When you were looking at the pins i was yelling at you "Pick up those pins!" I love selling ephemera. It can be kind of long tail but they don't take up much space to store. When I buy bags of pins like that, there are usually a few that will pay for the entire lot. The rest I just lot together and they will eventually sell. Great finds!! That Hermes scarf is beautiful! The second estate sale's process seemed kind of shady. I have never heard of the 2 list thing. I'm in Columbus, Ohio and I have never had that experience.
The Auction Professor has a RU-vid video on how extremely valuable vintage pins/badges are. You may have a pot of gold there. If you haven't already, you definitely need to watch his video. Congratulations on all of your amazing treasure finds! :)
Ben, you are so right about estate sales and thrift stores printing out an Ebay listing and expecting that price. It urks me to no end, too!!! So frustrating and unnecessary. The Lake Norman area is very beautiful and there are some very high-end homes around there. Great haul!
Hello 👋 BEN I really love your videos.And as always this is a BOLO video in many ways. Thank You for showing me how to grow my EBAY business from start to finish...
@@ReadySetResell in California, most Estate Sales I have been to (thousands) use a sign up list. And most resellers start an early bird list, which is absolutely rigged in the sense that dealers and resellers often add their reseller friends and business partners to the line without them having to physically be there. Or to stack a list so 5 out of the first 10 are all working together etc etc. The only fair system is for the estate sale company to only honor their own official list and the only way to get on the list is to be physically in line when the company shows up and hands out the list and or numbers. Most times it is unfair and most times it is due to the lack of due diligence by the estate sale company to have a system and a doorman to control entry
Can't believe I missed this vid! The list to be on a list is CRAZY! Lake Norman, great area. 30 yrs ago several Nascar drivers lived up there- IDK about today. Great finds! Love estate sales!
Sometimes those auction companies make a deal where they take everything that didn’t sell instead of payment. They price the stuff so high knowing it won’t sell. That way they end up with all of the quality pieces. So unfair! Great finds!!! Thanks so much for sharing 💜
Fantastic video. You showed your followers what really goes on behind the scenes at some of these Estate sales. Some of these companies mark higher end products super high hoping no one will purchase them. Then when the sale is over they swoop in and buy the merchandise for pennies on the dollar!! You have to be careful out there!
I love picking up artwork. I just sold a piece for over $1,000. My investment was less than $1. It was in a lot I bought from a retired archeologist. Some of my greatest sourcing. I bought several sealed vintage books (all Native American) and 3 Native American pieces of artwork with 2 selling already. I really wish I could find more. I am going to start trying to source clothing with my knowledge I’ve gained from your awesome content!!
Awesome video. I love to go on the last day of the estate sales when is 50% discount, I make hundreds with last day pick up. First day, people are fighting over stuff and to expensive. Now when I see an ebay comps next to the item, I don't waste time and leave. A lot of thrift stores and yard sales do that here in my area.
I learned some new things, like the Hermes scarf info. Thank you. Maybe you know this already but I wanted to mention it. If you go to the Seller Hub, Research tab, and click Terapeak product research then put in the title of the item in question you can find what the price was on a best offer. That watch for example, that you were talking about, sold for $300. So I would say that is excellent for a $15 pick up. Well done!
Great finds love that blue and green plaid Pendleton skirt very cute with penny loafers and white tights very preppy love it there’s some keywords for you LOL
You have become a automatic thumbs up for me even before watching....you present so well. You picked some great items......What happened to your upload from yd, say something RU-vid didn't like?
Great finds, I bought a Tiffany key ring at an auction, it has a hammered finish and the sellers thought it was broken and marked it as such! I got it for £5! I cleaned it up and couldn’t believe what a great find it was!
The Pendleton skirt is in The Black Watch Tartan pattern. The Black Watch is the regiment that guards Edinburgh Castle. It is also the Campbell tartan.
“Keep on treasure hunting” -Great new closing line! With each video you blow me away with the quality and variety of items you find. You are definitely not a one note seller or even the worst of the worst: too cheap to pay up for the good stuff. Keep on killing it because you are killing it!
Wow! They must have been super rich!! I just tried an estate sale last week and it was super high priced. Good to know that some estate sale companies price things affordable. I will have to try some different ones. Congrats on the great finds!
Welcome to the south. Estate sales will sell good high end stuff to special people before you get there. Plus Goodwill’s are so corrupt down here. Most of mine are people getting only high end brands out of the back. We never see those brands
Great video. I like how you showed off what you bought as you were describing it. Would love to see the sold comps too, but I can see already the amount of effort it took just to do this
I attended the Ozark Music Festival and what an experience! I would love to have a pin for a trip down memory lane. That Friday sale was AMAZING! Thanks so much for taking us along! OMG, that watch!
Terapeak shows the actual sold price of listings that say 'best offer accepted' in the eBay solds. The Technomarine watch you brought up sold for $300. Nice find, congrats!
I have not finished the video yet but I just had to pause and say, man do I feel you on the frustration of that jacked up estate sale, early bird list, marked up products etc. etc. I feel bad for the amount of time you spent (wasted). I will finish the video and see if your "therapy" help you out. Hope so!
I have never heard of an earlybird list. I also don’t agree with getting a number and then leaving and coming back. I would def avoid that ebay agent sale - crazy. I wouldn’t have given that watch a second look. Good for you🤗
We Call Those Watch Roll's. I would invest in in a $25 dollar Watch Tool Kit and a Multi pack of Button Cell Batteries. Watch tool kits have case openers for both Pop Off and Screw on Case Backs. Comes with Bracelet tools to add or remover links and a Plethora of other uses. Also pick up a tube of Poly watch for Plex Plastic crystals . You can Buff out the scratches of the Older Plexi crystals
Ben I am writing this even before I finished watching the video, remember I live in Sun Valley, Idaho, we have no Goodwills, but we have a famous thrift store called the Gold Mine, which benefits our local library, anyway, when they get donations, the manager makes the employees check on Ebay to price the items. Irks me as well.
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you can use slabwatch to get the best offer prices on eBay solds. The watch went for $308. I guess I have to venture out a bit more to estate sales here in Charlotte as I typically stick to the thrifts and yard sales in the summer. Great job!
The Ralph Lauren buffalo plaid actually might seem like a Christmas sweater, but it is also a year round north woods sweater. Congrats on the Hermes scarf! Great video! Do you feel sourcing hampered because you are not going to be there for a long time and will be heading back home again? What will you do with your inventory?
I’m defiantly passing on stuff I would normally buy. For example if I was in Cincinnati still I would have bought that trunk in this video and a lot more stuff at that sale with the gun stuff.
Also on Ebay they have buyer protection. I hate when garage sales and stuff have eBay prices. Like makes me want to ask them "oh this place is eBay?" I thought it was a yard sale.
Yep, I’m with you. I would never go to another estate sale through that company either! Btw, I sold an Eileen Fisher sweater for $35 plus shipping within 12 hours of listing it last week!
I bought the only one that was scotch house. The rest were other brands. If I was back in Cincinnati I would have bought the whole trunk. But, just didn’t have the room here in Charlotte.
I don’t play that early game, and you probably shouldn’t either. There’s always stuff to pick after the mob goes through. Sometimes the prices are too high on the first day anyway. You spend all that time in line just hate the prices when you get inside.
