jackragusa
Greenie
- Nov 13, 2010
- 19
- 13
- Primary Interest:
- Prospecting
Making money running garage sales can be very easy to do, if you keep one very important thing in mind. Thats "ALWAYS KEEP AN OPEN MIND'. Thats it. I have bought a 3,500.00 carpet extraction machine at one sale for 20 bucks. Just because the belt on the brush assembly was broken. A simple fix for another 20 bucks. They said it didnt work right and it was as is.
I bought a tackle box full of tackle for 50 bucks and sold off all the old wooden plugs seperately through ebay for , well you dont want to know. another deal was I bought four large boxes of old wooden duck and goose decoys from out of a barn from a nice old lady for 600 dollars. There was about 75 ducks and 15 geese in the boxes, and all in pretty good shape. She said some one offered her 300 dollars, so I doubled it. Made her happy and I made my investment back on just three geese decoys.
One of my best scores was an old couple was selling a bunch of boxes of old misc, stuff. She must of had 50 or 60 boxes all in rows in the front yard. I asked her how much a box of old doll parts were and she said" I want 5 dollars a box". So I bought all the boxes.Loaded the van full. There were three boxes of old german doll heads and hands and feet .I think enough to make maybe 20 or so dolls. I got 250 dollars for just one doll head on ebay.
So in ending this, never be affraid of taking a chance and always have an open mind and the profits will come.....
I bought a tackle box full of tackle for 50 bucks and sold off all the old wooden plugs seperately through ebay for , well you dont want to know. another deal was I bought four large boxes of old wooden duck and goose decoys from out of a barn from a nice old lady for 600 dollars. There was about 75 ducks and 15 geese in the boxes, and all in pretty good shape. She said some one offered her 300 dollars, so I doubled it. Made her happy and I made my investment back on just three geese decoys.
One of my best scores was an old couple was selling a bunch of boxes of old misc, stuff. She must of had 50 or 60 boxes all in rows in the front yard. I asked her how much a box of old doll parts were and she said" I want 5 dollars a box". So I bought all the boxes.Loaded the van full. There were three boxes of old german doll heads and hands and feet .I think enough to make maybe 20 or so dolls. I got 250 dollars for just one doll head on ebay.
So in ending this, never be affraid of taking a chance and always have an open mind and the profits will come.....
, jackragusa.
). I'll see how it ends next Sunday night on Ebay. 
