Current ebay Auctions

I'm on vacation this week... Well I worked Monday, and then used three personal days to convert New Years into a 6 day weekend.

This morning I bummed around and listened to the first Stern Show after the holiday break and then helped Crystal transfer her itunes library and all her pictures and information from her desktop to the laptop that she has had for a couple months now.

In the afternoon we took a ride to Wrenthem to scope out some ebay goods and Adidas treated me good as usual. Other than that we have just been laying low. Tomorrow they are talking about a high of 9 degrees or so, therefore I think we will venture out to the gym in the morning and then make it a movie day, either by renting a couple and retreating back here, or by perhaps pulling a double feature at Worcester North or Cinema De Lux.

The Weak US Dollar, As Seen On Ebay

USA-3
Italy-2
Sweden-2
Norway-2
Spain-2
U.K.-1
Australia-1
Germany-1
France-1
Canada-1
Mexico-1
Philippines-1

As of tomorrow I will have shipped out 18 items that I sold on ebay in the past week and a half. What you see above is the breakdown of the countries that the packages have shipped to.

Of the 18 auctions total, only 3 were won by US residents, and 11 auctions were won by Europeans. This certainly if close and personal proof in the pudding that due to the strong Euro / weak dollar there are plenty of folks across the pond willing to take advantage of the opportunity to bid on ebay and have a currency exchange rate advantage over US residents in auctions.

This is emphasized even more by the fact that these non US resident auctions winners are also paying significantly higher shipping fees to receive the goods thru the mail. Strong European demand can certainly good for me if I can find a steady diet of quality items I will keep on putting them on the bay.

This week's Puma Ebay Auctions

Missed opportunity of an Ebay windfall!!

So a couple weeks back Crystal and I went to a tent sale at the Puma corporate location in Westford, MA. We actually went on the Saturday, but it was pouring rain. The tent sale was cancelled due to weather. So we went back on the Sunday morning after going to the gym. The place was a zoo, the weather was dreary and windy. Cardboard boxes blowing in the breeze.

Most things in stock were pretty picked over. The shoes were pretty much wiped out, and when they would bring out new cases there would be near riots complete with pushing and shoving with people digging into the cartons to get a chance to grab one of eight pair of some random shoe. All that aside there were two styles of golf shoe that were in abundance, one of which is pictured above. This Puma J Lindeberg shoe for $20 a pop ended up being quite the bargin. I should have been more of a gambler and scooped up a bunch of pairs to put up on Ebay. But sneakers take up a fair amount of room and I didn't want to be stuck with a dozen pairs of sneakers hanging around. Especially while we are house shopping.

So I picked up one pair in my size, figured I would see if they were selling on Ebay and either list them or keep them. Well I put them up on Ebay and they ended up selling for $142.50! Not too shabby for a $20.00 purchase! I guess I should have bought 20 pairs! I could have been able to clear about $2K! Fuck me! Oh well, you win some you lose some.

Also sold the Germany track jacket below for $31, cost $10. Not a bad markup. I'll use this money at the craps table this weekend at Mohegan Sun. Nice!


J Lindeberg Golf Shoe
Germany Track Jacket