Posted on 26 February 2009 by Gary H
It was a typical February day in North Dakota when I left home this morning to make the rounds of the thrift stores. Snowing, windy, and -4 degrees with a wind chill factor of -25 to -35 degrees. At least it finding a place to park in any of the parking lots wasn’t a problem.
The day’s only purchase came from St. Vincent De Paul where I paid $1 for “Jochen Peiper Battlecommander SS Liebstandarte Adolf Hitler”. I ran the ISBN through ScoutPal to find a total of 50 listings. The lowest price was $4.62 and 26 copies were priced under $9.45.
Certainly not a book with much potential at first glance. But the more I looked at it, the more my gut told me it had possibilities. In the end I paid $1 for it and walked out the door telling myself I’d probably be kicking myself for the purchase.
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Posted on 25 February 2009 by Gary H
Cold and windy could best describe the weather this morning when I grabbed a cup of coffee from the Holiday gas station and headed for the first thrift store of the day.
There wasn’t much to get excited about at any of the thrift stores. My only purchase was a copy of “Where’s Waldo?” that I bought at the Dakota Boys Ranch for $1.00.
This will go into the book case along with two other Waldo books I already have. They will wait until I find one or two more and will then be listed as a lot on eBay.
These books are worth picking up when you can find them for a dollar or so.
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Posted on 24 February 2009 by Gary H
Today’s thrift store adventures can pretty much be summed up in one short sentence. “Six thrift stores, one book.” (Actually, I guess that isn’t even a sentence.)
The day’s lone purchase came at St. Vincent de Paul where I spent $.50 for “Blessing In Disguise”, book six in Lauraine Snelling’s “Red River Of The North Series”. It has found a place on the book shelf along with book one, two, three, and four from the same series. When I find book five they will be listed on eBay in the auction format.
This is Lauraine Snelling’s most popular series and the complete six book set will regularly bring between $30 and $45, sometimes a little more, on eBay.
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Posted on 23 February 2009 by Gary H
Today’s trip to the thrift stores in Grand Forks produced four different items to be listed on eBay. My original intention was to make one of them a “Fixed Price” listing and list the other three in the auction format starting next Sunday.
Somewhere between when I left the last thrift store and when I started writing the ads this afternoon I changed my mind with the result of all four items being listed in the Fixed Price format.
The Salvation Army thrift store had two sets of books by popular author Bodie Thoene. These were all marked $1 but they were having a half price promotion on books so my total cost for all eight books was $4.
The Shiloh Legacy, shown above, is a three book series. There have been ten of these sets listed on eBay in the last ninety days. Seven of them sold for prices ranging from $5.00 to $14.95 with an average sales price of $9.17. The other three didn’t sell. I listed them at a Fixed Price of $15.99 with free shipping.
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Posted on 19 February 2009 by Gary H
Fortified with a cup of “Dark Blend” coffee from a Holiday gas station and a sausage biscuit from the nearby Hardees I made a trip to all six of our local thrift stores this morning.
The first three stops were Dakota Boys Ranch, The Salvation Army, and Goodwill. I struck out at all three although I did see a nice Kodak 4600 Carousel slide projector that would have been a bargain at $5. On closer inspection though, the lens was cracked making it pretty much useless.
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Posted on 16 February 2009 by Gary H
There’s still plenty of snow on the ground and our high temperatures are only between ten and fifteen degrees most days, but we’ve had two garage sales in Grand Forks during the last two weeks.
The first was held indoors by one of our local churches. While the sale officially began at 8:00 in the morning, for $2 you could buy early buyers rights beginning an hour early at 7:00. I got there about 6:30 and there were already fourteen people in line ahead of me. By the time they opened the door at 7:00 there were between 100 and 150 people standing in line clutching their $2 in their hand.
We were in the middle of a heat wave and the temperature was in the twenties with no wind so standing in line wasn’t bad. When they held their sale one year ago temps were below zero with a twenty to twenty-five mile an hour wind so it was a lot more pleasant this year.
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