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I loved the artificial leg sighting. I’m hoping more people post in here. I bet full time eBay people see crazy stuff all the time.
Anyway, here are a few more photos. Note: I didn’t buy any of this.
Today’s Theme:
Oddly Inappropriate Paintings
http://i.imgur.com/zEo7OAl.jpg
Does that couch secretly double as a toilet? The lady’s face looks like she’s taking a dump.http://i.imgur.com/3Z4jYpD.jpg
This painting was hung prominently in a bedroom full of mirrors.http://i.imgur.com/Ulxikbu.jpg
Shitty angle for a portrait.Has anyone tried the “Scotty Stuffer?” They are a box that is supposed to fit perfectly to the max size of a padded flat rate envelope. They are about $40 for 50 of them, so I’ve always hesitated to order them due to the cost.
I’d be curious if anyone has had good luck with them or not.
Don’t feel bad. It’s Nintendo’s fault for not producing enough units to meet demand. The people buying these for huge markups could have gone out and waited in line 45 minutes at Target, but they were willing to pay you an extra $140 so they didn’t have to go to the trouble.
I would suggest taking your old computer and installing a solid state drive. You’ll be shocked at the performance improvement an SSD will give you versus an old mechanical hard drive, even for a six year old machine. The price on SSDs has also come down tremendously.
If you are itching for a new computer: get a PC, unless you really love Mac OS or need a program not available on Windows. Either system will do fine for eBay listing, but Windows machines cost way less for equal or usually superior hardware.
Depending on your needs, if you are only doing eBay listing, you could just buy a Chromebook and save even more money.
I had a similar situation. A buyer bought a video game and then just over 30 days later opened a return for item not as described. I declined the return, since they had plenty of time to test it and return it previously. The buyer immediately left negative feedback, saying “Item was defective.” I called eBay several times, but so far they refuse to remove the negative feedback. Beware, as you might run into the and thing.
A lot of people are overreacting to the new long term storage fees. Yeah, it sucks, but it isn’t the end for “scavenger” sellers, especially for books.
I did remove about a third of my Amazon inventory after the new fee was announced, but most of those were books where merchant fulfilled people were selling it for a dollar or less.
I think a lot of Amazon’s stale inventory problem stems from FBA sellers sending in virtually any and every book, without regard to rank or MF price, and just letting it sit there for years at a non-competitive price. I certainly am guilty of that.
While I eliminated many books from my inventory, I also lowered the price on a lot of others to bring it closer to the MF price. Unsurprisingly, a lot of my stale inventory has finally started moving. Yeah, the profit isn’t as high as I had hoped when sending it in, but it wasn’t making any money just sitting there in the warehouse.
I am going to be more picky when sourcing books in the future. I’m not giving up on long tail books, but I’m not going to send in long tail books where the price is less than $20.
I guess for me, it really comes down to a three things.
1. I can find books locally for less than $1. If a book sells for $20 and after normal fees totals out about $10 profit, even if I had $2.50 in overall storage fees, I still made $6.50 profit. Some books sell for many times that amount, making the equation more appealing.
2. eBay sucks for books, generally speaking. Amazon built its business on books, and it is the place people go to buy them.
3. FBA gives me a sales channel where I don’t have to worry about photographing the item, shipping it to the customer, or customer service. I can just slowly build up a pile of books and send them to the warehouse when I have time. I’m out at sales looking for eBay stuff anyway, so why not look for books for Amazon?
Okay, the last attempt was by using the “img” button above and linking to pictures hosted at IMGUR. Obviously didn’t work. Here’s an attempt with just the hyperlinks.
Attempt 3:
Here is attempt 2. Note: Linking to Google Photos for images does not work here for some reason.
This is a discussion thread to post pictures of some of the weird stuff you see (and/or buy) at garage sales, estate sales, thrift stores, flea markets, auctions, etc. I’m talking about those items that make you turn your head and go “hmmmm…” or “wow” or “what the heck?”.
I’ve been trying to photograph strange items I see at sales for about the last year. I was going to create a blog with these, but I never really had enough pictures to make it viable on its own. I’ll try to post pictures periodically here and I’m hoping others will post pictures, too.
Please include a description under the photo link describing what it is and where you saw it (and how much they were asking, if you remember). If you actually bought the weird item, please note if you were able to sell it and for how much.
This was at an estate sale. It was a human-size paper mache bear. The shirt says “Grateful Bears.” It had already sold when I got to the sale, so apparently it was a hot item. Have no idea why someone made this.
Someone framed a cow chip. As you can see, the estate sale company deemed that crap was worth $10.
I found the title to this high school reunion book to be poorly worded.
Found this at a church sale. Someone must have really loved this clip art, as they made full size framed portraits of it to hang on the wall.
For the ultra-active grandparents.
I bought this for a buck at a high-end estate sale. Sold it a few months later for I think about $15.
Somebody at the estate sale was being funny with price on this one.
