Champagne Auctions On A Beer Pocketbook...Part II

Hey there!

It's a wet, windy and cold day here in the Buckeye state, seems as if Mother Nature is trying to hurry out Fall and bring in Winter early for those of us who dread it! Now don't get me wrong, Winter can be beautiful at times, especially with the brilliant white of freshly falling snow and during the Christmas Holiday Season. But for people like me who have Raynauds, the long cold winter months are miserable. When it hurts to even visit the frozen food section at the local grocery store, you can just imagine how winter affects us. The only times I get out during this time is for doctor appointments and occasional visits to our son's home, most of the time they come here.

So being a lover of auctions, this is Not good! Imagine my surprise and delight at discovering on line auctions last winter! Woo hoo! I can sit here with my lap top all cozy and comfy and bid on items for inventory or gifts or hey, just for me! I Love it!  Not sure if my helper loves it or not though, more work for them to help list it and then put it away. With my disabilities, my hands go numb and I tire very easily, about 2 hours at a time is all I'm good for and that's on a good day, I do have days that I'm pretty much bed or couch bound, weak as a newborn kitten and as dizzy as can be.

Onward we go....

In part I, we talked about finding the bargains for resell. I received two of 6 boxes yesterday of items bought at on line auctions since July, 2010. I spent a total 272.63 over the course of 3 months. All monies spent were from profits made on eBay. I estimated on the low side for a return of about $2-3000.00, could be more or less, prices these days are all over the place. The following item was part of a set that upon arrival, one of the ewers was broken, fortunately they were insured and ended up costing me nothing, not even shipping as it was all covered. I had bid and won the set for 30.00 which was a great price for resell. This item sold this morning for 60.00, it's still a great rate of return after fees are deducted and there is still one more item in the set to be sold.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=350390302832

I'll post pictures of the items I just got soon.

The Auction Junkie