Last week I had 30 auctions running that ended last night. Everything that was listed had been purchased at either a garage sale or a thrift shop. Here’s how they came out.

1. Four volumes of the Charles Scribner’s Sons series of books by Theodore Roosevelt published in 1926. I paid $1 each for these at a local thrift shop and they all four sold for a total of $52.50. Not quite the $25 to $30 each I had been hoping for, but still a nice profit on a $4 investment.

2. How I Turned $1,000 Into Three Million In Real Estate sold for $52.60. I paid $.25 for it at a local thrift shop and it ended very close to the $50 I’d expected.

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I have 52 auctions running on eBay this week. Each of the items, except for two, were purchased locally in Grand Forks during the last week. The two exceptions are re-lists of two successful auctions won by someone who eBay then NRU’d because their first seven feedback were all negative.

Here’s why I bought each item, what I paid for each, and what my expectations are for each.

1. 1939 Stoeger’s Catalog & Handbook - This is a reprint of their original 1939 catalog. If I had realized it was a reprint - and I should have since it’s identified as one right on the front cover - I wouldn’t have bought it. At the time I picked it up I was talking with Dave, a friend who buys books and records for resale, about a record I currently had on eBay and wasn’t paying a lot of attention to what I was doing. I paid $1 for it and thought I had a $150 - $200 catalog. If I get the opening bid of $9.99 I’ll be happy.

There’s a lesson here. When you’re buying items for resale - pay attention to what you’re doing.

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Each week I will be writing about some of the things I currently have on eBay.

I’ll talk about what I’m selling; where I bought it; why I bought it; what I paid for it; and what I hope to get for it.

Once the sales is over I’ll provide a recap of what sold; what didn’t; and my thoughts on the auction results for that week.

While there are occasional exceptions, I try to schedule all my auctions to start at 9:45 PM CST on Sunday evenings and to run for seven days. In most cases, the only exception to this schedule is when a Sunday is in the middle of a three day holiday weekend. If that’s the case, I schedule them for the same time as above on Monday evening.

You can follow these auctions each week by either using the “My Current Auctions” link in the right hand sidebar or by doing a search for eBay user ID paperpleasures46.

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