posted on September 19, 2000 02:51:56 AM
I love reading success stories and great deals bought and sold. There should be more of these upbeat positive posts to get us all in the Ebaying mood.
Well here is my great deal story for today.
My Stepmother is a Yard Sale Queen! She goes 3 days a week and spends at least $100 in a weekend and she goes every weekend.
She gets great deals and also buys out yard sales when the people don't want to put the stuff back in the house.
Well I haven't visited in a while we live in different states but when I talked to my dad I got some really good news.
Seems she did all this to have her own sales and make some money only she never did.
So Dad says if I ever come visit he is sending half of this "crap" home with me.
The house is full, His travel trailer is full, his garage is half full and 2 sheds are full.
Well I didn't argue with him and just so happens that this weekend we are going down for a visit. The visit had already been planned before I got this news.
So which will I spend more time doing... Visiting? or prowling and loading?
I must visit more often!
There's my happy story for today.
Have a great day!!
posted on September 19, 2000 09:07:17 AM
ha! my friend hit a bunch of auctions and bought loads of crap with the intention of having a rummage sale. she had the sale, 3/4 of the crap is still in her garage (from last april!) and they're moving. now her big question is what to do with all the crap in the garage? i say, have a huge bon fire.
my happy story: car wouldn't start sunday. turned out to need a new battery and the old one was under warrantee. after prorating it out, i got a new battery for $18! i was expecting a big bill.
posted on September 19, 2000 09:28:40 AM
Greatest estate sale find:
I searched 15 years for a 1971 Olds Vista Cruiser- the huge stationwagon that looks like a Cutlass and has windows on the roof. Unfortunately, a restored one runs $5k and up, unrestored are near impossible to find. Well, I went to an estate sale, and there in the garage, a 1971 Vista. The woman who owned it bought it new, when she was 72 years old...her son was selling it for her (he was 78 years old). He was asking $500, but was so concerned about selling it to me without knowing how well it would run, marked the price down to $300!!!!! Near mint condition- Rocket 455 engine, Quadrajet 4-barrell carb, three bench seats, 8 MPG- my dream car--the ANTI-MINIVAN. I'm driving it all around town, and get to hear folks "my parents had one of those" stories. Without question, my all-time best estate sale deal!
posted on September 21, 2000 08:15:55 AM
Texmontana, what a great story!! I bet the car was well kept too!I am off to my fathers house to see what I can dig up. He will be happy to rid some of this stuff and hopefully I can find some good stuff.
Keep those good stories rollin! I know not everybody is having troubles with Ebay and PayPal.
posted on September 21, 2000 08:59:08 AM
While the stories of an individual item or transaction are great I think the greatest success story is much broader.
The positive implications that online selling has had on tens of thousands of people and famalies is where the real life changing impact is occuring.
Life changing for the people involved and for the community they are a part of. And with the Internet, isn't the entire world becoming our community?
I think it may be too big to be seen much like a million trees is a forest to large to be fully appreciated.
So we share the "little" stories and go about finding our own direction more empowered than people have ever been in all of history.
The journey is the real success. The "I found" are bonuses.
posted on September 21, 2000 09:56:20 AM
I have had a few spectacular (to me) finds and subsequent sales, but my favorite part of this business is selling something to somebody who has been looking for it for years, and is so happy to finally get it.
Like the car story above, I have had people thrilled to buy a book their grandfather wrote, or music their mother performed on stage 50 years ago. Some days, the fact that I've made a bit of a profit is much less important than these delightful emails from across the country expressing such happiness at having found that elusive "something" the person has been looking for.
uh huh. that's what i thought!