2013 Yard Sale, Auction, & Flee Market FINDS

[Rodebaugh]

The Deals are ripe folks.

True competition has gotten tougher over the years with all the antique roadshows, hardcore pawns, American pickers, and the likes being funneled into people’s living rooms….But the deals are still there for the lucky and persistent few. The 2013 season is off and running and it’s time to catalog our journeys and more hopefully our great buys.

Guidelines:
Anything goes so long as it was acquired while out and about on the hunt.
Gold, silver, and coins are great but we want to see all the cool deals that you’re flipping for a buck.
Talk about the sale as well as the purchase…paint us a picture.
Include some pictures if you have a camera and the time.
This is not to keep score rather it’s for bragging and educating.

[Franco American]

OK - this has absolutely nothing to do with coins but it was a great find nonetheless. I stopped in a consignment resale shop that also does Ebay. They had a bunch of 8 track tapes there. Now I have an older car with an 8 track player in it so I started to look through them. There were all these 8 tracks from the mid to late 80's. I looked it up on my phone and saw the brought good money so I bought 20 of them for 60cents each. SO far I have sold 10 of them and cleared over $1000. The most expensive one to date was a U2 tape from 1988 that sold for $331 - no joking.

So I guess there are deals out there if you look. BTW - the profits went back into my money for stacking

[Rodebaugh]

OK - this has absolutely nothing to do with coins but it was a great find nonetheless. I stopped in a consignment resale shop that also does Ebay. They had a bunch of 8 track tapes there. Now I have an older car with an 8 track player in it so I started to look through them. There were all these 8 tracks from the mid to late 80's. I looked it up on my phone and saw the brought good money so I bought 20 of them for 60cents each. SO far I have sold 10 of them and cleared over $1000. The most expensive one to date was a U2 tape from 1988 that sold for $331 - no joking.

So I guess there are deals out there if you look. BTW - the profits went back into my money for stacking

Now thats amazing! Nice work

[shinnosuke]

OK - this has absolutely nothing to do with coins but it was a great find nonetheless. I stopped in a consignment resale shop that also does Ebay. They had a bunch of 8 track tapes there. Now I have an older car with an 8 track player in it so I started to look through them. There were all these 8 tracks from the mid to late 80's. I looked it up on my phone and saw the brought good money so I bought 20 of them for 60cents each. SO far I have sold 10 of them and cleared over $1000. The most expensive one to date was a U2 tape from 1988 that sold for $331 - no joking.

So I guess there are deals out there if you look. BTW - the profits went back into my money for stacking

Once again I discover that I'm in the wrong line of work. That is an amazing report. Should have kept all my old 8 tracks.

[Lemon Thrower]

we had a garage sale. my 10-year old son has a t-shit business - he buys leftover college t-shirts, and resells them at our garage sale. well, he gets bored and looks at the neighbor's garage sale. they have an autographed football. I go over and check it out and see that the ball has been played with a bit, so i pass. in thinking about it, it looked like one of the sigs was a Johnny Unitas. So i go back. Guy was asking 10, i chisel him down to $5!

turns out that all of the sigs are of QBs who started a superbowl, mostly early superbowls or MVPs:

Bart Starr (I, II)
Daryle Lamoninca (II)
Earl Morrall (III)
Johnnie Unitas (V)
Craig Morton (V, XII)
Bill Kilmer (VII)
Vince Ferragamo (XIV)
Doug Williams (XXII)

check out the pics here:

viewtopic.php?f=23&t=23902&p=222591&hilit=find#p222591

I called a single auction house so far - too small for what they do - and they estimate the value to be $500-700.

[justoneguy]

I bought a pair of earings marked .925 for a dime.
they weight over 2 grams.

[Lemon Thrower]

OK - this has absolutely nothing to do with coins but it was a great find nonetheless. I stopped in a consignment resale shop that also does Ebay. They had a bunch of 8 track tapes there. Now I have an older car with an 8 track player in it so I started to look through them. There were all these 8 tracks from the mid to late 80's. I looked it up on my phone and saw the brought good money so I bought 20 of them for 60cents each. SO far I have sold 10 of them and cleared over $1000. The most expensive one to date was a U2 tape from 1988 that sold for $331 - no joking.

So I guess there are deals out there if you look. BTW - the profits went back into my money for stacking

that is amazing. didn't know they were still making 8 tracks that late, or moreso why anybody would want them today.

[daviscfad]

13lbs of brass, a box to me, purchased for 1 dollar

[Rodebaugh]

So I hit Charleston's "east end yard sale" mothers day weekend. It is a one day sale where two streets 4 blocks long have a neighborhood wide yard sale. I left the PAN coin show Friday night and settled in at my mother's house that night. She lives at the end of one of the streets so no get up and driving required. We woke and rolled out Sat morning about 7:30am. The sale starts at 8 but folks were already out there setting up and looking. At about the tenth house I noticed a large table of silver colored goods. You know the stuff....plates, platters, candle holders, flatware, ect. Well there was a dude already sifting through it heavy. Sure enough, I watched him take 3 silver (925) lipped glass coasters to be paid for. I made a quick hussle on the leftovers. It was all Silver plate. Tagging the guy with my eyes I lapped him by 2 houses as to get a better shot at seeing things first. About 20 houses in I snagged my first buy for the day. It was setting on a table baggeied by itself but grouped with a bunch of costume jewelry. I asked the gal, "how much?". It was the 14K necklace that you see in picture below. She said, "one dollar". I promptly paid the gal. Thanked her and left that yard onto the next. Around house #50 I made my second and third purchases. Same senario as the last gal. Good jewelry mixed in with costume but this time it was loose in a cheapo china jewelry box with a tag on the lid reading "One dollar each". There I snagged the 10K diamond necklace, the sterling cross, and the sterling pendant drop thingy. She cut me a break and sold the goods for a total of $2. Finally at the end of the first street I made my 4th purchase. Sorting through yet another junk jewelry box I located a sterling ring. I asked the gal, "A dollar says I can straighten this ring out and make it wearable again". She said "its yours". Moving onto the next street The crowd was getting thick. It was about 10am now. knowing the goods are getting picked over strongly at this point I figured I'd be lucky to grab another deal. Half a block up on that street sets a parking lot. Lots of folks had set up there. Normaly these don't yeild many goods but I opperate under the idea of "you don't know unless you look". I quickly noticed from about 40 feet away a very tarnished set of candlestick holders. A quick flip of one revealed "Crown Weighted Sterling". Nice. From my days of scrapping I know these normaly have 2-3 ounces of sterling. I ask the guy running the tables what he was looking to get out of them. Like the broken record of the day he chimmed, "A dollar for the pair". I paid the man and moved on. No more goods were uncovered on that street. The loop took me 4hrs. Did it all with mom in tow. She snagged some nice OLD pattern fiesta Sea Foam Green and some rocking wine glasses. We had a blast together for mothersday weekedn and I turned $5 into some cheap metal, kept what I wanted (the candle sticks), and turned the rest on RC to be sold to the highest bidder.

My cost =$2. Sold here for $6.75 = Profit $4.75


My cost =$1. Sold here for $62 = Profit $61


My cost =$1. Sold here for $50 = Profit $49


+ 2.5 ounces of sterling in candlesticks (im keeping) = $50 unsold profit

[Franco American]

Wow! Very impressive Mothers Day finds. I never look at the jewelery but now I am going to have to start paying more attention to it. Thanks for the idea!

[Saabman]

Sweet score! WTG!!!

[JerrySpringer]

Anybody go to the Brimfield fleamarket:

http://www.brimfield.com/

Co-worker went this past weekend. I think I may go in July. Love to see if they have books, CDs, coins, etc to haggle price over.

[natsb88]

Couple examples from a 2-day industrial auction I went to last March. Couple million dollars worth of inventory was sold, they were selling pallet lots, the contents of a whole pallet rack at a time, contents of a whole row of shelving at a time...big lots to get through it fast. Which meant a lot of the groupings were too big for me (my wallet and my vehicle) but I still managed to spend about $3k

Paid $400 for all of this stuff (actually the day after the auction, bids that were canceled for some reason):
http://www.ebay.com/itm/151072518066 (sold $775)
http://www.ebay.com/itm/151036348904
http://www.ebay.com/itm/151072531114 (sold $300)
http://www.ebay.com/itm/151080365525 (sold $85)
http://www.ebay.com/itm/151080371519 (sold $90)

Paid $28 for all of this stuff (plus a few other things not listed yet):
http://www.ebay.com/itm/151070244207
http://www.ebay.com/itm/151035699155
http://www.ebay.com/itm/151036222935
http://www.ebay.com/itm/151080344532
http://www.ebay.com/itm/151080346033
http://www.ebay.com/itm/151080350973 (sold 4 x $40)
http://www.ebay.com/itm/151080400608
http://www.ebay.com/itm/151080413389 (sold $41)
http://www.ebay.com/itm/151080325428
http://www.ebay.com/itm/151080338843

Bought a 2-pallet lot for $112 because I wanted the pneumatic press that was in it (probably worth $1k by itself) and got this with it:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/151036434072

[wheeler_dealer]

Missed last few weekends of sales due to excessive overtime at work. Finally went this past one. Found beautiful marble top table owned by same family since early 1900's beautiful condition solid, flaw free. Even made offer that was accepted. Final cost $100. Appraised $400. Overtime $$ well invested.
Two seperate neighborhood sales netted approximately 50 DVD's, set open end craftsman wrenches $3. , Sterling jewelry marked pennies on dollar. Probably will keep few items and figure to net weeks pay for three hours fun.

[JustINaVW]

I found this ashtray at a junk store. I think its aluminum but I thought Id share.

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[natsb88]

Paid $5. Sold $135.

www.ebay.com/itm/151088633482

[TheJonasCollegeFund]

Paid $5. Sold $135.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/151088633482

WOW

[blackrabbit]

24 gram .84 silver spoon from a local thrift store for 99 cents. Not a huge score but I will take it!

[JustINaVW]

I found a coin dealer at a local fela market. He had a junk bin that was 4 coins for a buck. Found 2 1968 canadin dimes in the mix. Not much but for a buck im sold.

[Frank t]

a little late but did you weigh them? im speaking from memory so please check the facts but 68 was the last year silver in canada but also the first year of clad dimes, and they will need weighed.

[JustINaVW]

Better late then never. I didnt know that. Ill have to check on that when i get home. Is 87 always 50%?

[highroller4321]

Better late then never. I didnt know that. Ill have to check on that when i get home. Is 87 always 50%?

1967 is always silver. Some of them are 80% and some are 50%. There is no easy way to tell them apart so they trade/sell figuring them at 65%.

[JustINaVW]

Well i had 4 1968 s total and i did the magnet test. 2 where silver the other 2 were not. Not sure if they are what i got at flea market or not. You can see the difference when they are side by side.

[johnbrickner]

Anybody go to the Brimfield fleamarket:

http://www.brimfield.com/

Co-worker went this past weekend. I think I may go in July. Love to see if they have books, CDs, coins, etc to haggle price over.

Used to live in the next town south, Wales. Better to peruse the local libraries for value in books. You never know what they are almost giving away.

[JustINaVW]

My sister found me a nice canvas coin bag at a yard sale for 0.50©. It has a lock but no key. The zipper isnt in the lock so its all good. Could prob fit about $1000 in halves in it.