Re: had any luck with this?
Getting past the selling fees can be tough. Usually it's at least $0.35 if you sell a 99-cent item with the cheapest auction you can get. Then 40 cents from PayPal, and it's hardly worth it.
One seller around here does re-selling both in an antique store and on eBay. A lot of her inventory comes from estate auctions. She will do research on certain items, and then also bid on the "junk" that people don't want. I saw her get a couple DOZEN boxes of things -- including an entire beer can collection -- for $4! The beer cans alone probably could go for $50-$100 to the right collector.
I did the same thing with building material and bags of recycling. I got probably 3-4 dozen bags of paper recycling and stacks of scrap wood all for $2. Turns out that the seller was a Harley owner. I dug through the recycling, and came up with 5-6 HD catalogs and some magazines. They sold for over $50 on eBay.
I recommend going to an auction and trying this out. You may get a lot of junk, but it's a small risk to pay a few dollars to carry off someone's trash that might carry a treasure. It's hard to go wrong if you can get something cheaply enough.
Food for thought!
John
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