The auctions for the items purchased during the second week of The 2008 Garage Sale Challenge ended Sunday evening with much better results than the previous week.

Of the thirty items listed, 26 sold for $923.70 with a sell-through rate of 87%. In addition there were sales of $247.40 through Amazon for books purchased as part of the Challenge. The total qualifying sales came to $$1171.10.

Buy far the best sellers for the week were the three pieces of UND School Of Mines pottery and thirteen VHS tapes about the Iditarod sled dog race held each year in Alaska. The results from these VHS tapes were surprising to me. I’d originally bought them thinking they would all go into one lot. Then when I got home a did a little checking I decided it would likely be more profitable to list them individually, but my expectations were nowhere near what they ended up bringing.

After the second week of the Challenge, here’s how things stand.

Ended	eBay Sold	Amazon Sold	Cost	List Fees	FV Fees	PayPal Fees	Incid. Fees	Miles	Net Profit	Total
5/11	$193.46	$59.99	$35.35	$6.30	$18.04	$10.27	$0.00	$24.75	$158.74	$158.74
5/18	$923.70	$247.40	$59.55	$8.15	$109.00	$32.16	$0.00	$46.97	$915.27	$1074.01
5/26			$65.50	$10.40				$59.09

This week there are a total of 32 items listed on eBay that came from area garage sales and thrift shops. They consist of eight re-listed items from week one and twenty-four new items purchased during the last week. Here’s what they are and what I paid for them:

• Carter’s X-pert typewriter ribbon box - a re-list from week one
• Nature’s Cures They Don’t Want You To Know About audio book - a re-list from week one
• Birds and Beasts In Needlepoint - a re-list from week one
• 4 nesting Pyrex Cinderella bowls - a re-list from week one
• 4 individual listings of Haviland Pompadour dinner plates - all re-lists from week one
• Pieced Borders quilting book - paid $1.00
• Fisher Price The Toy Wagon #171 - paid $10.00
• Battery operated Polaris snowmobile - paid $3.00
• McLoughlin New Pretty Village buildings - paid $10.00
• Gulden store advertising plate - paid $1.00
• Van Briggle pottery vase - paid $.50
• Lenci Clothes doll clothing book - paid $.25
• Wildfowl Art Ward World Championship book - paid $1.00
• Jamie’s Kitchen cookbook - paid $1.00
• 4 Franklin Library mystery books - paid $1.00 for all of them
• Family Guys DVDs Vols. 1-4 - paid $4.00
• North and South VHS series - paid $4.00
• Pain Management & Sports Injuries VHS set - paid $1.50
• Realistic TR-888 8-track player - paid $5.00
• Canon AE-1 Camera - paid $5.00
• Purple/Pink Texas Ware spatter bowl - paid $.50
• Creative Memories baby album - paid $3.00
• West Point cadet hat - paid $1.00
• WW II Navy uniform - paid $3.00
• In-Lade Roofing paper advertising house - this was in the box of McLoughlin buildings
• Daybreak Bluebills print - paid $2.00

In addition, I purchased the following books that were listed on Amazon.

• A Century Of UND Sports - paid $1.00
• The Pilots Outline Guide To Basic Aerodynamics - paid $.25
• Research Methods For Community Change: A Project Based Approach - paid $.25
• The Duchess Of Duke Street DVD Set - paid $3.00
• Go To Hull: The Gospel According To Saint Stephen - paid $.25
• Doodle Stitching: Fresh & Fun Embroidery For Beginners - paid $.25
• Cross Stitch Fairies: Over 50 Enchanting Designs - paid $.25
• The Accountable Juggler: The Art Of Leadership In A Federal Agency - paid $.25
• Sacred War: Nationalism & Revolution In A Divided Viet Nam - paid $.25
• American Intergovernmental Relations: Foundations, Perspectives, & Issues - paid $.25
• Transformation & Reaction: America 1921-1945 - paid $.25
• Beyond Oil: The View From Hubbard’s Peak - paid $.25
• Emancipation & Reconstruction: American History Series - paid $.25
• Teaching Economics To Undergraduates: Alternatives To Chalk & Talk - paid $.25
• Social Psychology Alive - paid $.25
• The Beginner’s Handbook Of Amateur Radio - paid $.25
• Crucial Conversations: Tools For Talking When The Stakes Are High - $.25

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