Adventures in thrifting income from the pay per pound Goodwill - Day 28.
The problem with going to the Outlet every day is that you have to go about the same time every day. What I mean is that if I go in the afternoon on Friday, I can't really go in the morning on Saturday as the same stuff will still be there.
Much of the bins had the same stuff I saw last night. To combat this, I took part in three "unveilings" where they remove the sheet covering the bins and EVERYONE just goes freaking nuts.
Unfortunately, there wasn't too much in there. But I did find a few things. Check them out.
Today is April 14th and it is day 28. Let's see what I found this Saturday.
An assortment of things today. Including a lid for @fullcoverbetting.
These are Littlest Pet Shop things. This stuff was recently brought to my attention by my wife. She purchased a large lot from someone on Facebook marketplace for $25. We parceled it out and made some sweet bank from it.
So I have kept my eye out for them. The big house sells for about $30 by itself. With the two smaller ones and two figures, this lot should go for around $45-50.
A couple records today. If that Steely Dan one was a first pressing, it would go for over $100 - but it isn't so it won't. I can get $10-15 for each record.
I found a few sealed inks, only recently expired too. These will be an easy sell.
Then an audio book and a blank cassette for a future bundle.
Lastly, a vintage PC game that I had to rescue. It is from 1996.
This is the stuff I am keeping. I really have a lot of lids now.
Some sandpaper, always good to have.
A cabinet lock because I have little kids and my 1 year old loves to get the cans out. Now we can lock it up.
Lastly, sunglasses that go over glasses. I wear glasses and live in the desert, these might come in handy to keep in the car.
The Jillian Michaels DVD aren't big sellers, but I figure it is the time of year people are trying to get in shape for the summer and there was two of them for a little bundle.
The combat kettlebell DVD might be a good seller.
And Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 with the key.
I am surprised at how much these sunglass cases are selling for. Anyway, the season for them is coming around again.
Plus a big ass NERF gun. This is a motorized one that I need to test out, but it takes 6 C batteries and I only have 4 on hand. It actually had the batteries in it in the store, and since I was paying by weight I searched the bins for a screwdriver to open the thing up. I ended up finding the tiniest screwdriver ever, but it worked and I got those dead batteries out.
I found these Acurite weather devices during the "feeding frenzy" of the new bins being released. I thought there might be something to them, and so tossed them in my bag. They actually do alright.
I need to test them out, but those white remote looking things sells for over $10 each! I think I can make some good money from all this once I test them and clean them up.
Sales!
ZERO sales! What the heck? I got a ton of stuff listed and many watchers. Oh well, I guess my account didn't win the eBay lottery today and my listings were shown on the last page.
Day 28 Totals
Total Spent Today: $12.91
Running Total Spent: $417.96
Total Listed Price Today: $202.89
Running Total Listed Price: $5487.63
Total Sales: $1905.38
Total Profit: $1136.81
As always, tomorrow is a new day and a new thrift!
Nice find on the LPS playset! I've found 2 of those in the last few months and sold them on Ebay for $22.50 in that condition. Pets can sell for a ton and I've found that even the common ones will bring in $2 each with bigger bundles the best way to sell them. I listed a huge lot last summer that I got for $5 and sold it for $150! They're one of those things I wish I could find all the time. lol
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$22.50 plus shipping I hope!
Crazy how this is something so popular, haha.
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Yes, sorry, this was just the sale price. They paid shipping on top of that. One person paid $7.50 and the other paid $24!!
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A good trick to generate sales is to lower all of your fixed listings by a few pennies every few days. This sends a "PRICE LOWERED" alert to the watchers and others who viewed the page, and often gets a sale. I've done this for years and seen sales minutes after lowering prices on stagnant items from the "nudge".
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Haha, I've been increasing it to get the sale!
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Interesting about the lids. Are they big sellers ?? Also , my wife would like that kettle bell workout DVD as Iam sure others would as well. Pretty popular exercise
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Anything you see here is also for sale for Steem/SBD. Let me know :D
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Each day with more earnings. Im also doing this concept by posting everyday and earning some sbds and sps. last week, i got a profit of 15 sbds and 30 sps. this occured mostly due to the rise of steem and sbd in the market.
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Jona, you are doing VERY well on your posts. Keep going!
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thanks
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Goodwill outlet , interesting concept! Love that pet shop , all the best eith your ebay sales!
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Thanks so much, Joy! All the better to pay for the ticket to the next Steemfest! :D
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Getting a real arsenal going with all these NERF guns! 6 C batteries is a lot though.
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Yeah, and C's are not really used that much either.
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hahahahaha I would not have thought in taking the batteries out
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6 C batteries is a decent amount of weight! Paying for nothing, really so best to take them out.
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I see records at the goodwill all the time. How do you even know what they are worth?
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eBay sold listings on my smartphone
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2 more days to go! I hope you will be able to sell a lot but even you don’t reach the 1.5k, it is still impressive. Really going to mis these lids, euhm posts I mean!
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Oh, in time it will reach $1.5K and beyond. It is just a tall order to expect it to sell in just 30 days from start to finish. Some things take weeks to get a buyer.
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Very curious what the Nerf pile is going to bring in!
And we also may not forget the gold, which could easily break the 1.5K mark.
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Yea, I got some flux and a ceramic disc for melting on the way to me. Add a little borax and heat to taste. A little backyard torching and we shall see what we got.
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Make sure that you don’t put the house on fire!
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