EstateSaleStuff
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posted on March 4, 2004 03:02:43 AM new
I am so pleasantly shocked this morning. ... I am not usually a postcard seller, but had put a few on last week out of a stack I had sitting here for a few years. One of them that ends later today is at $147! it is a picture of early century California mining town ... I don't know why it is bid that high, but I'm sure not gonna argue it! LOL 
The most I ever had a post card go for was a few years ago, where one went for $43. It had depicted a coastal lifesaving method of the lifeguards launching a big floatable torpedo shape far into the water off the coastline, and there was a long rope attached to the torpedo, long enough that the lifeguards could pull it back in from the shore.
Does anyone know what the record is for a postcard? Probably not as much as that beer can that was stored in the Calif. rafters, eh?
This sure does make you wish you could just know which of the things you have sitting around could be going great guns on ebay.
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Libra63
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posted on March 4, 2004 06:39:25 AM new
That's great. I have sold one for $64.00. The Winsch Cards (Holiday Greeting. i.e. Christmas Hallowee) do great, but I also think the card like you had must have been something that had some great history behind it.
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ladyjewels2000
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posted on March 4, 2004 08:46:30 AM new
I wish I knew more about them too. I have some really old ones. One is a real cut silhouette of a boy with a top hat - it's a undivided back and is unused.
I have never been able to find anything like it.
EstateSaleStuff - that's just great. what did you start it for??
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Roadsmith
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posted on March 4, 2004 09:38:12 AM new
I sold one for something like $130, a while back. A couple of weeks ago I sold one for $79 (real photo postcard of an Indian chief). Several of Lytle Creek (CA) area went for $30 to $60. Then there are the $5 ones. . . . and the ones that have to be relisted and sell for $5 . . . . and the ones that don't sell at all. I've tried this maybe 20 times, and I already have a small group of them that didn't sell at all, which I'll sell as a lot someday. It's very iffy.
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pelorus
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posted on March 4, 2004 10:37:42 AM new
I have a color card of a moonshine still in N.C., but can't bear to part with it. I try not to think of how much I could get for it.
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auctionACE
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posted on March 4, 2004 10:55:05 AM new
I think maybe 98% of all postcards are almost totally worthless but that other 2% can have some really good market value.
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lindajean
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posted on March 4, 2004 11:51:30 AM new
I actually agree with Auctionace, well almost. I'd say 90% are useless and trying to decide what the other 10% are without killing all profit in Ebay fees in an unending challenge
The highest I have ever received is $53 and at least 95% of the 20% that sell at all go for the $5 opening bid.
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EstateSaleStuff
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posted on March 4, 2004 12:14:26 PM new
Yes, I started this out at $5. It looks like it will end at the 147 ... the bidder histories don't really show snipers at work
Well, I guess I can at least afford to order pizza for dinner tonight. LOL
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lindajean
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posted on March 4, 2004 12:29:18 PM new
I forgot to say CONGRATULATIONS!
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EstateSaleStuff
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posted on March 4, 2004 12:31:38 PM new
well, thanks! ... c'mon over for some pizza!
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tradersjones
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posted on March 4, 2004 01:18:02 PM new
My highest single card was a Chicago Cubs Training Field that went for $78.55. I've had 6 or 7 others that went for over $50.00, another dozen or so over $30.00 and the rest between $5.00 and $20.00.
I like selling postcards because it's easy packing and shipping, no deadbeats, lots of return buyers and most pay up the same day. Just can't get rich off it, is all.
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lindajean
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posted on March 4, 2004 04:42:04 PM new
"Just can't get rich off it, is all."
Ain't that the truth
But they are fun and the people are nice. My Ebay fees kill me though. Wish someone else could offer a reasonable bidder base but the only other source I have found with any movement at all is Playles. Most people start theirs at $1 over there so I will just live with the Ebay fees and keep my fingers crossed every day that I make enough to pay the fees for that day
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CBlev65252
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posted on March 4, 2004 05:01:45 PM new
I had a turn of the century one with Indians on it. It went for over $100. Yup, sometimes the final price is a shock.
Cheryl
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legacycoin
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posted on March 4, 2004 08:15:43 PM new
From a buyer's perspective: I have three or four cards that I have paid over $100 for, and one in particular (one of the images on my Ebay ME page) set me back $200. The highest I've actually seen a card go for was $260. I call it collecting, my wife calls it insanity......
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auctionACE
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posted on March 5, 2004 02:16:04 AM new
Some postcards gather big bucks on ebay such as
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2225668830&category=20205
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[ edited by auctionACE on Mar 5, 2004 02:16 AM ]
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lorettab1
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posted on March 6, 2004 05:03:04 AM new
wOw! Closed last night, well over $1000.00, wish I could find one of these....ebay 2228370249
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neglus
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posted on March 6, 2004 07:49:59 PM new
Wow - what a beauty the Mucha is! The highest postcard I have sold is $460.
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tomwiii
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posted on March 6, 2004 07:55:35 PM new
Ralphie wants to know exactly HOW those flower girls were used??
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