Flipping Experiment #2: Online Auction

October 30th - Rotary Club Pin

Sold for: $4.99 Fees: $1.04

Initial Cost for this item's lot: $6.22 Profit on this lot to date: $71.53

Another one of the many Rotary Club pins sold. These make up the vast majority of the pins from this auction, so I'm glad they continue to slowly sell.

The Numbers:

Initial Overall Cost: $118.10

Number of items sold in October: 4

Number of items sold overall: 29

Gross Profit for October: $32.96

Fees to eBay: $4.40

Net Profit for October: $28.56

Net Overall Profit: $222.40

October 2nd - Princess Diana Coin

Sold for: $2.99 Fees: $0.42

Initial Cost for this item's lot: $31.08 Profit on this lot to date: $63.39

This is a Canadian coin celebrating the visit of the Prince of Wales and Lady Diana in 1981. Not worth a whole lot, but it sold.

October 13th - Queen Elizabeth Trumpet Pin

Sold for: $19.99 Fees: $2.38

Initial Cost for this item's lot: $31.08 Profit on this lot to date: $112.08

These royalty trinkets continue to sell and are doing quite well for me. I have almost made a 400% return on my investment, and still have many trinkets left to sell. This one is off to the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir, which is pretty cool!

October 17th - Queen Elizabeth Regina Coronation Coin

Sold for: $4.99 Fees: $0.56

Initial Cost for this item's lot: $31.08 Profit on this lot to date: $116.51

This is the third item from the royalty trinkets to sell this month. This one is a coin that was minted to celebrate the coronation of Queen Elizabeth.