Awesome sounds like a good unit.

A tip on the beanie babies, I remember they used to be popular, now its tough to get rid of them. My tip would be sell as a lot. If you sell individually a handful will sell and you'll be stuck with the rest, if you sell as a lot someone will buy for the good ones and be forced to take the rest.

I recently bought a unit that was a tanning salon that went out of business. Got a couple beds, boxes of lotion which goes for a pretty penny on ebay though I wound up taking it to a salon a gf of mine works at and selling it to the owner for a good price but apparently this tanning salon also sold beanie babies so I got probably about 150 beanie babies. I tried selling on ebay and didn't have much luck so saw someone in the paper buying them. They were offering 40 cents per beanie baby and didn't really care which ones they were.

That's a pretty good idea. In my town they have this great outdoor yard sale type thing I believe its for charity but attracts a huge crowd. I guess if you have a space to do something similar privately I think its a great idea.

Movieman, why you got an ax to grind and have to make comments about anyone industrious enough to find other avenues of making money in addition to strictly buying units now that the game has changed a little?

You make some smart ass comment about how I sell lists in a post the other day and your knocking this guy as well. Don't be a hater.

All good points.

I think the main thing is having a network of buyers and knowing how to get rid of stuff.

If your buying a dozen units a day on a consistant basis definately need warehouse, labor, box truck however even just buying several units a week you can generally go without a lot of that stuff at least at the outset.

For trucks I normally go to the same facilities over and over so am cool with the staff and they let me use the facilities trucks for free plus my buddies all got trucks I that aren't their main vehicles that I can borrow anytime.

For warehouse space I'm single and have a 3 bed house so there's my storage spare bedrooms and garage, not ideal but it works until I decide to possibly open a resale shop some day.

I think the main and most important thing is having the network of buyers. Oftentimes at auctions I see people win things and then realize they don't have a clue how to get rid of stuff or at the very least don't know how to get top dollar for their stuff.


You can buy all the best units at great prices but if you don't know how to get rid of the merchandise and get top dollar its pointless

Movieman your random post has nothing to do with this thread

Intersting article, I thought the comments below the article were interesting as well. Someone made a good comment about it now being like a flea market. There's a million sellers selling the same drop ship crap from China.

You go on looking for an MP3 player or something decent and you have to sort through a dozen pages of the same cheap chinese mp3 players being sold by a dozen different sellers.

Ebay used to be much different.

Ebay sucks now. I hate how buyers can take 3 weeks to pay you and you cant leave them feedback. I hate how buyers try to renogotiate prices and or shipping after an auction has ended. I hate paypal. And I hate many of ebays flawed policies.


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Sometimes those quickly packed lockers though often full of junk can have good stuff. People packing stuff so quick they may toss some stuff in storage they didn't mean to.

I got a bunch of China and some crystal. I notice my same stuff is on ebay but its all stores or buy it now no auctions. I listed auctions and nothing sold. People are listing as  high as like $20 a plate, obviously that doesn't mean someone is going to pay that but China obviously has value, just hard to sell.

I found a bunch of sites that sell replacement pieces to China sets and prices are also pretty high but havn't found any that buy stuff only sell.

I'm getting ready to just take it to this pawn shop that caters to women guy will probably give me 50% of what current ones are listed on ebay for but if possible would like to get more money.

The veterns among us need to find a new revenue stream, get out that snow cone machine you found in a unit 5 years ago and still havn't sold, bring out the portable grill and open a little concession stand. I have 5 brand new coleman coolers from an auction a few months ago I still havn't sold, cans of pop 0.50 cents.