In keeping with Gary’s $10,000 Garage Sale Challenge — I’d like to offer two (2) items I purchased recently at two estate sales within the 50-mile radius of our rural Upstate NY town that I scout for inventory.
These were found at a large well attended town wide sales day after 2pm and both were negotiated down to $1 & $5 respectively from the asking price of $10-$15, which I must say were fair prices for the items, but I try and keep every dollar I can in my pocket!!
eBay Item #1 — Waring Chrome Bee Hive Blendor …Near Mint condition!!
eBay Item #2 — Zenith Trans-Oceanic Royal 3000-1 MultiBand Radio with original paperwork including a very HTF Service and repair guide with schematics (tech drawings)
I was wondering to myself how was it that so many people had let these two items slip through the cracks, until from all appearances I was destine to rescue and offer to a collector somewhere for a nice profit too, I might add!!
Would any of you readers have been willing to invest in either of these items with the sole propose of simply reselling on eBay…even if they did cost just $1 & $5 bucks??
Pre Auction Estimate: $150 - $250 (total both items)
The auctions will close next week.
Happy Hunting Everybody & Good Luck!!
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June 14th, 2007 at 7:32 pm
I was wondering what this means in your auctions
This is a consigment lot from
a local Living Estate we’re helping
raise some much needed CA$H.
Since you bought them at a sale is this just a selling tactic?
June 15th, 2007 at 8:55 am
Not a selling tactic, but I’ll touch on selling tactics in a second!
We do a considerable amount of eBay consignment business and I had just listed a bunch of consignment items right before I listed these two personal finds, I forgot to change the custom auction template, and to be honest I hadn’t really checked the live listing before I came up with the $10,000.00 Garage Sale challenge tie-in, wrote and published the blog post and linked the live auction.
I apologize for dropping the ball making sure everything was 100% accurate, I’m still kindda new at this, but I’m tying, heck I’m even wearing reading glasses…I’ll get better, I hope!! LOL!!
To be honest, I might have checked that over and never have noticed that error!! GREAT proof reading, thanks for pointing that out…I think I can fix them!!
Now you mentioned “selling tactics” and overall Yes, I do use several methods of selling models that help increase my $$$, one is called “Asking For The Sale”, how many different ways do I “ask for the sale” in the auction listings?
Happy Hunting Everybody & Good Luck!!
June 15th, 2007 at 9:05 am
THE PREVIOUS POST RESPONDING TO THE INITIAL COMMENT BY “tikiranch” WAS FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE ARTICLE “Stephen A.” AND NOT “Gary H”
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This comment is from Stephen A.
Hey Gary
FYI, I cannot reply to any comment of any post I author without being “Gary H” it’s a WordPress issue
I can no longer login as “Stephen A” I can only use the behind the curtin administration info!!