I have to travel in morning for daughter so going about to try and find a flea or something in Statesboro, GA for in the morning.  If nothing else I may hit Savannah between feeding kids at lunch and the concert that night at 7.

Sunday should still be an ok day to sell.  Most places close by around 4 and kick-off isn't till 6:30.

Good luck to ya Money.

Welcome to the boards JCS.  I'm in GA but not Atlanta.  That said - washer/dryers do sell pretty well.  I do most of my sells of them via CL or to one of the other regulars that has a large thrift store.  Now if I sell to him it's a good 50% off the price but he will take them untested.

Now for matress/boxsprings - I run as far as I can.  People just don't want them.  I've even tried to give them away on CL and got no bites.  Atlanta may be different but who knows.  I see them in a unit I automaticly deduct $20 on my max due to trash run.  Atlanta dump fees I know are even higher.  One of our people here buys up there many times.

I've even tried to contact habitat for humanity to see if they want them and never got a response.  I really should burn them and scrap the metal since scrap most everything else.

I sell old (1890 english pennies) to mid 1980s coins mostly.  It all depends on the country, denomination, grade to collectors or what is on the coin to other collectors.  Pictures of animals sell well for example.

As for price - I look up everything in my 2012 world catelog.  I do this to double-check the content of the coin for one.  I then take the lowest grade price unless the only price is for Unc / Proof coins.  Most of the coins are $.25, then I'll find a few that are harder to find and worth $.25 - $3.

I put all the coins in a 2x2 flip with the country and price on it.  The coins also sit in a metal coin bank.  So I get lots of interest from people looking for US silver, but also attracts the attention of mom, pop, or grand-dad who buy them for kids/g-kids.  Few collectors come by to see what I have to fill holes in their albums.

I have number of world bank notes that I may start selling also.  May pair them up with other coins and put them in some of these picture frames I have totes full of and sell as "sets".  So instead of $1 or $2 I can sell at $5 or more.  Plus, get rid of some picture frames.

I'm almost surprised they held the auction with only 3 people.  Sounds like a gold mine you found - I'm jealous.

My 10am U-haul paid up at the last second.  Have a number of units at the 11am one but they are normally pretty trashy.  Will go mostly to look.  Report back on crowds later.


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Well the trend continues from January.  Crowd of a good 50 people at U-haul downtown.  Mix of people I've never seen and regulars.  Units were better then in past auctions for this location.  Prices however again went north.  Unit with a 32" LG flat screen in front and furniture went for $710.  Unit before that was $500 something.  Both went to new people.  Few other units go by with too high prices I thought.  Watched another unit sell for $350 that we thought would be a $150 unit.  Lady that had been coming on strong all day with her bids won it.  Of course she didn't have a lock or anything.  I just started to shake my head and laugh.  She was buying for her daughter who was just getting married and starting out in the world.  Best unit for price was a $160 unit that went to one of the regulars.  Had a big projection TV in it and some other furniture.  He has a big thrift store so can sell it all pretty easy.  Should be a $200-$300 locker with little worry so he will prob double or triple his money.  Didn't stick around for the last unit.  Was told it had 6 matresses in it by the auctioneer.  Be safe money to say it went for $100 or more with how stupid people were being.

Two caravans next week with 3 auctions the week of 13th and 3 week of 20th.  Few places that only hold auctions a few times a year have them this month.  So we will see how things go.

I do most of my selling in the following manner:

Ebay
Flea Market
Craigslist
Word of mouth

I've not yet tried but will prob start doing:

Facebook
Consignment

Most of the time any tools or things that would interest the pawn shop I end up keeping or selling at the flea.

I wouldn't do ebay myself.  Just too much potential to be scammed.  Would be easy for them to say "not as described" and get money back plus keep items.  Also, this will sound sexist but did you get the prices or your hubby?  I ask as I've seen a few dealers lowball or try to intemendate the female customers and then give better prices to men.

Unless you need the cash right now I'd also just horde the silver/gold.  Gold has come up but is still down from the summer highs.  With China / India maybe going to gold to buy oil I expect the value of the dollar to drop and gold to increase in price.  Silver is more of a toss up.  I always hold out till $40 or more spot price myself.

On price when you buy it is normally spot + 5-10% premium.  When selling it is spot - a %.  It's that % that can greatly differ from buyer to buyer.

LOL Movieman - now that made me laugh this morning.  Well Feb is starting out like Jan did.  One of my auctions for friday has already called and canceled.  That leaves me with U-haul friday if I can make it.  Meeting from 10-11 and then heading to Statesboro at 6am saturday.  So really don't need a locker but want to get a fell for the crowds.

Next week I have my caravan on the 9th and a 3 facility caravan on the 11th.  I'm almost afraid to go on the 11th as they canceled January's auction just to wait for people to get tax refund checks back before auction.

Be sure to get your weights and package size correct and not mixed up.  I just did a bone-head thing and undercut myself on shipping by 5-7 bucks.  Since this is one of the few times it's a CA buyer all my profit (if not a loss) is going to the toilet on a $10 item.  Had gotten in a habit of $5.35 flat rate shipping for all these smalls and this group of tapes just will not fit.  Dummy me.