What are weird things that you listed and actually sold?

[pvcliff]

I only sell stuff from around the house. So a couple weeks ago I found several flowchart templates from Cliff's early engineering days in a drawer. Check eBay, ok, it looks like there might be a market. Think I started a lot of 8 at $8 - $10, and who knew there'd be a mini bidding war to get the sale up to $16.50?! And this is the sort of stuff I wouldn't have even put out at a garage sale, I'd have tossed them in the trash!  A smaller number of architectural templates sold as well first time out. 

Yesterday I sold a corporal missle model stuck to a plaque that was given to my husband when he left that army division in the early 60's. The models alone seem to have value to collector's, I had no idea if the model/plaque would have value. Sold for the $50 starting auction price. With a missing nose cone.

My favorite "who'd a thunk this would sell" item is a fitted sheet. We have a Sleep Number bed and I wanted to make it up for summer with a light duvet and white on white  patterned sheets. Only needed the top sheet and pillow cases, couldn't use the bottom fitted king sheet because our bed takes two twins. Well, before I throw it in with the painting drop cloths, let me list it. I'll be darned if I didn't have two people want that bottom sheet and it got bid up to $40ish!

[nobody*s_perfect]

All the odd white socks that never got sorted out from the bottom of the clean-laundry basket. (Yes, used socks. But clean!)

12 ounces of acorns that I just raked up from my yard (that wouldn't ever sell at a yard sale, since people could just pick them up).

[reallynicestamps]

Finding singleton sheets in any size is a problem.

I have a 3/4 bed (48" wide) and need a king flat as a bottom sheet. Any other size is too narrow, and the king is too wide.

My weirdest was a soft porn paperback from the 50s, with a title like "Girl in Black Rubber". BDSM for sure.

It sold to the writer's daughter who was collecting daddy's work as a family heirloom.  Sent a very appreciative Message too.

[reallynicestamps]

@nobody*s_perfect

I'm still kicking myself that I didn't pick up all the horsechestnuts under a tree on my daily walk a few weeks ago.

Not only would they look good on the hall table, but apparently they keep spiders away.

Next year. If the tree poisoner doesn't hit again.

https://www.vicnews.com/news/resident-charged-48350-fine-for-poisoning-large-oak-bay-tree/

[a_c_green]

I bought a battered cardboard box of assorted old bicycle parts at a garage sale. The larger components all sold as expected, but down at the bottom, I found a loose round plastic reflector and the rubber ring that originally held it to its backing plate on the rear fender of a British bicycle. That was all: just the reflector and the ring, nothing else. 

I was determined to see if I could sell absolutely everything that had been in that old box, and this reflector and ring were the only things left between me and Total Victory, so what the heck... Gave it a proper auction writeup, opening price was... I dunno, $9.95 or so, Free Shipping domestically, world-wide listing... and Lo and Behold, I sold it... to a woman in England, who paid the international shipping charges and wrote a ravingly enthusiastic email after it arrived.

Apparently she was restoring her old Raleigh, and that was the absolute last correct part she needed to finish the bike. How about that. Everything in this world has a buyer; you just need to find them... or they need to find you.

[nobody*s_perfect]

That's classic eBay!

[lacemaker3]

I don't know if this was actually wierd or not ... but it's the strangest auction result I can remember selling.

A bit of backstory. Maybe 15 years ago, I went to a local antique store's storage location, by special arrangement with the owner, to see some equestrian antiques they had stored there. I wasn't really interested in anything they had there, but in order to not waste the owner's time completely, I bought something. It was a pair of spurs, that had apparently been brought back from South America by an auto company executive after an assignment there.

Fast forward 5 years or so, I noticed a similar pair of spurs on eBay that had sold for a decent amount, so I decided to list mine. They sold for several hundred dollars, which totally surprised me. So I did some research, and found out that a similar pair had been appraised for several hundred dollars on Antiques Roadshow. They were supposed to be antiques.

I really don't believe that these things ever touched the hide of a horse (thank goodness), and they are just tchotchkes produced for the tourist trade in the 2nd half of the 20th century, rather than antiques. But I didn't complain.

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=gaucho+spurs&_sacat=0&rt=nc&LH_Complete=1

[juststuffisell]

I've sold a number of weird things or things I had no idea would sell.

The one that came to mind for me were some photographs.

Back story - bough a small storage locker. Full of pretty much junk. One of those disappointments since I don't sell at flea markets etc. So the only thing I pulled out that was of any interest were these pictures.

I put them up for auction on eBay in two different lots. Between the two lots I sold them for around 400 bucks. This was a number of years ago,

What were the pictures?

UFO's 

Was an interesting grouping.

Cheers

[18704d]

A small box of Harley Davidson stuff.

I know Nothing about cycles.  Garage sale.

But the box was $25.00 and he jumped when I made a $10.00 offer.

A lot of metal, and shiny chrome stuff.

My husband knows a friend who rides.

He helped us identify a bunch.

One part I found on Completed Listings for $200.00

I listed it... 175.00 Bin.. then 150.00 Bin...

and that stimulated a 100.00 offer which I accepted.

It's weird because I don't even know what it was.

I listed it by the Number stamped on it..

Something about carburetor thingies.

Lynn

[ekmadonna]

Weirdest thing was a small baby octopus in formaldehyde. it was in a small gerbers baby jar tipped upside down and screwed to a wood base. probably circa 1950-1960's. picked it up for $1.99 at the Salvation Army and sold it here for I think 30 bucks maybe 4 years ago.

[mikeystoyz]

Wife found a bunch of food grade branding irons at a yard sale for nothing.  I believe there were 100 in the box and she paid 5 bucks.  Found out the branding irons were somewhat rare and sold each one for 25 dollars.  Later found out a guy from a tattoo shop was buying them, branding people and giving them the iron.  Weird and interesting story.

[yuncreations]

I bought an Alf ( the alien from that old tv show) plush doll for $1 at the flea market, pit in for auction, got sold for $35 ! That was a surprise!

[oleander1993]

Don’t know if my items qualify as weird but I was amazed someone would buy them. Like old hole punchers and staplers, rolls of assorted border wallpaper that was in my mom’s closet for decades—-sold for crafting and scrapbooking since the stickum probably wouldn’t. Some lady was thrilled. 

[lady10s]

Not weird but great story...Bought a cross stitch preprinted fabric for 25 cents at a thrift store. Could not believe the bidding kept rising. Sold it for $50. I had to know why. The lady said she had done the exact same one like it years ago and it was out of production and had been looking for sooooo long. She wanted to complete another for her daughter to have for her own home.  Awwww....love a happy ending for all. 

[7606dennis]

I've found "Nickle Bags of Grass" popular.