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.

[bigdeals.etc]

About $3600 for a pair of Miley Cyrus tickets about 15th row. This was back in 2006 when she was still innocent and a teenie bopper. I started the auction at 99 cents. I had tons of messages... sob stories asking me to sell it to them at under face value or give it to them for free, people asking me where I got them and if they can get some too, death threats, and people condemning me to hell saying I have no soul for having such a high price (not realizing it's a bid war starting at 99 cents). 

I would never ever sell anything like that on eBay nowadays given the changes. I'm fine with my 15 dollar items now, thank you.

[d-k_treasures]

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@lasantinowrote:

@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.

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Choice at a live auction means that the high bidder can take from one to as many as available. So b-man took all 12, which would be 600.00.

[myboardid]

My highest individual item was a doll - a "friend" of Barbie's, still in the original box, from the early 60's.  I sold it in 2001 for roughly $800 - don't remember the exact amount. 

[retrose1]

Anyone else noticing a phrase that keeps popping up on this thread???

I wouldn't do it on ebay now.

ebay should take a look at the money they are losing out on .. now.

[turquoisetulips]

$175,000,582.00.........The Brooklyn Bridge! namtrag1 - unquote 

And I wish I could tell you how handy it's been ! shipping fee will take awhile to recover from ,,  but I guess I'll cross that bridge when I come to it ,, wow , small world !  🙂  - Tulips 

[turquoisetulips]

ebay should take a look at the money they are losing out on .. now. retrose - unquote ------------------

So should the cops - Tulips 

[turquoisetulips]

About $3600 for a pair of Miley Cyrus tickets about 15th row. This was back in 2006 when she was still innocent and a teenie bopper. I started the auction at 99 cents. I had tons of messages... sob - bigdeals  unquote ------------- 

You mean back when she was Hannah Montana ? I can't believe there were so many parents willing to fork out that kind of money ,, I mean ,,for your sake  I'm happy there were . However I assure you I wasn't one of them.  New singers are a dime a dozen nowadays  and IMO  a dime would be an overcharge  to sit through  especially a Miley Cyrus  concert . Tulips 

[turquoisetulips]

 and people condemning me to hell saying I have no soul for having such a high price (not realizing it's a bid war starting - bigdeals - unquote  -----------------------------------

I think that would have made me angry.   To me '' having no soul '' is to nearly  worship a  gimmick  that's  more porn than talent  who also  rode in on the coat tails  of a has been one hit wonder of a father . Tulips 

[bubbleman2010]

lasantino I'm a professional picker its just what I do....

[a_c_green]

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@retrose1 wrote:

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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I don't think I'd risk that much intentionally here anymore, but sometimes an auction can surprise you. (I don't mean bid shielding on a laptop or smartphone auction, but bidding on an item that you didn't know was actually high-value until you listed it.) 

The item that gave me the biggest surprise was a desk pen on a decorative base made from the die-cast nameplate of a 1967 Mercury Cougar, given as a corporate gift by the die-casting company. Bought it for $5 at an estate sale; sold it for over $500 in fierce collector bidding.

The item that I knew would do well... but ended doing much more well than I thought... was a vintage Erector Set Electrical Kit, full of electrical gadgets such as a motor to build, rather than straight mechanical projects. Bought it in a messy pile for $50, cleaned and sorted the pieces, got everything neatly repacked in its storage box, and it went for something in the area of $700, if I remember right. 

Nowadays I try to keep a little more focused in areas in which I can specialize, and not just rampage through estate sales willy-nilly, as my basement will only hold so much, and I had to cut myself off from that kind of buying for fear of turning into a hoarder. When retirement hits (hopefully not for quite a few years yet), and if eBay is still around at that time, I may get back into clearing out the big treasures.

[odditiesandantiquities1]

I picked up an item at a thrift store for .99 and it sold for $1482. That was when I first started selling. Sure paid for a lot of new inventory.  I have had higher sales since but the return for investment on that one was incredible.

[tiramisu41]

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@duggmillswrote:

What has been your biggest sale in terms of dollars?

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$400 on a 2" tall pumpkin/jack-o-lantern pottery pitcher, vintage and probably German though unmarked.  At one point I had 40+ watchers on it; bidding was crazy.    It really was quite ugly in my opinion, but apparently there is a huge market for vintage halloween collectibles.   Had the item been hallmarked, it could have gone for twice that.  I was just happy it got there okay, the buyer was pleased and there were no issues with the transaction.  That was a 2-3 years ago.  I dread to think what headaches I'd have now.

[ripcityresell]

A postage stamp for $200.00.

[dtexley3]

So far a Franz porcelain platter for $400. I do occasionally sell items over $100, but it makes me nervous.

[bigdeals.etc]

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@turquoisetulipswrote:

You mean back when she was Hannah Montana ? I can't believe there were so many parents willing to fork out that kind of money ,, I mean ,,for your sake  I'm happy there were . However I assure you I wasn't one of them.  New singers are a dime a dozen nowadays  and IMO  a dime would be an overcharge  to sit through  especially a Miley Cyrus  concert . Tulips 

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Yup. I couldn't believe it neither. It's no wonder millennials turned out like they did, haha. So much money for a kids concert. This was pre stub hub days. Her eBay ticket sales were mentioned on the news a lot back then. So I guess that helped drive in traffic. But unfortunately afterwards everyone and their grandma started selling concert tix on eBay, messing up the market. That's when I stopped ticket selling altogether. Went out with a bang though.