Selling on Ebay – Diamonds in the Rough
As you may have read, I’ve created a New Years Resolution to try and get rid of some of our extra stuff by selling at least 20 things a month on Ebay. This will help us to declutter and also help instill the attitude of living with less. This is definitely an important mindset to get into if you’re trying to save as much money as you can 🙂
Selling on Ebay – Diamonds in the Rough – The Background
This is one of those weird ideas that just sort of came to me the other day. I was sitting on the couch and thought, why the hell do we have all of these DVDs we never watch? With Netflix streaming and DVD rental only costing us ~$18 a month combined, we haven’t watched a physical DVD of our own in ages! I’d venture to guess that we have about 150 of them just sitting there in the cabinet. It’s probably close to an even split between kids movies and grownup movies.
I then began to wonder about all the old video games that I have just sitting on the shelf. The oldest one I still could put my hands on was The Legend of Zelda – The Minish Cap. I’m a die-hard fan of the overhead type of Zelda games, and I had saved the game, box, and manuals all these years for some reason. I believe the game is something like 10 years old by now. I’m think the game probably cost $30 new when I purchased it all those years ago.
Selling on Ebay – Diamonds in the Rough – Jackpot!
Imagine my surprise when I found out that complete versions of the game were selling for $65 – $75! This game is just sitting there on my shelf taking up space, and I know that I’ll never play it again! Finding this “diamond in the rough” that I can sell on ebay gave me the motivation I needed to decide to sell all of these old games I’ll never play again. This whole discovery got me thinking – how much will other unused things around the house sell for if I listed them on Ebay? I’m looking at all of our material possessions in a whole new light as a result of running across the wacky pricing of this old game.
Selling on Ebay – Diamonds in the Rough – Final Thoughts
What do you think? Is there much point to keeping old games, books, movies, etc. that you probably aren’t going to ever use again? Why do people hold onto things and collections in the first place if they aren’t going to actively use them? Aren’t these things just one more thing to tie up your money and hold you down?!?
It’s amazing what you can sell on Ebay, CraigsList or any of those online sites. Again we must be blogging twins, because my post today is about selling something on Craigslist that I didn’t think anyone would want to buy. 🙂
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Brock,
That’s awesome that you were able to find someone to buy your home-made smoker. Craigslist is kinda like: “if you list it, they will come.” 🙂
Wow, this is funny.
I was just talking about this last night with my friend. We were talking about selling some of our old stuff on ebay and splitting the profit. Because so many people buy online today, the more you try to sell the easier it is to profit.
Great post!
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Yeah,
Some of the craziest old stuff can sell for quite a bit – you’d be surprised!!
I got started on eBay by selling some t-shirts that I wasn’t wearing. If you have any video game themed tees that you don’t wear, these can be good sellers. Or concert tees are also good. Really any used clothing can go if it’s a solid brand or has a cool design.
Mandy,
Good tip! We usually wear our clothes until they’re pretty much rags, but it’s good to know. Especially if we happen to be at other yard sales and can eye an opportunity to flip some 🙂