The Great Mouschi Flip Quest of 2015

[EldoEsq]

Very cool thread and idea...will be following the quest!

[mouschi]

Today I picked up a resale lot that included a Kobe Autographed Redemption card, and some other goodies. In addition to this, the wifey and I went to HEB while our son was at his youth group, to do some shopping.

We ran across a boat load of t-shirts for $1 each. They were all JJ Watt shirts, and there were 21 of them. If I can't sell these here locally for more, then I'm doing something wrong!

We bought some other groceries as well, but the shirts came out to be $21 ... I love seeing in print that we saved nearly $300.

[mouschi]

All the cards I picked up last night just sold - after shipping fees, $116.75 to add!

[Smidge]

I've always wanted to do something like this and you have just motivated me to start! Good luck!

[CW]

Cool thread. Good luck!

[mouschi]

Thanks to this flip quest, and it being garage sale season, I decided to hit it full force yesterday! There were some pretty cool pickups for $66.50 total.

Rifle Scope - $5


My Little Pony Items - $5


Sand & Water Table $5


Discs $1 (includes the others below as well)


Gaming Chair $6


Fisher Price Train set $5


Gator Mount Motor Guide for boat w/digital Display $10


4 ft long body pillow of $100 bill 50 cents




Bobblehead of Clemens $3


Tail Light for Trailblazer + boot & Dave Ramsey financial set below for $15




Beanie Babies $1 (some of these might be worth something ... cool!)




Vintage ride on train "Mighty Kacey" - came with a large track - may be a good sell too $5




Picked up 2 of these for $2 each


$3


Some highlights of the day:

- I asked the owners of a garage sale how much a tie cost - when another buyer already had it around his neck. The buyer's wife said I could have the man if I bought the tie. While we were all laughing, I declined questioning how much she thought I could get for him.

- We went to one sale that said "POWER RANGER TOYS". The dude had a boat load of star wars, star trek and power ranger toys. Vintage, etc. He was mega high priced, and I struck up a conversation with him. When asked why he was selling, he said with a straight face "The apocalypse is coming. Have you heard of the blood moons? We are 3 deep now, and have one more to go." I would have thought he was messing with me, but everything about him and his body language showed that he was being serious. LOL!

[mouschi]

Here is the latest -
Yesterday, the Dell disks sold for $17.75 and the gaming chair for $25.

[mouschi]

It has been slow going lately, but today, I told another CD for $9 and the Dave Ramsey kit for $40.

[mouschi]

Ahh yes, and I gave the beanie babies to my dad to sell, so I'll gotta take those off the list as well.

[mouschi]

So after a long night of fun, picking up 220,000 cards ...



and secretly going to my parents house around midnight to setup some christmas reindeer...



then posting on facebook so they and their friends can see it ....



we went to bed, and got up (not so) bright & early to hit the garage sales. We didn't get much at all, but here are a few things:

115+ DVD's (the pic doesn't show all of them) for $20


Driver Ed in a Box $5


And finally, a binder of baseball cards. The binder was one of several plus some boxes that the seller had marked for $5 each. I quickly thumbed through all of them, all while the seller was insisting that they are really good cards, etc. Mostly commons. On the front page of one, I spotted a Jeter dugout which I figured I could at the least make my money back on it here locally by itself, so I said what the heck ...



When I got home, I saw it had Bo Jacks & Nolan Ryan gold signature cards (Nolan showed below)



Not a huge pickup by any means, but hey, after dealing with NON cards all morning, i had to get a fix!

That means my total investment for the day was $30. I sold the 2 memory cards also for $28, so my $1 or so investment from a week or two ago nearly funded all of what I got today

[mouschi]

A buyer came over for the DVD's for $60. Things have been slow as molasses, but at least we have progress in going forward an not backward!

[mouschi]

With all the excitement of my road trip, I have found it difficult to buckle down and get through everything. However, here I am with an update.

I sold the Arthur Court dishes for $33, and some of the trains for $30. In addition to this, I picked up a $100 lot which included this:


An Elvis Andrus 1/1 mini leather - tons of other cards came with it too.

[mouschi]

Buying and selling has been pretty slow going this week, but today I sold the Easels for $140. I also sold over 200k cards in my garage that were not a part of this flip. Since he was buying all the other cards, I told him he could have the binder of cards that is mentioned in my flip quest for $10 extra. He accepted! So, that means we can add $150 to this.

[mouschi]

Things are still slow going, because I have many other things going on, but I thought I would update for the first time in about 11 days.

I picked these beauties up for $10. They are about 3 feet tall. A sticker said $5 on one of them and I asked the lady if it was $5 for all 3 or $5 each. There were a gaggle of women gasping at me even asking. "$5 would be a real good deal for you, wouldn't it?" So I said "yeah, but what do you expect? It is a garage sale, so ...". The gaggle laughed a bit as to say touche.

Instead of walking away because they offended my honor, I figured I'd just grab 'em for $10


I also got this kid stool for $8.



The last piece of buying I did was this little lot here:










Total, I have spent $58.

Here is what I have sold:

Littlest Pet Shop lot for $50
Camcorder for $35 (YEAH!)
but then the buyer said it was broken (BOOOO)
I promised to give him a refund and because "I was honest and nice" he only asked for $25.
So ... Camcorder: $10
Dolly Parton Doll (from the doll lot) $18.50
Bloat Up Boat: $50

In total, this means we can add $70.50 along with a few cool profitable pieces to the pot!

[mouschi]

Time for an update!

I sold the majority of the cards from my last update for $55. The rest of the cards, I put with this lot that I bought this lot for $60 yesterday:














I ended up selling all the cards above and the leftovers I mentioned for $56.50 so now I have a nice silver coin to add to the mix

A build-a-bear sold for $20
The kangaroo climber sold for $50
The Guidecraft Kitchen Stool sold for $50
and last but not least the ankle boot sold for $20

That gives us a profit of $191.50 to add to the pile, and we are now over $1,000 - now if only one of my white whales would surface!

[mouschi]

Weekend update!

Bought a few things:

Nissan truck stereo for $6
Indoor Smores maker for $1
Die Cast Tie Fighter in a case for $1
AP US History book for $5 (not sure why I got this ... lapse in judgment I guess!)
2 foot long canoe collectible $5

The only thing worth showing a pic of though is this:

A 1 foot tall monkey reading a book statue for $10


He's gorgeous.

I also sold the silver dollar for $104, so this puts me up $76.

[mouschi]

Nothing too crazy happening here, unfortunately! No white whales have surfaced ... yet.

However, I do have a few updates:

I picked up a small lot of cards for $60, and flipped them for $100.
The ps2 went for $40, and the couch ended up selling for $75.

That gives me a total of +$155

[mouschi]

Update time! It has been snore city for the past several weeks on this thing, as I have been mega busy with other things, and white whales are hard to come by. But anyway, here are some things to note:

I have sold the following:
play house 110
cd head unit 35
star wars item 15
3 oriental pieces 40
build a bear clothes 101
wii games 25

The wii games would have gone for $40 (and they did) but the guy who bought them said 4 of them didn't work. I was baffled, but didn't want to rake the guy over coals or anything about it. I asked him to clean the discs and he said he did, but they still didn't work. I ended up refunding him $15.

I normally wouldn't think anything, but I found out something pretty ugly about a person I know. They do things like I mentioned above intentionally to get money and free stuff. Apparently they do it all the time. Makes me sick to think that someone would do that!

I also sold some schooling books to a mom that was supposed to be $20. She gave me $10 cash and a $50 check to hold some other books for her for a day.

That day never came.

Even after contacting her a few times, she broke several promises to pay up. it looks as if this woman who seemed to be a nice and genuine person decided that she didn't want to be bothered with something little like someone elses money.

In the end, it isn't a big deal because it is just $10, but it burns me that people can be so inconsiderate as this.

I also picked up a nice little resell lot of 2015 baseball, football and basketball for $130. I've been too busy to list, but will do that shortly!

Now for the *possible* BIG news. I may be in the dealings of grabbing a white whale! I am having a very difficult landing the plane with the seller, but if all goes well, I'll have a good update next time I write!

Anyway, to total it all up, I have $196 to add to the pot plus a bunch of sweet cards!