I sold off a good amount of scrap silver lately before prices started to fall.

With the sudden drop just curious if you guys are holding waiting for it to bounce back or for long term or selling now while prices are high?

Obviously prices now aren't near an all time high not even close but just seems wierd job numbers come out worse, inflation is bad, etc all things which shoudl make it go higher and it falls fast.

I was watching Kudlow the other week and a guy was warning people about buying and mentioned some crash back in the 80's or so. I'm too young to remember that but it got me thinking, I wound up selling about half of the silver I was holding

Do you guys barter on craigslist at all? I love the concept and love bartering and if you find reasonable people it's a great deal for both parties as normally both of you have items that no longer interest you however are of great interest to the other person so you get a new toy or somethign you need and your really not losing out on anything.

I used to make beanbag toss games and barter them on cl. Would normally trade for tickets to sporting events. My games cost me about $14 in supplies and could normally trade for 4 tickets to a sporting event. It was a good deal as my games didn't cost me very much and mos tof the people I bartered with had season tickets throughtheir company that would have gone to waste anyway and they didn't pay for so good deal for both sides. Tickets are also easy to resell if I wanted cash or I'm a sports fan so always up to go to a game.

Ran out to a few auctions this morning. One unit was probaby about a 10x15 was full of those yellow bags of rock salt. Were talking the whole unit over waist deep in bags of rock salt.

Cannot fathom what the person was storing this for. Unit wound up going for $85. What a pain that must be to unload unless you have a heavy duty truck, I imagine most cars or smaller trucks would be scraping tailpipes even only being a 1/4 loaded.

I normally don't have much good to say about ebay but I actually like it. Sure it was actually a fee hike but it actually kind of suits my selling style and my mindset about ebay.

I'm cheap so I always hate listing something for paying a few bucks and then not having it sell. Profit margins on ebay acn be so think having to relist once or a few times can start cutting into profits on some items.

With the new fee structure we pay higher FVF fees and fvf on shipping however listing fee is free and so is buy it now.

I tend to do a lot of 0.99 cent start auctions even for good items and sometimes wind up giving stuff away. Sure I'd prob be better off listing for higher prices and getting hit with more fees for items that dont sell but just never really wroked that way.

With the new fee structure I just listed a baseball blogve that I probably in the past would have sold for 0.99 cents and let the auction run its course but listed it for a few bucks with a $25 buy it now. Someone bought it now day 1 so didn't have to wait for the auction to run its course and got 4-5 times what I would have gotten my old way of listing.

Not sure if you guys run into this problem but always have my pockets full with crap and have stuff flying all over the car when I'm going from auction to auction all day long. I picked up one of these bags a while back and love it.

Smaller than a backpack. I also like that it can hang on your hip instead of back so can keep money in there and know it won't get snatched. I keep gloves, hat, flashlight, mp3 player, several locks and keys, smokes, waterbottle, phone and maybe a magazine for when sitting around waiting for auctions.

It's actually meant to be a conceal carry bag and has a concealed pocket with velcro for a velcro holster to keep all that cash safe as well if your in a CCW state.  Also you feel like less of a woman carring a gun bag than a man purse lol.

Anyhow, I really like it, it keeps me organized, is conveneint and keeps me from losing things.


I don't sell these bags nor do I make any kickback from them so nothing to gain, just giving some helpful advice. I used to be an aamazon affiliate so made a whole 3% but they cancelled the program in my state so make nothing. The bags are cheap too  you can pick one up for about $23 on ebay free shipping too. Its a knock off of the maxpedition bag but same quality. You can also buy all types of extra clips and things that can attach to the bag.

I did a review on my site as well as ebay if your interested in taking a look

http://rulesforrebels.blogspot.com/2010/12/product-review-of-utg-messenger-bag-by.html

Looking for some help in how to price clothing at flea markets.

What woud you charge for tshirts?

Nice but no name brand pants, shorts, etc?

Not high end name brand but womens clothes like bebe, express, forever 21, etc? Tops and or pants or skirts?

I know all this depends on the item and stuff but just want to get a general idea. Or do you not price and just kind of go on a case by case basis and throw out a number and see how people react and go from there?

Also do you normally price your items with tags or no?

I think I made a post a while back about Pokemon cards. I finally got around to putting them up on ebay. Had about 1000 cards so broke them into 100 card lots and listed them on ebay.

Didn't know what to describe so took pics of every card, big pain there. Overall doesn't look like they sell on ebay though occasionally there are some very high priced cards sold. I don't have a clue what to look for though.

I got them listed and pics taken now, if anyone knows about them shoot me a message and I'll link you to pics.

Cool vid showing dave hesters business. Seems like a decent dude, guess he puts on a show for storage wars. shows the workings of his business.

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