Garage Sale 2 Ebay

ScoutPal is a monthly subscription service that allows you to access Amazons sales data from your cell phone.  Using a web enabled cell phone (almost all cell phones are now.) You log on to their service, input the ISBN or UPC from any book, DVD, CD, or VHS tape.  Scoutpal then gives you a detailed summary of the market prices and quantities, the sales rank, the editions and availability, and any used/new/collectible details.

The simplest version, which will accomplish what most people need, costs $9.95 a month, or 29.85 quarterly.  (I recomend you take advantage of their 1week free trial here however you will most likely love it and become a monthly subscriber like myself.)

If buying and selling used books are your bread and butter, you can also purchase a portable scanner to hook to your phone which will save a lot of time on typing the ISBN numbers into your cell phone.

Scoutpal can also lookup pricing on PriceGrabber.com but this isn’t near as useful for myself.

You can learn more about it at ScoutPal.com

I found this useful article over at http://www.theauctionrebel.com This is a list of items that show up fairly frequently that most people pass by mistakenly.

1.) Adult Halloween and Holiday costumes. If the costume is in a fairly common size and its in good condition chances are it can easily fetch $50 or more while you are paying less than $10.

2.) College Textbooks. Keep in mind outdated editions of textbooks often sell for a lot less. Nearly every hardcover textbook sells for at least $50, and a good chunk can go for over $100. I don’t know how common these will show up at sales in every town, but they are frequent in mine since we have a state university.

3.) Rich Dad Poor Dad books. There are a bit more than twenty different books in this series by Robert Kuyoski. Individually they wont fetch a large price, however many of the people who have one for sale, will have many. These books easily bring $50-100 for lots of 8 and above.

4.) Bright and Early Beginning Readers for Children. Look for the Dr Seuss Reader logo on the cover, you can usually pick them up for $.25 and then sell lots of 10 or more at a time for roughly $3-5 per book.

5.) Calvin and Hobbs books. Lots of people go crazy over these books, Individuals wont sell for anything extreme, however a group of 5-10 will bring you a very good return on investment.

6.) Homeschooling material. Anything related to homeschooling sells on eBay, however A Beka is the premiere name for books and curriculum material. When you find this stuff, there is usually lots of it and for very cheap. Buy it all and sell by groups for each school grade. Its is very common for a $10 purchase to bring $80-120 or more.

7.) Precious Moments and Prairie Schooler cross stitching pattern books. I only buy these if I can find at least five or so at a time (Which is fairly common,) or if you can find any of the earlier booklets. The early ones can bring $40 and more very easily, whereas the new ones sold in a group of five or more will also bring a very nice profit.

8.) Magic Crochet magazines. There are many crochet magazines, however these are the only ones I consistently make a good return with. Groups of 10 or more will definitely have a good profit margin.

9.) Weight watchers cookbooks. Look for soft cover cookbooks that have the copyright date in the last six years. Do not spend over $1 as most of them don’t sell well individually. Some of them bring $15-25 apiece, the rest sell in a group to make a nice profit.

10.) Animorphs books, these books sell well in large lots, and are also found for sale in large groups which makes it easy. Try not to spend more than $.50 apiece and try to get as many as you can at once. Sell them in groups to make a nice profit. If you happen to see Animorphs videos, games, or any other items at a good price buy them also.