Commissioned Sale: Lot of 6 Copeland Spode India Tree

Sale Price: $79.99 Fees:$12.19 Profit: $67.80

My 30% cut of the Profit: $20.34

One of my mom's friends asked me to sell some china and crystal she had for her on eBay. She had quite a lot of it and it was mainly brands that seemed to sell, so I agreed. These have been sitting in my basement for close to a year before I finally got around to listing them, of course I got around to it just before I left for two months, so it falls on Robin to mail this now. I've always been hesitant to sell fragile things, and I'm quite nervous to see if these arrive safely. I did my best to pack them well and safely, so we will see. This lot of 6 cereal bowls sold to someone in Canada, so it doesn't have to cross the border so hopefully gets treated a bit better. We shall see.

Robin's Commission while I'm in Moncton: $99.46

Commissioned Sale: Sorcerer's Apprentice Pin

Sale Price: $9.99 Fees:$2.96 Profit: $7.03

My 30% cut of the Profit: $2.11

Another pin, this one featuring three Mickeys as the Sorcerer's Apprentice from Fantasia. Robin is going to make some good profit from all these pin sales.

Robin's Commission while I'm in Moncton: $91.31

Gap Kids Yo-Yo

Bought: $4.51 Sold: $12.00 Fees: $2.28 Profit: $5.21

This is a Yo-Yo sold at Gap Kids that includes an electronic counter. I found it new in box at VV and figured someone out there would want it. It sat for along time with no interested and then I got a reall low offer today, much lower than I wanted, but I was in the mood to sell and I'm not sure I could realistically get anymore than this for it, so I accepted the offer. At least it's a sale!

Robin's Commission while I'm in Moncton: $89.20

Commissioned Sale: Lot of 95 Disney Pins

Sale Price: $750.00 Fees:$121.14 Profit: $628.86

My 30% cut of the Profit: $188.66

This is what I was hoping would happen - someone contacted me asking if the could buy some of the pins and combine shipping. When they said they wanted to buy 95 (almost all of the 101 countdown to the Millennium pins I had left), I offered them a discount and threw in free shipping (it was shipping inside Ontario), so they paid $750 for 95 pins! The fees were a lot due to the high price and I included the $30 shipping in that cost, but at the end of the day I made a very tidy 30%. Unfortunately since I'm in Moncton, I asked Chris to mail these for me. I didn't feel it was fair to ask Robin to do it, and Chris agreed to do it for $50. So at the end of the day I made $138 on this sale - not too shabby!

Flipping Experiment #1: Comic and Anime statues, comics and posters - Month #12

April 30th - Marvel X-Men Women Poster

Sold for: $55.00 Fees: $8.96

Another one of the vintage X-Men posters. This one featuring three of the X-Men women in bikinis by the pool, including Rogue with her confederate flag towel. I'm surprised this one took so long to sell, I thought for sure it would go faster. A nice sale to end the month on.

The Numbers:

Initial Cost: $2,000 

Number of items sold in April: 6

Number of items sold overall: 83

Gross Profit for April: $154.96

Fees to eBay: $29.17

Net Profit for April: $125.79

Net Overall Profit: $2363.28

Chris and I have recouped our initial investment, and each made a profit of $1204.66

April 10th - X-Men Poster

Sold for: $39.99 Fees: $7.01

This is a poster of a few of the X-Men drawn by Jim Lee in the 1990's. We had two copies of this poster, and both were pretty badly squished and as such had folds. I explained that in the listing and first buyer had no issue, so hopefully this buyer isn't bothered either. These posters have been selling a lot better than I expected, wish I had listed them sooner. This is also the first sale of my 12th month of selling stuff from this locker. It has almost been a year since I bought it all, and Chris and I have recovered our initial investment and then made back that amount again, and now are still making money, so it has paid off quite well.

April 18th - Witchblade Tomb Raider Comics

Sold for: $19.99 Fees: $4.07

A lot of three comics from the Witchblade Tomb Raider cross-over. None of these comics sales are huge sales, but they add up, and there are enough of them to make it worthwhile.

April 21st - 2 Wildcats Comics

Sold for: $4.99 Fees: $1.77

This is two copies of the same comic issue - WildC.A.T.S. #50. It has a wraparound foil cover, and is the eptiomy of the horror that was the 90's comic collecting fad. No idea why this guy had two of these, I guess he figured they would be worth big bucks one day. The value of this comic was about $5, but we knew with shipping costs we would never sell one for that price, so we hoped by offering the two for the value of one someone would pay the shipping, and they did! No idea why anyone wants two copies of a bad comic, but a sale is a sale.

April 23rd - Two Vampirella Ash Can Comics

Sold for: $30.00 Fees: $5.75

We had a lot of 7 Vampirella Ash Cans for sale, and someone asked if I would sell just two of them. I agreed, but charged him 50% of the whole lot, which he agreed with. I know that these two are the most valuable of the lot, but I'm sure the other lot will still sell (I lowered the price now) and $30 for two comics is not bad at all.

April 27th - The Tenth Comic

Sold for: $4.99 Fees: $1.61

This is just a single comic of a not-very popular comic that ran for 14 issues in 1997, but $5 for a comic is a good price considering you'd be lucky to get even $1 for most modern comics. Sold to someone in Manitoba, always nice to see stuff staying in Canada.

Star Wars RPG Book

Bought: $7.90 Sold: $30.70 Fees: $3.96 Profit: $18.84

Chris' 5% Commission: $0.94

Chris picked this up at VV, and it is the instruction guide for playing the Star Wars RPG. The book usually sells closer to $50, but this copy was pretty beat up and the pages had separated from the spine. It was a fast sale (only a few weeks) and a good profit - until I share it with Chris and Robin...

Robin's Commission while I'm in Moncton: $87.12

Commissioned Sale: Lot of 6 Asterix Comic Trades

Sale Price: $45.00 Fees:$7.95 Profit: $37.05

My 50% cut of the Profit: $18.53

These are six Asterix comic books. These can sell well depending on the edition, as some are rarer than others. I see theses occasionally but haven't ever picked them up. Chris picked these up at VV at some point with the intention to sell them himself but never got around to it and so asked me to sell them for him when he moved. Not a bad price for 6 books.

Robin's Commission while I'm in Moncton: $79.96