There were nine garage sales that started in Grand Forks today and I bought a mixed bag of inventory to sell on eBay next week. Here’s what I bought for eBay.

1. A book chronicling the history of Masonry and Masonic lodges in North Dakota. I paid .25 for it and it will probably find one bidder and sell for the opening bid of $9.99.

2. At the same sale I paid .75 for another book titled “Making Faces” by Kevyn Aucoin. The author is a famous markup artist and this book is what might be called a “bread and butter” book. It will never make you rich, but a nice copy will usually sell for between $10 and $15 on eBay.

3. Three old panoramic photographs of the faculty and students of Concordia College, which is in Moorhead, Mn. from the years 1927, 1930 and 1931. I paid .50 each for them.

4. One of those real estate courses you can buy through late night TV infomercials. This one is from the 1980s and is called “No Money Down.” It consists of 15 cassette tapes and a workbook all packaged in a nice looking holder/binder. I don’t expect it will get anywhere close to the real estate cassette set I sold two or three weeks ago, but for .50 it’s worth the money to see if I can get $10 to $20 for it.

All in all, most people would probably describe this stuff as junk, and they might be right. But this type of junk usually finds eBay buyers who will spend money for it.

It represents a good example of the various type of things most people would never pay any attention to that you can buy at garage sales and resell on eBay for profit.

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