I was thinking the same thing recently. I was watching the episode where he found the vending machines the other day. I'm no expert on vending machines but though new those looked like the older crappier type machines that you see in small offices with little traffic.

He was saying $3500 for the used ones and $5,000 for the new ones which I thought was pretty high. All these shows do that though. American Pickers the guys are calling out all these crazy prices of "what they will" sell it for, not necessarily what they will get.

One of my fav finds ever was this bamboo chair. Any origional posters out there may remember a pic of it I posted way back twisty bamboo chair with an end table attached. Whole thing was one continuous piece of bamboo. I heard from a few people it was a very nice very expensive chair. I tried flea market, resale shops, craigslist, etc. Started in the thousands and slowly got down to about $500. Had a few ebay sales fall through and finally wound up selling it for $240 or something like that to a guy from craigslist although he did buy about half my garage to furnish his lake house though.

Anyhow like others said point is its what you can sell it for, estimates aren't nothing. It's worth what it's worth and that's how it is. One exception though it's worth what it's worth to those who see it. If you don't have a way to make that item available to a lot of people your having a smaller chance of finding that buyer who will pay money for it. For some rare item maybe noone on craigslist has any idea what your item is and wont pay money for it. If you have your item available to people on some antique china forum and you have some old china your finding more people to see your item.

Ebay gets a pretty wide audience but you gotta reach out to those niches that your items appeal to because its worth waht its worth to the people who see it and are interested.

I tried it out, I'm actually quite impressed which is saying alot b/c I've never really been a big fan of the ebay app most of the time I'd rather go to the full site.

Anyhow, this obviously isn't going to be something your going to be doing very detailed listings on or all your listings but if you store stuff at various locations and aren't always by all yoru stuff it can come in handy.

Today for example I was over at one of my rental hosues where I have some stuff in storage and decided to put up a few listings for items. Because I had my phone on me I could do a brieff listing, add a short description and measurements which is handy since its a pain to write down measurements and then go home and post later.

Downsides of the app are obviously you cant type fast on a smart phone though the voice recognition feature helps out. The other downside is though they do have regular and html option for the actual listing space it would be a huge pain to be going backand forth between photo bucket and ebay on an android phone getting pics and html.

Overall though I was very happy with the app. It's not going to replace your computer for your listings but in a pinch it will help and its a handy way to put up a listing quickly.

The ebay app for smart phones now have a new sell feature. I havn't used it or even really checked it out yet but you can sell from your phone through the app without having to bypass the app and go to the full site.

I agree it's obviously quicker to do it from a computer but sometimes I'm at one of my storage units or at a buddies house where I store stuff and it would be handy to throw up a brief listing with a pic that I coudl then go home and add to later. I think this should come in handy. Maybe I'll post back after I use it later today.

jwdilligaf- is tracking the same as delivery confirmation or is that a more accurate tracking system? ebay encourages you to use delivery confirmation but they wont use delivery confirmation as proof the item was delivered. I agree its smart to get it and it helps and is probably a deterrant but I have had ebay give people their money back even though I bought delivery confirmation and it shows delivered. For more expensive items I require signature.

I agree you can't stereotype facilities or you'll miss out on great auctions but my personal experience is that small towns tend to have less crowds and prices are generally cheaper.

My personal reason however for liking small town auctions is they are often non chain facilities and do less advertising about auctions, also don't hire auctioneers just have the manager run the auction.

I also tend to find more older stuff vs household crap. I also tend to find more toys like project cars, motorcycles, construction equipment, etc which is stuff I like.

I never really had an interest in coin collectin befor and still am not going to become an avid coin collector but through sorting coppers you come across wheat pennies, indian heads, and even steel and bronze pennies as well as error coins.

These can be worth money and it is interesting comming across them as well.

If anyone is at all interested in this subject there's plenty of youtube videos and some interseting sites like realcent and coinflation.

I tend to come across large jars of change in one out of every 3 or 4 units so always sorting those for copper and silver

Congrats awesome price too. I like the sealed bids. In Chicago that unit would be $100.

From these boards as well as talking to people at auctions it seems we all got multiple hustles whether it be scrapping, resale, flea markets, etc, always looking for an angle to make some money.

Obviously we all know about silver coins but curious if anyone else is interested in copper like myself? Copper prices are going up, copper pennies are no longer being made but not many really care to take them out of circulation as its not quite worth it yet.

I guess the Canadian government is taking and out of circulation the rest of the old copper pennies they have and melting them so maybe not as crazy as it sounds though that is not necessarily to say its practical for a single person but I'm still kinda intrigued anyway

I've heard China, India and Brazil are upping their copper purchases or use between x2 and x4 in the next two years. I started buying $25 boxes of pennies at the bank and  yanking all the pre '82s. I actually used some parts out of vending and slot machines I've found in units to make a sorting machine with a comparitor from an old vending machine that I  rewired. Makes soritng a little quicker

Anyhow, just curious if I'm the only crazy one or if anyone else is into this.

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