First off, thanks to everyone who has checked out my posts since I’ve gotten back into the swing of blogging about my sales.
Second, damn it’s getting exciting in the crypto space, and I’m doing my best to balance focus on that, training for my baseball season starting this weekend, and going out late at night to continue salvaging items. I’ve been exercising very hard and frequently since January, and my body really wants to rest and grow stronger. This makes going out late and going to bed absurdly late harder than it used to be, but I’m still grinding.
Moving on from my feelings, here are more salvaged sales making their debut on the Hive blockchain!
20 Pounds Of Assorted Legos:
- Sold for $110 cash.
- For two young sons, one that excitedly jumped out of the car to check them out.
- I found 98% of these last week and filtered out all non-Lego items. It’s slow, but meditative for me with lots of childhood nostalgia.
- Sold in a recycled reusable carry bag.
- Weight of 20 pounds, duh.
The original find I had in my post a few days ago if you didn’t see it.
Aside from some partial sets that I found bagged with instructions, I’m finally out of bulk LEGO bricks. This means I’ll trip on more soon. I have TONS of mini figures and accessories to work on selling. Those are easy.
Fitness Machine Display Console:
- Sold online for $60.
- Untested for parts/repair.
- I come across these types of consoles a lot and they’re great money, even untested.
- Since the machines are too big to bring back, I just take key parts and call it a wrap.
- I discounted this for someone who said they lost their job and had to pay import fees to Canada.
- Shipping weight of 2 lbs 12 oz with recycled packaging.
Dieter Rams Design Book:
- Sold online for $47.50.
- About a German designer who did a lot of work for Braun years ago.
- A very popular figure with innovative designs ahead of his time.
- I’ve recently sold a nice Braun item he likely designed to China for a pretty penny, and also recently found a new vintage Braun gem!
- Shipping weight of 4 lbs 2 oz with recycled packaging.
Sealed New Cable Box:
- Sold online for $55.
- Found with several other models and routers.
- **I’m keeping one router setup to upgrade mine for a fully working Xbox One I found and tested at a friend’s place!!! A replacement power supply is in the mail.
- Why do people toss brand new stuff? Or an Xbox One with games loaded on it? Why?
- Shipping weight of 3 lbs 5 oz with recycled packaging.
Oh yea, proof... found in the bottom of a kitchen garbage bin someone put out to recycle (not garbage) in the rain, with a toaster oven on top of it. When I picked up the bin, I knew it felt too heavy, so I took the toaster oven out to see the prize below. Ironically it was the same spot I found an Xbox 360 and N64 controllers not too long before, so they’re all possibly from the same person. I have their email account now so I can thank them...
But wait, where are the vacuums?
Dyson Vacuum Motorhead Part x2:
- Sold online for $55 and $52 each.
- These are very common. I have about 7-9 of these left I have to get to listing. Most are tossed because their batteries lose life. Silly.
- I could create the full stick vacuum setups and sell them for $100-$120, but the quick motorhead sales are nice too. The power head attachments also sell well, so I can make more by parting them out. This is especially true when the batteries need replacement (which I don’t do except for waiting until I find good ones outside). Decisions decisions.
- Shipping weight of 1 lb 5 oz and 1 lb 3 oz with recycled packaging.
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- 6 sales / $379.50 revenue = $63.25 per find (Not all home runs to show, but free $ is nice.)
- 29% of revenue received as cash.
- Revenue is before any fees or shipment.
- No costs. Can’t beat that.
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I’m posting 5-6 examples here to spread out the recent results since I don’t have millions of examples. I’m also being more detailed for each as you can see, a fair trade versus my typical 10 examples with less info.
The amount of items here in no way shape or form correlates to the amount of effort I put into finding, restoring, fixing, selling and shipping them. My effort is intended to help the environment, others, and to support myself so I can keep doing this while patiently waiting for crypto to do its thing. It’s been almost 6 years since I worked for anyone else, or at all... These things are my rewards.
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It’s late, but I wanted to get this post out before suiting up to go hunt for more right now. Wish me luck. I want gold!! After walking a few miles earlier this evening, a 45 minute baseball workout after, and then 75 mins at the gym, this will be a challenge.
Thanks for your interest,
Matt