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eBay Seller Chat with Stephanie in Pennsylvania:4,800 Items in Store, Lives in Thrifting Mecca, Full Time Reseller 💵

• Suzanne A. Wells • Episode 195

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Suzanne Wells:

Hey, there eBay friends, you have landed on Episode 195 of eBay the right way. Today's date is December 11, 2024 and my guest is Stephanie in Pennsylvania. Announcements, just a reminder, there are 10 shopping days left till Christmas if you're shopping online and having items shipped to you, according to the USPS, here are the important dates. December 18 is the last day to ship ground advantage and have your package hopefully get there. They never really guarantee that December 19 is the last day for priority mail and december 21 is the last day for priority mail Express. So just remember that as a seller, these are the deadline dates. But really, people buy after Christmas, and sales stay strong until January, so just keep shipping now. As a buyer, make sure you are supporting the eBay community if you are buying gifts online, I always start on eBay. And if what I want isn't there, I move on to Amazon or other sites. Just remember, you get back what you put out there. Support the eBay community whenever you buy anything, any time of year, if we all do it, we all win. You can follow my store, Atlanta golf shop. The link is below the podcast, and I encourage you to follow other seller stores as well, not only to learn what sells, but for buying. And you can follow stores by clicking the little heart at the top of the page, and there is a section in your eBay drop down for saved sellers. So it never hurts to watch what other people are doing. You can learn a lot about what sells and expand your own horizons. Okay, end of public service announcement. Now let's chat with Stephanie. You Oh, Hello listeners. I have a long time eBay, online friend with us today. And how are you this morning? Stephanie,

Unknown:

I'm great. How are you?

Suzanne Wells:

I'm wonderful. It's a beautiful, sunny Monday morning where I am, yes, same here. And what is your location?

Unknown:

I'm in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, which is right on the Delaware River.

Suzanne Wells:

Is that Amish country?

Unknown:

No, not quite that's a little bit higher. We're we're 20 minutes outside of Philadelphia.

Suzanne Wells:

Okay, okay, oh, I bet that's some good thrifting. It's actually known as the thrifting capital, so, oh, so I guess I need to plan a visit to come. Yes,

Unknown:

you do, yes you do, within a seven mile road trip. I hit seven thrift stores.

Suzanne Wells:

Nice. Yeah, very good. Okay, well, let's start with what got you involved in eBay and when that was okay.

Unknown:

So I actually started on eBay in 1998 but I had my full name written on the thing at the time, so I didn't want that anymore. And then in 1999 I switched it, and that's when I really started doing a little bit of eBay. And it was that time where there's no pictures. People have to send a money order or a check. You wait till it clears, you lug it to the post office, things are so much easier for people that they don't realize.

Suzanne Wells:

Um, so you're going on almost 30 years. Pretty soon something like that. Yeah, exactly, yeah. 30 years will be here before we know it. So I know, and

Unknown:

I started off actually, because I think I was buying something. I don't remember what it was, my first sale, because, you know, go big or go home, was a Jeep Wrangler, soft top

Suzanne Wells:

a vehicle. No, no, the soft top of the vehicle. Oh, just the top. Okay,

Unknown:

yeah, the soft top of the vehicle. I lived in Chicago at the time, and I really didn't need it was too cold. Mm, hmm. So I sold that. 17.

Suzanne Wells:

Was that local pickup? Nope, oh, shipped it to California.

Unknown:

Oh, so, I guess it folds down and compares. Yeah, it's like a, you know, comes into, like, a big size, like that. And I loved it to the post office. Got in there and they shipped it. Person loved it. Was my first feedback, I think, so Wow.

Suzanne Wells:

What a thing to start

Unknown:

with. Yeah, it's kind of

Suzanne Wells:

my smile, which is well, and back then, we didn't have any online people to help us figure out how to get started. And right, we just jumped in with both feet and hope for the best,

Unknown:

exactly. So my experience was really good to start off with. That was good, okay, over the years, I've sold and done I worked full time for a long time, and I did it part time. And I also bought cars on eBay. You did, yes, I bought my Jaguar that I had for a while, and then bought a Land Rover. Okay, yeah,

Suzanne Wells:

but they were before the before the days of Carvana and all the ways you can buy vehicles online now, which I have used Carvana several times, and it's quite convenient, right? It's nice. I just don't I've also done Carmax, and I just, I don't want to haggle and talk about it. Just, this is what I want. I'll pay this. Let's do it. That's

Unknown:

happened with us at Carmax too. I did it with my spouse's parents, and it was like, I don't want to do this. I just want to pay for the car. Okay,

Suzanne Wells:

right. Okay. So what is your full time career

Unknown:

now? It's eBay. Okay.

Suzanne Wells:

So what were you doing

Unknown:

before I was an executive in emergency travel assistance. So basically, we were the people that would rescue you, take you out of different countries or locations if you got sick or injured. So I managed the clients behind the behind the scenes, and I did that for 25 years, and then I said, I'm kind of done. And I worked with a consultant for a while where I were, I was part of that whole thing. And then COVID

Suzanne Wells:

hit, of course, that changed everybody's life.

Unknown:

And on top of that for us, you know, we do emergency evacuations, repatriations, but not during a pandemic. So there was nothing. How do you sell a product that you can't use, right? So I was already doing Ebay. I was doing both at that point, and that's where it sort of made me go, Okay, well, now it's just going to be eBay. That's where it has been eBay now since for four years, completely. So

Suzanne Wells:

well, I love how eBay sellers just come from all walks of life. Yeah, there is no one size fits all. It's very interesting and fascinating to hear like how you got to eBay and why you're full time, right? So many stories are, well, you know, COVID, I was in healthcare and it got too complicated, or, you know, my work shut down, or we had to work virtually anyway, and, you know, all the things that happened, and people just transitioned over to eBay.

Unknown:

Yeah, exactly. And eBay has always been a part of my life for a long time, so it's interesting for me. And I always knew I could do it full time. I didn't need to, but I always knew I could, and it was always my safety net. Like this becomes too tough. It'll be here. It ended up happening in a different way, but it happened so it's it's been wonderful, so I'm happy with it. Now,

Suzanne Wells:

you mentioned you have dual citizenship. I would love to hear about that.

Unknown:

Yeah, so my parents are both French, and I was born here, so that's why I have American citizenship. But I have French citizenship for that from them. So I grew up going back and forth because my mother worked for United Nations, and my dad was a nose.

Suzanne Wells:

What's that? A perfumer. Oh, of course, yeah. So we would go back

Unknown:

and forth for different things, because he worked for a lot of companies. He worked for Coti, which now is bought by somebody else. I forgot who his best friend was actually one of the cotis. So it was, oh, really, yeah, Michelle. Could see he was a nice guy, so we got to go all over the place. I have a very privileged childhood. I had a wonderful, wonderful childhood, so I got to go

Suzanne Wells:

everywhere. Very nice. Well, you know, this morning, I shipped another empty perfume bottle. I bought a whole bunch of empties on an online auction. Yeah, because I watched other people sell them, I'm like, Well, I'm gonna see what happens. And I got the whole lot for like $1 and it was, like, eight bottles of Chanel. It was, there's no number five in there, but there are other like Mademoiselle and cocoa and different scents and boxes and dust bags and just a whole bunch of stuff. And I can't believe how that stuff's flying out,

Unknown:

but you just reminded me, I had to take care of some stuff. And I found a box of my grandmother's things, and in there is this just a pretty wooden box. I'm gonna send pictures and put it up. And I'm like, Oh, this is really nice. And the bottles are very Chanel shaped, right? I'm like, Ooh, this is nice. I look at the bottom. It's engraved. With Chanel. Oh, so this must be from a long time ago, and I'm going to have to do research on it. But I thought, wow, this is very high quality. Yeah, exactly, yeah. It'll be nice. Well, and

Suzanne Wells:

I just want to throw this out there for the listeners, because still to this day, really, why are you selling an empty bottle? Well, the girl that bought this one last night. Is an art student, or she's doing an art project. I don't know, high school, college, I don't know if she's the teacher, but, you know, she paid $25 for an empty bottle. And then another lady asked me a question, because apparently I sent her an offer because she was watching it, and she says, Well, I'm not going to buy this. I was just showing my husband that these do sell, right? If you, Suzanne, have them up for sale, must be something. And I like, Well, don't give me that much credit. I haven't all sold yet, but, and then the others that sold, they didn't really, oh. One lady was like, oh, I want to take the top off and do this with it. And it's a spray, so it has the little squirty thing on top, but she's going to do something with it. And it's just, there's no end to what you can sell. Yeah, it might look like garbage, but no, these bottles are beautiful. They're they have the beautiful sort of sculpture top that screws off and and they come with the box, the original box. So just throwing that out there to the listeners, do not throw anything away. Look it up, because you will be shocked at what sells, even after all these years. You, you since 98 me, since 2003 every day is still an adventure. I'm like, really that sells. That's

Unknown:

the best part of this. That's always something new. I sold a bunch of empty perfume models that are very clearly Chanel perfume to a theater production, and what they were doing is going to fill it with liquid to look like it was the perfume. So, right,

Suzanne Wells:

yeah, okay, well, so say that in French,

Unknown:

given production,

Suzanne Wells:

oh my gosh, that's beautiful. You could have said my wholes fell in the mud, and it would sound beautiful. Okay, so your full time eBay. Now, let's hear about some things that you've sold, because you do post on the money making Mondays when you're not busy traveling and and doing all those things. And that's

Unknown:

also what was great. I for work, I traveled 236 days a year. That's how much it was when it was full time. So that full time feels like a double full time. Yeah, you're always traveling. So it's been nice to be home and travel when I choose to travel. Well, let

Suzanne Wells:

me ask you, what year you were born, 71 Okay, so you're not as old as me, but I've been the same.

Unknown:

We're the same generation.

Suzanne Wells:

When I think of travel, it just has to be easy. Yes, Austin, you know, even though we have, we've gotten away from the all the COVID stuff with travel, a little bit, just it's gotta be easy. Yeah, I don't know how people our age do this still well for their job all the time. I guess you just gotta love it, or you just have a lot of energy, or maybe you're just drinking

Unknown:

a lot of coffee, exactly. You're trained for it somehow.

Suzanne Wells:

Yeah, yeah. I just I love being able to work at home and sit in my comfy chair and take breaks when I want and make a fun beverage whenever. And I guess I'm spoiled. I've been doing it so long,

Unknown:

yeah, and I enjoy I'm still at the point where I'm like, Oh, I'm gonna go do this now, you know, it's nobody to tell except myself, so it's right.

Suzanne Wells:

Okay, so I hijacked your thought there. You're gonna talk about some things you sold. Yeah?

Unknown:

Um, so one interesting one was a soup tureen, but it's the blue Willow soup from it was, it's, it was this. It was like a giant one, uh huh, the under plate, the lid and the ladle, unheard of,

Suzanne Wells:

really. Where'd you find that?

Unknown:

An auction, online auction, okay, paid for the entire lot $100 and there were tons of plates too. So just the plates sell for $45 all day long, right? I put that in there. I was like, how am I going to ship this? But we'll try. I sold it for 1500 and it went to Florida. I packed it like it was going to Mars, and it made it safe and sound. And she was thrilled, wonderful. And that's a typical thing. I think, if you would see online, I think it didn't get the price it should have for the seller. So I felt a little bad, but you would expect to think that's an antique or a collectible that. So

Suzanne Wells:

that was an online auction that you picked up locally. Correct? It

Unknown:

was Max sold. Okay, yeah, they

Suzanne Wells:

don't have that where.

Unknown:

I am, and they're cutting down now,

Suzanne Wells:

I have bought things. A lot of stuff I'm buying on online comes from Indiana or Pennsylvania, yeah, so not too far, no,

Unknown:

but yeah,

Suzanne Wells:

I don't have any local ones. I can't find any local ones, so I guess I'll keep looking. But you know, if you're having it shipped to you, you just shop kind of nice deliberately for smalls, light weights, yeah, so $1,500 for a soup tureen, good for you. And

Unknown:

then a complete opposite example, I you know, you get a lot, and there's a bunch of stuff in it. And sometimes these are things you wouldn't sell, but because you got it in the lot, you might as well list it. It's sitting there, right? And it was a snow globe. It wasn't Mickey Mouse, but something close to that, I can't so insignificant to me. I think I sold it for $35 the woman receives it, she writes me the most lovely note, saying, Hi. This was my favorite. You explain this all the time. My favorite snow globe, and my cousins were mean to me, and they threw it on the ground and broke it. And she goes, and I've been searching for years, and nobody has sold this, and then yours popped up.

Suzanne Wells:

I know You just never know what somebody's waiting for. Yeah. And

Unknown:

I said, You know what? They'll get their karma. Don't you worry, right? Snow Globe back.

Suzanne Wells:

Do you remember what time of year that was that you sold it. It was actually in

Unknown:

the summer, okay, yeah, it was like, June or July, and that's because normally I wouldn't even bother, but I was like, I have all this stuff. I'll just put it up, you know. Well,

Suzanne Wells:

where I was going with that question is, some people are concerned about shipping them in the winter. Yeah, the liquid will freeze. And I've sold some over the years, and it's always been fine. I don't think it's going to sit anywhere long enough, you know, they're not going to sit it on the curb outside the post office for eight hours when it's zero degrees, right? You know it's going to go from a truck to the post office into another truck, granted, the back of the truck is not heated, but I guess chemical in there is, what

Unknown:

is there? Maybe not a chemical in there that would stop it.

Suzanne Wells:

That's what I wonder. I mean, I guess you could Google it, but people do have that concern that they would freeze, just like shipping candles in the summer, like, right? But I don't think they're going to get hot enough to melt. So I've sold

Unknown:

candles in the summer, and they've gone across the country, and nothing's happened to them

Suzanne Wells:

so, but I like that people are concerned that they want their buyer to get the item not damaged, right? That's a valid concern. Yeah, it makes sense. Those Disney snow globes are great. I went to a garage sale one time. Wasn't your planning? It was at the end of the street I was living on, and, oh, they had some stuff out, and they had the little mermaid under the sea. It's like a snow globe. It's like a sculpture, but it has all these different snow globes in it. Wow. She had the box and the styrofoam and everything. And then another one that wasn't as expensive, but it was same thing, box Styrofoam, and I bought both of those for$30 did you start the car and run? I pretty much did. Yeah, it was the IKEA commercial, yeah. And the under the sea one sold for over $200 so if you can get over the shipping fear, yes, of a snow globe, big concern for people, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, some of those are worth a lot of money. Mm, hmm, yeah, that's true. And I'm like, you, I'm not a Disney person, so I don't know, yeah, had to learn, like, what's a hidden Mickey and what is I learned a lot of that from you. That club, it's a it's like a gold club, right? Pay extra to belong, things that come out of there, even like the key chains and the tote bags and anything with that. I didn't know all that. I'm not a Disney person, the popcorn buckets and just all the stuff that's refillable drinks. Yeah, yes, yeah, the drink containers. So, yeah, there's a lot to learn with Disney. Yeah,

Unknown:

I like a bunch of those, those cups, as you mentioned, because you mentioned them in your premium library, and I bought a bunch of them from the bins, and I put them in one lot. Now, single, they don't do great, but all of them together made me $50

Suzanne Wells:

Yeah, for some plastic, yeah, that was very shipped. Yeah, that's easy to ship too, right?

Unknown:

I start gravitating towards that after I buy these scoop greens,

Suzanne Wells:

yeah, that's a big project. Kind of gives me a little bit of a stomach ache. So what else do you have on your list? Maybe that's easier to ship needlepoint. Yes, yes.

Unknown:

And that again, premium library. Watching that. And then I happened, and this was 2019 there was an online auction, and it must have been someone who either had a store or collected a lot of needle points. And I won the entire lot, and I had to drive to Maryland, which is two hours. Friend came with me. We went and had lunch. Oh yeah, what I thought was 300 hand painted needlepoint canvases. It was closer to 700 when I was all done.

Suzanne Wells:

Oh my gosh,

Unknown:

I have four left.

Suzanne Wells:

How long it take you to get all that listed?

Unknown:

Actually, pretty fast. Once I took all the pictures, because, you know, you repeat the same thing, you just take things, but it's taking all the pictures. I think I spent a month just doing that, and nothing else. It was kind of over needle points after that for a little bit. But they and they're all unique, because they're all hand painted the canvas part, and, uh huh, these people buying them. And I learned, you know, the point and all that kind of stuff, things. I was like, I really don't know what that is, but okay, I'll figure it out, right? Yeah. And then two names I wanted to mention is Cather. I'm going to say dedel, or it could be dial. I'm not sure how you pronounce her name. She was a designer, okay? And she does. She's no longer living and it's now Corporation. She did needle points. And a lot of the stockings you see that are finished were her. And the pillows you probably seen as like an equestrian one, the person's on the horse riding for good money, I bought five of those pillows and an online auction for $200 and that sounds ridiculous. Well, I sold them for $2,000 all five really, they were little they were not Little Mermaid. They were mermaid scenes, and it's from a famous artist that escapes me right now. And they were beautifully done. I just knew the value. I knew it was there because they're not a lot of them. But that name, if you ever see cathad or ditle, always sells all day long, as well as ermine. That's the other one that sells all day long.

Suzanne Wells:

And so that is strictly needlepoint stuff, yep, okay,

Unknown:

yep, yep. But Catherine Dell is done. It's not, it's not to do, you know? It's already finished. Oh, it's already finished. Okay, Herman is patterns, and you can do them, and they have the yarn with it. And those sell. Those are from England, so they sell really, really well, excellent. Just got a bunch of them recently hidden in a lot, and I didn't know they were in there. I

Suzanne Wells:

know. I love those surprises. So those, those

Unknown:

all sold for about 150 each, which is nice, you know, just oh

Suzanne Wells:

gosh, yeah, yeah. No wonder you quit your full time job. So back to the equestrian theme. Yeah, that's a popular theme.

Unknown:

Yeah, I pick up anything equestrian when I see it. I just sold a belt this week which had the little horses on it, you know. And so that sells right away.

Suzanne Wells:

Did you see the horse ribbons I sold? Yes, okay, that was fun. And and so I was bidding on some more of them last week. It was, gosh, they probably had 12 different lots, but it was out of Kentucky, and I kept getting outbid. I didn't win any of them because I wasn't going high. And I'm like, yeah, all the horse people are all over this because it was, you know, out of like, Louisville horse country. And I think it works better when it's one lot that's mixed in with a bunch of other random stuff, right? That person did horse shows and and then there was another one I bid on that, like everything in the auction was horse themed, stained glass pieces, coffee mugs, coasters, book ends, like everything you could imagine. It's like, Yeah, this is definitely a horse lover. So I got outbid on some of that stuff too, because all the horse lovers were all over

Unknown:

it, yeah, when you can get that theme, yes, fun to read to list. Because, you know, every when we have such unique items, sometimes we're like, oh God. But when it's a theme, even if it's not the same thing, it goes a little faster, too,

Suzanne Wells:

right? Yeah, and those Ralph Lauren vintage wrap skirts with the horse, or just the the tack, you know, the bridle and the all that stuff, whether it's the scarves and the skirts, those are still a thing. People just love those patterns, and they're vintage, so I always look for those. Hadn't found one in a long time, but they're out there. I'm

Unknown:

starting to think I have one listed inventory now. Okay, touch it so it sells. You know, you do what I need to touch it. Oh no, that

Suzanne Wells:

happens. You go in your your inventory storage, and you're like, Okay, I'm sick of you. Somebody needs to buy you really soon. And sometimes it

Unknown:

happens. It's happened for me. This past week, I mentioned to you I was I got more space, and within the house, I took over another space, so I'm moving a lot of the stuff over there, and I'm looking at this. I'm like, How long has this been listed? I don't know, but I'll put it away so I put it back in its thing. Sure enough, it's old and it's a tough animal that probably listed four years ago. I don't know. Okay, well, maybe

Suzanne Wells:

you need to come over to my place and touch some of my stuff. We'll get on FaceTime and be like, What about. Do your magic on this one.

Unknown:

We do it for each other and then that way, right, right, yeah, yeah, a new business model.

Suzanne Wells:

That's right. So you said you have more items on your list,

Unknown:

if silverware, flatware, Mm, hmm, the stainless steel, specifically mid century of WMF crow market, but specifically crow market, and it sells. Every time I have it, it sells and it's it's always marked, there's other WMF that sells, okay, but not as well as the crow market. And so you can find it, it's out there, um, and you won't buy it. You won't pay a lot for it, because people that are selling it, whether it's a thrift store, an auction, won't know what it's worth. And I'm saying you're selling a fork for $75 a knife for 100 Yeah, it's not it's really good, and it's easy to ship.

Suzanne Wells:

So is that how you do it individually, or do you put it all together in a lot for the crow market? I

Unknown:

do it individually.

Suzanne Wells:

Can you spell that?

Unknown:

Yes, C, R, O, I'll check it again, but m, A, R, G, A, n, okay, well, that's good to know. It's West Germany, is what I know. Okay,

Suzanne Wells:

well, and flatware can be overwhelming. Yes, it's, it's like July pieces, and it's a lot of different makers and makers marks, and that's something I really haven't delved into because it's just it seems overwhelming, and I feel like I have to find a full set, right? But no, no,

Unknown:

no, I buy any piece I can find it that I've sold. You know, when you go to the thrift store, I don't usually have the patience to go through the silverware, but once in a while, inspired and I find something that is from that series. I'll sell it by itself, because it makes more money than some other things. You know,

Suzanne Wells:

is it Sterling? No stainless steel? Okay, see, that's another hang up. I feel like it needs to be Sterling.

Unknown:

So do I, but, and you but you'll recognize it the minute you see it has that mid century shape. You're very linear, very simple lines, and you can kind of spot it easily, even it's in a bin.

Suzanne Wells:

So what about just the run of the mill brands like Oneida? I

Unknown:

stay away from that. I've done those before, but I feel like, you know, it's, it doesn't have the value for the time I need. I mean, I'm sure it's great if you have maybe a giant lot of it, and somebody needs that pattern. It also depends on the pattern, I think, for those,

Suzanne Wells:

well, yeah, and if it's, if it's mid century, yeah, still adding to their collection, right? All the time when they can find the pieces. So, yeah, um, maybe that, maybe you're going to push me into trying that, because I feel like I don't know enough jewelry, jewelry, overwhelming. And then I delved into that and learned a lot. But flatware would be it's a little bigger, yeah, for our old eyes, even though we have reading glasses and magnifying glasses, I just it gets worse and worse too, because, yeah, I'm like, maybe jewelry is for the young eyes. I'm

Unknown:

noticing that works. I sell jewelry too, but I'm noticing now when I go to list, I'm like, I'm trying to get it real close,

Suzanne Wells:

am I sure that's what it is. Or you take a picture of it, you blow it up, like, but, um, so for finding these expensive pieces at thrift stores, just mixing more

Unknown:

auctions, the online auctions, different things like that. A lot of online auctions that are local will do the entire estate of somebody, right? You're not looking to piece out. Things will be like, the whole drawer, or, you know, yes, cabinet. I get a lot of bathroom cabinets that way. I do the whole thing. And it's so funny, because people go, what did you bid on? I'm like, the bathroom closet. That's rice all things, or you find the tide sticks, or you find all that stuff,

Suzanne Wells:

oh yeah, the Clorox $5

Unknown:

you know. So Laugh all you

Suzanne Wells:

know. And it's funny how they title their auctions. I keep talking about this, but it it just blows my mind. They'll just say everything you see here, or all the stuff in this closet, that's the title. And so there's no way to search for it, find it. No, you know, find an auction company you like, right? And that because some of them, they're not, they don't communicate well. Or, you know, you gotta find the ones you like and and just look through all their stuff, which, it's not hard, it's just, I wish, I'm assuming, yeah, well, the same thing on eBay. Some people title their their listings with the words you're wanting, right? I've looked up something the other day, and it was just like Ann Taylor sweater I thought it was in the title, no size, no color, no style, no neckline, nothing, right? And it is sold.

Unknown:

Oh, okay, because I'd say that's probably for a while. No, it's on

Suzanne Wells:

the completed, you know, on the eBay research.

Unknown:

Wow,

Suzanne Wells:

I was, I was comping a sweater, the one I'm. Wearing very nice. I wear my inventory. So I just, I'm like, how did this sell? With three keywords, anything sells, I guess, I guess so. Okay, so I hijacked that again. We're talking about flatware, yeah. So do you have any do you sell a lot of flatware?

Unknown:

Quite a bit. Yeah, I don't have a I don't have a niche. I sell anything that sells. Basically, if it sells, I'll sell it. But I do sell quite a bit of flatware. And, you know, I It's funny a thing just, it's a epiphany for me. So I went to Montessori School. And if people don't know what that is, it's a different type of thing. When you're really little, all this kind of stuff. Look it up. But yeah, I just realized when I was moving everything into the different spots I wanted to put. I love to organize. It's a weird habit of mine. But on top of that, I color coordinate so all like flat, where different things have orange labels and fabrics purple and plush is pink. And then I realized, all this time, I'm 53 years old, and I realized I'm doing it Montessori style,

Suzanne Wells:

right? Yeah, I'm constantly reorganizing my inventory,

Unknown:

yeah, so what I was saying is, there, there's a big tub of flatware, is what I realized. I still have quite a bit. So,

Suzanne Wells:

okay, okay, yeah. Well, I think, yeah, maybe I'll bookmark your store and and watch what you do. Yeah, and get into that, because I do see it quite often. I just, I know what knives to look for. But now they've started not putting the dangerous knives in those buckets at the thrift store. They put like a cardboard sheath over it, right? But I'm not seeing that anymore. That's

Unknown:

true because I haven't seen him in a while, because a friend of mine, who's a chef, always likes the older knives, the wooden handle with the tines. I'm going to use the wrong words, I apologize, but, and so I always look for those, because he said those make really good money, and they re sharpen them, and they change out how they want them. And I saw quite a few that way to Argentina, specifically same, not the same. Person kept buying them, but I haven't seen them anymore. You're

Suzanne Wells:

right. And like Petco knives, those come with a guarantee, so you can send them in and have them sharpened or repaired if the handle broke or whatever. And so buyers love those because they know if it's not perfect, yeah, they can have it, yeah, send it in to have it made back to perfect. Yeah.

Unknown:

Fun fact, I sold Cutco knives my senior year of high school,

Suzanne Wells:

really, in a department store. No, you do it yourself. It's

Unknown:

door to door.

Suzanne Wells:

Oh, my gosh. Oh, I

Unknown:

just hit up the whole family. That's

Suzanne Wells:

like, Avon. I sold Avon in high school. You said, lives, whatever.

Unknown:

We got it done.

Suzanne Wells:

Yeah. Okay. What else is on your list? Well, I

Unknown:

think an interesting thing about when we and, you know, we struggle with this, when to research and when not to research, right? Sometimes it's a waste of your time. Just list it, let it sell. And then sometimes it's like, my should know a little more about this. So this is a cute story. I went to the goodwill outlet, and I was with a colleague of mine, friend, and she pulls out this, I mean, literally, it's this big, and it's a silhouette. And she said, Do you want this? And I put it my thing. I might have paid 19 cents for it. So I get home and I'm about to list it for $30 I don't know, right? I do that, and I'm like, it's signed, and it's a year on there, 27 thanks. He has very it's a man to the side. He's very long eyelashes and a pronounced chin with a dimple like this is to be somebody famous. So this is before Google ends. So, I mean, you didn't have as much ease. So I had to start writing that stuff and make famous actors. Blah, blah, blah. Was Gary Cooper,

Suzanne Wells:

really

Unknown:

artist I will have to send to you later, because I forgot his name. He was a well known silhouette artist, so I put it at auction, and it sold for 365

Suzanne Wells:

Yeah. So yeah, glad you didn't just put 30 bucks on it

Unknown:

exactly. And I'm sure I've done that with other things. And it's okay, it's sold, it's gone more money than I paid for it. That's all that matters. But this was one of those things where taking the time to research, when you have that hunch, go with the hunch on that kind of stuff. So that's, I think, good, um, something else I find I never heard of. One of my favorite things about this job is being able to learn about companies. The stork club in New York City was a exclusive club. I'm trying to open this to show you it was an exclusive club for a social gathering, and they literally have a stork on it. So I was at the bins and I found suspenders that said the stork Club. On it. And I, oh, I got them. I mean, they don't weigh anything, so bring it home. And I went down a rabbit hole. But it's interesting. It's all these people that were socialites in New York City that would go and I think these belong to the waiters or the people that work there. So that part was just interesting. And so I put them on and I sold them for 100 and something. So, yeah, pretty nice. But I love that kind of learning, where you start figuring out stuff, you become not an expert, but well versed in things that you probably never learned if you continue to do other things well. And

Suzanne Wells:

that's what I love about writing my bolo books, is how much I learned. Yeah, so I'm interested you're gonna find in my books, it's stuff that I'm interested in too, right? Because, yeah, otherwise, it's like doing a book report on a book you don't even want to read, right? So I just, you know, research these things and and so now, after doing them since 2021 I'm out all the time. Oh, yeah, I know what that is. I know what that is. You know, because when you do the research, or when you have the book and look at the pictures, it sticks in your mind, right? And I'm just amazed at how many things I'm finding now that are in my books. Because it's kind of, it's been so many years, and I've done so many, it's just what you said. When you research it, you remember it,

Unknown:

Mm, hmm. It's interesting, that kind of stuff, and it's good party conversation.

Suzanne Wells:

Yeah, yeah. Why? Didn't realize people were going to use my books as coffee table books? Yeah, some people that don't even sell will buy them, and just because they're going to start selling, or their parents are elderly, and they know this is all going to fall on them. And so they're learning now, right, what to keep and what to donate and what to trash, right? Because the objective when you're going through an estate, your parents estate, whatever is, don't we touch things once. Don't make this pile, and then we go through it later and revisit that and put it in a storage unit. And because those storage units, let me tell you, it's Hotel California, you can check out. Never. And I have people contact me all the time they want to learn how to sell because, yeah, my parents died 10 years ago, and their stuff's been in storage for 10 years, right? And then what's in there? Just the money you spend on the storage unit is astronomical. So I love that more Gen Xers and baby boomers, with the aging parents knowing they're going to get all the stuff right, are figuring it out before it happens. So the process will be faster. Yeah, and you're going through the estate of someone who passed. It's almost been a year since my mom passed, and luckily, she didn't have much stuff she had already downsized. But you know you're you're grieving, yeah, and it's just really hard to make decisions when you're having that brain fog, right? So I totally got us off track again. Are your parents still living well? My

Unknown:

father passed away five years ago, and my mother is a strong, 88 year old,

Suzanne Wells:

oh my gosh, lives

Unknown:

on her own, drives everywhere, rides a bicycle every day. Yes, for her yes lifestyle, I love it. Yes, she's great, and she encourages me all the time, and she's goes to a store, goes, what about this?

Suzanne Wells:

She loves me very good. Yeah. I love that they're because they know so much, yeah, yeah. And just they remember all these decades because they lived through them, right? Yeah, yeah. Yeah,

Unknown:

wonderful. And for me, growing up, my parents were a little older having a child when I was born, I got to have that generational in between of learning all their items, not just my friend's parents items, you know, that kind of so that, to me, has been nice. It's been helpful for everything. And I feel

Suzanne Wells:

like people think, Oh, you have to have had a relative in the antique business or something, and everybody's home when you're growing up is full of stuff that you remember that's worth money now, yeah, so it's, it's kind of like we all really grew up in an antique store, exactly, a vintage store, right? Yeah,

Unknown:

yeah. And I was going to estate sales with my parents since I was really little, because they loved, they loved the hunt. It was more that for them. And so I learned from that age on, it kind of was a perfect fit. So, you know, in that sense, or just

Suzanne Wells:

what, what you're going to see, what are we going to see when we get there? Yeah, it's a lot more interesting than Walmart or Target.

Unknown:

Exactly. All day long. Plus it's all organized. I don't want it organized. I want to find things

Suzanne Wells:

right, right? It's fun searching. Now. How many items do you have in your store? I'm

Unknown:

down, I think to 4800 I was over 5000 Yeah, I'm cleaning up a little bit because I was like, Okay, I don't need this anymore. I don't think it's going to sell and stuff like

Suzanne Wells:

that. And where do you store all that? Well, I

Unknown:

have a very large house. It was an old building. Was the Odd Fellows meeting hall, and I converted to a house in the 80s. And so I have, I call it the left side of the house. I have two rooms dedicated 100% to eBay, so it's not overflowing everywhere else. And I have tall shelving. I'm happy one day to do a show of that, because I love my story, all the way up with bins, again, with my colors and all that kind of stuff on them. And so I do both. I have one that's clothing and lighter items upstairs, and then the China and everything is on the normal level, you know, off the kitchen so. And

Suzanne Wells:

so you're an everything seller.

Unknown:

Yes, everything sent me.

Suzanne Wells:

You sent me some very nice vintage sleepwear,

Unknown:

yeah? Well, because I do clothing and I hate listening, I'm terrible. Well, I

Suzanne Wells:

want to thank you for that, because several of them have sold that's fantastic, and the people were very happy, and they were just beautiful items, yeah, then

Unknown:

they look at your store for that stuff. I think people don't look at my store for that. I don't know, you know? I don't think it has to do with a store specifically. But

Suzanne Wells:

well, and I think you're right, once you you hit on something that works like right now, what's working for me is Speedo swimwear, yeah, I don't know what's going on with that. I bought some it was a sporting goods close out auction, right? And so I it was a bunch of the competitive type swimsuits, goggles, swim caps, stuff like that. And like, Oh, this is lightweight. It was shipped to me, and each thing cost about $2 after all was said and done. But those things are just flying out of my store. That's good women's and little girls sizes, really. So, you know, I understand that if you're a competitive swimmer, you go through a lot of suits, you want a lot of different ones. And so I'm shifting what I'm buying for resale. I'm like, what's working? I'm going to do more of that, right.

Unknown:

And that's you just hit on something key, like, just because it worked really well a year ago doesn't mean it works. Now, I have to train myself, even when I'm going to go to the stores, I'll be lying to something. I'm like, Wait, why am I going after this? It's not selling so

Suzanne Wells:

but I knew it. I like it, and it's pretty

Unknown:

I sell a lot of yarn, um, and I sell mugs all the time. And then I tell myself, stop buying mugs. But I still sell mugs so

Suzanne Wells:

well, if they're selling then Exactly, yeah, but I have

Unknown:

too many compared, right? And

Suzanne Wells:

I look at the mugs, and I'm like, why am I looking at the mugs? I don't really like, I don't like storing them this,

Unknown:

yeah, that's a pain,

Suzanne Wells:

because there's different ways you can. You can hang them on the wall, you can stack them in a tub. But I don't know they take up room. They do take up a lot of room. I don't mind shipping them because they're easy, but I still look at them, I might find, you know, what are those Taylor ng mugs that have an on them, or the animal orgy mugs? Yup, I found those before. Those are crazy, but fun. That

Unknown:

was one of my fraud situations. But, yeah, I did that. So does that. So I sold the Taylor ng mug. It was the cat Lucha, yes, and I've learned since then I mark my thing so that if they get them, and they try something, the woman barely gets into, that it's broken. And I can things can break. I get it, but the way I wrap things, I was like, that's you barely got it. Just arrived. And I said, please send pictures and send No, I can't get pictures up. And you know how it got she returned it, which at that point doesn't matter, because the post office wouldn't give me anything anyway, I get it back. It's not my mug. She had mug was broken, and she had gotten a

Suzanne Wells:

new one. Who would think a switcheroo on a mug, that's,

Unknown:

I know, that's why I was like, really? And it was just, it's upsetting, because it's like, really, you couldn't afford the mug. You just have to do that to me. You know it's like so anyway, but that was

Suzanne Wells:

the one bad apple I had one of those the other day on one of my empty perfume bottles. It's a picture of it. From all sides, you can tell it's empty, right? Says in the title, it's empty, it says it's in collectibles, yeah, category, and in the description, it says it's empty, like I made sure people understood, yeah, lady gets she opens a item not as described, return and says there's no perfume in here. And I said, I played dumb. I said, Oh, thank you for your purchase. Can. You help us understand why you thought you were getting a full bottle. Because it says, you know, all the places in the pictures and and she's opened her account two days ago, of course. And English is not her native language, so her her English was very choppy. I couldn't communicate with her well, and she just kept saying, I don't want this. It's no perfume in it. And I was like, well, lady, it was 100 milliliter bottle. You really think you're going to get it for 20 bucks, right?

Unknown:

There's that part of it too. Like, really? So

Suzanne Wells:

I couldn't make her. And then I'm like, Well, sure, we you can return it, no problem. And she says, What? What address do I send it to? And I said, You just opened a return. You've already opened the return on eBay, so just follow the steps and print the label and the address will be on there. I didn't want to try to communicate the address with her, because she couldn't understand what I was saying anyway, and she says, I have no printer. Cannot print label like she had all these problems. So I finally said, please contact eBay for further instructions. Yeah, and I said that two or three times, and then I contacted eBay on Facebook and explained the situation. And yeah, it's just a little perfume bottle, but I shouldn't have to pay return shipping, and I shouldn't an item not as described because she's clearly didn't read the title or didn't understand, right? And so I don't think I should be penalized for that. So, and you know what? You're giving

Unknown:

it the benefit of the doubt, it could have been a completely different situation, and we don't need to reward that

Suzanne Wells:

behavior, right? Yeah, so I doubt she'll even ship it back, because a maybe she can't figure it out, and be she going to move on to somebody else, a different victim? So I'll just, I'll just wait, but that's rare to have a problem with the customer. Yeah, everybody's happy. Yeah, same.

Unknown:

I'm pretty lucky that way too. Yeah.

Suzanne Wells:

So with that many items, I have to ask about, how many do you sell a month, a week,

Unknown:

whatever this, normally, I sell quite a bit, but I have been very bad for the last three months, because I went to Europe, I went to a wedding, and then I decided I was putting the store on vacation for the entire month. I was like, You know what? I need a break. So I did that, and then I've come back. And since I've been moving everything, I wasn't listing. You know, I mean, things are selling, they're still selling, but I don't, but, and again, I'll sell, I don't know, in a week I can sell 30$10 item. Oh, I don't have $10$20 items. Or I sold, for example, and I just put it on the $100 sales. I just sold five yards of French fabric for 900 and something

Suzanne Wells:

dollars, really? Yeah, beautiful

Unknown:

fabric too. And I just, I just touched it, see, just touched it. I did. I would move it. I'm like, what's in here? Oh, okay, moving

Suzanne Wells:

it over here. Get in there with your fairy dust and around. Yeah, it's

Unknown:

going back to France, which is funny, Yeah,

Suzanne Wells:

that happens with things made in Italy. They go back to Italy sometimes, yeah, so your store is moving at its highest velocity. How much selling?

Unknown:

I would say anywhere between 50 to 70 pieces a day. I've had, oh my gosh, shipping and it, well, yeah, it got and I have three day shipping. I did that on purpose. Okay, yeah, if you would stream that a long time ago. I went to that because otherwise I was stressed out over it. Yes, and I never ship on Mondays. I ship Tuesdays or but I need my Mondays. That's how I feel about it. I ship as

Suzanne Wells:

soon as it sells. If they say, Yeah, I changed my mind. I'm like, Well,

Unknown:

you go

Suzanne Wells:

so, but I don't have a if I had 100 things to ship, okay, I'm not going to say, oh, that sounds overwhelming. I'm going to say, That sounds fantastic. I would be happy to crank up the music and drink some more coffee and ship for three hours, I would be happy. And

Unknown:

one of my tricks, because shipping is not fun. Personally, I people like shipping. I don't like packaging. However, another eBay or does this, and I started doing it, I have pretty tissue paper, I have pretty poly mailers, and I have pretty things, and that makes it more fun, you know, put it with a sticker in my business card, and outfit goes, and it makes it move faster,

Suzanne Wells:

yeah, when everything's playing it's kind of drudgery. Yes, yes. I look at shipping as this is not an income producing activity. You know, finding things, listing things, answering questions. Those can result in income. Shipping is the back end, yeah, has to be done. But I reframe how I think about that like I'm so happy they paid me for this. They need me to find this item for them, right? They're going to love it, and you just have to put that energy into it instead of, ah, yeah, shipping. I. Because, guess what? You're shipping it because somebody paid you for it so and you want to

Unknown:

get it out. So you're all coming in for that.

Suzanne Wells:

I didn't realize you're you had so much inventory, yeah,

Unknown:

and I will be the first to say so you can scold me quite a bit of a death pile, I mean, money making pile that I haven't listed

Suzanne Wells:

yet well, but you're in an area where you might get some bad weather, be stuck inside, and if eBay is your full time job, then you'll have plenty to work on.

Unknown:

True, very true. And it's funny, because Monday is usually I go out and I donate items, because when you buy large lots of things there are, there's going to be things you're not going to sell. Well, then I'll bring it to the thrift store, then I have to go in.

Suzanne Wells:

Of course, you're there. I know that the other day, I went and checked out a goodwill boutique. It's inside a regular store, right? We kind of had a like a boutique area where they had the glass cases, but this is actually part of the store. It has a door on it. It's open different hours. I didn't know such a thing existed, so I was like, I'm gonna go check that out, because, you know, I'll pay $20 for something myself for 100 with that. So I go in there, and it's Tuesday, and of course, my first question is, does the senior discount apply in here, and they're like, no. It's like, well, don't hurt ask, and so, um, but it was all just regular run of the mill stuff that was in really good condition, like the Macy's brands, like, you know, Alfred Donner and Norton Naughton and Chico's and stuff like that, right? Wasn't, it wasn't anything great, but it was all marked up, you know, vineyard vine shorts for $20 Okay, come on, yeah, in that. So I was, I was disappointed, but so I just walked outside into the regular store and shopped there. It's like, the same stuff at your prices, right?

Unknown:

Yeah. Under their mindset, when they do that stuff, you're like, what do you have the boutique

Suzanne Wells:

stores there have all of them. Is it the same concept where it's a store within a store? Yep,

Unknown:

and it I don't buy, I don't even look anymore.

Suzanne Wells:

I just, yeah, I guess in the south, we kind of are behind the times a little

Unknown:

bit so, but they don't know the value. I noticed that because the boutique stuff, I'm like, that's not a boutique item. And yet, in the main, major part of the store, I found something that could have been in there. You know, that's okay for me.

Suzanne Wells:

You can't take your cart in there because there's not enough room. Exactly. They have these little tote bags. And so there was a few other people in there. I did not see one person check out and buy anything or put anything in their bag. Yeah, everyone else was as disappointed as I was. Like, y'all, let's go back out to the regular store and get stuff lower prices. But gotta, gotta check it out. Um, you ever buy from Goodwill online?

Unknown:

Oh, yeah, you do.

Suzanne Wells:

Okay, yeah, um, and I can edit this out if you don't want to share. I know about the jewelry boxes. Is that what you're looking at,

Unknown:

that and the glasses, eyeglasses, yep, which was another lesson I learned from you,

Suzanne Wells:

is it a lot, or is it one single pair?

Unknown:

No, it's pounds, five pound

Suzanne Wells:

Yeah. Okay,

Unknown:

so

Suzanne Wells:

do you pick that up? Or you have it shipped to you?

Unknown:

I get it shipped. It's not that bad. It's like 12 to$15 for the box. So it's not bad, good. And in fact, in one of the one of the more, I haven't done it in a while, but the jewelry lots I got a lot. And, you know, I send in the silver and gold to be to get from a refinery just but there's this one necklace in there, and you can see the turquoise coming through, and you're like, Oh, that looks pretty. And then I saw sterling silver, and it is a designer out of New Mexico, and I don't remember her name, but this was broken on one side. I was like, Well, you know, I was still trialistic, because somebody can repair it, or maybe the designer can repair it for someone. And I didn't know what I was going to put it for. I looked up her necklaces run between 20 530 500 so I sold mine for 750 i

Suzanne Wells:

Are you kidding? No. And the person said, I

Unknown:

said, are you aware? Because I you know. Are you aware? As listed, it's missing on this side, no, absolutely. I've already contacted her and she's going to fix

Suzanne Wells:

it for me. Okay, good. And that came out of a goodwill box. Yep, look at you.

Unknown:

That's just fun, because I could keep going for hours, but you got to take some risks.

Suzanne Wells:

Yeah? Thing is, sometimes you end up with duds, yeah? And that's okay, you know, it all goes into the same pot, so to speak. It's still

Unknown:

a learning lesson. That's how I you know, I was at the Goodwill bins. This one closed, unfortunately, this goodwill bin. But. But I was there's a bag. You can tell when they threw stuff in that they didn't even go through, like it was donated. And they threw it in, and this was an almost empty bin. Everybody gone through it, and I pull out this thing, and I'm like, Okay, look at the back. I walk away. I'm like, I'm going to check out now. It was a sterling silver tray

Suzanne Wells:

early. Got 600 for it. You have some kind of magnetism where

Unknown:

you my wife says that. She said, this is made for you. This all made for you. Another sweet one in the same goodwill. Allen, this is also why it's important to trust your gut. I went to an area there was the rejects, where everybody throws back stuff. And there was a piece of a poster, if you will. But it's all hand done. It was mixed media, which means you'll use paint, pen, fabric, different things, any variation of mixed media. And it was called Love letters, and it was really pretty the way it was done. And on one of the envelopes was an address for someone who lived in New Hope, PA. And it was the husband and wife. And then at the bottom, it was signed New Mexico. Again. I must have something to do with New Mexico signed by the artist, New Mexico in New Mexico, and he had died two years before. So this was obviously commissioned for these people. Why did it ended up there? I don't know. People threw it around. I don't know my wife saw it, and she's an artist, and she said, Oh, that's not anything. You're not going to get anything for that. Said, Okay, that's fine. I did my research. I actually found who the couple was. It's a little bit of a tragic story in there. So I was like, Okay, I listed the whole thing. I finally sold it for $900

Suzanne Wells:

nice, yeah,

Unknown:

it needed work. So that's why I got less than I think, probably because it had been wrinkled, being rolled up in the goodwill bins. But yeah, so trust your

Suzanne Wells:

gut. Yeah, there's a it's just stuff is everywhere. There's an abundance. And, yeah, sometimes you walk out empty handed because you don't find what you're looking for. It was last week for me, there's always the next place. Yep, you don't know what's just been put out that you're going to see before anybody else, or if the people before you even care. Yeah, that's true. Like, I learned I don't want to work with cameras. I don't like it, I don't like big bedding. I know you make a lot of money, but I'm on the third floor of an apartment. I gotta bring it up here and

Unknown:

and I'm not, and I've stopped doing it because just to store it, it's just big,

Suzanne Wells:

yeah, but yeah, you I mean, now if I saw one that was worth like $800 I would just suck it up and do it. But I do look at that stuff, and I do like to try new things, but within my parameters,

Unknown:

yeah, electronics are not my thing, because I feel like, like Casey does so well with all his electronics, uh huh. I just don't, you know, I just don't do well with electronics. And I'm also afraid, because I get the piece, I don't know if it works, how it works, I don't want to get involved

Suzanne Wells:

well. And let's touch on that for the listeners too. Because yes, Casey is a superstar in our group, but he gets a lot of stuff free. That's true and and they know him in that town, and sometimes he'll make a donation anyway, $5 or something. But, um, he's in a very unique situation that most of us are never going to be in. It's a fluent area, and he's figured out how to get stuff free. And so if it's free, yeah, you take a chance. And if it doesn't work, you just trash it. So, yeah, you gotta, like, bloom where you're planted. Figure out right near you, what you're good at, what you like working with. And, you know, marry all those elements together, and that turns out to be a fun and successful business, because if you're not loving it, yeah, it's not going to be successful. It's just not right, yeah, and it's not McDonald's either, if you're not loving it, no, okay, we have gone almost an hour here. Do you have any final words for the listeners?

Unknown:

Something I've learned to do a little bit that I think everybody should do, if you watch TV, or you watch movies, or you read books, especially movies and TV, though, watch the surroundings of whatever show you're watching. Um, I've sold to Stranger Things. Mrs. Maisel, different shows like that. I've gotten to know some of those people that are the set designers. Okay, so I think it's very important that you start honing in on just okay, pay attention to the storyline. I get it, but look behind. See what's on that table. See what kind of clothes they're wearing. You know, what is it you're seeing? Because if that show goes for another season, or different things like that, or the people that watch the show really like it, they'll want to buy those things, and I feel like lesson, and

Suzanne Wells:

there's so many of those coming out now on the streaming channels. Yeah, I watched a movie a few weeks ago. It's called The Long Walk Home. It was Sissy Spacek and Whoopi Goldberg, and she was the Whoopi was the maid, and. It was placed in the 60s during all the civil unrest, and so she ended up not taking the bus and having to walk. But oh my gosh, that kitchen, all I did was look at the background, you know, the toaster and the the oaster mixer and all the stuff on the counter. I'm just, I, you know, yeah, I was following the story, but I was just in the clothing, the fashion, the hairstyles, the cars, what's on their coffee table. It was very, very mid century modern, with the, you know, Danish type furniture. And I was just looking at everything. I'm like, yeah, totally watching this movie. I want to look at the background.

Unknown:

It's great. It's you learn something every time, too,

Suzanne Wells:

and it was a good movie anyway. So, yeah, so Okay, well, thank you so much for taking the time to share your wisdom, because I learned a lot from you. Well,

Unknown:

thank you. And I learned, I always learn from you, and I suggest everybody gets your premium library, because it's always fascinating. As much as we know we learn more. Okay,

Suzanne Wells:

good. Well, my latest class I'm working on right now is about wigs, because I've been selling a lot of wigs, and I think people don't look at them, or they don't know. They don't know, yeah, some of them are really expensive when they're new, right? And women wear wigs for all kind of reasons. It's not just because you have chemo. It's like, if you go on, I guess it's Tiktok or where those reels are. Yeah, there's several girls that have, they're in their 20s, and they just have it, you know, they're bald because they have issues, some kind of illness or disease or whatever, and and they're so beautiful, you would never know, right? And, you know, they gotta get them somewhere. Yeah, that's something I've been into for a while, because they're usually behind the counter at the thrift store, and they're like, less than $5 and you can sell them for 100 you

Unknown:

know, I'm going to be doing that because new. They're

Suzanne Wells:

like, 300 right? And anyway, yeah, I stumbled into that when I went to was an estate sale about three or four years ago, and they had all the they had, like, 20 of them, and I just bought them all. I'm like, this is something I need to learn, and don't take that much room, easy to ship. And I've never had one returned. Well, that's good, yeah. So anyway, thank you for that. That plug for the premium library. I do add new content every week, and it's what I'm learning so everybody can learn too. And it's

Unknown:

buried, which I think is important for people. That's, yeah, I

Suzanne Wells:

try to put something in there for everybody. Yeah, exactly. So anyway, thank you so much. And maybe up to today, listing, shipping, shopping, shopping, well, not you don't do it on Mondays.

Unknown:

No, actually, today I'm going to do something I've never done. I'm putting up Christmas There

Suzanne Wells:

you go. How to need it.

Unknown:

The joy of working at home is you can do that exactly. That's what I'm doing today, because

Suzanne Wells:

I figured, well, put on that Christmas music and be festive and enjoy your day. Thank you. Okay, bye, bye. Now on to parting words. We talked a little bit about the Disney membership club, and it's called Club 33 Here is some information about that. If you aren't aware, club 33 is a private members only dining club at Disney parks that offers exclusive experiences. Club 33 has locations at Disneyland Park, Disney California Adventure and Walt Disney World Resort, the first club 33 opened in 1967 at Disneyland Park, modeled after VIP lounges at the 1964 New York World's Fair membership is highly exclusive and can cost 10s of 1000s of dollars per year. People often wait decades to be allowed in. Members receive tailored experiences, including access to member only dining and cocktail lounges. Some say the Club offers high quality food and service in a beautiful and peaceful setting. Some describe the club as a hidden Oasis that's a mix of enchantment, whimsy and privilege. The club features a grand entrance, a small entry vestibule, and an iconic atrium with a sweeping staircase and statuary. Okay? Why should you care? Some of the items that come from club 33 do. Can sell for a lot of money on eBay. According to eBay research, there were 5500 items with the keywords Disney Club. 33 sold in the last year. Items include pins, clothing, key chains, backpacks, cups and mugs, jewelry, figurings and statues, anniversary and commemorative items like coins and plates. The logo is just the number 33 with a fancy scroll border around it, so you can google that and take a look at it, to become familiar with it, and look for these items. When you are treasure hunting out in the wild, these items have a fantastic resale value, hundreds or even 1000s of dollars. And if you are a club 33 member and dare to part with any of your items. Check out comps. You'll be surprised. You may just want to cash in on some of those goodies. Next week, my guest is dawn, and she has an interesting situation. She and her sister both sell on eBay, and they have a little competition going. So some sibling rivalry eBay style, make sure to come back for that episode next week. Thank you all for supporting this podcast by tuning in every week and keep listing though there's still time to cash in on that holiday buying a frenzy. Make it a great week on eBay. Everybody. Bye for now. You.