My own garage finds

[gordon and tanner]

After the coin roll hunting forum this is the one I visit 2nd most on Treasurenet. I enjoy your stories and finds. My life is busy so I do not often visit garage sales. Lately I have been searching in my own garage. I have made some nice "finds". I just finished up an E bay auction of some old push button light switches and an old outlet. These have been in a box in may garage for over 15 years. I listed them on Craigs for a couple of months for $10 and had no takers. I next tried Ebay they sold for $24.50 plus $8.49 for shipping. Here is a link to the sale: Lot 3 Vintage Push Button Light Switchs and 1 Cool Hubble Outlet with Cover | eBay
I hope the link still works.

I also sold off some Dungeons and Dragons miniature lead figures. I have had these in a shoe box for over 30 years. They sold for $20 plus $3.59 shipping. Here is a link to them: Dungeons and Dragons Miniatures Lot of 10 Warriors Orc Monsters Etc | eBay

It has been fun cleaning out my garage and selling my "finds". Take a look around your garage and see what you have on hand to sell. I have yet to venture into my attic.

PS I often year people on this forum complain about E bay Fees. When I was in my 20's before E bay and Craig's list. I used to buy and sell houses. One house I bought had a ton of vintage photography equipment, photos, vintage porn, negatives etc. My buddy and I loaded all the photo equipment up in his pickup truck and went to a bunch of photo studios around Detroit to see who might be interested in the photo equipment. After about four stops a guy offered us $300 cash for the equipment. I also new and antique deal who specialized in photos, postcard and paper. He gave us $500 for all the negatives, photos, vintage porn, and other stuff that was in the photo room of the house I bought. If there would have been Ebay at that time I would have gladly paid their fees to expose the stuff for sale to buyers around the USA and world. Therefore I do not complain about Ebay fees. I never would have sold my push button switches for $24.50 (minus Ebay fees)

Keep on searching (your own garage)
Dad and Tanner

 

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[diggummup]

Thanks for posting. I agree about the complaints.

 

[jerseyben]

Thanks for posting. I agree about the complaints.

Amen! Great post.

 

[Beachkid23]

I would say your own house is the best way to start off. Whenever I teach somebody how to sell on eBay I tell them to start stuff around the house. you get to learn about stuff, how to look it up, the sold listings. you don't have to fork out any money cause you already spent it on the things and if you don't like selling stuff, you didn't go out and buy a whole bunch of items that you don't want to sell.

I started off with baseball cards that I had when I was a kid. They weren't worth a whole lot of money but when you have kids and bills any extra money is a blessing!

Good job on the garage finds. It sounds like there's probably several more to be found! [emoji122][emoji122][emoji122]