Thursday, March 7, 2013

Things I Never Thought Would Sell

I've been an online seller, first on my own "homemade" website back when AOL gave us free webpages for our "pictures" and then on eBay since 1996.  And so while I was rummaging around in my picture files, thinking I'd show you all my wonderful "scores" and sales, I realized, it might be more fun to show you things I never thought would sell but which did and try to figure out what I sold them for. (It's been a long while for some of the ones I'll end up showing you.

So, in order not to bore you, I figure I'll make this a "feature" periodically. Whenever I have 3-4 pictures of things that I never thought would sell but it did.

For the inaugural post, here are a couple:


These were "no name" clowns, China, contemporary (meaning not more than 10 years old but actually probably straight off the boat from China.  They came in a box lot from an auction. I listed them, I unlisted them.  I put them in the yard sale.  Finally I stuck them in my ebay store for about a year.
And evenutally they sold as a set for about $20. 



These are just as "contemporary" as the clowns, they were from another auction and another box lot.  They has some price stickers on them that looked like they were from some place like Marshalls or TJ Max.  Greenish tinge to the glass and blubbles...lots of bubbles.  The fan vase has the bublbles in such a fashion it looked like they'd been pushed into neat little rows. 

Each one sold for $19.95 but it took a long time. And honestly?? i thought I'd have to break them to get rid of them, but someone loved them more than me. 

Then there's  Kokopelli as I named this.  It looked like someone's art project but it was framed nicely and matted (and it's not nearly as small as it looks, it was I think 10 x 14.. so not huge but not a postage stamp either.  I think this sold for $24.95.
 
And what does this all prove?? One of my favorite mantras, "You can't sell it if it ain't listed".

What did you ever list on eBay that you thought would never sell (or put in to your Brick & Mortar store thinking you'd probably die still owning it??)