I'd say $25-$50 is the general range.  I got $75 at a buffalo exchange for a like new Kenneth Cole.
Were selling new for $400, $100-ish on ebay. 

Funny thing, I had a Wilson's hipster style jacket.  Tried to sell, no bites.  Finally just started westing it.  Wore for two years, never treated, in rain, threw on ground, treated it horribly.

After it was all worn, faded, frayed......then I started getting compliments on my "vintage" coat and people saying if I ever wanted to sell........WTF?   Not vintage, just old....and F'd up.

I'll never understand why SWNY didn't do better.  The original SW and that Texas one sucks! never enjoyed them.  SWNY, I thought, was filmed/edited much better and way better cast.  Still not my kind of show, but the NY one I'll at least stop flipping channels and watch if it was on. 

Good luck in hour new endeavors, mike, and congrats on the expected little one.

Ebay really isn't my thing.  Kind of given up on them so don't know all the tricks.

Best way I know of is to find other sellers of the product and watch them.  Watch feedback.  Keep searching that product under "listings ended".

Message me the product.  Now I'm curious! 

If you can get 5000 units for a few hundred and you have the storage it's a no brainer.
Let's say you don't sell any.  Donate and take tax write off.  Your even.

Or use you auction site to unload them and make money back.   Sell to independent convenience stores at $0.25/unit and you still make a profit.  Swap meet, flea market, out of your trunk.....

I figure if you have disposable income, with buying this stuff you can still pay bills, eat, even still go out to dinner......than why not.   All you have to lose is your time and even that can be called a learning experience so its not a waste of time.

So now that I've said this.....what's the product.   Because the above might not be true if your thinking of buying something that, yes, it sells....some.....eventually,  but the market has dropped out.   Like 5000 Rubix Cubes or Harry Potter bobble heads......

I looked how to acid bath the silver off.   Turns out that with all I have there MIGHT be an ounce-ish.
Guy on youtube did 500 pieces of flatware and got $60 of silver......supplies cost $25. 
Not really worth taking days to make $35.   

Dremel seems like even more work and a mess.

Looked on ebay.  Not really selling there either.  And Like I said, it's well used. 

Guess I'll throw it in a corner until I have some major recycling to do.  They are so much more willing to pay for stuff they don't really want when you have a bunch of stuff they DO want.....

Anyone have any luck recycling silver plated items lately?

I've got all this silver plate from a death in the family.  Went thru it all and no sought after patterns.  Plus, it was actually used....like every Sunday/family/holiday dinner for 50 years.  It's pretty worn. Had a sale and a set of flatware (50pc) didn't even sell at $15 (who wants to polish it). In fact, it's so NOT wanted it sat out next garage, unattended, over a weekend and no one took it.


I've been all around and no will buy it.  They'll take it, but not buy it.   I'm not trying to recycle for silver content but they're copper based. Nickel. No one will even give me low brass price.
I use to have no problem selling it.  Wouldn't get very much but they would buy it. Now no one wants it.

I was at a thrift shop and noticed they had a nice assortment.  Asked how well it sold.  She said all of it has been there for years and it keeps growing.  Told here I had a bunch I'll probably end up donating as well.  Her reply: "oh please, Don't bring it here."

That would be my fear.  I'd rather just let the government shake me down.
Hiding money is to hard these days.  My father was a fraud accountant.  I remember the storied of the ways he caught people.   One guy was good.  He embezzled a ton but covered his tracks so well they couldn't get a lead in to investigate further.  They knew he did it, just couldn't get proof enough to get court orders.  So one day they are looking at his bank statements and his self car wash business is making deposits of a few hundred a day.  They look into other similar businesses and it all fits. No red flags.  Then my dad notices a deposit slip....then another......another......all the deposits were $20s.
The machine at the wash only changed $1s and $5s.   Where was he getting hundreds of dollars in $20 bills?   That alone was enough to get authorization to dig deeper and in time caught the guy.

One little mistake and your f**ked.   Just be legit.  If I found $100k I'd just look at it as $60k.  Let the IRS have theirs.   Still a good score.......

Now if I found a few thousand.....eh........might come down to how much I made that year vs deductions.
It probably wouldn't even effect my tax rate so might claim it.