Best TS find

Punatic

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Feb 25, 2014
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Probably a lot of mint redline hotwheels for $35, sold most for $660 and kept the best 3 worth around $300 for free!

It also for me addicted to hot wheels tho...
 

leadnbrass

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Apr 2, 2005
106
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Shenandoah Valley VA
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Single item was a Curta Calculator that appeared to have been never used $1.95 at a Goodwill and sold for $1500.00 that night.

Multiple items were 15 complete WWII British Battledress jacket and trouser sets...they all appeared to be "new" and had rare (though I forget now) patches on them. I really thought they were reproductions. I had them looked at and they were legit. They were $9.99 each set at the same Goodwill as the calculator. I ran them all as an auction and the lowest I got was $400 for one set and one went for $850...think the total was $7000 or so. Cant remember the exact figure as it was a couple years ago.

Always wondered how all those British uniforms showed up at a Goodwill in the states.
 

deserdog

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May 17, 2013
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I have never made any huge scores, but have found several books that sold for over $150.00, cooking items that sold for$80.00 to $100.00 and lots of things that I made 10 times the money I paid. Never know what you are going to find at a thrift store.
 

anne_ke73

Newbie
Mar 30, 2015
3
7
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A Walt Disney-designed Vernon Kilns Fantasia vase. Bought it for $1.50, suspecting it was something good. Sold for $1500 on eBay. :cat:
 

Beachkid23

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Oct 26, 2013
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Goodwill had sterling silver plates for $1.99 a pair. They had a complete set of eight and they were bread plates. Paid six dollars and I believe they were close to 17 ounces Of silver.

Another time they had over half a flatware set of sterling silver ware. It was $78 on sale so I ended up paying somewhere around $35 for it plus tax. Sent it to the refinery and got close to $700 for it.
 

Turbo21

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Jun 24, 2014
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Picked up a tiger lazer tag set new in box for $12. Sold for around $300

Also got a wallace grand baroque Sterling tea strainer for $2. Sold for $200
 

Gold_Hunter

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Dec 31, 2013
24
10
WY
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I have had quite a few small items where I paid $1-2 and made $100, but never a big ticket item like you guys have!

Yesterday, I sold a very strange cd called "Current 93 Current". I paid $2.00 at a thrift store out of town and it just went for $109.99.
 

kali_is_my_copilot

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Feb 10, 2014
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One big gold score, an 8.5g 14k tie bar in a (tiny) $5 bag of men's jewelry. Best silver scores for size were a 250+ g sterling bowl for $14 at an antique mall and a 2 oz sterling cuff for .99 at GW. Best designer silver was a pair of Ed Levin earrings for around five bucks from a local store, sold on ebay for eighty bucks!
 

Picasimus

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Apr 24, 2016
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I bought a 1940's LeCoultre Amos clock from a local T.S. paid $50 for it, sold it for $450. I had $53 dollars in my pocket that day.......
 

Beans

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May 31, 2008
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Back when LEGOs were an hot item I bought a tub full at the local TS. Paid 30 made 300+. Tub full of old battery operated Thomas the Train. Paid once again 30 made 500+.
 

1treasurehunter1

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Feb 24, 2013
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Best thrift store score was a geometrical abstract Scandinavian style sculpture. It was silver in color and really heavy. I thought it looked like an interesting piece and assumed it was lead plated with silver. I ended up buying it for $6.

It passed all the silver acid tests I threw at it. It had no hallmarks whatsoever. I drilled into it and melted the bits of silver material into a silver button on a potato (poor man's crucible).

I took the button to a local coin shop, he used an xrf machine and it came out as 99.3% silver. Total weight: 2300 grams. He offered 85% of spot price for it.

Its pretty beat up, only good for scrap; should I take the 85%?
 

GibH

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May 17, 2009
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85% would be around $1100. Yeah, I'd take that on a $6 investment.
 

JimDon

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May 6, 2009
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This 18kt gold Chinese wedding bracelet. For $1.99.1.25ozt. ImageUploadedByTreasureNet.com1462678081.380872.jpg
 

CladSpends2

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Jan 11, 2010
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I have the urge to write some b.s. story of meeting my wife of 30 years this July in a thrift store and how it has been nothing but peaches and cream and happily ever after..............................but I won't. LOL Even if you would believe I met her in a TS, you would never buy the happily ever after b.s. LOL

T.
 

trdhrdr007

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Nov 1, 2009
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No idea what my best thrift store find was. I've picked up several gold items priced at $5 or less that I resold in the $1-500 range. My absolute best score of all time was a house I bought at the tax auction for $538. In my neck of the woods you have to pay taxes for an additional 3 years at which time you get the deed. After that I had to pay a lawyer to do a quiet title action. By the end of the deal I spent right around $3000. Sold the house for $54,500.
 

billjustbill

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Feb 23, 2008
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Texas
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I bought a 1940's LeCoultre Amos clock from a local T.S. paid $50 for it, sold it for $450. I had $53 dollars in my pocket that day.......

I found one of those Atmos clocks two weeks ago. Everything is there, it's level both ways, and I've adjusted the areas I can reach. It just won't keep running.... It's a 91,000 serial number and a 526-5 caliber. Wonderful concept to run on a 1 degree change in room temperature! Quiet as a mouse (especially when it doesn't stay running longer than 3 minutes...)

I'm curious as to the way you sold yours. Any pointers?

Thanks,
Bill
 

Beachkid23

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Oct 26, 2013
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Bought this last week. Sterling service for 8 ~ $250. 1590 grams not including the knives. Heirloom sterling even had the serving pieces. Not for sale!

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Picasimus

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Apr 24, 2016
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Billjustbill, we put it on eBay. Started the bidding at $125(I was offered that much from someone in town) with a B.I.N. of $450. Bidding went to $275 over the course of 2-3 hours. Then out of the blue here comes a guy that paid the $450.....
 

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