A TINY plastic hair stick pin found in a large lot of vintage Barbie may warrant a $25+ price. Find the same plastic hair stick pin in a trinket box with unrelated old and new and it becomes suspicious trash. So the lot as a whole and the story behind it help in identifying and pricing. I have a few wedding dresses and lacey stuff lot together that I am pretty sure some are vintage Barbie, only one tagged, so I am selling as a best offer lot. The buyer can decide what to offer.Good Morning Mike,
I had FOUR days of zero sales Sunday Sept 9 – Wed Sept 12, yet finished out with over $1,000 and 17 sold, almost a $1,000 day on the Thursday Sept 13.
It was no fun sitting on over 1000 listings between etsy & eBay, listing, tweaking, and nothing but broke crickets.
Enjoy when it turns around, as it will! I’m betting it is just your own unexplained cricket time, and hoping you do not have one like that again.-
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10/01/2018 at 7:34 am in reply to: What Sells On eBay: Boots, Record Player, KC Chiefs hat, Pyrex, Canoe Paddle, Turntable #49376Hello Sharyn,
One link lead to another, nothing was so useful that I thought to save the link for another time. Barbie is big, plenty of information out there. eBay and google images were the key to begin, at least for me.
Time also is a factor. Shoes, for instance. After determining the fashion a pair was part of, I would then list the single pair as such if confident it was worthwhile. Others, I would lot up. For instance, on etsy I have five pairs lot up for $50, different colors. Each pair has one shoe marked Japan and they are color shade matching and in nice condition. Each color and cut of shoe was found with several fashions, so not so rare. I could have however, did separate listings for each pair, with more description and maybe get $15 – even $20 a pair. I was not up to it.
Finding Barbie stuff time capsule style is a huge advantage. You get a feel that it is all from the same era, and then your research supports this enough to list with confidence. Sounds to be true with the collector trunk your friends collection is in.
If you go this route, it will be cool to see the sales!
Better if you get a feel for the price you could get, and just buy the lot outright. Even if you net double, you will have the education. My feeling is you are on the prowl now for old Barbie. You played with them! Me, GI Joes, and I’ve been down the Go Joe! rabbit holes as well, to $success$09/30/2018 at 11:27 am in reply to: What Sells On eBay: Boots, Record Player, KC Chiefs hat, Pyrex, Canoe Paddle, Turntable #49361Here is a good example from late Aug, a nice $35 sale for a Barbie dress on Etsy:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/624456986/barbie-learns-to-cook-1960s-dress-belt?show_sold_out_detail=1
Here is a Sept 20 sale, a good example of piecing together a fashion, sold for $75 partial complete on ebay, could have gotten more piecing out, but, you know how that goes sometimes:
Here are those little helpful fashion books, sold them off for a quick $20 early Sept on Etsy:
And I will even sell little accessories that don’t lot well together with others for as low as $10. Here is a beat up toaster missing a slice, $10 sold on Etsy:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/625750860/barbie-doll-1960s-learns-to-cook-1634?show_sold_out_detail=1
09/30/2018 at 10:18 am in reply to: What Sells On eBay: Boots, Record Player, KC Chiefs hat, Pyrex, Canoe Paddle, Turntable #49360Hi Sharyn,
My apologies, back to you so late, busy weekend helping oldest to move…
Little fashion books were included with the lot that pictured complete fashions, with shoes and all the little accessories. Helpful.
Also, I will gather up 10 dresses or so for example, and just search eBay, google, until I see the style, you start to piece together from there, which piece goes to which. There are also the collector sites that are helpful with pictures/descriptions. Then you learn little things like which pair of vintage shoes only has a single shoe marked Japan, which pairs have both, what material points to a clone, getting the glass out to see that faded Hong Kong mark, getting comfortable with the old black and white Barbie labels, getting to know Barbie’s friends, and all the rest of it. Its a commitment, but once you get an entire lot of hundreds of items paid for with a few pairs of tiny shoes, you get motivated. I enjoy old toys in general, so its easier for me to hang out with my doll friends and their stuff for a few hours.09/27/2018 at 5:38 pm in reply to: What Sells On eBay: Boots, Record Player, KC Chiefs hat, Pyrex, Canoe Paddle, Turntable #49271Sharyn,
I’ve finished up listing my third big vintage doll buyout for the year and still looking. Once you know vintage 1960’s Barbie and other fashion dolls, recognize those black and white Barbie labels, and get a feel for a lot, live sellers seem happy to sell it all off. They have pulled ‘the good’ dolls, made their money, cherry picked some labelled clothing and doll cases, and leave the real money behind, bits and pieces – shoes, pocket books, hair pieces, stockings, gloves, the more elusive clothing and accessories. Oh, and I am way far away from being any kind of doll expert!
Its easy to get burned though with Barbie, buying up newer 80’s and 90’s vintage dolls in the boxes, they are beautiful yes, but zillions listed on line, and not even worthwhile listing! I’ve avoided that with research, yet get a few of those thrown in from time to time. They flip over to my flea seller friend.09/27/2018 at 4:10 pm in reply to: What Sells On eBay: Boots, Record Player, KC Chiefs hat, Pyrex, Canoe Paddle, Turntable #49264Serious Shoes under 1 inch long:
My Barbie Buyers pay more for 3/4″ shoes than I do for my size 10.5! I gladly grab my son’s hand me downs, so my price is free and has been for several years! I am a disgusting scavenger and proud of it, yet always in cool Nike kicks!
The following hardware is not spectacular, coming off a smallish pine wood dresser I purchased in 1985. The dresser served as my Wife’s and Mine’s first, costing $100 retail. It did a fair bit of traveling and eventually became the primary dresser for one, two, three children, and then a guest dresser, and finally to the garage as a storage dresser. She was beat! Before retiring her to street pickup, I removed the hardware to sell on Etsy. The went to a happy buyer for $25 plus shipping:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/616805628/1980s-drawer-pulls-brass-knobs-metal?show_sold_out_detail=1
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Never heard of it.
Mike,
OK, the chip/salsa/Margarita bit sounds great if there is a lot competition and you are coming at it that way, in title and all. Maybe though, set those pieces aside until after a good Mexican lunch and not too many Margaritas for a rethink.09/27/2018 at 8:10 am in reply to: What Sells On eBay: Boots, Record Player, KC Chiefs hat, Pyrex, Canoe Paddle, Turntable #49233Steve,
Always amazing to see the stereo/audio sales, and always trying to imagine what goes into making those sales successful. Enviable to a point! It really has to become a thing, yet what a cool thing! Do you have your favorite vinyl spinning while tinkering, researching, packing and shipping? Thank you again for your time. Always loving those plastic promo muscle cars! Waiting to see if a 1968 Ford Gran Torino makes an appearance, my beater, referred to affectionately as the Blue Bomber. That would be back in my more stylish days.Good Morning,
Do you have to sell all three together? People generally look for a pitcher, or serving dishes, or tumblers, or some other table item. If the values are high enough, how about two separate lots? Those looking for a certain pattern, may just find the other matching lot and you will then get your multiple items purchased sale. If a buyer purchases one item, an email alerting them to the other piece and the savings in combined shipping sure could not hurt.
If they have to all go together, I would remove the items for PHOTOGRAPHS ONLY and include that phrase in the condition and in the short description. I don’t see how the entire lot could be described as new in box anyways since the pitcher is used. Those shopping on their phones do shop more what they see, so a clear picture featuring all three pieces would be an advantage. But do people really sit down to shop for specifically a serving plate AND a pitcher, regardless of the pattern?
Some chatter from one of the gang.Bethgreen,
That is an AWESOME score on those elves! I love pricey Christmas stuff found on the cheap. My son has had great buys using the FB groups, and even flips there from time to time. People seem to want good stuff Gone! -
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