More killer bunnies!

Bought: $45.00 Sold: $144.76 Fees: $15.47 Profit: $84.29

My brother was at a geek market the week after I sold my last copy of Killer Bunnies red booster, and said that this person was selling not only the red booster, but also the violet booster which is also out of print, along with the base game and yellow booster. All for $45. I told him to grab it, and it finally sold. This copy was open, so people want to pay less, but helped that I had two out of print versions. Not a bad flip at all. I will continue to be looking out for these expansions. So much profit in these small boosters. 

Who wants to go sailing?

Bought: $11.29 Sold: $32.65 Fees: $3.95 Profit: $17.41

Models seem to be things that can sell, but also can sit forever. I wasn't sure about a sail boat model kit - I had two listed for a few months - and this one had a number of watchers. There was a number for sale on eBay, but I was the lowest by a few dollars. I had a few offers, but nothing reasonable until today when I got an offer of $20, with an asking of $25. There is clearly demand for this model, but not one that has people running out to buy it at the current market price. Oh, well, glad to make another sale, and a decent profit. 

How do you tell time in the dark?

Bought: $11.30 Sold: $52.32 Fees: $0.00 Profit: $41.02

This was an odd find at VV. I had checked the electronics section and found nothing in it, so kept going. I always double back just to make sure I hadn't missing anything, and upon doubling back I saw this at the power table (where you can check to see if electronics work). It was plugged in, and it was working. So clearly someone had found it - not sure where - and had brought it to test, and then left it. To be fair, it did have a bit of a steep price tag, but I grabbed it, and a quick eBay search showed me I was smart to do so. I got home and checked it, and it worked perfectly. This is a darkroom glow-in-the-dark timer. It allows you to be able to time how long photos have been in the various solutions without using a light to display the time, which would alter the photos. A pretty clever and simple design. It is vintage, but works great. It is heavy, and fragile to a degree. I hope that it survives both CanadaPost and the USPS, fingers crossed. Thankfully this was one of the five items I listed under eBay's 5-items-for-free deal, and so had no fees, which made it an even nicer profit. 

First sale of the month - another Avalon Hill game

Bought: $14.68 Sold: $85.05 Fees: $9.67 Profit: $60.70

Having sold this game before, when I saw it sitting in VV I knew I had to grab it. I bought it along with a number of other Avalon Hill games that day, all of them about $15. They were a good grab, and while this was the first of the lot to sell, considering how well I've managed to sell Avalon Hill games in the past I am not worried. Always a good flip and a great way to start off the month!

October Recap

Third month has come and gone, and the first month of Q4 (supposedly the most profitable due to sales for Christmas)

I sold 22 items.

I spent $108.09 on those items.
I sold those items for $601.05
I paid $69.92 in fees to eBay.

I made a profit of $423.34

While I didn't quite break my goal of $500 in October, it was still my most profitable month to date, and the month I sold the most things. I'm almost at one item a day!

Last sale of the Month

Bought: $4.50 Sold: $20.00 Fees: $0.00 Profit: $15.50

I was at VV with Chris who found this bag of beads, all in plastic boxes, for four dollars. He said I would be able to sell them for sure, no problem. Well, once I got home I realized that they would be impossible to sell on eBay. There are 1,000s of listings for beads. No one would ever find mine. So I put them on Kijiji and forgot about them. Every couple weeks I'd get someone interested, but they never worked out until this week. After about 5 weeks of sitting on these, they finally sold. I would NEVER buy this type of thing again. Anything that is generic, with no brand name, even if a lot of it and at a good price, is very hard to sell. If someone can't find it easily, you will not sell it. 

Who is online buying kids toys at 11:30 pm on Halloween?!?!

Bought: $4.50 Sold: $32.70 Fees: $4.41 Profit: $23.79

I picked this up at VV, and was hoping to sell it locally on Kijiji since it was so big. Thankfully the play set was complete in box, but despite this I had no interest on Kijiji. Finally listed it on eBay, and it instantly got a number of views and followers. It sold, and the person paid $25 USD for the item, and $21 USD to ship it. Shipping big or heavy items to the states by CanadaPost is brutal. I'm quite jealous of the American postal rates, and it does make it a lot harder to flip from Canada. I have to lower my prices to compete with their significantly discounted shipping. That being said, I still made a profit, and this large box is gone from my basement.