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Massive purchase of stuff to flip from a lurker here
Posted on 4/21/21 at 5:34 pm
Posted on 4/21/21 at 5:34 pm
Last week, a friend of mine (and a lurker here) contacted me out of the blue. He was a picker like me, but moved to Portland about ten years ago. He told me he enjoys my posts here on my flips, and he was coming back to town to clean out his storage unit of stuff he bought/collected years ago.
He told me if I’d help him, I could make a pile, and he would give me a great price.
Before I got there, he had already pulled out and made a pile for me that probably wouldn’t even fit in my truck.
I help him for a few hours, pull out a ton of stuff (10x10 packed floor to ceiling).
I make my pile and he says $300. I told home to send me his email, I’d pay him via PayPal. He takes a few days to send it to me, and when he does, I paid him $500, because I didn’t realize the value of some of this stuff.
The pile
1974 football signed by team/coaches (sold $150)
Whisky decanter/steins/cannon (sold $40
Framed Maravich poster
Book signed by Holtz
Mork doll
65 real movie posters (mostly 90’s, all “Man” movies, some from the 80’s). I’ve done sold about 30 of them
Unopened model
Looney Tune UD cards
Angola jewelry box full of cuff links
NASA windbreaker from gift shop
Giant box packed full of vintage GI Joe accessories (sold $140)
GI Joe Submarine (sold $80)
2 Sega Genesis consoles (not working) & 17 games
Sterling silver Cross pen set
GI Joe Gen Patton
Star Trek box full of figures
This isn’t even all of the stuff I bought. Plus, all the stuff I passed on went to Here Today, Gone Tomorrow thrift store. I didn’t even take 1/4 of the stuff he wasn’t keeping.
He told me if I’d help him, I could make a pile, and he would give me a great price.
Before I got there, he had already pulled out and made a pile for me that probably wouldn’t even fit in my truck.
I help him for a few hours, pull out a ton of stuff (10x10 packed floor to ceiling).
I make my pile and he says $300. I told home to send me his email, I’d pay him via PayPal. He takes a few days to send it to me, and when he does, I paid him $500, because I didn’t realize the value of some of this stuff.
The pile
1974 football signed by team/coaches (sold $150)
Whisky decanter/steins/cannon (sold $40
Framed Maravich poster
Book signed by Holtz
Mork doll
65 real movie posters (mostly 90’s, all “Man” movies, some from the 80’s). I’ve done sold about 30 of them
Unopened model
Looney Tune UD cards
Angola jewelry box full of cuff links
NASA windbreaker from gift shop
Giant box packed full of vintage GI Joe accessories (sold $140)
GI Joe Submarine (sold $80)
2 Sega Genesis consoles (not working) & 17 games
Sterling silver Cross pen set
GI Joe Gen Patton
Star Trek box full of figures
This isn’t even all of the stuff I bought. Plus, all the stuff I passed on went to Here Today, Gone Tomorrow thrift store. I didn’t even take 1/4 of the stuff he wasn’t keeping.
This post was edited on 4/21/21 at 5:48 pm
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Posted on 4/21/21 at 5:44 pm to theantiquetiger
That General Patton doll is fresh
Posted on 4/21/21 at 5:50 pm to theantiquetiger
Please let me know if you ever find a Mall Madness game. My daughter is still mad that I sold her game in 2006.
Posted on 4/21/21 at 5:51 pm to theantiquetiger
How does your wife feel about you filling the house up with garbage?
This post was edited on 4/21/21 at 5:52 pm
Posted on 4/21/21 at 5:51 pm to USEyourCURDS
Wonder if it comes with genuine Kung fu bitch slap?
Posted on 4/21/21 at 5:53 pm to theantiquetiger
Gimme dat Pistol Pete poster
Posted on 4/21/21 at 5:53 pm to danilo
quote:
How does your wife feel about you filling the house up with garbage?
It stays in my storeroom in garage. She still gets pissed until the money rolls in.
Posted on 4/21/21 at 5:54 pm to theantiquetiger
I was prepared to make an offer on that knight helmet if it was real and not a bar set.
Posted on 4/21/21 at 5:55 pm to ProudLSUMom
quote:
Please let me know if you ever find a Mall Madness game. My daughter is still mad that I sold her game in 2006.
This guy had a ton of board games (50 at least). That’s one thing I don’t even look at because I learned years ago, they don’t bring money for the most part.
Posted on 4/21/21 at 5:58 pm to theantiquetiger
That Patton doll is getting with the times; he’s transitioning to a Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery doll.
Posted on 4/21/21 at 6:02 pm to theantiquetiger
Damn you 
quote:
Posted on 4/21/21 at 6:07 pm to Wolfhound45
quote:
Damn you
It was just the box (in poor condition), but it was full of all kinds of gi joe stuff (clothes, weapons, small odds and ends, about 100 pieces). No figures.
Posted on 4/21/21 at 6:16 pm to theantiquetiger
quote:I would love to do what you do but focused solely on vintage GI Joe. But I do not have the patience that you do
It was just the box (in poor condition), but it was full of all kinds of gi joe stuff (clothes, weapons, small odds and ends, about 100 pieces). No figures.
Posted on 4/21/21 at 6:29 pm to Wolfhound45
quote:
I would love to do what you do but focused solely on vintage GI Joe. But I do not have the patience that you do
They are few and far between. I RARELY find any vintage GI Joe stuff
Posted on 4/21/21 at 6:48 pm to theantiquetiger
quote:
Whisky decanter/steins/cannon (sold $40
you only got $40 for the whole lot? That decanter set seems worth more than that by itself.
Do you ever mess with comic books from the 60s (silver age)?
Posted on 4/21/21 at 6:52 pm to theantiquetiger
That LSU poster of Mike the Tiger over Tiger Stadium I want. How much for it ?
Posted on 4/21/21 at 6:54 pm to SantaFe
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That LSU poster of Mike the Tiger over Tiger Stadium I want. How much for it ?
It’s a schedule of 1974 (I think). They are pretty common and not valuable, maybe $15.
I do not sell here.
Posted on 4/21/21 at 6:55 pm to BlacknGold
I got big trax for Christmas when I was young. I’ve been telling my son about it, but never could remember what it was called. Now I know(didn’t really remember after I saw the name)
Great stuff
Great stuff
Posted on 4/21/21 at 6:58 pm to theantiquetiger
Here’s a gift for your friend who likes to lurk these posts:
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