Garage Sale Hunting! Tips, Hints and Advice

[Star_Cards]

nice. I've never had any full sets. I'd take the time to sort them out for sure.

[Star_Cards]

FYI, I'm listing items at lunch and noticed that eBay just redid their listing structure. I used to get 150 free fixed and auction listings with my store subscription but they now give me 150 fixed listings and 100 auctions if they are in a collectables category. All other auctions have a listing fee, but if the item sells they refund the fee. This puts a crimp in my auction strategy but I'll figure something out.

Usually I list items for auction under the average sell price but at a price I'm not giving things away. Usually I have to adjust the price down while relisting a few times. That's going to keep me from listing quite a few things for auction that I normally would.

[Star_Cards]

AJ, what do you get out of the lincoln logs? does it just depend or do you have a set per pound price?

[ajcorleone]

I have never sold them by the pound per say. If I have a box and they are in good shape say like a medium flat rate box I try to get $20 or so out of it. If I have an original box like they come in it is a little more. I have bought logs say 5 times and 4 out 5 mu guy bought them up.The one time I had a box they were a little wore a guy bought off me at a flea for $25 it was probably a large size flat rate. I got them as a throw in from a yard sale so it was all profit

Plus I see Ebay and Pay Pal have supposedly seperated. I am going to have to check out this new Ebay system because I still use it for some more expensive finds

AJ, what do you get out of the lincoln logs? does it just depend or do you have a set per pound price?

[ajcorleone]

Plus I am jacked as I am hitting my first pallett auction tomorrow. There are over 200 palletts up for auction not sure what to expect price wise but there are a bunch from Amazon.com,northern tools,wal mart,BJ's, and HH Gregg. Hopefully these folks don't think they are on tv and I can get a little action.


http://www.auctionzip.com/cgi-bin/au...025&category=0

[ajcorleone]

That pallett auction went for crazy prices way out of my range. I did steal one for $100

[Star_Cards]

That pallett auction went for crazy prices way out of my range. I did steal one for $100

I went to a liquidation auction and had no shot at buying anything. People were paying crazy prizes for everything. Not a lot of room to flip on ebay. I know not everyone has the desire to drive around looking for stuff but seems like there would be better options for people to make more money on stuff. Although I don't exactly know where they sell this stuff and what they get out of it. I rarely get scores at auctions unless it's just one that not many people show up to.

[ajcorleone]

Well for $100 I got 24 LAsko space heaters which retail for like $60 to $70 bucks. 4 of the boxes are damaged but the units are good gonna try and pop em for $30 a piece.

I went to a liquidation auction and had no shot at buying anything. People were paying crazy prizes for everything. Not a lot of room to flip on ebay. I know not everyone has the desire to drive around looking for stuff but seems like there would be better options for people to make more money on stuff. Although I don't exactly know where they sell this stuff and what they get out of it. I rarely get scores at auctions unless it's just one that not many people show up to.

[Star_Cards]

Picked up some decent stuff over the weekend. I did find, but didn't buy a huge mounted elk head. This thing was giant. the mount from the neck to the top of the rack was about 6.5-7 feet tall. I'm not even sure it would fit in my 4runner, but the guy wanted $500 for it so there was no way I was buying for that.

I did end up finding a mostly complete 1300 piece lego set. A few of the bags were open so I'm putting it together to see how much might be missing. I got that for $20 and got a whole tub of nerf guns thrown in. Should be able to get $100 out of the lego set and maybe another $100+ out of the nerf guns. I also picked up a vintage bausch & lomb microscope. I'm not sure what it goes for but it's super heavy. I also grabbed a bunch of DVDs at around 30¢ a piece and two vintage typewriters for $8 each. Was good to pick up some decent stuff after not finding much over the past few weeks.

[andrewconnors9]

I came across two vintage typewriters for 15 each but left em behind. Didn't seem much of a secondary market on the eBay route which surprised me. I did pick this up for the video game collection and cowboy will like this: (got the entire lot for 30$, complete in box including the Styro and all and machine itself is mint and most of the game boxes are mint)




Also found a full band signed nickel back photo (I'm assuming it must of been the guys ex girlfriends or something and didn't think it was real) for 0.50$!!