Still Truckin'

Until the next nutcase or 4 comes along.

Despite other peoples complaints about no traffic and no sales, I keep on trucking with the ebay sales. When one batch of crap runs out of steam, I change horses in mid-stream and change the merchandise for a bit. I don't stray far from my comfort zone, because when you do that, you fuck up, and buyers screw your ass over.

Today I had someone wanting to pay with a money order. If I didn't think the Gestapo was watching, I'd have taken them up on it, but like a good brownie, I informed them it was against policy and that I had to stay on the straight and narrow.

A friend of mine who runs a brick and mortar shop came across a shit ton of things he knew I dabbled in, and offered for me to take the items and list them and split the proceeds because he and his daughter don't have time to deal with them.

When a guy came in and sold him the stuff, I was there, and he could see me salivating and shitting bricks over some things that came in the lot. He gave them to me and said "work your magic" and I have. I put 3 hours in research, and an hour or two of photography, another hour and a half for the write ups.

He also made me take 3 rubbermaid containers of collector plates that he had previously called me in about and told me "same deal". Seeing as these aren't your run-of-the-mill Bradford Exchange crap, and I have a knowledge base because I used to collect them, I reluctantly agreed. Now they sit in the living room taking up a ton of real estate, but I've got enough bids on some of them, that 2 of the containers should be gone by the end of the week.

There are hardly any auctions going on this week because of the holidays, so I have very little of my own inventory to deal with. Works for me though...not having to waste gas, then time at an auction, and being out several hundred in cash flow for a week and just doing what I normally do if it were my stuff...a no brainer.

I did things my way and offered free shipping on some shit and will also cover the fees, so it will be more of a 40/60 split when all is said and done, but that's fine, all I have into it is time and packing supplies, so it's a more than fair deal for me...though it seems that when I sell someone elses shit, I tend to get the crazies, such as my MIL's plates that attracted a negative doling buyer and also a thief.  We'll see...