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[Yooper14]

Just started listening to this week’s podcast but had to pause it and throw in a quick post. You’re talking about DC and IKEA…that’s my home stomping grounds…I live only about 10 miles north of IKEA. And you’re right…Craigslist scavenging is HUGE here in this urban area. On any given day there’s so much being given away for free.

I’ve done quite well over the past year re-selling free pickups. My most successful has been a collection of magazines that a man was parting with. He had every issue since the mid-1980s…it was a weekly magazine too! So many boxes! I sold a couple sets of individual years on ebay, and then someone else that collected them contacted me for about 4 boxes of specific years he wanted. That sale alone was $400!

So yes, urban is good fro Craigslist. I’m a country boy…I hail from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan originally, so this urban living is not really my cup of tea. But the availability of items does a bit to alleviate the pain of seeing concrete every day…

Tim

[Yooper14]

My Store – Week of December 16– 23, 2016

Total Items in Store: 286
Items Sold: 31
Total Sales: $772.66
Highest Price Sold: $68.00 – Leather Principles of Midwifery Book, 1810
Average Price Sold: ~$25.00
International Sales: 0
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 0

[Yooper14]

Listening to this weeks podcast. My store paralleled yours, it seems. I had phenomenal sales the past three weeks, but this week it dropped WAY off, I assume because people stopped Christmas shopping.

Regarding the lady who called who sold the necklace and had a fake returned, it makes me wonder if putting a unique mark on the item would help. If it was something difficult to counterfeit, even though it might lower the value slightly (like a scratch in a particular spot and shape), maybe that could be used to “prove” your item is not the same? On the flip side, her story IS the reason I tend to shy away from scavenging and selling items that are commonly counterfeited.

Great podcast as always. One of these weeks I’ll start posting my sales numbers.

Tim
Ebay: Yooper14

[Yooper14]

Ryanne!
Yes, 1999. Crazy, eh?! I was in college in ’99 and used to scavenge from a Bath and Body dumpster and resell the lotions! That was back when there were no pictures (unless I used a 35mm and developed, then scanned) and I would wait for a check to arrive in the mail. I did some serious selling for a few months but was very casual after that. Just now starting to sell as a serious hobby.
Good to meet you.
Tim

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