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Radar Chief

11-01-2012 09:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Iowanian (Post 9070953)

I went on a homes tour in the DM area this summer..... .5-1mil homes. Every single one of them was decorated with sticks and old shit I've been burning and recycling for years.

I've burned and smashed thousands and thousands of dollars of valuable "vintage" stuff over the years.

It's one of the advantages of the area in which i live, there is still quite a lot of items like you're talking about available...and lots of old farmers retiring or passing away.

It's giving me a way to make a little coin with some of the items I found on my farm too. I've got a box of old traps that will end up hanging in dens, some old solvent cans...wood crates....barn and farm pulleys etc....

I'm admittedly a year or two late to this party, but I was pretty busy doing other things with that time.

Understandable. The MIL supplements their income much the same way, hitting estate auctions and garage sales and she barters with the local flea markets. She does pretty good with it too.

ptlyon

11-01-2012 10:08 AM

The chiefs collect losses, clarks garage has to almost be full by now

Graystoke

11-01-2012 10:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Iowanian (Post 9070953)

It's one of the advantages of the area in which i live, there is still quite a lot of items like you're talking about available...and lots of old farmers retiring or passing away.

It's giving me a way to make a little coin with some of the items I found on my farm too. I've got a box of old traps that will end up hanging in dens, some old solvent cans...wood crates....barn and farm pulleys etc....

I'm admittedly a year or two late to this party, but I was pretty busy doing other things with that time.

This area pretty much is the Golden area for that.
If your looking to flip and make cash may I recomend "Industrial or Steampunk" items right now, especially Light Fixtures $$, Old Carts, Workbenches etc..

I picked up a half dozen explosion proff vintage industrial lights the other day. I plan on using two and fliping the rest.
I can't seem to locate a photo of them but they look like this.

http://originalbarnlights.com/image/...ed_416x315.jpg

Iowanian

11-01-2012 10:30 AM

I have a very rustic workbench that I'm guessing is vintage 1930s, complete with all of the wear expected from a used workbench...with 2 wooden handle vices.

What would be the value of something like that?

beach tribe

11-01-2012 10:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Iowanian (Post 9070258)

I'll get this started with a couple of items I have from a recent auction.

I have some idea what I have, but I'm interested in knowledge.

I have almost all of those in my old tackle box in TN. Multiples of the "jitterbug" and "Hula Popper" All are at least 25 years old.

Iowanian

11-01-2012 10:35 AM

You should probably just send that box to me as it is and I'll give you a luxurious amount of highly valuable casino cash.

bogey

11-01-2012 11:12 AM

I have an old Allen compound bow. Built around 1974/75. I bought it brand new off the factory floor. I've always wondered if it was collectable. Any experts out there know anything about this?

cosmo20002

11-01-2012 11:26 AM

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Originally Posted by COchief (Post 9070995)

I've always thought just buying boxes of smalls (small old toys/dolls, fishing lures, etc) and selling them individually on ebay would be a very easy way to make money. I've also wanted to do this for years with garage sales and old lady items.

Ebay and Paypal fees and shipping eat up profits fast. Unless you're selling something valuable that you bought very cheap, I would think "garage sale and old lady items" would be a lot of effort for little payoff.

However, you do have a much chance at finding a real deal at a garage sale-type situation than an auction. If something truly has some value, chances are that someone there is going to know and bid you up. And if something SEEMS like it has value, the rubes will bid it up because they think it is valuable. I dabble a bit in coins, and I routinely see common-date circulated silver dollars available for $25-40 in most pawn shops and ebay go for $50+ because they SEEM cool and valuable.

SAUTO

11-01-2012 12:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Iowanian (Post 9071130)

You should probably just send that box to me as it is and I'll give you a luxurious amount of highly valuable casino cash.

LOL. my FIL has a room absolutely FULL of old tackle.

i mean FULL. most in the original boxes too. but he wont part with any of it...

we buy retro stuff all the time. old tin signs mostly.

have a couple hundred old signs and a almost a hundred repro. signs covering several walls in our house.

lately ive also been buying neon beer lights.

i've got 19 at this point, all old ones.

seclark

11-01-2012 01:04 PM

i'm trying to get rid of stuff.

got an old fire truck pedal car i dug out of an old barn about 20 years ago. mostly all there, but needs a lot of work. i had a guy look at it once and he told me it was worth more if i left it alone and didn't try to restore it. but i've seen them on those picker and pawn shop shows and it seems like they need to be restored to get any value out of them.

got a case of about 50 45 records from the 50's and 60's...beatles, johnny cash, bill haley and the comets, etc.

shit's just been taking up storage for years...time to just get rid of them.

sec

ReynardMuldrake

11-01-2012 01:30 PM

I have an OXO pinball machine that I'm thinking about getting rid of. You play play tic-tac-toe by hitting the targets. Playfield is pretty worn down but the back glass is perfect. $400 OBO.

Here's a pic of it:

http://i.imgur.com/KQu1k.jpg

R8RFAN

11-01-2012 01:36 PM

sell it to pawn stars

Groves

11-01-2012 02:56 PM

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Originally Posted by beach tribe (Post 9071126)

Multiples of the "jitterbug" and "Hula Popper"

Don't forget the Lazy Ike.

Iowanian

11-05-2012 06:51 PM

graystoke,

The advice on "steam punk and Industrial" has been very helpful and valuable to me.
I have access to a lot of that type of item.

I don't "get" steampunk when you look at the dress and costume and things they're putting on their outfits, but I have plenty of access to old industrial stuff, and rustic metal items that appear to be of value in that movement.

Thanks. That alone has made this thread a success for me.

Hog's Gone Fishin

11-05-2012 07:19 PM

If anyone needs boar semen I have loads.

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