I went to 3 estate sales and a few garage sales and it was really the first time this year I've been out garage saling. I picked up some interesting records (a Boston picture disc, Surrealistic Pillow by Jefferson Airplane and a few other interesting ones), some collectible wheaties cereal boxes, a leather ladies handbag and some large womens shoes that I decided to buy after reading the "fetish" thread talking about cross dressers liking them.

I got overly excited about the records and paid too much for them. The guy selling them was wise to their prices and would not sell them by the box or part with them for the usual $1.00/each. I still thought I could turn a profit on these though so I bought them anyway.

I also found out that its difficult to sell the collectible Wheaties boxes on ebay, there is just too much supply and not enough demand and you basically have to find the really rare old ones for them to even be worth much. I'll probably be able to make my money back, but in all, my spidey sense wasn't very sharp this weekend.

I'm putting together a video about my purchases this weekend. Will post it soon.

Mike

YAH! A new video!!!!

Sorry 'bout your "spidey" sense being off...mine seems to be sharpest when I have the least amount of cash to spend.   LOL.  

I found a Jan Van Ha^&*%& (forget the last name) puzzle at GW last week.  Went home and looked it up and found I coulda sold it for about 15-20 (2 bucks at GW)  But I had already found a boatload at GW and didn't wanna risk it.  Sigh.

Sometimes I call my dh at home with my cell from GW and ask him to look things up for me before I make the purchase. I had my youngest ds well-trained in this but he moved out.

Our library has an on-going book sale shelf. All I have to do is take them to the pc and look them up and then decide if I want them or not. Pretty convenient! Ha! (if they only knew!)

I too have my go to people to call from GW or estate sales.  We use code phrases.

"Hey, Dave, do you think Aunt Ellen would like _____________"

And then we give details once Dave has gotten to ebay to look up completed auctions.

Your last post inspired me to do a video on techniques that people use to find out what items are worth before they buy. I posted a new video in the blog section. Hope you like it!

http://www.weekendtreasure.com/blog/?p=18

This post was last modified: 02-20-2008 03:04 AM by weekendtreasure.

So cool Mike - but you need to post that in a separate thread so no one will miss it.

Looks good.

I liked it. That was very good and informative! I might have to get a blackberry one of these days. As it is, I organized a list of helpers on YSQ called "phone-a-friend" and there are 2 different groups with 6 on each and we all have one another's phone number, time zone and when to call. I have used it a few times and have been also called upon too.

I have also seen people at GW with some sort of scanner scanning books and cherry-picking the books. not sure what that was.

I agree with GoodwillHunter...this topic needs a thread of it's own!
It will get missed under this heading!

This post was last modified: 02-20-2008 09:23 AM by FrugalFrog.

I called my SIL just the other day when shopping with a friend at Salvation Army - she found a I Dream of Jeanie game for $12 - SIL wasn't home but my brother looked it up for us.

Amy bought it - and its up to $37 the last time I looked.

Wow, that was a good find!

Interesting. Is it this game?