posted on June 14, 2001 08:22:36 PM new
Ok, everyone...time for a fun post! Share your most profitable find yet.
I have only been selling on Ebay for a year so I haven't had anything outstanding. I think my best would the a Milton Bradley Which Witch game I found for 50 cents. I sold it for $56.55. Also got a Smurfs record player for $5 and sold it for $54. Probably my biggest profit margin was a cobalt blue glass vase with a Biblical verse on it. I got it at garage sale for a dime and sold it for $18. And the lady that won it was so gracious and delighted she won it. That made me feel great in more than one way!
posted on June 14, 2001 08:32:12 PM new
I found a Patrick Nagel coffee mug for .25 and sold it for almost $100! It turned out to be hard to find. I think that was my best.
Another was a cardboard figure of the mad hatter from alice in wonderland. Paid .50 and it closed just shy of $100. Fun topic!
"I think it pi**** off god if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it." Alice Walker
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posted on June 14, 2001 08:33:38 PM new
I bought two song books by the band Bloodrock for $.25 at a library sale. One sold for $140(!). The second bidder wasn't interested in the other copy, but the third one was so I sold that one to him for his bid of $105. This was in my first month of selling on ebay. Money from the sky. *sigh* Those were the days...
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posted on June 14, 2001 09:02:29 PM new
Flea market find, piece purchased for $5.00 got home researched found that it booked for $250...this was 8 months ago, thinking Oh Yeah on ebay lucky if I get $150. that was our reserve...two people reallllly wanted it. Sold for $650.00.
You know those are the things that keep us going to all those sales and they only happen once in a blue moon...
posted on June 14, 2001 09:17:25 PM new
My first month in I found a promotional oil well toy (Humble Oil Company) at a garage sale... bought it for a dollar - started the bidding at $9.99 with no reserve and sold it for $510.00. I tipped the scales in my favor though by emailing the auction link to about a dozen or so oil executives. That one was a rush to watch all week.
posted on June 14, 2001 09:28:33 PM new
I haven't been that active on eBay but some memorable experiences. I once went to an estate sale, conducted by people whom I didn't know, just before its end. I rarely went that late and the house was pretty much cleaned out, but one of the items remaining was a 12" Roycroft copper tray which somehow had been passed over. I'm still amazed. It had been marked at $1 but I got it for .25 and sold it on eBay for $121.
One of the best buys on eBay was an unidentified (by seller) Mont Joye vase that I bought for $19 and resold at the shop, that I then shared with a friend, for $425.
I once bought a Warwick chocolate pot on eBay for $50 and later resold it on eBay for $215.
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[ edited by Antiquary on Jun 14, 2001 09:29 PM ]
posted on June 16, 2001 03:32:44 AM new
LOL, Labrat!
But if I found it for next to nothing and someone else identifies it better and makes some money too, then I'm happy for them too!
Best for me was when I spent the summer of '99 in Indiana. Lady was cleaning out her house and sold boxes of all her sons fantasy game books from the 80's. The Dungeons & Dragons ones went to Germany for over $500 and got another $150 out of the rest. Total cost for 3 cases was $8. I was so ecstatic tho that I paid most of his $90 shipping fee and he had to pay the $100 import fee.
Same summer we found an old pickle jar full of buttons for $50. We weren't even sure we wanted to spend that much but finally did. I sold it on ebay stating that the glass jar did not come with it, started it at $50 with no reserve. Went up over $440 and the lady asked if she could have the jar. Heck yes! and I'll even ship it free separately so it won't break!
On the other side of the coin as Labrat mentioned , I bought a few Amish quilts at auction for $300-$500 each that retail up there for triple that. Sold a couple but now the competion from the Chinese imports at $29.99 puts them out of the competition. Oh well, they'll make good Christmas Presents!
