I have it set to a 14 day return policy, but in the description I say I only accept returns for DOA, damaged during shipping, or significantly not as described. If I have a item marked as is (ie parts or repairs only) I state I only accept returns on damage during shipping or significantly not as described. Have not had a problem yet with returns. Only had 3 items returned, and they resold quickly for the same or more so no big deal.

I found an old album with leather cover from the 30's with pics from a civilian conservation corps camp. sold fo $100 on eBay. Picked up a box of old photo albums and loose photos from 1850s -1930s at a swap meet for $50. sold them all in different lots on eBay for around $250. They were a navy family with alot of southern cali pics, hawaii pics and panama canal pics. Pretty interesting stuff.

Have an auction tomorrow with 15-20 units, hoping there are a couple of gems in there. Will update after the auction this weekend

In my limited experience selling used tools (2 8x20s full of tools at 1 auction ;-)) If you have them priced to move, they sell very fast, price them to high and people would rather just go buy new. I think it would be very hard to keep a constant inventory of used tools while selling enough to keep a store open.  You'd have hundreds or thousands of tools in the store when you opened and then the next month you would have 50 or less becasue you sold them already. I don't know if I'm making sense, but I think it would be hard to keep up stable inventory, unless you had a source to acquire the inventory for you.

I haven't bought since October, been pretty slow around here since then, plus I fractured my elbow, so that hasn't helped. Have 1 coming up on the 20th. 5 days before Christmas, here's hoping everyone is broke and I can score some good units for cheap.

Yard Sales and eBay have been the best for me. Over the last year, my split has prob been 40% yard sale 40% eBay 20% other(facebook groups mainly/craigslist). This past year I pulled in approx 24000 gross off about 15 units I spent about $5000 total on. I hit 2 really nice units which helped my ratio alot. Luckily I have not lost money on a unit yet. Here's hoping the streak continues.

I have my own facebook page(not group) I have set up to sell some of my items. I also am a memebr of several groups in my local area.(Nothing but drama going on there).  My page is www.facebook.com/sellingmyexcess I have about 250+ likes now. I post links to my page in the groups and it gets me a fair amount of traffic. Things have slowed up a bit as of late. Don't have too many shippable items on the page, only because I throw those on eBay. Don't think it is worth it to pay facebook for ads. I live in a pretty remote area and don't have the population to justify it.

My eBay, sales have been slow this past month or so as well, also sales have been pretty stagnant on the local facebook groups. A buddy of mine said people are holdig onto their money until black friday, after that sales should pick up. I hope he is right. I may just have some of my items priced to high, but if I can't get what I am looking to get, it isn't worth the time and effort. Here's hoping sales pick up after Black Friday, i have quite a few things that would make great Christmas gifts.