Thrift Shop Pickups

[shrevecity]

Originally Posted by mj91534

they sell up to 20 dollars if in good condition and this one is in the bag it was bought in. But I also am keeping this to add to my new toy collection

See only a couple that even approach 20.aside from the one from Australia. Most sell for around 10 to 12.

Only 4 jedi quest snickered figures listed and none sold I don't recall any retail level figure being sold in a bag.

Per terapeak last jedi quest party figure was in May for 1.00 plus shipping. Average price of them is 5.00

[mj91534]

Yeah I mean I bought that and 40 DVD's for 25 bucks total. The DVD's are sealed and I figured I could auction them off on whatnot or ebay.

[N8theGR8]

Picked these up today. Pretty cool early Pokémon stuff.




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[Hess687]

Stopped by a garage sale in Wisconsin while up here for work. Got to talking to the guy and he mentioned he buys out storage units and sells on eBay full time so I wasn't expecting much.

Started to look through some stuff and wasn't having much luck until I lifted up a tarp in his garage and found a Heroscape board game from '89. Box was pretty beat up but it looked to have a majority of the pieces. I asked how much he wanted and was quoted $10.

Didn't even bother to haggle and paid the asking price. Ended up spending $65 altogether after he showed me a few more items. Some I probably paid up on like some Futaba RC remotes I paid $5 a piece on and got 3 altogether. 2 are the same serial number and unfortunately don't sell for much while the third will bring in at least $40-50 even when I sell them as parts/repair.

Picked up a Chicago Bears Pelle Pelle non-leather jacket for $7, a model car NIB for $20, Zelda Mejora's Mask Nintendo DS game and some RL Stine Gooosebumps books for my own collection.

Decent haul. Probably could've made better profit if I didn't go outside my comfort zone and just stick to what I know, but I have to remind myself it's about learning and growing and expanding into new categories by trial and error. At the end of the day, it's only a couple of bucks and you'll learn for your next outing.

[Hess687]

Picked up 8 Gillette M3 Power razors brand new in box for $5 a piece at an estate sale. Should get anywhere between $100-150 a piece for them. Probably my best find of the year so far.

[shrevecity]

Been too hot here. Very few sales

[GOWIFB]

This week was my city wide sale. I usually don't find much during city wide sales but this week was different. Found new sealed electronics like google chromecast, roku, and a home security system. I got to one sale like 30 minutes late so figured there would be no chance of video games. Ended up finding a bunch of Wii games like Super Mario Bros, two copies of Wii sports, and a couple other $20 games plus a PS3 console for $25 total. Then I went to a church sale in my city as well and there was only one video game which was $1. I was surprised to see any still left. Turned out to be a brand new sealed PS5 game that sells for $40. There was another sale that had a Xbox and N64 with a bunch of games and I was the first one there but she said she already promised to sell to someone else that messaged her the night before. That sucked as I am never first when video games are advertised.

Then today I found a little advertised church sale on 1/2 price day. Showed up when they opened and I was the only one in there for the first 15 minutes. Turned out to also be a city wide rummage and since it wasn't advertised it was like I had the entire city to myself. Ended up going to a sale that had a N64 plus controllers. Turned out it was still there because they forgot to put it out with the games the day before. I paid $60 for it which I normally wouldn't do but it had the expansion pack in it so that should recoup most of the money even if the console doesn't work. Then the last sale of the day I asked as I normally do if they have any and they came out with two PS2 (slim and fat) and probably about 50 games (look pretty common but I only saw about 1/2 of them). I got it all for $50. I didn't realize it at the time but the PS2 travel case alone is almost worth $50.

I had multiple other pickups besides video game stuff but I know alot of people are interested in those and figured I would focus on that as I hardly ever find it.

[timfsu2k]

Anyone go to the 127 yard sale last week? It goes from Alabama to Michigan and is an amazing time. I probably hit over 100 yard sales in a few hours on Friday morning. Sadly I had to work night shift all weekend so wasn't able to fully take advantage. Found a lot of good bread and butter items but no real home runs.

A few years ago I had my second best find ever at the 127 sale, it was a "Remember Pearl Harbor" metal sign from 1943 and I paid a whole $1 for it.

[Hess687]

Originally Posted by timfsu2k

Anyone go to the 127 yard sale last week? It goes from Alabama to Michigan and is an amazing time. I probably hit over 100 yard sales in a few hours on Friday morning. Sadly I had to work night shift all weekend so wasn't able to fully take advantage. Found a lot of good bread and butter items but no real home runs.

A few years ago I had my second best find ever at the 127 sale, it was a "Remember Pearl Harbor" metal sign from 1943 and I paid a whole $1 for it.

Been wanting to go to this but haven't made it yet as its a little further away and the week after (this coming weekend) is the US 12 garage sale for me which starts on the Indiana/Michigan border which I'm a half hour away from and runs all the way up to Detroit although I've never made it the full distance.

Starts on Friday at 9am and I'll get a hotel Friday night using my hotel rewards points and continue on Saturday. Last year was somewhat of a bust (bread and butter items like you said, no real homeruns) but the year before was a blast with my best find being a Tori Hunter Jr Notre Dame game used football jersey from the Shamrock Series.

[r0yals2012]

The last big garage sale day was Saturday. Now time to make my inventory last until next yard sale season. There will be some here and there and maybe a couple of thrift store trips here and there but mostly done. It was a big city wide with 260 advertised. My mom and I garage saled from 6 AM-2 PM would have gone longer but it got to be 100 degrees out and we were just too hot to continue. I got some decent things, I paid up on several things but my ROI will be good. I picked up a Fluke Humidity Detector for $30 and a Flir TG165 Spot Thermal Camera for $20 at a sale I almost didn't get out at because it looked like it was just tools. At a church sale I picked up a Revitive Circulation Foot thing for $3 those do really well, also got a point and shoot 35mm film canon camera for $2, and a Big Mouth Billy Bass for $1 there. At another sale I got another camera I paid up $40 but they go for like $200 (this was the year of cameras). And the last thing was some person had Loungefly purse/backpacks new with tags all for $10 I bought whatever she had, I missed like 6+ of them because someone else grabbed them before I got there as I was looking at video games at another sale. Was a fun day.

[ajlaxmn]

Originally Posted by r0yals2012

The last big garage sale day was Saturday. Now time to make my inventory last until next yard sale season. There will be some here and there and maybe a couple of thrift store trips here and there but mostly done. It was a big city wide with 260 advertised. My mom and I garage saled from 6 AM-2 PM would have gone longer but it got to be 100 degrees out and we were just too hot to continue. I got some decent things, I paid up on several things but my ROI will be good. I picked up a Fluke Humidity Detector for $30 and a Flir TG165 Spot Thermal Camera for $20 at a sale I almost didn't get out at because it looked like it was just tools. At a church sale I picked up a Revitive Circulation Foot thing for $3 those do really well, also got a point and shoot 35mm film canon camera for $2, and a Big Mouth Billy Bass for $1 there. At another sale I got another camera I paid up $40 but they go for like $200 (this was the year of cameras). And the last thing was some person had Loungefly purse/backpacks new with tags all for $10 I bought whatever she had, I missed like 6+ of them because someone else grabbed them before I got there as I was looking at video games at another sale. Was a fun day.

Who the heck has loungefly backpacks for $10 NWT? I would figure at least $25, that way it's still a big discount from the $75+ they normally are. Wonder if it was someone that just wanted to move their collection or unfortunately HAD to and just needed fast money.

Any Disney Villian ones? Preferably Maleficient? Want to possibly get one for my wife for Christmas. Wasn't sure if you had a retired one or not.

Nice haul.

[shrevecity]

Found a bunch of Gabriel lone ranger figures today. Hoping this is the start to a much needs good weekend. Maybe my last good chance to get out for 2 or 3 weeks as I am having surgery on my wrist next week

One smaller thing I bought was an old Union Pacific cap. It looked like it should be a 20 to 30.00 one but on it was a pin that my gut told me to check it. Turns out its 10K weighs about 1.3 grams so a nice little addition to the haul.

[timfsu2k]

Originally Posted by ajlaxmn

Who the heck has loungefly backpacks for $10 NWT? I would figure at least $25, that way it's still a big discount from the $75+ they normally are. Wonder if it was someone that just wanted to move their collection or unfortunately HAD to and just needed fast money.

Could be fake.

[r0yals2012]

Originally Posted by ajlaxmn

Who the heck has loungefly backpacks for $10 NWT? I would figure at least $25, that way it's still a big discount from the $75+ they normally are. Wonder if it was someone that just wanted to move their collection or unfortunately HAD to and just needed fast money.

Any Disney Villian ones? Preferably Maleficient? Want to possibly get one for my wife for Christmas. Wasn't sure if you had a retired one or not.

Nice haul.

No villain ones. Sorry. I got a SpongeBob, Star Wars, Beauty and the Beast, and Pinocchio one. I think they probably needed the money their garage was full of stuff. Almost hoarder situation. And they are real. She had a ton of Disney stuff and I have experience with loungefly. Funny story the lady that beat us to like 6 of them her kids go to the school my mom teaches at and the mom gave my mom the dirtiest look because she didn’t get all the loungefly. Some people. She got like 6 or more.


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[shrevecity]

Friend of mine who runs a BIN store got a bunch of them in a pallet a few months back. They were in a salvaged freight pallet, usually that means insurance paid off the load and sold them to a liquidator to recoup the payout

[Hess687]

So I have a bunch of stickers I would like to sell as singles or possibly doubles. They were free to me and are all of the same. They'll be a slow burn but should sell over time and are an easy store.

Question is, do I sell these in a PWE and if so, how do I go about doing that with tracking involved or is it just hope the seller is honest and says it arrives? I'm guessing no cardboard is allowed? Maybe put the sticker in between two pieces of index cards?

[byronscott4ever]

Originally Posted by Hess687

So I have a bunch of stickers I would like to sell as singles or possibly doubles. They were free to me and are all of the same. They'll be a slow burn but should sell over time and are an easy store.

Question is, do I sell these in a PWE and if so, how do I go about doing that with tracking involved or is it just hope the seller is honest and says it arrives? I'm guessing no cardboard is allowed? Maybe put the sticker in between two pieces of index cards?

https://www.ebay.com/help/selling/sh...velope?id=5308

[Hess687]

Originally Posted by byronscott4ever

https://www.ebay.com/help/selling/sh...velope?id=5308

Thank you so much for this. I'll give it a shot. Never used it before.

[shrevecity]

Originally Posted by Hess687

Thank you so much for this. I'll give it a shot. Never used it before.

Stickers are not eligible. Unless you put them in wrong categories. You can do normal pwe like sellers did before ese. For ese it's trading cards postcards coins and stamps only.

[shrevecity]

Only hit 3 sales this morning supposed to be 109 here later today so not many out there. First one got 2 old proline football caps a Destiny action figure and a switch controller for 5.00. Should bring in close to 80 to 100 pretty easily.

Second sale was a basic dud third was an unadvertised estate sale. I got a stack of about 20 vintage NOS computer peripherals for 5.00 a quick gnace told me one sells by itself for 80.00 Then there was an old medication display like you see in a Doctors office paid 50 cents for it should get 80 to 100 for it. Then the CDs and DVDs were marked 25 cents each many were new and unopened some of the boxed sets will being 50 to 60 each. Ther were a couple of rare DVDs in the stuff as well spent 12.00 total at that sale should make at minimum 500. Depends on what some of those other computer parts go for.

[shanks25]

I was wondering if anyone else out there has experienced a dramatic slowdown in sales on ebay very recently.

I've been doing this for about 4 years now. At any one time, I usually have between 120-160 items for sale. I've been steadily averaging about $1000 in sales per week (gross sales). I usually sell between 3-5 items per day on weekdays and 5-8 items per day on weekends.

About two weeks ago, my sales abruptly came to a screeching halt. It hasn't stopped by has decreased by about 70%. I'm getting 1-2 sales per day with many days with zero sales. I have continued to list items through this period and I list 5-10 items every single day.

I did some internet research and some forums said it was all related to the switch from the global Shipping Program to the new ebay International Shipping. Lot of people recommended to opt out of the new international Shipping Program and they reported that sales immediately went right back up. I did this. I opted out and it had no affect whatsoever. Sales were still awful.

The other thing I did recently was change the promotions on all my listings to a flat 2%. I couldn't justify paying ebay 9%-12% of every item sold. Message boards also recommended to do this as there was no difference between promoting 2% or 12%.

Has anyone else experienced a huge drop in sales like this? Can anyone offer any advice on how to fix it? Am I doing anything glaringly wrong? And help, explanation, or advice would be greatly appreciated!

[shrevecity]

Originally Posted by shanks25

I was wondering if anyone else out there has experienced a dramatic slowdown in sales on ebay very recently.

I've been doing this for about 4 years now. At any one time, I usually have between 120-160 items for sale. I've been steadily averaging about $1000 in sales per week (gross sales). I usually sell between 3-5 items per day on weekdays and 5-8 items per day on weekends.

About two weeks ago, my sales abruptly came to a screeching halt. It hasn't stopped by has decreased by about 70%. I'm getting 1-2 sales per day with many days with zero sales. I have continued to list items through this period and I list 5-10 items every single day.

I did some internet research and some forums said it was all related to the switch from the global Shipping Program to the new ebay International Shipping. Lot of people recommended to opt out of the new international Shipping Program and they reported that sales immediately went right back up. I did this. I opted out and it had no affect whatsoever. Sales were still awful.

The other thing I did recently was change the promotions on all my listings to a flat 2%. I couldn't justify paying ebay 9%-12% of every item sold. Message boards also recommended to do this as there was no difference between promoting 2% or 12%.

Has anyone else experienced a huge drop in sales like this? Can anyone offer any advice on how to fix it? Am I doing anything glaringly wrong? And help, explanation, or advice would be greatly appreciated!

Mine have been steady with no real difference in international. We are at the end of summer school is starting back up salesxalways drop this time of year.

I see huge differences in impressions when I promote items at higher rates. Impressions are very important.

[shanks25]

Originally Posted by shrevecity

Mine have been steady with no real difference in international. We are at the end of summer school is starting back up salesxalways drop this time of year.

I see huge differences in impressions when I promote items at higher rates. Impressions are very important.

Can you please explain how impressions are important? I don’t really understand what impressions are and what they do.

In your opinion, what is an ideal promotion rate? What would you suggest?


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[shrevecity]

Impressions are the number of times your listing appears on outside searches or on sites like Facebook. It also includes went your listing shows at top of search on ebay. If you are not getting those you will never be seen.

As far as amount most are atc2% but if it's an item with alot of competition or an old item I will raise it to 5 or 10.

Are you ending and relisting item using sell similar?

[shanks25]

Originally Posted by shrevecity

Impressions are the number of times your listing appears on outside searches or on sites like Facebook. It also includes went your listing shows at top of search on ebay. If you are not getting those you will never be seen.

As far as amount most are atc2% but if it's an item with alot of competition or an old item I will raise it to 5 or 10.

Are you ending and relisting item using sell similar?

I end all my listings and relist under the "See similar" when they are about to expire.

I'm at a complete loss....