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Good Advice on Finding American Girl Dolls for Cheap Online

0 comments 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)

Season 1 Ep 6: Replacements.com, Selling China, Ship UPS

Added on 02/23/08 by Betsy

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This Week's Show: How to get in to the China game.

Replacements.com

1. What is Replacements?

"The world's largest selection of old & new dinnerware," founded by a former junker named Bob Page

2. What do they want from sellers?

    Plates from those who eat lightly
    No Crazing
    No Stains
    No Chip
    No utensil marks

3. How do I sell to them?

    Find China at your favorite resale shop, garage sale or estate sale
    Call 1 (800) - Replace to see if they are buying
    If they are you will get an offer via email that is good for 30. . . (read post)

Season 1 Ep 5: The Resale Queen asnwers your questions, email and comments

0 comments Added on 02/16/08 by Betsy

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This Week's Show: Your Questions and Email.

The Resale Queen asnwers your questions, email and comments

1. And what in the world do you want with two old couch cushions with no covers that got moldy because I couldn't get them dry after my wife spilled breast milk on them?
2. How many days a week would you say you need to go to Goodwill to find the best amount of good stuff?
3. Many more!

Next week: Auction Followup and Resale Etiquette.

Most of you will know us from our podcast Croncast. . . (read post)

Season 1 Ep4: Ebay Feedback and Seller's Fee Changes

0 comments Added on 02/09/08 by Betsy

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This Week's Show: Ebay Feedback and Seller's Fee Changes.

Read changes: http://pages.ebay.com/sell/update08/overview/index.html

Betsy gets to the heart of what is bothering her with Ebay
New changes with Feedback and Fees on Ebay will have a major impact on sellers
Double gloved for you love - dumpster diving protection
Every junker has 30 Sharpies and 29 are bone dry
It's like finding bubble wrap in a dumpster
Sellers can no longer leave Buyers negative feedback
This is a big mistake
It makes the marketplace artificial
Sellers are the lifeblood of Ebay, without them there are no buyers or Ebay
This is the change that create competitors
It is up to the sellers to create a great environment for buyers
You are doing brand management for Ebay
Ebay and junkin is like being on the Antiques. . . (read post)

Season 1 Ep 3: Dumpster Diving Checklist, Leave it Running, Picking from Neighborhoods

0 comments Added on 02/02/08 by Betsy

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This Week's Show: Dumpster Diving Checklilst.

Suburban dumpster diving
Location, location, location
Know the front end - don't want any surprises
Get to know routine
Scout for employees/cops/palette pickers
Leave a car running and ready with door open
Get your stuff and go
Get greedy get hurt
Picking from neighborhoods
Never look the home owner in the eye
How does it change for urban and rural environments?
You have to knock on the dumspter first to get out racoons and feral cats

Next week: Next week we talk eBay Feedback and Fees.

Links: Dawn Shumate sent these great dumpster diving resources. Thanks Dawn!!

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(these links buy gas for the wagon)

	Get a Coach on eBay!

	Find all dumpster divings on eBay!

Season 1 Ep 2: Resale Kit, On the Driveway, No Co-Pilots

0 comments Added on 01/26/08 by Betsy

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This Week's Show: What you need in your resale kit.
Cell phone
Don't call, but text
Don't draw attention to yourself
Use misinformation
1. Screw drivers - all kinds and Allen Wrenches
    a. Tape measure
2. Batteries - all kinds to test the toys
3. Magic Erasers - cleans everything
4. Grubby t-shirt - also for cleaning and camouflage
5. Knife
6. Some boiled potato type of dude to look stuff up
7. Car should be prepared
    a. Baby seat Removed
    b. Gas tank filled up
8. Black Light - to see if McLovin owned your product at one time
9. Stack of newspaper - so you can look homeless but also wrap your own stuff

Most of you will know us from our podcast (read post)

Season 1 Ep 1: Resale Issues, Expired Food Sale, The Night Before

0 comments Added on 01/19/08 by Betsy

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You've waited long enough!
I am now doing a weekly show focused on what else but resale
We'll talk resale issues and community trends
On this show we talk about how I got into this
Because you need some background
Most of you will know most of this from our podcast Croncast (every M-W-F)
And then I lay it all down
Topic: What to do the night before to prepare
I guarantee you haven't thought of some things that give you an advantage
Next week: What to keep in your resale readiness kit

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SOLD - Expressly Yours Oval Santa Christmas Plate Platter

0 comments Added on 01/09/08 by Betsy

The Resale Queen sold another something.

You can check it out here. (read post)

Garage Sale Season Ends and the Holidays Begin

0 comments Added on 11/03/07 by Betsy

This is my favorite time of year. After the Dirty Nurse costume is packed away for another year and before Aunt Trudy, the original Dirty Nurse shows up for Thanksgiving, it's clean out the house time.

The time of year when people call Empire carpet to freshen up for the Aunt Trudy. And how can sweet Aunt Trudy squeal with jealousy over the new Berber if she can't see it?

Time to take everything to Goodwill.

For the Ebay seller it is when we kick it into high gear, clear our calendars and hang out all day at the local thrift shop. It does seem strange that people would wait until the frost hits to clean out their house, but with holiday fast approaching Goodwill will fill with large toys, TVs, stuffed animals and clothing as people make room for the new.

Any mom looking at the Toys R Us Wish Book becomes increasingly clausterphobic at the idea of being surrounded with additional hunks of purple, pink and blue plastic.

Your job as a Suburban Recycling Professional is to turn those forgotten 2006 Little Tikes kitchens, American Girl dolls and Fisher Price Loving Family Dollhouses and market yesterday's trash as Christmas morning treasure. Good luck people.
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A suggestion for Ebay customer service...

0 comments 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)