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That may get yo ua grand national if its not in mint condition. If its low mileage and or a gnx model, forget it. That will probably fetch 7-10k.
Oh ya well good thing was it was all new, many were plug in, or cermaic so at the end of it all i just took it all to a party store i know well an consigned it all to them. It was recent too so pretty close to holloween.
. Do you think you will recoup all your money or make a profit? I would be curious to know how well this does for you.
How much cash should you bring if you know a car is going up for auction? Would it be impossible to win a Buick Grand Natinal for $3000 or $3500? This is roughly half the price of a quick resale. What is known about the car is that the owner is in Jail and wont be claiming the car before auction.
I want this car but don't want to not have enough cash.
i was surprised by alot of the stuff i sold alot of the name brand clothing and nicer items didn't sell but i was selling old worn pairs of cotton gym shorts for a quarter, really wierd the stuff people buy.
i did have some opportunity for future business though, lots of people left me phone numbers and said if i find records or cd's to contact tehm, one guy wanted old building materials mantels, bricks, subway tiles, old fauceuts, etc, so in addition to the little bit of money i made got some future contacts.
A Ham radio unit is my dream unit, though I might keep too much stuff to make money off of it. Being a ham myself I know the gear and where to sell it. So far I've seen a few old CB radios, which are next to worthless, but no ham stuff.
Oh, and yeah, I'd go for a tote unit if it were cheap.
Craftsman toolbox mostly craftsman tools impact gun with impact sockets some specialty tools. I figured it new to be between 700-900 dollars and only asking 250 now completely cleaned up lookin like new box could easily go for 150 itself. Tools easily get another 100 just for craftsman and another 150 for the rest in a perfevt world hehe. But will put a few hours into it and see how it goes.
I went to my second auction today, there was only 8 people there, unlike my first one, where there was 80 people. I got two units, one for $5, turns out it had about $20 worth of stuff. The second unit I got for $45. I could see a tv, a nice dvd player, and what looked like pottery partially buried under some clothes. The dvd player turned out to be a really nice one, the tv was very broken, and the pottery was an urn full of ashes, (which I left with the office)!
Luckily, underneath the clothes, I found about 20 dvd's and about a dozen records, Disney collectibles, and then a bunch of other goodies. After researching online, I think I can make $150 to $200; not bad for my first units I guess.
Well today this guy came and looked at the craftsman tool box with tools galore. He offered me 100 less than I wanted cause the box has some rough spots on it. Forget that its only listed at 250. He said that hes buying it for some lady that is a hobbiest and she is putting it in her front room so it has to look really good. So I figured I would completely restore the box by sandblasting the whole thing use my body repair kit and get rid of all the dents paint it all black with my air painter clean all the tools making them shiny and.putting new padding in the drawers then raising the price to 400... Should I or should I just leave it as I got it and hope for the best? It would only take time and a few dollars as I only need paint and padding. Any input from anyone would be great as ive already lowered prices for the weekend and flea market is on monday morning where I hope to be selling all my things.
Good idea acman with the keywords I will try adding more and see if that works.
One of the tricks I use on CL is inflating my price sometimes when I know I have a strong chance on getting talked down(just sold some rims and tires and got talked down $50 on a quick sale),and I also bundle items. Say I have an old NES, Old Sega, and a boat anchor computer, I will bundle items to garner more interest.
Also, use the Keyword BS everyone uses. Learning alot from people who do good sales on Cl and they do the best when you keyword your post. Like if your selling a used laptop try keyword like DVD player, Itunes, Microsoft, Vista, and so on and so forth. This way you you have expanded your search area from just plain jane computer to like 30 or 40 different words that will be seen in a search.
