I am honestly just curious on this and I will probably get bashed for this, but here goes...
Does your blog actually make any money / or should I say, make more money than you are selling your items for each month? I also read that you or a relative was working on writing an e-book?
Why would you want to ENCOURAGE others to buy/sell the same kind of items that you are selling? I only say this because before long, the type of items you sell will become saturated with people just giving them away. The items you sell are rather common finds and can be found for cheap in many places. If you teach too many people how to sell them in the manner that you are doing you are just shooting yourself in the foot.
The reason you can get so much money for these items is because others just don't know how to list like you do. Sure, there are a number of people that specialize like you do, but it's just not well known. I'm not going to lie, the stuff you are selling is stuff we used to throw out at all of the auction houses I used to work for. Nobody wanted it, nobody buys it. It's still like that today.
All of these lamps / syroco / mirrors, etc can be had at most auctions for under $5.
For example:
http://cgi.ebay.com/HOLLYWOOD-REGEN...140?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1e635e4454
I am going to an auction on Friday that has a set of 3 of these. Odds are I can pick them all up for under $15. Heck, in the past I've seen auctioneers STRUGGLE to get $3 for them.
I know you will say you aren't greedy, etc., it's better to be generous and give. But one day, all of your goodwill will bite you in the rear end. Just trying to help you out.
I'm sure some others here can attest to how much money you USED to be able to make on ebay. There was a time you could slap ANYTHING up there and it would bring money that would shock you. Then everybody started bragging about how much money they were making and entire collectibles categories just became saturated. What was selling for $80 with ease would have a dozen people selling it for $8 a year later.
Just be careful if you want this to continue to be fun and profitable. You've already taught dozens of people or more on this forum alone about hollywood regency, etc that weren't aware of it before. I know I wasn't, that's for sure. Neither was my buddy. Now we both actively seek out these items to list them for stupidly high prices. There are currently 2,346 Hollywood Regency items listed. Before long you will see 12,000 listed and there won't be enough buyers out there to keep up with supply. Then people start lowering their prices until the prices meet demand.
/end rant
