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Favorite Flips Friday, 9/27/19

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Here are a few of my favorite recent flips.

A Wiggles cup! I knew it wouldn’t sell for a lot, but oh the nostalgia. I had to pick it up. It ended up being a quick flip.

Paid: $0.25 @ ys,
Sold: $14.95 (4 days after listed)

I know people say LuLaRoe is dead, but I still pick it up from time to time ~ but I have become much more selective. This dress was a super quick flip.

Paid: $3 @ ys,
Sold: $24.95 (10 hours after listed)

This David’s Bridal dress took awhile to sell,
but it was so pretty I couldn’t leave it behind.

Paid: $2 @ VV, Sold: $34.95
(listed since Feb, 2018)

I picked up several lots of yarn at yard sales over the summer. All sold fairly quickly.

Paid: $3 @ ys, Sold: $24.95
(26 days after listed)

I sometimes pick up Scentsy plush, but this was my first Partylite plush.

Paid: $1.50 @ rummage sale,
Sold: $29.95 (listed since April, 2019)

NWT Circo Bear
Paid: $1.49 @ VV,
Sold: $29.95 (listed since Sept, 2018)

NWT Lambs & Ivy Plush
Paid: $2.39 @ VV,
Sold: $34.95
(19 days after listed)

NWT Purple Hippo Toys R Us Plush
Paid: $1 @ ys
Sold: $39.95 (8 days after listed)

Taggies Kitty Blanket
Paid: $3 @ consignment store
Sold: $39.95 (listed since June, 2018)

Baby Morgan Pink Square Lovey
Paid: $0.50 @ ys
Sold: $49.95 (9 days after listed)

How have your sales been? I’d love to hear about them!

Favorite Flips Friday, 8/9/19

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Here are a few of my better recent flips:

Catherine’s 4X Fleece Jacket
Paid: $2 @ VV, Sold: $29.95 (12 days after listed)

NWT LuLaRoe Dresses
Paid: $3/ea @ ys, Sold: $34.95/ea (19 days/17 days after listed)

NWOT Talbots Jacket
Paid: $2 @ VV, Sold: $44.95 (14 days after listed)
Minnie Mouse Blanket
Paid: $2 @ ys, Sold: $29.95 (15 days after listed)
First Impressions Baby Blanket
Paid: $1.49 @ VV, Sold: $34.95 (listed since May, 2019)
Lot of 2 Dave Ramsey Workbooks
Paid: $2 @ ys, BO accepted: $30 (1 day after listed)
Handy Manny Singing Tool Box
Paid: $5.99 @ VV, Sold: $44.95 + shipping (listed since Jan, 2019)
Mac Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends Plush
Paid: $3 @ ys, Sold: $34.95 (10 days after listed)
Disney Santa Buddies Plush
Paid: $1 @ GW, Sold: $59.95 + shipping (listed since Feb, 2019)

If you have any fun or noteworthy sales to share I would love to hear about them!

Deciphering a tag

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Any guesses as to what this tag says? Is that a 6? A G? An 0 or a 0? Something else I haven’t thought of? I’ve googled and reverse image searched and looked up the RN and done everything else I could think of, and I still don’t feel confident in what the tag actually says. Any guesses?

BOLO: Douglas (Sammy) White Samoyed Plush

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This is a BOLO I just happened to stumble across while researching another plush I was listing. I always take a second look at husky-like plush because I have sold a few for a decent profit. This white Samoyed dog (a breed I had never of before) by Douglas consistently sells for $150++! Check out completeds HERE. Other brands don’t seem to sell for quite as much, but are still probably worth pick up.

Happy hunting!

BOLO: Puffalumps

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I know Puffalumps are on lots of BOLO lists, so they are probably old news. But then again … there are a lot of those nylon plush out there. How do you know if you’ve got a real Puffalump, or just a lookalike?

When I was listing this kitten Puffalump earlier in the week I discovered some great info on the website This Old Toy. It includes a Puffalump Index and you can even search by model number.

Also, it confirmed that this logo on the left foot does indicate the plush is a Puffalump:

I have added this website to my useful links page. It’s great information because there are so many knock-offs out there. Happy hunting!

P.S. Of course some sell better than others – check out completeds HERE.

Womp Womp. Yard Sale Fails.

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I thought it would be fun to start posting my weekly yard sale finds because I am always really interested to see what other people pick up. This weekend were my first yard sale outings of the year, and unfortunately – it was almost entirely a flop.

Yesterday morning I went to cheer my son on at his jogathon at school, and then gave myself two hours to hit some yard sales before heading home for lunch. It took me less than two hours to go to all of the yard sales on my side of town that I found listed online. And I found very little to show for it.

Three Bluray DVDs that we are keeping, three stuffed animals and one baby blanket. In almost two hours.

Today my youngest had a basketball game in the next town over, so I looked to see what kind of sales were going on in that area. Before his game we went to a church rummage sale. I generally love church rummage sales, but it was on its second day and was super picked over. I bought one pair of footie PJs. We had time to stop at one more yard sale before his game where I picked up a bunny plush and some Harry Potter pencils. And – that’s it. All of my finds for the entire weekend.

Good thing (kinda) that I still have a backlog of other goodies I can get listed this next week.

How are yard sales where you are? Find anything good this weekend?

Poshmark Progress

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I remember posting about joining Poshmark once upon a time … I just looked and it was all the way back in June! I am still listing and selling there, but it can be so slow. I just took a look at my stats, and since I started selling in June I have sold 92 things. Which isn’t nothing … but when you think about it, and how many days I have been active on PM … it really isn’t a lot.

Listing on PM takes almost no time because I cross-post from eBay. I usually need to square my photos (I use Pixlr, it works great) and from there it is just cut and paste. Lickety split.

Fun fact: almost 1/3 of the sales I have made on PM have been costumes. I bought a LOT after Halloween last year and immediately cross-posted them all, which has paid off.

I became a Posh Ambassador a few months back. I actually had all of the requirements in place to earn that status several months before with the exception of having actually made a PM purchase myself.

(Actually, randomly, I did make a PM purchase shortly after joining and the package was lost by the USPS! I never got it. I waited a couple weeks hoping to receive the package, but no dice. When I let PM know I had never received the package (as verified by the tracking) my money was promptly refunded.)

Fast forward several months I made a second purchase which did actually arrive, I left a love note, and voila! Posh Ambassador. I’m not sure if it actually affects my sales at all, but it definitely affects my number of followers. I get many, many more followers now than I did previously.

Since the beginning of the year I have been keeping track of my number of listings and followers, mostly as a curiosity to see how it progresses.

February 1, 2019 and March 1, 2019 stats

April 1, 2019 and May 1, 2019 stats

I try to be active on PM every day. Most days I create three new listings.

I share to parties as appropriate. I share my own listings and follow and share the listings of others. I try to do this every day, but I also try to only do this in chunks of time that I wouldn’t be doing anything else. (For example, my five minute walk from my car in to work, my breaks at work, riding in the car when my husband is driving.) I try not to let PM sharing invade my real life or online working hours because if I let it, it could TAKE OVER!

I would really like to get to the point where I could consistently have one PM sale every day. That doesn’t seem like too much to ask, does it? I would be happy to take any advice from those who also sell on PM. What have you done to help increase your own sales? Please share!