Biggest Single Sale in Dollars

[duggmills]

What has been your biggest sale in terms of dollars?

This is pointed question with a realistic suggested answer. Yes, sometimes strange thoughts pass through my mind.

Question:  What has been your biggest sale in dollars?

Answer:  None of your business.

[rolenboy01]

Some items around the $1000 range I do not remember the exact amounts one was a Human Skull that was used by medical students at the turn of the century it actually sold to a medical student as far as I could tell the other item was an old Leica camera and accessories.

[lintbrush*]

$1,300 for some soup bowls.  

[pvcliff]

Me -- Signed copy of Andy Warhol's Exposures with drawing of a chocolate chip cookie for $500 (book was bought at a Famous Amos store in Hollywood where Andy was signing books). Cliff -- $850 bottle of Marilyn Merlot; we'd been given the first edition bottle as a Christmas gift about 12 years before and he just happened to stumble across a discussion of it on a wine board. The advise was "don't drink it, don't drop it, go look at prices on eBay."  Those sales were made when we were newbies.

[timemachine777]

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@retrose1wrote:

About 12 years ago on ebay, $6,200 for a filtration system.

My next was a Civil War era mans shirt that got around $2,200 auction, about the same time period

I would never risk those amounts on ebay now.

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Mine was the Hobbit, but in the condition mine was in, you only get about a 1,000.00 for it now. After the movies came out, eBay got flood with old LOTR books.

[sin-n-dex]

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@duggmillswrote:

What has been your biggest sale in terms of dollars?

This is pointed question with a realistic suggested answer. Yes, sometimes strange thoughts pass through my mind.

Question:  What has been your biggest sale in dollars?

Answer:  None of your business.

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$732 for a set of Indian Princely states coins (2013 at auction). I thought it was all junk, and would have been happy to get $100... I was pleasantly surprised.

C.

[bigoljim47]

$12,500 for an old rustbucket a 1961 chevy SS, not running, no interior, but had all the parts to restore the thing. 

[banana*shoe*boutique]

This thread is fun.   I don't really have anything exciting to share.  Just saying I like it.

I did sell some Matilda Jane toddler clothes back in the day at prices that make me cringe now....and that was back when there was no SNAD, no returns, no INR, just honest people buying and selling and duking it out in FB lol

[kensgiftshop]

I had an item on auction and towards the end, it got a little above $2000.00, then I woke up.

I don't sell anything over $100.00.

[ericlovescameras]

$180 + $55 international shipping for a in-demand polaroid camera. wouldn’t go much higher than that on ebay. on craigslist $7k for jet ski (not mine; i can’t afford jet skis; i sold for a friend for a commission).

my favorite sale was $100 for a 600 series polaroid, which i usually sell for $30-$40. i paid my normal $10 and almost offered less because of its weird norton promotional branding. turns out there’s a collector base of items from polaroid’s promotional swag endeavor, which i didn’t find out until i got home and googled prices.

[namtrag1]

$175,000,582.00.........The Brooklyn Bridge!

[turquoisetulips]

What has been your biggest sale in terms of dollars? duggmills --- unquote 

Oh gee there's been so many  lol ,, but how about the time a buyer purchased 138 of my necklaces from me  and never paid  the 7oo something  dollar invoice ?  Yeah  it happened  😞   Tulips 

[turquoisetulips]

okay - I sold a Nissian Versa 2008 - 4900 $   - Tulips 

[grasshopperx]

650.00 On something I made. Now I dont even think I would list something like that for fear of being ripped off. And ebay siding with a buyer. Not worth the chance now because ebay is only good for selling junk if a person wants to be safe.  The word is out all over the net with articles on how to rip off us poor sellers.

[bubbleman2010]

A set of 12 french majolica palissy plates a little over 18 grand. I got choice at a live auction for $50.00 each and took them all....

[lasantino]

@bubbleman2010 omg,, tell me more....!!!  was it an auction you were attending in person,, is that what you meant by choice??.. did you know immediatly when you saw them , they were super valuable.... 

ie.. can we hear the rest of the story.