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| Good Advice on Finding American Girl Dolls for Cheap Online
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Added on 10/25/08 by betsy
I have some advice for you guys if you are hunting online for American Girl items on the cheap. My daughter has 7 of the dolls and I also buy them all the time to sell. The most I have ever paid for a doll is $30, but that was for Lindsey the first girl of the year which I sold for $250. The last one I bought was Elizabeth for $1, the lady didn't care because her overindulgent mother-in-law had bought it as a gift for her daughter. People always ask me how do you find American Girl stuff at garage sales? Well, this is how: 1. Craigslist, if you just go onto Craigslist for your local area and click the link for "for sale" type "American Girl" into the search box at the top of the page. You will find American Girl dolls not only for sale in the "items for sale" section but also the garage sale section. Since Craigslist is free and newspapers charge per word some people go into great detail in their listings and by typing "American Girl" into that top search box you will pull up all the listings that have American Girl stuff. Another bonus of finding it at a garage sale, no shipping cost! People also are selling American Girl stuff in the classified and while some is kinda high Ebay priced, I found a woman selling 6 dolls and an Armoire for $125 for everything, she was a mom who thought played with dolls. . . (read post) |
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| Authenticity Cannot Be Guaranteed.
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Added on 01/20/08 by Betsy
I made the Goodwill circuit today, 3 Goodwills in 2 hours.
My last stop was in South Elgin, Il - it's a bit of a hike and considering my cart was empty walking out, don't think I will be walking in again soon. Something caught my eye, a sign taped to the inside of the locked 'good shit' glass case which stated in all capped Sharpie "Authenticity of Designer Purses Cannot Be Guaranteed NO REFUNDS".
Inside the case was the typical Coach resale line up: Beekman briefcase, City bag, Station bag and the unsellable Court bag. The crazy thing was that the prices were way higher than my local Goodwill for similar items, they wanted $54.99 for a City Bag that looked like it had been dragged across the Jewel parking lot on a hot day.
I wonder if Goodwill considers themselves to be an outlet store in direct competition with the Coach outlet which is about 5 miles away and where you can walk out the door with a new purse for $65 and you don't have to pick asphalt out of the seams?
Though I would be lying if I didn't cop to being rescued by a small package hidden deep within an unused pocket of my resale Coach Hamptons tote, a new Maxi pad left there by the girl scout who bought it new.
Coach outlet should take note,. . . (read post) |
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| A suggestion for Ebay customer service...
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Added on 08/07/07 by Betsy
I don't function in a normal, social, human environment.
After years of hovering over a keyboard late at night singing the
praises of whatever item I found by the side of the road that day the
last thing I want to deal with is a bitchy grumpasaurus customer.
Email tends to bring out the worst in people, or it could be that other
anti-social crumudgeon types like myself prefer to shop without social
interaction so the grumpy asshole quotient is higher.
I got accused of selling a fake bag this week.
What made me really frustrated about the whole deal was that she never
contacted me to express her suspicion and request a return. She didn't
even email me and threaten me with a negative.
She just left me a neutral and said she bought the bag under the assumption it was real and it was not.
I emailed and emailed and she totally blew me off.
The bag was real, but the serial numbers of Kate Spades are easy to miss- still she could have emailed me back.
Now the worst...
My sister and I started a business selling a local company's catalog
returns/store displays etc- they only have one outlet so it is a good
situation for us.
A customer got her item from us, and wasn't happy.
Did she contact us and ask for a return?
Did she email a. . . (read post) |
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| Route 34 Garage Sale next week
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Added on 06/06/07 by Betsy
Get out your map, hop in your pick-up with the homemade bed and get ready to haul your treasure home.
At least 50 pristine miles of my fellows from the circuit, the Goodwill cicuit, will be looking for gold along the Route 34 Garage Sales next weekend. I'm not expecting much except used Barbies with bad hair cuts and kool-aid dye jobs, but to be among my people I'll do it.
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| Resurrect Your Cashed Out Coach
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Added on 02/25/07 by Betsy
So, it's been a while.
Worry not, I have been out there hitting it hard and gathering intelligence for the benefit of the people, and I had a number of fantastic discoveries.
After years of selling Coach bags, I am well versed in the degradation of Coach leather. For some reason they don't put feet on their bags.
My theory is that by not putting feet on their bags- the bags look crappy within a few months and you have to go get a new one.
The bottoms of used Coach bags look like Aunt Edna's elbows- all dry and gray- itchy spots is what they really look like but I of course can't put that in my ebay listings.
So for years in my listings I have included the following phrase "The bottom-a typical wear spot for Coach bags- is in good used condition with only light rubbing" or "excellent rarely carried condition".
You can always tell how much a leather Coach was carried by the condition of the bottom.
A few weeks ago I found a black Coach Court bag on the Goodwill purse rack for 2.99- most likely because it had a lot of surface wear. The leather was not worn through just had the finish rubbed off from use.
So I figured what the hell and I did something I have wanted to do to Aunt Edna's elbows for a very long time.
I Kiwi'd the hell out of it.
If you have never heard of Kiwing let me clue you. . . (read post) |
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| Vintage Plushies to Collect and Sell as Lots
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Added on 01/08/07 by Betsy
It is totally crazy but I think I could write a book about old stuffed animals. I know my parents are so proud!
These are the things I collect in the stuffed animal bin that aren't really worth while to sell individually but I keep them in a rubbermaid container and sell them when I get to "lot" level.
Cabbage Patch Kids- we are talking the old school Coleco doll your gramma beat some other gramma over the head for 24 years ago. I don't really mess with collecting any of later editions.
Care Bears- Vintage bears used to be very good sellers- say 5 years ago. However sales have fallen off since the reintroduction of the toy by the Play Along company (brilliant folks did the same thing with the Cabbage Patch and Strawberry Shortcake and are making a fortune off "dead" brands). So, now I buy the vintage ones and throw them in a lot once I collect 6 or 8 bears and let people bid it out. Lots of vintage sell for $15-45. Although if you don't do your research and accidentally throw a bear worth something into the lot like Grams with her shawl who is worth $28-80 by herself then your lot could go for more.
Rainbow Brite- another doll line that used to be big money on Ebay but the Play Along people screwed it up by putting new ones on the shelf. If I see someone's old collection of Rainbow, some Sprites, horse. . . (read post) |
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| How to Get Rich Off Plushies Volume 4: the Art of the Puffalump
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Added on 01/06/07 by Betsy
I get a little excited when I see a little satiny glimpse of country blue panties.
They mean only one thing . . .
Well in the context of digging through a stuffed animal bin they mean only one thing I guess I should say.
That's the interior ear of a 1988 Puffalump bunny with the rattle inside - that is $30.00 staring up at you with vacant embroidered eyes.
I swear people regress when they go on Ebay- they start thinking . . . What was my favorite toy when I was 2? I need it, I mean my child needs it, I will pay 50 bucks for a used bunny. Hugh Hefner knows they aren't worth that much.
Other Puffies worth scrilla: pink bunny with dress $20-40, cow which I see on completed currently for nine bucks though I have sold them for $30, and of course any of the vintage ones with the rattle inside.
In addition to the bunny there are horses/ponies, puppies, bears and mice. They are all in the $15-30 range well worth your twenty-five cent investment. (read post) |
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| Selling Clothes on Ebay Sucks
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Added on 01/04/07 by Betsy
The first thing I ever sold on Ebay was a lot of Baby Gap things my son was given when he was born and never wore. I thought it was great- and it is a great way to buy clothes especially high end stuff for cheap.
I think selling clothes on Ebay sucks though.
Don't get me wrong I totally do.
See what I haven't told you guys is that I have a little problem...ok so you figured but this is a different little problem.
I love baby clothes. I spend so much time looking for stuff to sell that I naturally trip over beautiful baby clothes- who can resist Hanna Andersson for $2.12 or a Baby Lulu ensem for $3.13.
I sure as hell can't so I end up with a crazy glut of designer baby duds.
They are hard to display correctly, people always say don't put them on the floor- but what else are you supposed to do?
Seamstress dummy dealies cost a lot of money and clothes look weird on a hanger on the back of a door.
There is a very smart resale suit seller who has a beautifully landscaped pool with a wrought iron fence and she hangs the used suit so you get a beautiful view of her lovely yard...and the Goodwill suit sells for triple the similar listings.
I don't have a cement pond in the back yard.
I could dress my Golden Retriever up in a Hanna Andersson dress- he would be. . . (read post) |
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