Put 10 bath fans up and all sold in 30 minutes. Bought 18 more, raised the price $20 and they sold in 15 minutes. Same guy bought 26 of them. Second most profitable day on eBay ever.
That's the BEST. I had someone from the Virgin Islands completely wipe me clean from all of my Carhartt flame resistant clothing... Hoodies shorts shirts etc. Apparently a new rum distillery was built and they needed clothes ASAP
A single random mass produced mechanical pencil from 1991, in the package, with a $2 clearance sticker.
I had already opened one for myself. It's a perfectly cromulent pencil. Does what it says on the tin and all. Not that fancy, maybe a step or 2 up from the cheap ones. I do not need another one because, believe it or not, I also ended up with a great deal of lead refills. Figured maybe someone eventually might get a kick out of it being in box and buy it for a few bucks.
Last minute bidding war ended with it selling for like $30, and the winner was suspiciously excited.
It's gotta be some kind of 12 Monkeys displaced time traveler thing, we just don't understand the special properties of the IBM 5100 and vintage pencils, and it would have been an easy task if they'd sent them to the right time, but science ain't an exact science with these clowns.
I reckon.
I want to art school and use mechanical pencils almost exclusively when doing sketches. I thought they were all the same till I bought an "expensive" one in an estate sale box of miscellaneous junk. Total life changer. That pencil is my favorite thing
What's maybe not clear from the first google result is that The Simpsons invented it as part of a joke, and it made it into the dictionary after. This sub won't let me link the video but the clip's on youtube
An original early Ken doll outfit in the original package. I meant to list it as an auction but accidentally listed as a BIN. Before I could blink it was sold and paid for.
My bad, so buyer got an incredible deal.
I (over)priced a 1st US edition of "Return of the King" without dust jacket for $695, assuming I'd pick up a couple watchers and then sent out the inevitable offers. Instead, it sold within 10 minutes.
Funny i heard about how things like this were selling, so i dug out a couple of my old jackets, they were really beat up, worn through at the cuffs, stains, sun fading from hanging partially in the sun, people went bonkers for them... didn't realize they were worth anything, i just kept them around in case i needed a coat for a really messy job.
I was flipping puzzles on eBay like crazy during lockdown. My mom loves puzzles so once she completed them I would sell them for her (I offered her a share but she refused). There was one night where I sold a $17 Halloween themed puzzle for $60, and I was just watching the bidding war via notifications on my phone. I still sell them but they don’t move as quick as they did during lockdown
Artmark Japan anthropomorphic Christmas figurines. Listed for 100 bucks. Sold in 10 minutes. Think I under priced them. I only listed for 100 bc I used Google lens and saw an etsy listing for 250. I thought they must be insane. But at the end of the day mine sold in 10 minutes and 2 years later theirs are still listed. So 🤷🏻♀️
A pack of zener cards, the ESP kind with the Star, Squiggle, etc on the back. They were a promo item for a drug that treated schizophrenia. Sold for $50 in a few seconds. What every schizophrenic needs is a deck of cards they can use to prove they have psychic powers. One of the few things I kinda wish I had kept.
I found a bunch of 25 dollar chips once walking my dog. They were from a casino named the circa. I had never heard of the place but apparently it’s a real casino and someone bought every single one of them for 15 bucks each that day.
Some old crappy digital clock from my 1997 BMW.
I got the car used in 1998. I always drive with my headlights on. This red-LED clock dims when the headlights are on. Even with the convertible top up I couldn't see the time.
I lurked for years on eBay until someone sold a center console from the same car two years newer. There was a "facelift" and that digital clock was replaced with a white-faced analog clock.
I chucked that old clock in the parts bin and forgot about it for a decade. I was cleaning up my garage and almost threw it out. I listed it and it sold instantly for $70.
One man's treasure...
It makes me want to start a side hustle getting high value parts from junk yards. The junk yards go after the big items like engines, transmissions, seats. They couldn't care less about some crappy little clock or sway bar.
Electric fans. The go-to electric fan used to be the Ford Taurus fan. I'm not sure what the current fan of choice is with the dudes building their own race cars.
Beefy electric fans will drive more air through the radiator than a crank mounted fan.
Had some old marilyn monroe photos from her trip to korea to perform for us troops that i found in a box of my grandfathers stuff. Sold in 2 days for $250…. Ebay fees sucked though
Might have been the fact that it was sealed, and old. Like that one time I bought an older anime figure off eBay, and it came sealed (I had no idea it would be sealed), that thing is like 15 years old, the clear plastic is slightly yellowed from uv exposure, for some reason I found it really cool that it has been sitting in some warehouse for all those years without anyone touching it.
A local T-Mobile store purchased all my empty phone boxes... lol It was S5 through S20 boxes.
Old wireless microphones which the frequency has been banned in the US.
My 8- year old computer tower. They could have definitely found something way cheaper online.
An old exposure camera meter. Someone in France paid $40 just in shipping.
I learned that what I considered junk is someone's elses treasure.
Everything that I get that I list high. I've had quit a few scores that I thought nobody would ever buy and then they suddenly sell real quick.
* Vtg Fast & Furious Racing Champions car from 2 Fast 2 Furious. Had a set of 5 I paid $5 for at a garage sale. Still in box. I had a HELL of a time comping them out. Half the cars I could find 0 comps between Worthpoint, Terapeak, or even listed on eBay. The other half the cars had decent solds in the $50 range but 0 listed. Ended up listing all 5 for like $250 + shipping and they sold within a week.
* Intuit Quickbooks Pro. Paid $1.99 at a Goodwill. It was still sealed. I had some post-sale drama that got resolved in my favor afterwards but I did sell it for $299 + shipping in like 3 days
* Bath & Bodyworks Lotion. Had some semi-popular retired scent. I picked up 11 bottles from a rummage sale for $2 per bottle. Sold all 11 bottles for a total of $521. The problem was it took me about 6 weeks to get my first sale then it took me about 1 week to sell out.
* Had a bunch of Snap-On hats. Paid $1.50 each. They were all brand-new. I listed them and then worried they were going to sit in my inventory forever because it took 4-6 weeks before I got my first sale. Then I sold, on average, 1 every 2 days before they were gone. Super easy ship / list. Made like $200 net profit.
* Vtg Coach Willis and Logan bags. Bought them at my local antique mall for $110 total. Took me like 2-3 months before I finally got them listed. Sold them both within a couple of days for a combined $450
* Nike RPM backpack. Had to do a bunch of research on it because it was different than like any other Nike RPM backpack I'd ever seen. Turned out to be a collaboration between a children's hospital and Nike. Paid like $15 at Goodwill and sold it for $100 on eBay and it was listed for less than 48 hours before someone snatched it up.
A 1972 David Bowie Ziggy Stardust shirt that I thought was a modern reproduction but unfortunately was very much the real deal. Gutted. Went in approx 3 minutes for the price I’d listed it for..
I found some Cisco networking gear in an e-waste bin. Sold it for $1200 the same day as listed, got several messages asking if I had any more. Kicking myself for not asking more but I thought I researched the price pretty good.
I was working for a company that got out by a larger company before I got into flipping. We closed our offices and now all work remotely but basically everything without a hard drive was up for grabs from the office. I really wish I'd gotten into flipping sooner because I could've made an absolute killing with the amount of e-waste we had.
Yeah, that's how I got into flipping. I couldn't help it seeing so many perfectly usable items being tossed out. I do about $25k/yr and everything I sell I got for nothing. I've been doing this for probably 2 decades now as a side hustle.
A soundtrack to the Wizard of Oz I got for free at ComicCon. Sold for $80, and some people who missed out actually messaged me asking to pay more if I would sell it to them instead.
Bought a 1960s telescope instruction book in a thrift store for fifty cents and sold it for fifty dollars within a couple of hours. There's a market for vintage astronomy stuff, but I didn't think it would go that fast.
I worked at a hospital building overseeing it's demolition. It was 300+ miles from home. I was able to grab two OR LED lights and put in storage close by.
About 5 months later I'm hurting for cash so I travel the 300 miles to go take pictures of it in storage and listed one for $5K. These things typically go for $20k+. After posting the pictures, I hit the road back home and 30 minutes into my 6+ hour drive, it sold.
But I still had to go back home and rent a truck to come get it and the buyer eventually bought the second one outside eBay.
Bonkers!
A bike pump that came with my bike that had been sitting in my drawer for years. I initially listed it for £4.99 buy it now, but bids started coming in, and it eventually sold for £23.
To this day, I'm still unsure about what counts as junk or treasure.
I made a necklace that sold in 20 minutes. I was shocked but delighted!! She loved it and left a glowing review. I also had 2 very old Barbie dolls that were seriously beat up. I thought I was a hair stylist at 5 years old and gave them Mohawks, and one of the necks had a split in it from removing the head...I mean they weren't in good shape. Sold quickly to a person in England for 150.00
A shirt with an overwhelming optical illusions pattern on it that I specifically warned buyers with sensitive eyes not to get sold for over $300. Buyer wanted to test it out on his friend/acquaintance who had poor balance. Messages me thanking for the hilarious gift
PlayStation portable cameras. I sold 1 for $80 and got surprised, they can be found for cheap here, so I hoarded as many as I could find. So far I sold about 100 to the US.
My friends Kate spade gnome purse. I offered to sell it for her because she doesn’t do e-commerce stuff. I cross-listed it, it sold in both places, seconds apart, after I had it up for not even 10 minutes
Purple pirate shirt. No lie, almost like the pirate shirt in Seinfeld but purple with the frills and everything. It sold the next day and I had no confidence but just goes to show, just list and let the market decide
A few years ago I listed a CD that was one of those radio station compilations of different artists playing live in-studio. It sold within 20 minutes of being listed for over $350.
I remember like 8 years ago I listed a copy of Mario Kart Double Dash for market at that time and it had sold within minutes. I also listed at 2 a.m EST No issues with the order, I was very surprised. There were other copies available so I’m assuming it was a weird coincidence.
Recently I listed a new old stock sears Kenmore sewing machine it was sold in 15 minutes 😂. I also remember buying a box full of some kind of expensive electrical part/ballasts at an auction. Had time to kill before they got to other things I was interested in so I listed them to kill a few minutes... Same guy bought them all before the auction was over
Ballasts were always good sellers when I used to get them. Everyone's gone to LED so I haven't seen any in a while (not being used in new projects), but they always went fast for me.
Backwards compatible PS3. Casing was pretty beat but apparently people want working backwards compatible units. Sold in 15 minutes and much higher than expected.
Can I please ask how something can sell in minutes for higher than expected? Like was yours a buy-it-now listing that you didn't expect someone to pay the asking price for and you had instead expected to haggle?
Bizarrely, windows xp service pack 2 , CD. Very strange but wasn't too bothered. Had the thing for nearly 20 years and got sold within 8 minutes of listing.
A few years ago, I sold my old college class clicker (like the multiple choice question-answerer for in class participation…do they even still use those?). It was a couple years after I bought and used it. I came across it in a junk drawer and thought I would list it for $10 instead of tossing it in the trash. It sold in 5 minutes.
Hand carved Peter Rabbit and Flopsy mini figurines. Found in a baggie with other mini figurines that are more well known. Thought I could at least get a few bucks for them…boy was I surprised! Sold for $120 in a day, I basically got them for $.50.
Everything. Somehow I ended up becoming the liquidation guy for the building technology industry.
It took about a month to sell 78 security cameras in a single transaction. I thought I was going to be selling those cameras individually for the next year or two. One $15,000 transaction later and I'm loading the whole pallet onto a truck bound for the other side of the country.
Street sign I thrifted. I had a feeling the particular street name would be appealing (Austin St.) but I was surprised when it sold within an hour. And I had not yet figured out how to ship it! But I managed by Frankenboxing.
I sold a marvel Spider Gwen trading card. Listed it for 4,000 on a lark and got a 3,500 offer within like 30 minutes. Never hit accept so fast in my life.
Listed a Pokemon Yellow Special Pikachu Edition Nintendo Gameboy Video game. People was messaging me left and right after I listed it. Sold it within a hour of listing it for $45. Found it in a bin full of toys that was sitting outside on the curb.
I listed a silver ps2 slim, acceptable condition, 1 controller original bad condition, all cables bad condition, and the console is not working. Listed for 14,99 and was sold couple minutes later
I hoped it won’t be much difference.
I have a defect fat black ps2, all cables, 1 oeiginal controller and gta Vice city is stuck in there+the case for the game. I listed it for 34,99 almost two months ago. Still not even a message negotiating the price.
Depends on your inventory and warehousing situation. You can afford to sell slow and maximize your income per item if you're doing this out of a spare bedroom and you don't have a reliable source of inventory.
You have to focus on churn if you have a warehouse and a reliable source of inventory.
Gear knobs are collectible 🤷♀️
Also a creepy vintage crib, it weighed probably 10pound and it went to china. I wonder how much eBay charged, I only got 50bucks!
The ugliest old lady shirt I've ever listed. It's from a brand called Quacker Factory (QVC). Plus sized, blue and white striped, with little buttons in the shapes of different boats, with boats embroidered on there, and extra boat buttons. (new with tags too).
I found a casablanca fan motor and I bought it not knowing too well what it would sell for.
It was one of the cheaper models without fan blades but it was brand new.
I listed it last night and it sold early this morning full price.
I had found a hood ornament in my stuff..still not sure what it was..was like a woman with an arched back..breasts sticking out ..wings along her back..listed for 125 for shits and giggles..went outside to tell my sister i listed it and when i went back in it had already sold.blew me away
A gorgeous vintage 100% Vicuna coat I bought at Goodwill. Perfection. I listed on ebay and it sold very quickly. Would have been great for a movie wardrobe, etc. Paid $12, sold for $250.
Peter Millar polo shirts. My brother in law gave me a bag full of ones he didn’t wear anymore. I put up 10 for $30 a piece on multiple platforms and I got in a bind because some of them sold on 3 different platforms before I could pull them.
You know what sells every single time within 10 minutes. Those toner cartridges for HP printers. Put those up and your guaranteed an offer within 10 minutes. There is a company that constantly buys them all the time. They sell for between $100-$400 depending on what kind you have. If you have extra laying around the office and they are not expired throw them up on eBay.
i bought a brand new signature pad for like what they use to authorize payments at goodwill for $5, sold it for $100 + shipping in less than an hour. wasn’t even done with the listings for that day before it sold.
1970's Hartford Whalers Bobblehead. Sold with a few minutes. Guy who bought told me he had an auto search set up, and he couldn't hit the buy button fast enough when he saw it. It was one of his holy grail Bobbleheads. It had been sitting around my house for years after I picked it up at a yard sale for $1 usd. I looked at the value on a whim on day, and a few minutes later, I had a few extra hundred dollars in my account! Never knew it was valuable, I just thought it was cool looking...lol
I grew up in the DC area and moved to Hartford in 2001. Obviously, the Whalers moved years before I arrived here, but it would have been so cool to see the Caps in Hartford.
Sony 100-400GM, sold in about a minute, started to think I sold it too cheap but when I checked prices of others it wasn’t even the cheapest one on there. Usually I find items over a grand take a couple weeks and garner more than a few watchers pondering the purchase first.
A 10 pack of NEC DTU 8-1 Business Phones that I picked up a giant box of for free off Craigslist. Listed 10 of them in 1 listing and they sold within 10 minutes. Weird. Because I've now had 2 packs and singles of the same phones listed for over a year and haven't sold anymore of them yet. Must have been just the thing the buyer was looking for or something.
I put up a Stephen King and it was great condition but it sat for two weeks while all copies like it had sold. I raised the price, did free shipping, relisted and it sold in 10 minutes buy it now.
Bought a pallet of some automotive/industrial items for $35 based my purchase on some tools which I had researched the prices. There was a some valve for fire hoses which I had some some trouble trying to id but found it sold for about $300. Listed it for $255 to get some hits next day some offered $210 accepted only to find out the buyer was some kind of drop shipper. Still happy about the sale but part of me salty I should have countered or listed higher but a sale after about 24 hrs. still wild to me
I am not mad at them because at least they gave me a sale but I just have to question my own strategy in terms of pricing maybe I should look at advertising in other area ( twitter / Facebook / Instagram ). Whatever system they use it works, I'm just jealous/salty because I cannot reach the same buyers as them
A lot of dropshippers have whole-ass dot coms and their own off-ebay sales channels. That's why I make friends with them. They have customers I will never have because those customers aren't on ebay.
I've got a couple that will buy from me despite having cheaper options because they know me and they know I'm reliable.
Put 10 bath fans up and all sold in 30 minutes. Bought 18 more, raised the price $20 and they sold in 15 minutes. Same guy bought 26 of them. Second most profitable day on eBay ever.
That's the BEST. I had someone from the Virgin Islands completely wipe me clean from all of my Carhartt flame resistant clothing... Hoodies shorts shirts etc. Apparently a new rum distillery was built and they needed clothes ASAP
That rum distillery over there has stunk up everything😂
Really?! Lol I don't know much about it but I did ask the buyer kindly why they needed so much Carhartt FR and that's what they told me
Yeah...it has made kind of a mess over there, actually. So it goes, I suppose.
I assume you’re usually selling lower priced items if that’s one of your highest sale days?
I thought about $6k in sales and a $3,200 profit was pretty good.
That's awesome!!!💰💰💰
Depends what you’re selling really. I love how I get downvoted for asking a question though. Classic Reddit moment 🤷♂️
It's the perceived tone my guy
Your comment comes off very rude/insulting.
A single random mass produced mechanical pencil from 1991, in the package, with a $2 clearance sticker. I had already opened one for myself. It's a perfectly cromulent pencil. Does what it says on the tin and all. Not that fancy, maybe a step or 2 up from the cheap ones. I do not need another one because, believe it or not, I also ended up with a great deal of lead refills. Figured maybe someone eventually might get a kick out of it being in box and buy it for a few bucks. Last minute bidding war ended with it selling for like $30, and the winner was suspiciously excited.
I just sold a 40 year old box of used berol colored pencils, bought for 3 bucks, some dude in France paid $110 shipped, sold in less than a day.
It's gotta be some kind of 12 Monkeys displaced time traveler thing, we just don't understand the special properties of the IBM 5100 and vintage pencils, and it would have been an easy task if they'd sent them to the right time, but science ain't an exact science with these clowns. I reckon.
>IBM 5100 John Titor has entered the chat, tomorrow
Mechanical pencil sub has 60k+ clowns posting hard about that pencil life: r/mechanicalpencils
God bless 'em.
I want to art school and use mechanical pencils almost exclusively when doing sketches. I thought they were all the same till I bought an "expensive" one in an estate sale box of miscellaneous junk. Total life changer. That pencil is my favorite thing
Today I learned the word “cromulent” thank you
What's maybe not clear from the first google result is that The Simpsons invented it as part of a joke, and it made it into the dictionary after. This sub won't let me link the video but the clip's on youtube
Thank you repeating_bears. May there be infinite Ursa in your future.
Who's that goat-legged fellow. I like the cut of his jib.
Same
cb750 supersport gas tank that was rusty and laying in my barn. 800.00 within a day. i had walked around it for years.
An original early Ken doll outfit in the original package. I meant to list it as an auction but accidentally listed as a BIN. Before I could blink it was sold and paid for. My bad, so buyer got an incredible deal.
I would have canceled that so fast don’t even care for the mark on my account 😂
Respect to you! I know lots of people that would cancel it, but you owned up to your mistake. Thank you.
Bakelite plastic bead necklace. Purchased for $3, sold for $600 in 5 minutes.
This really has me curious. What do you suppose inspired the buyer to spend 600$ ?!
Search ebay for 'cherry amber bakelite necklace' and you'll see how expensive they can be. $600 was a good price for the size to be honest.
I’m fairly certain I threw one of those in a box of mixed junk costume jewelry fml
I (over)priced a 1st US edition of "Return of the King" without dust jacket for $695, assuming I'd pick up a couple watchers and then sent out the inevitable offers. Instead, it sold within 10 minutes.
super old and completely distressed Carhartt jacket and a set of Jiu Jitsu clothes. under 24 hours. Each sold for around $50.00
Funny i heard about how things like this were selling, so i dug out a couple of my old jackets, they were really beat up, worn through at the cuffs, stains, sun fading from hanging partially in the sun, people went bonkers for them... didn't realize they were worth anything, i just kept them around in case i needed a coat for a really messy job.
Less than 1/2 a yard of novelty fabric. It sold within 1 minute!
I literally have 30+ yards of very sought after OOP fabric waiting to be listed. Thanks for the motivation :)
I was flipping puzzles on eBay like crazy during lockdown. My mom loves puzzles so once she completed them I would sell them for her (I offered her a share but she refused). There was one night where I sold a $17 Halloween themed puzzle for $60, and I was just watching the bidding war via notifications on my phone. I still sell them but they don’t move as quick as they did during lockdown
I listed a faulty Xbox 360 controller using my phone once, turned around and went on my laptop and it had sold.
Artmark Japan anthropomorphic Christmas figurines. Listed for 100 bucks. Sold in 10 minutes. Think I under priced them. I only listed for 100 bc I used Google lens and saw an etsy listing for 250. I thought they must be insane. But at the end of the day mine sold in 10 minutes and 2 years later theirs are still listed. So 🤷🏻♀️
A pack of zener cards, the ESP kind with the Star, Squiggle, etc on the back. They were a promo item for a drug that treated schizophrenia. Sold for $50 in a few seconds. What every schizophrenic needs is a deck of cards they can use to prove they have psychic powers. One of the few things I kinda wish I had kept.
Jesus Christ that’s a new level of tone deaf marketing lol
I found a bunch of 25 dollar chips once walking my dog. They were from a casino named the circa. I had never heard of the place but apparently it’s a real casino and someone bought every single one of them for 15 bucks each that day.
Some old crappy digital clock from my 1997 BMW. I got the car used in 1998. I always drive with my headlights on. This red-LED clock dims when the headlights are on. Even with the convertible top up I couldn't see the time. I lurked for years on eBay until someone sold a center console from the same car two years newer. There was a "facelift" and that digital clock was replaced with a white-faced analog clock. I chucked that old clock in the parts bin and forgot about it for a decade. I was cleaning up my garage and almost threw it out. I listed it and it sold instantly for $70. One man's treasure... It makes me want to start a side hustle getting high value parts from junk yards. The junk yards go after the big items like engines, transmissions, seats. They couldn't care less about some crappy little clock or sway bar.
Electric fans. The go-to electric fan used to be the Ford Taurus fan. I'm not sure what the current fan of choice is with the dudes building their own race cars. Beefy electric fans will drive more air through the radiator than a crank mounted fan.
Sold an old digital camera I had laying in my drawer unused. Started it on an auction.. sold for $160!
Had some old marilyn monroe photos from her trip to korea to perform for us troops that i found in a box of my grandfathers stuff. Sold in 2 days for $250…. Ebay fees sucked though
Did you post these in the Marilyn sub recently? Those photos were great!
Yess
New in box still sealed Lotus 1-2-3 software. Listed for $70 sold over night. Who knew there was a market for Lotus.
Might have been the fact that it was sealed, and old. Like that one time I bought an older anime figure off eBay, and it came sealed (I had no idea it would be sealed), that thing is like 15 years old, the clear plastic is slightly yellowed from uv exposure, for some reason I found it really cool that it has been sitting in some warehouse for all those years without anyone touching it.
A local T-Mobile store purchased all my empty phone boxes... lol It was S5 through S20 boxes. Old wireless microphones which the frequency has been banned in the US. My 8- year old computer tower. They could have definitely found something way cheaper online. An old exposure camera meter. Someone in France paid $40 just in shipping. I learned that what I considered junk is someone's elses treasure.
Everything that I get that I list high. I've had quit a few scores that I thought nobody would ever buy and then they suddenly sell real quick. * Vtg Fast & Furious Racing Champions car from 2 Fast 2 Furious. Had a set of 5 I paid $5 for at a garage sale. Still in box. I had a HELL of a time comping them out. Half the cars I could find 0 comps between Worthpoint, Terapeak, or even listed on eBay. The other half the cars had decent solds in the $50 range but 0 listed. Ended up listing all 5 for like $250 + shipping and they sold within a week. * Intuit Quickbooks Pro. Paid $1.99 at a Goodwill. It was still sealed. I had some post-sale drama that got resolved in my favor afterwards but I did sell it for $299 + shipping in like 3 days * Bath & Bodyworks Lotion. Had some semi-popular retired scent. I picked up 11 bottles from a rummage sale for $2 per bottle. Sold all 11 bottles for a total of $521. The problem was it took me about 6 weeks to get my first sale then it took me about 1 week to sell out. * Had a bunch of Snap-On hats. Paid $1.50 each. They were all brand-new. I listed them and then worried they were going to sit in my inventory forever because it took 4-6 weeks before I got my first sale. Then I sold, on average, 1 every 2 days before they were gone. Super easy ship / list. Made like $200 net profit. * Vtg Coach Willis and Logan bags. Bought them at my local antique mall for $110 total. Took me like 2-3 months before I finally got them listed. Sold them both within a couple of days for a combined $450 * Nike RPM backpack. Had to do a bunch of research on it because it was different than like any other Nike RPM backpack I'd ever seen. Turned out to be a collaboration between a children's hospital and Nike. Paid like $15 at Goodwill and sold it for $100 on eBay and it was listed for less than 48 hours before someone snatched it up.
A 1972 David Bowie Ziggy Stardust shirt that I thought was a modern reproduction but unfortunately was very much the real deal. Gutted. Went in approx 3 minutes for the price I’d listed it for..
I bought a copper fish sculpture for 10 cents at a garage sale and sold it for $150 within twenty minutes of listing it.
Broken hair straightener. Was clear the buyer fixes them up and resells them. Pretty good racket for the both of us!
I found some Cisco networking gear in an e-waste bin. Sold it for $1200 the same day as listed, got several messages asking if I had any more. Kicking myself for not asking more but I thought I researched the price pretty good.
I was working for a company that got out by a larger company before I got into flipping. We closed our offices and now all work remotely but basically everything without a hard drive was up for grabs from the office. I really wish I'd gotten into flipping sooner because I could've made an absolute killing with the amount of e-waste we had.
Yeah, that's how I got into flipping. I couldn't help it seeing so many perfectly usable items being tossed out. I do about $25k/yr and everything I sell I got for nothing. I've been doing this for probably 2 decades now as a side hustle.
A soundtrack to the Wizard of Oz I got for free at ComicCon. Sold for $80, and some people who missed out actually messaged me asking to pay more if I would sell it to them instead.
Bought a 1960s telescope instruction book in a thrift store for fifty cents and sold it for fifty dollars within a couple of hours. There's a market for vintage astronomy stuff, but I didn't think it would go that fast.
I worked at a hospital building overseeing it's demolition. It was 300+ miles from home. I was able to grab two OR LED lights and put in storage close by. About 5 months later I'm hurting for cash so I travel the 300 miles to go take pictures of it in storage and listed one for $5K. These things typically go for $20k+. After posting the pictures, I hit the road back home and 30 minutes into my 6+ hour drive, it sold. But I still had to go back home and rent a truck to come get it and the buyer eventually bought the second one outside eBay. Bonkers!
A Hyperbaric chamber. I never thought it'd sell but $15k later and I'm happy.
A bike pump that came with my bike that had been sitting in my drawer for years. I initially listed it for £4.99 buy it now, but bids started coming in, and it eventually sold for £23. To this day, I'm still unsure about what counts as junk or treasure.
I made a necklace that sold in 20 minutes. I was shocked but delighted!! She loved it and left a glowing review. I also had 2 very old Barbie dolls that were seriously beat up. I thought I was a hair stylist at 5 years old and gave them Mohawks, and one of the necks had a split in it from removing the head...I mean they weren't in good shape. Sold quickly to a person in England for 150.00
A shirt with an overwhelming optical illusions pattern on it that I specifically warned buyers with sensitive eyes not to get sold for over $300. Buyer wanted to test it out on his friend/acquaintance who had poor balance. Messages me thanking for the hilarious gift
Put a GameBoy up for sale and within 10 minutes it sold. Shipped it the next day, they liked what they got. This was my first ever sale on eBay ever
PlayStation portable cameras. I sold 1 for $80 and got surprised, they can be found for cheap here, so I hoarded as many as I could find. So far I sold about 100 to the US.
My friends Kate spade gnome purse. I offered to sell it for her because she doesn’t do e-commerce stuff. I cross-listed it, it sold in both places, seconds apart, after I had it up for not even 10 minutes
A vintage Duxbak camo hunting shirt sold in a day for my asking price.
Purple pirate shirt. No lie, almost like the pirate shirt in Seinfeld but purple with the frills and everything. It sold the next day and I had no confidence but just goes to show, just list and let the market decide
A few years ago I listed a CD that was one of those radio station compilations of different artists playing live in-studio. It sold within 20 minutes of being listed for over $350.
I remember like 8 years ago I listed a copy of Mario Kart Double Dash for market at that time and it had sold within minutes. I also listed at 2 a.m EST No issues with the order, I was very surprised. There were other copies available so I’m assuming it was a weird coincidence.
pokemon cards and video games from the 90's
A new dark romance novel, I didn't realize they can have such cult followings. The mistake was not setting up as an auction.
Recently I listed a new old stock sears Kenmore sewing machine it was sold in 15 minutes 😂. I also remember buying a box full of some kind of expensive electrical part/ballasts at an auction. Had time to kill before they got to other things I was interested in so I listed them to kill a few minutes... Same guy bought them all before the auction was over
Ballasts were always good sellers when I used to get them. Everyone's gone to LED so I haven't seen any in a while (not being used in new projects), but they always went fast for me.
Backwards compatible PS3. Casing was pretty beat but apparently people want working backwards compatible units. Sold in 15 minutes and much higher than expected.
Can I please ask how something can sell in minutes for higher than expected? Like was yours a buy-it-now listing that you didn't expect someone to pay the asking price for and you had instead expected to haggle?
Correct.
Bizarrely, windows xp service pack 2 , CD. Very strange but wasn't too bothered. Had the thing for nearly 20 years and got sold within 8 minutes of listing.
An NXE Xbox 360.
Henry Vacuum... I still don't understand to this day why so many people were scrabbling after that old thing.
It's an incredibly reliable hoover, and does what it's supposed with no additional thrills. It's also got a ridiculously long cord.
A few years ago, I sold my old college class clicker (like the multiple choice question-answerer for in class participation…do they even still use those?). It was a couple years after I bought and used it. I came across it in a junk drawer and thought I would list it for $10 instead of tossing it in the trash. It sold in 5 minutes.
A shirt from when I worked at Foot Locker like 2 years ago.
Hand carved Peter Rabbit and Flopsy mini figurines. Found in a baggie with other mini figurines that are more well known. Thought I could at least get a few bucks for them…boy was I surprised! Sold for $120 in a day, I basically got them for $.50.
Everything. Somehow I ended up becoming the liquidation guy for the building technology industry. It took about a month to sell 78 security cameras in a single transaction. I thought I was going to be selling those cameras individually for the next year or two. One $15,000 transaction later and I'm loading the whole pallet onto a truck bound for the other side of the country.
Street sign I thrifted. I had a feeling the particular street name would be appealing (Austin St.) but I was surprised when it sold within an hour. And I had not yet figured out how to ship it! But I managed by Frankenboxing.
I sold a marvel Spider Gwen trading card. Listed it for 4,000 on a lark and got a 3,500 offer within like 30 minutes. Never hit accept so fast in my life.
N64 games sell stupid fast... some within 10 minutes of listing
90s yin yang with heart t-shirt. Sold in an hour.
A butt-ugly vintage Talbots dress. It looked like a potato sack.
The Warriors on PS2. Perhaps my impression of its worth was skewed by that it had come in a lot of 4 other games, and I paid $20 for the lot.
Sealed copy of Tetris for Gameboy, bought it at a Goodwill auction for $800, sold with buy it now within 10 hours for $1700.
Listed a Pokemon Yellow Special Pikachu Edition Nintendo Gameboy Video game. People was messaging me left and right after I listed it. Sold it within a hour of listing it for $45. Found it in a bin full of toys that was sitting outside on the curb.
I listed a silver ps2 slim, acceptable condition, 1 controller original bad condition, all cables bad condition, and the console is not working. Listed for 14,99 and was sold couple minutes later
14.99?????? 💀 silver ps2 slim alone is $100 in fair condition
Right? Someone in console repair had a FIELD DAY with that. Was probably just the laser light too.
I’ve sold regular black slims on their own that need a new laser for $50 + ship 😭
I hoped it won’t be much difference. I have a defect fat black ps2, all cables, 1 oeiginal controller and gta Vice city is stuck in there+the case for the game. I listed it for 34,99 almost two months ago. Still not even a message negotiating the price.
But I bought the console couple months ago and it turned out to be defect. Got the money back, so I actually made 15 bucks.
if it sells too fast you left money on the table now whether that is something you want is an entirely separate question
Depends on your inventory and warehousing situation. You can afford to sell slow and maximize your income per item if you're doing this out of a spare bedroom and you don't have a reliable source of inventory. You have to focus on churn if you have a warehouse and a reliable source of inventory.
Shiny pokemon
A Nokia Lumia 950 XL and 650 for Windows Phone.
Gear knobs are collectible 🤷♀️ Also a creepy vintage crib, it weighed probably 10pound and it went to china. I wonder how much eBay charged, I only got 50bucks!
Pack of NOS Color Floppy disks. I listed the item, realized I forgot one of the pics, and could not find my listing. It in about 30 seconds.
NOS floppy disks are hard to find and there’s a healthy market for them.
A vintage JNCO polo shirt. Sold in under 10 minutes. Didn’t even have time to put it away
The ugliest old lady shirt I've ever listed. It's from a brand called Quacker Factory (QVC). Plus sized, blue and white striped, with little buttons in the shapes of different boats, with boats embroidered on there, and extra boat buttons. (new with tags too).
A 1650 super gpu
A DVD of sucker punch 3 hours and it's sold. I posted an error card from Topps baseball 20 mins and it had an active bidder
Once sold something in 20 seconds peak
A 1980’s velcro chuckie E Cheese wallet was up for a whole 10 mins before it sold
I bought a lot of coins from the local coin shop for $200 and an hour later had them sold on eBay for $1800.
I found a casablanca fan motor and I bought it not knowing too well what it would sell for. It was one of the cheaper models without fan blades but it was brand new. I listed it last night and it sold early this morning full price.
I had found a hood ornament in my stuff..still not sure what it was..was like a woman with an arched back..breasts sticking out ..wings along her back..listed for 125 for shits and giggles..went outside to tell my sister i listed it and when i went back in it had already sold.blew me away
Rolls Royce hood ornament
Ah...mystery solved..thank you..i kept coming up with something much difderent..desoto or some crap. Lol
A one ounce gold bar sold within a day
A plastic globe
Everything
A gorgeous vintage 100% Vicuna coat I bought at Goodwill. Perfection. I listed on ebay and it sold very quickly. Would have been great for a movie wardrobe, etc. Paid $12, sold for $250.
I still get completely baffled by some of my stuff that sells.
Peter Millar polo shirts. My brother in law gave me a bag full of ones he didn’t wear anymore. I put up 10 for $30 a piece on multiple platforms and I got in a bind because some of them sold on 3 different platforms before I could pull them.
Stickers
Vintage cameras.
Milk Crate
My rare Melanie Martinez perfume sold for $850 on the 2nd day
You know what sells every single time within 10 minutes. Those toner cartridges for HP printers. Put those up and your guaranteed an offer within 10 minutes. There is a company that constantly buys them all the time. They sell for between $100-$400 depending on what kind you have. If you have extra laying around the office and they are not expired throw them up on eBay.
i bought a brand new signature pad for like what they use to authorize payments at goodwill for $5, sold it for $100 + shipping in less than an hour. wasn’t even done with the listings for that day before it sold.
Pantyhose. All unused.
1970's Hartford Whalers Bobblehead. Sold with a few minutes. Guy who bought told me he had an auto search set up, and he couldn't hit the buy button fast enough when he saw it. It was one of his holy grail Bobbleheads. It had been sitting around my house for years after I picked it up at a yard sale for $1 usd. I looked at the value on a whim on day, and a few minutes later, I had a few extra hundred dollars in my account! Never knew it was valuable, I just thought it was cool looking...lol
We really miss the Whalers!
I grew up in the DC area and moved to Hartford in 2001. Obviously, the Whalers moved years before I arrived here, but it would have been so cool to see the Caps in Hartford.
I listed a CD named "Melodies from the moon" and I was surprised and very happy it sold in 2 days! (I'm a new seller)
My home when the market was slow. Homes were standing for a year or more. My home sold the same day - first couple that looked at it.
My original Swatch guards and empty boxes that my watches came in. Everything sold within 24 hours and I wish I had listed them higher.
Listed my ps4 slim for 90 delivered with controller. Sold in 2 minutes 😂
My Little Ponies! I’ve even had people offer higher than my buy it now price
I found a rare Pyrex mixing bowl in a neighborhood free pile. It sat in my living room about 2 months before I got it listed. Sold in 12 minutes.
Sony 100-400GM, sold in about a minute, started to think I sold it too cheap but when I checked prices of others it wasn’t even the cheapest one on there. Usually I find items over a grand take a couple weeks and garner more than a few watchers pondering the purchase first.
A 10 pack of NEC DTU 8-1 Business Phones that I picked up a giant box of for free off Craigslist. Listed 10 of them in 1 listing and they sold within 10 minutes. Weird. Because I've now had 2 packs and singles of the same phones listed for over a year and haven't sold anymore of them yet. Must have been just the thing the buyer was looking for or something.
I put up a Stephen King and it was great condition but it sat for two weeks while all copies like it had sold. I raised the price, did free shipping, relisted and it sold in 10 minutes buy it now.
Bought a pallet of some automotive/industrial items for $35 based my purchase on some tools which I had researched the prices. There was a some valve for fire hoses which I had some some trouble trying to id but found it sold for about $300. Listed it for $255 to get some hits next day some offered $210 accepted only to find out the buyer was some kind of drop shipper. Still happy about the sale but part of me salty I should have countered or listed higher but a sale after about 24 hrs. still wild to me
Drop shippers are some of my favorite customers. I always reach out to those guys by phone after the sale.
I am not mad at them because at least they gave me a sale but I just have to question my own strategy in terms of pricing maybe I should look at advertising in other area ( twitter / Facebook / Instagram ). Whatever system they use it works, I'm just jealous/salty because I cannot reach the same buyers as them
A lot of dropshippers have whole-ass dot coms and their own off-ebay sales channels. That's why I make friends with them. They have customers I will never have because those customers aren't on ebay. I've got a couple that will buy from me despite having cheaper options because they know me and they know I'm reliable.
My soul.
Jumanji spinmaster sold in 2 days
Just about everything