In this episode of the What Sold Podcast, hosts Matt and Brandon discuss various valuable items commonly found in garages that can be sold for substantial profits. They cover power tools, hand tools, fishing gear, automotive parts, and camping equipment, providing insights into notable brands and specific items that hold significant value. Matt also shares recent sales, including a pair of Gucci sunglasses, a Victorian-style gold locket, and a Bruce Lee action figure, illustrating the potential earnings from often overlooked items. Listeners are encouraged to clean out their garages and explore the potential treasures hidden within.
00:00 Welcome to the What Soul Podcast
01:01 Housekeeping and YouTube Updates
01:48 Rusty Reseller's Adventures
02:23 Consignment Business Growth
08:12 The Tiffany Necklace Mix-Up
13:24 Exploring Garage Treasures
26:48 Valuable Vintage Sockets
27:13 Fishing Gear Treasures
32:23 Camping and Sports Equipment
36:03 Classic Cars and Parts
41:35 Jewelry and Collectibles
48:44 Bruce Lee Action Figures
50:41 Conclusion and Final Thoughts
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Welcome back to the What SoldPodcast, A place where all your
dreams come true on a weekly basis.
Matt, on a weekly imageof the, what was it?
The reading rainbow, like thatkind of imagery coming over.
It's such a sweet taglinewhere your dreams come true.
Where your all no.
All your dreams.
All your dreams come true.
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Yeah.
Yeah.
That's awesome.
We have just a little housekeepingstuff, folks that are out there,
we have, we are getting a lot of.
A lot of play on our YouTube channel,which I find ironic to people
listen on YouTube, but whatever.
We're grateful for you YouTubeviewer slash listener, why.
Old men talk about sellingstuff is beyond me.
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But hey, we're grateful that you're here.
I would much rather listen tothe dult tones in just audio.
But hey, if you like the video,we're here to please you.
That's right.
But remember to, if you get a chance,tell a friend fall, like a subscribe.
We've been doing this for a little overa year now, and we are excited to launch
and we've been threatening a live.
(01:42):
Stream and we are gonna be doingthat in the next two weeks.
I just gotta, Ooh, awesome.
Lemme tell you.
Right folks Trying topin down Rusty reseller.
He's always got something going.
Like a couple weeks ago he waslike, Hey, Brandon, I can't talk.
I'm running.
He got, he still got busted by the A TFor the, I don't know, alcohol, tobacco,
(02:03):
and fire somebody his hollerer still.
So he was on the run andthen his Impala wouldn't run.
And it is just one thing after another.
But we normally record on Wednesdays.
Mm-hmm.
But yesterday we couldn't record.
I have no idea why we couldn't record.
I just know that when Matt goesradio silent on me, something's up.
So what happened to you yesterday?
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Yeah , it's kind of exciting that theportion of my business now, which is the
consignment, we'll call it consignment,where I'm selling things for other people.
I get a percentage of that for thework, but it does, it belongs to them.
I'm getting so many referrals, word ofmouth, and it starting to get to what.
(02:45):
Hire some people or do I starttelling people, Hey, I'm a month out
or two months out, you gotta wait.
But all that to say, I had a referralfrom someone else that I have and am
currently selling things for, and theyjust needed a bunch of stuff taken and
it was a lot of stuff even that I don'tdeal with a whole lot usually, which is
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like furniture and some larger items.
But I did, they're super sweet people.
So all that to say, I had to rent a U-Haultruck in order to get this stuff right,
because there's a large amount of stuff.
What?
See, I told you Rusty's off doing,he's like, I'd get me a U-Haul.
I am.
Yep.
Yep.
So it wasn't just trying to get aU-Haul the first day I went to try
to get a U-Haul I had scheduled it,even I show up and it's not there.
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And there was some explanation about,we're really low in a inventory.
This needed some workdone on it last minute.
Lo and behold, because so many of theseU-Haul facilities in this region were
heavily damaged or destroyed from thehurricane in September of last year.
The little rental place, which is noteven just a U-Haul place, it's a, it's,
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one of those, it's a rental pool place,but they also are a hub for some rentals.
It's like one of the onlyavailable ones in this area now.
And so as you can imagine,everyone's competing over trying
to get stuff in that spot.
So all that to say, the first dayI was gonna do it, couldn't do it.
Next day I wanted to do it.
There was no truck available becausethere's such a hot item and I
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have to have a truck both for sizeand also because it's, off and on
raining almost every day right now.
Finally got over there,loaded a bunch of stuff up.
I discover while I'm there that thesepeople who were a. Have referred me
to someone else and what, ironically,while I'm there fulfilling this work
I'm gonna do for them or getting it thatperson calls and leaves me a voicemail.
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So it's operating very well.
I've done no work on market, likeI've spent no money on marketing.
This is just word of mouthfrom, happy customers.
Which is like, what else can you ask for?
How many people are you, haveyou done consignment for that?
Or not consignment.
Estate sale whatever we're calling this.
How many people have you done?
Maybe 15 in total.
I, but I've probably got 10 to 12 peopleactively currently that I'm selling.
(04:55):
Some things for, and it's reallyawesome and hey, I'm doing some of these
things that I wouldn't normally do.
Like I'm gonna, I'm gonna get a bunchof this furniture and try to offload it
for you locally, which is not the piece.
It's not a very big piece of my business.
I almost look at that as marketing.
You take a job sometimes because youget this feeling, or maybe you're,
you're just, you're throwing dartsand you're hoping something sticks.
(05:17):
But you do this you build upthat pool of references and you
get the word out by doing work.
And sure enough, like before I hadeven f got all of their items, they'd
already referred me to a family member.
Wow.
And this person's in the Charlotte area.
So now I'm getting referrals, two hour,an hour and a half, two hour drive away.
And I don't know if I'll take that.
(05:38):
But.
It's cool that it's happening.
And so something's gonna have to happen.
Like I said, I'm gonna haveto hire some people or have
to say, I'm just one person.
I want to stay one person,so you gotta wait for me.
If you really want this until I'm ready,or maybe I start getting more selective
because I've got all this stuff in.
This is something maybe six months agoI would've taken on, but because of the
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value of the items and the fact thatI've got enough business, I don't know.
I don't know what theright answer is there.
Today and in light of this show, westarted this show because I loved the idea
of what you were doing and helping people.
We've talked about this ad nauseum,but for sure, it seems like that's the
kind of thing that if somebody was outthere trying to get started in this
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business, that you could find a, forlack of a better word, an apprentice.
Yeah.
Somebody that could come alongbehind you say, listen, I'm gonna,
you already have the business.
You already have all this stuff.
It's a matter of.
Like any business in what I do, where Iproduce podcasts and do a bunch of things.
Mm-hmm.
It takes a long time, but once you hit acertain point, all of a sudden I don't,
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I can't, I don't have enough time inthe day to do all the work that I have.
And it's a great problem to have.
It is.
Yeah.
But for people that are out there thatare starting these selling businesses
or doing whatever, that's a greatthing to be thinking about long term.
You probably don't wantto be schlepping around.
Every market forever, unless maybe it'spart-time and just enjoy doing that.
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But if you're really doing this afull-time, the way you're doing it
strikes me as the best way to do it.
Yeah, and I think, in the spiritof the theme we've had recently,
which is, hey, the economy iswe don't know what's happening.
Maybe it's time right now for you tosell some of your own things or get
into this at least part-time, but.
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One of the ways you can avoid havingto go out and just hope that with your
lack of experience, you find a bunchof valuable stuff and you can buy.
But it's also fine to just starttelling people, Hey, like I sell stuff.
I'll sell your stuff for you if youwant, and start that way, because
then you don't have to spend moneyand you know you can research it and
maybe you're not under the gun test.
You have to sell this in a month.
(07:48):
Maybe they give you, theydon't care how long it takes.
You can learn as you go.
In full disclosure, Matt isactually selling a ring for me
now, and I don't honestly care.
I've had this ring.
For years.
Okay.
And I honestly don't, I'vealready got some interest.
No, lemme, let me justtell, lemme just tell.
I'm not gonna tell Matt, but I don'treally care how much he gets for it.
Sure.
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I just think it's greatthat I can give it to you.
That's an aside.
And if something comesback, oh yeah, we good.
Oh, and, something will, and this isthe great story because I was recently
just reviewing a few parts of someprevious episodes, Uhhuh and I listened
again to the story and this is how thestory came out of Brandon's mouth was.
My wife found this awesome gold Tiffanynecklace and I want, I show up and
(08:33):
you know what it was, hands me this.
Cheap necklace.
Okay.
To be fair.
And I say, wait a second,this is costume jewelry, man.
This isn't whatever.
Then he asks his wife, who,by the way he, the story was
his wife wanted me to sell it.
We speak and she goes, no, that's not it.
And also it's not gold.
It's like a little silver heartpendant on a silver chain.
(08:56):
She goes and gets it and she'slike, and absolutely not.
You're not selling it.
I don't wanna sell this.
Listen, there may havebeen some miscommunication.
So basically nothing, no partof your story was true at all.
But the Constellation Prize was,he did award me a gold rink.
And now I'm gonna try to, it'slike, well, you came out this way.
Hey, find something for you.
It actually worked out pretty well.
I think it, it was interesting, I,my wife did say a Tiffany necklace.
(09:21):
Mm-hmm.
I went into our bathroom.
There was a necklace.
I don't know anything about anything.
I am not Matt looks,this is the best part.
I showed it to Matt.
He takes exactly one second, he goes.
That's garbage.
He goes, that's just a cheappiece of costume jewelry.
And I'm like, wait, what?
Oh man.
But it's so, I thought it was a joke.
Like I thought honestly the joke,like I was waiting for Ashton
(09:42):
Kucher to jump out, after all theseyears you've been, you punked.
The truth is that's thereason why we do the show.
Because you're the expertand most of us are not.
So I did learn something I. Numberone is that I need to ask my
wife's permission to do anything,which has always been the case.
Happy wife, happy life.
She made it sound likeshe might want sell it.
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I don't listen.
I might've editorialized.
I think the takeaway to for all ofthis is just so that listeners know.
We have built in Fidelity measuresto test and make sure that I
actually know what I'm talking about.
And I'll show up someplace andsomeone will be like, this is a
Tiffany Gold necklace and all.
And it's like, does heknow that it is or isn't?
And they're in the background,producers are checking off boxes.
(10:27):
Our producer, all of ourproducers for this, producer.
Yeah, we've been filming this for ayear and we're gonna release it as
a TV show on the a and e network.
It took a year to film thisone episode to get it right.
Needless to say, I am super grateful thatyou're selling this ring, but it's one of
those things where I think for many of us,and you might be in your neighborhood and
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you might just not know, there are lotsand lots of people that have stuff they
wanna sell, but they just don't have thetime or knowledge or inclination to do it.
That's true.
I would much rather pay a percentage.
A person like Matt to sell somethingthat would've just in a box in my house
forever, and I would've never sold it.
And it's like.
(11:08):
Everybody wins in that case.
So I'm really stoked and I hope that youget something for it, but regardless, it,
maybe it's just you and me going out to asteak dinner and I'll be okay with that.
I'm glad you verified.
It was a ring.
It's so large.
I wasn't, I got home.
I'm like, is this a bracelet?
No, it's probably foran ankle or something.
I only found out I've Googled it.
It's like a size 50 or something.
You weren't kidding whenyou said you have big hands.
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Yeah it's huge.
It is a weighty, I don't evenknow how it, it weighed a lot
and it was, what was the brand?
You mentioned it, it was a, I'll eithersell it, I'll use it as, a hand dumbbell
to lift weights because it's large.
You could use it as a fish a fish weight.
There you go.
You could do that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
What's the name of the brand of the ring?
I James Avery.
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James Avery.
So that's the thing.
I again.
Mm-hmm.
I don't know any of this stuff.
Now, if you told me, and hegives me the ring and I go,
oh, this is J this is 14 karat.
He's like, okay.
I'm like, it's a James Avery ring, man.
This will be more.
He's like, it's a what?
I'm like, dude, this is your ring.
What do you mean?
It's my ring from a long time agothat I didn't pay that much attention
to in the first place, but Sure.
I've got, Hey, this is a weird question.
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It featured a lot of unicorns, by the way.
It was just a, it was like dolphins.
Jumping over accordance withthe rainbow in the background.
Is that wrong?
His favorite?
Here's the question I have foryou back in the day, and I don't,
I'm assuming they still do this.
They sold those class rings.
I remember when I played football incollege, I, when we went to a bowl game,
ah, we would get this big giant ring.
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And I would never wear it huge.
I've got one here.
I got one for some double A championfootball team from the seventies.
Are those rings worth anything?
Yes.
It depends, values range, depending on ifit's guts, if it's silver, or whatever.
A lot of them are just abasic alloy with a stone.
A lot of times those quote unquotechampionship rings are squared, domed,
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flat at the top, and they've gotall these like tiny little diamond
chips or, you know what I mean?
They're very, yeah, they'revery flamboyant looking.
So yeah I mean they can, but theycan also be 20 bucks or something,
'cause it belongs to somebody else.
It wasn't yours, that kind thing.
I imagine that you'd have, if it waslike an NBA championship ring, it
probably would bring a pretty penny.
The California high school footballchampionship ring that I have is probably
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not gonna bring me a lot of money.
Damn.
It will sit in that box and itwill go to my daughter when I die.
Alright.
We, as we are apt to do mm-hmm.
As always, we always run late,so let's get right to it.
Yeah.
We started this series, which I loveon things that we find in our house
and certainly we're in times wherelike, Hey, people are selling stuff.
We're in this weird economy right nowwhere nobody's quite sure what's going on.
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So you gave us examples of things inour kitchens that we could perhaps
sell that we don't use anymoreand make a fair amount of money.
Right now, we're gonna be movingto another part of the house.
Where are we going, Matt?
We're gonna, we're gonna, we'regoing through the kitchen.
A lot of times this room is attachedto the, I don't know why, but a lot
of times you go through the kitchenbecause you bring the groceries in.
(13:57):
Ah.
That's why.
Okay.
We're talking about the garage folks.
It's a, that's a really good point.
Heaven forbid, you have to walkacross, say, a living room to
get to the kitchen you got.
But I guess it makes sense.
It makes sense.
You could drop an apple on thefloor mat in the living room.
What is, that'd be horrible.
Fair enough.
Fair enough.
I hope you don't find any oldrotten apples while you're
looking for the things we're gonnatalk about in the garage today.
The idea is, hey, if you want tojust look around the house and see
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are there things that could havevalue, were going room to room.
So we've done the kitchen.
If you step down on the garage, whatare the type, I mean it's common
sense to think about the typesof things that are in the garage.
So if I'm panning a person's typicalgarage, we may have, maybe you
keep your trash can or waste can,something like that recycles in there.
Okay.
Maybe you've got a work bench and whatmight you have a round of work bench.
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You're gonna have tools oftentimes.
So that's the first categoryof things that can have some
pretty big values are tools.
Now we'll separate and talk aboutpower tools versus hand tools.
We'll start with power tools.
There are particular brandsthat are typically considered.
Better quality brands withpower tools, just like anything.
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Although anymore most brands candeliver something that's pretty quality.
But brands like DeWalt, orStanley or Craftsman, and the
list goes on for newer stuff.
The one thing I'll caution you about.
If a person say, wanting to go out andtry to find those not deal with your
own, but find them and buy 'em forgood prices is because the technology
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changes so frequently, they're able toget more battery power it seems like
every year or two into the batteries.
And so very quickly the oldbatteries become obsolete.
But even older power tools,as long as they're cordless.
It can have decent value.
And why I say cordless is thatlike just most people want to use
cordless things these days andthere's just a bigger market for that.
And the newer stuff obviouslywill have a rechargeable battery.
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But take a look at some of those things.
Some of them can bring really big money.
With power tools, but I wouldjust stick with the tools.
You can also sell a tool by itselfjust to places like use tool, places.
You can sell them online.
People a lot of times want to buythe batteries because they want
to show up on a work site, let'ssay with four or five batteries.
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They don't want to just have one or two,so they don't need to buy another tool.
They just need the battery.
They'll buy used things.
So power tools, bigger ones canbe quite valuable, especially if
they're old, like a table based sawor a band saw or things like that.
However, you're not gonna ship that.
So you gotta keep in mind you're limitedwith some of those bigger things too.
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Your local market you're probablynot gonna wanna ship or be able to
ship things without them gettingdamaged that kind of thing.
But what I think most peoplewill have more than the power
tools are the hand tools.
They've been making hand tools for,since the dawn of it, very common thrift
and sales and estate sales, even in.
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Your own shed or your garage tofind a bunch of older hand tools,
unless you just buy brand new stuff.
I've got tools in my garage rightnow that are a hundred years old
or older, and they're gonna outlastme too because they're drop forged,
steel and they've been used forgenerations but taken care of.
They're built better.
They're just built better thana lot of the stuff they make
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today, and that's why it lasts.
Before I move on, do you haveany old tools in your garage?
Brandon, do you have any?
Well, I'm a tool guy.
I love tools.
I use a lot of tools.
I was thinking to myself, oneof the things, like you were
saying, band saw, table saw.
Sometimes local markets are definitelytough, but almost every market
in America has people that arelooking for things like band saws.
(17:34):
Yeah.
Because those things really maintaintheir value and they also, there's not
a lot of moving parts in a table saw.
Mm-hmm.
If you have a sharp blade, typicallythey'll last for a long time.
I'm still using my dad's table saw.
Yeah.
That he bought 50, 60 years ago.
It works great.
All that to say is that, thosekind of things, I do have a lot.
One other point that I was gonnamake about tools is especially around
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hammers or anything with a handle on it.
So a lot of people will, the handlewill break and people will be like,
ah, I'm just gonna throw it away.
I'm gonna throw the head away.
It's like, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Don't throw away the head.
Go buy a new handle.
There are plenty of places that will sell.
You can even buy a, a high endhandle that's never gonna break.
And put that hammerhead on it.
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Point being is that like the guitarsthat you do, reclaiming tools is
a lot, it's a bit of an art, butit's also not terribly complicated.
Mm-hmm.
So just keep that in mind that if youhave an old rusty saw, if you clean it up
and sharpen it, it can have great value.
Yeah.
There is a person locally, I don'tknow where he lives, but he, I know he
has a fairly large space at one of thebigger antique stores in Asheville.
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That's all he does is refinish tools.
I mean everything from small hand toolslike metal punches or chisels or things
like that, all the way up to wrenchesand pliers and all the way up to things
like hammers or things like that.
And he takes them and he just enjoys,I think he enjoys the method of
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it because he'll clean them up.
Let's say they're rusted and then hepolishes them and then they look awesome.
They probably look coolerthan the day they were.
For sale, honestly.
But they're old.
That's a cool gift even to givesomebody like this refinished, refurbed,
really old tool it's functional.
It looks cool, and a lot of timesyou can get them for very cheap.
(19:25):
This person just goes around and he'llbuy them out of people's storage units
or somebody will die and they'll be,need to get rid of stuff in a yard sale.
And so they'll sell 'em a bunchof this old stuff for almost
nothing because they look ugly,like they're rusted, they're old.
And he'll, it doesn't takehim long and he makes 'em look
great and they'll sell well.
(19:45):
And it's not just about being functional.
Some of these older ones, particularbrands there are collectors then of
old tools and particular brands oftools it would be good to look out for.
There's a guy we'veprobably talked about here.
There's a guy here in Asheville who hasa shop and he works with people that
are in recovery to teach him a trade.
But his is, that he uses,he builds furniture, but.
(20:10):
Ah, so he will know power tools.
It's all done by hand cards,all the work is crafted by hand.
The furniture he builds is absolutelystunningly beautiful and quite
expensive as you can imagine.
Sure.
But I think about, everybody probablyhas somebody in their community like that.
So if you are a reseller, I. You'relooking for old tools, get to know
that guy because you don't know thathe's not gonna, it's like, Hey, I'm
looking for, there's these things thatyou used to make shingles back in the
(20:34):
old days where you carved down, italmost looks like a pizza cutters.
Mm-hmm.
But you pull the shingle and you,and it makes these, I don't even know
what they're called, slate roof, likeshingles where they're made outta wood.
But those are the kinds of things thatif they're well maintained, sharpened and
everything, they could bring great value.
Oh yeah.
Really like older, good qualitychisel sets with wood handles
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can bring really big money.
There are several brands of tools thatyou may recognize, like I've mentioned.
Some of them, craftsman Stanley,but other brands like Mac.
M-A-C.
Mac Tools older ones canbring pretty big money.
They're Klein, K-L-E-I-N tools, a lotof hand tools pliers, particularly
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if you can find what the, atype of PLI called a Lineman's.
Pli.
They're usually a little bit longerand they all have the same look,
but the vintage Klein, like from the1940s, fifties, sixties, can bring
multiples of hundreds of dollars.
You can go out to the storestore locally to you and buy a
brand new pair of pliers for $20.
And they may be just as sturdy, butthere are collectors that want some
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of these things and the better thecondition, the more you're gonna get.
But just 'cause a tool is, I think atakeaway here is just 'cause it's old or
rusty or maybe you don't use it that much,doesn't mean it's not a collectible piece.
Once you get into doing the researchon it and it doesn't mean you
can't make some good money from it.
A lot of people will have those intheir garage or know someone that does.
You and I went out and looked at a,there was a, it was an estate sale.
(22:05):
A friend of mine, her father was a,he just was a pack ride of tools.
He had a room filled with old tools.
I ended up with some of them, andI know you did as well, but tools
are one of those things where peoplebought, people like me who like
to build stuff and feel crafty.
People like you.
We'll go out and buy thesetools and then when we get
older, our kids don't want 'em.
Maybe they'll sit in a room, sothat's, they're available out there.
(22:28):
And they're probably, some of 'em areprobably in your garage as we speak.
Yeah, absolutely.
Along with hand tools, things likeclamps that you would clamp things
together with can bring good money.
There are some of those, and Ican't remember the brand, but.
They're big wooden ones and theyjust have two what look like
large screws on either side.
Those clamps.
Oh, those are great.
Those can bring really good money.
(22:49):
And they last a long time, alot of times made outta wood,
they may not be terribly heavy.
And then the kind that are pumpedwith your hand and it closes in.
Mm-hmm.
Newer brands.
Those things though thelar larger ones especially.
Or strange shapes.
Like for example, a while back I waslooking for some used tools that I needed.
It was because it was specialty.
(23:09):
I couldn't just go out local find it.
And what was I was for a clamp.
That's essentially a clamp that's inthe shape of a C, that's all it is.
But I needed somethingthat was not just tall.
I really wanted it to be super deepin the c, almost like a V shape.
But I wanted it to be really wideand that's a specialty type of thing.
(23:31):
I needed it because when Iwanted to repair guitar bridges.
The only way you can do that is to glue.
You glue the bridge down, but you needa clamp to hold the underside plate
and the top of the bridge and kind, andyou're, pressing it down so that the
glue will adhere well, unless you havea sea clamp that you can get in there
because that's a good four or five inches.
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You can't do that.
So I was searching around.
I found some used, and, I probablywould've paid a lot more for 'em if I
had found a brand new one in the store.
And had to pay retail price for it.
So people are lookingfor all kind of things.
If you have unusual stuff, thatprobably will be interesting.
I've even found going yard sales.
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Fabricated tools that was just made bythat person for a particular reason.
Even my grandfather, when we were lookingthrough his stuff, had two or three of
these odd looking wrenches where he hadjust welded things at certain angles.
He just completely cut'em off and changed.
And it was because he, that was to get thenut in that one part of the engine that
you could only reach at a certain angle.
And that stuff's cool.
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There are collectors for thatkind of thing, so if you have
odd stuff too, that helps.
Speaking of like how these things work.
Like my brother, my older brother whoI've referenced on there now, he's
just golf playing retiree, but he wasreally into cars when we were younger.
In fact, he built this shophe doesn't work on, I don't
think he works on them anymore.
I'm pretty sure he said he's just tiredof doing it, but I guarantee he has a
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garage full of automotive tools thatare very specific to different, he
worked on very specific types of cars.
So if you find that collector orthat person that works on those.
Those things can bring big value.
Sure.
For sure.
And they're not cheap.
They're, they can be very expensive.
Like I said, you find Mac tools orsnap-on branded sockets, things like that.
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Even like a little socket can bringdozens of dollars and you wouldn't
ever, and it looks, no, it does.
It serves a save purposes.
All these other ones, it's justa higher end collectible brand.
They've got like lifetime guarantees,stuff like really big sockets.
People wouldn't need,but is a specialty item.
Probably not a lot of 'em made and there'ssomeone searching for that kind of.
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Can definitely work for a long time.
I would buy stuff up a buck here, 50cents there for just the little pliers.
Oh well they don't wantanything 'cause they're rusted.
And I would just put 'em down in thislittle vat of distilled vinegar, and let
the, let it eat at some of that rust andthen I'd pull it off with one of those
kind of bristly metal brush attachmentsso you can put in a hand drill.
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I would just clamp that into a viceand I would go around, polish the
whole thing takes just a few minutes.
Then you just dab a little bit ofoil, like WD 40 or something on it to
clean it off and oil it so it doesn'timmediately start rusting again.
And then that thing's gonna begood for the rest of your life.
And you'll it'll bring a lotmore than what you paid for it.
So some of those may take a littlework if you wanna refinish them, but
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there are a lot that can be sold justas is complete sets of older things.
Particularly, and I can't remember theletter, but there's, you can look up
an eBay craftsman made a set of socketsand I can't remember if these are.
There's a, each one ofthem has a letter on 'em.
You've probably seen 'em.
There are different models.
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There's.
V or double C or whatever, they havea letter around where they say the
number of what the socket is, butthere's a particular letter set.
If you find the sets, they say theysail for like over a thousand dollars.
Just a little set ofsockets from craftsmen.
'cause it was like the first setthey made or something like that.
With any of those things, just lookup, sold items, look at highest
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sold items, and you'll get an idea.
The particulars.
Nice.
So moving on.
Other things that you might find ina garage would be fishing equipment,
fishing gear, rods and reels, tackleboxes and all the other stuff.
There are things in those tackle boxesthat can be worth really good money.
If you have old vintage lures it'seven better if they're still in
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the original little box with thelittle plastic or the box lid.
The better the condition, the better.
If you could find one that's in a.Pretty nice quality box, and it looks
like it's never been used in that.
Hmm.
That could be worth agood amount of money.
Fishing lures, there's a big collectiblemarket for those as well, and there
are lures out there selling for overa thousand dollars every week on eBay.
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Just a little lure.
One lure.
Yeah, one lure.
Wow.
Yep.
Certain ones, old ones thatare made out of wood that
oftentimes were like handmade.
They have almost like the oldglass googly eye things on 'em.
Yeah.
Or inserts some of those that haveparticular types of hooks on them.
And good conditions can bringhuge money because those older
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ones, less of them have survived.
There weren't as many made before.
They were commercially producing them.
And it may be a one of a kind piece.
You just really don't know.
So these collectors, they want rarities.
Most people don't have.
So if you have something bizarreor old, but in really good
condition, you should look it up.
A lot of times the brand will be on thespinner or maybe on the hook, or it'll be
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almost like screen printed or not screen.
Almost looks like a stencil, likethey spray painted something on it.
Heen the brand, H-E-D-D-O-Nhad that a lot, almost looked
like they'd stencil sprayed it.
So lures also, there are particular typesof fish knives or tools that you use that
can bring big monies in those and thetackle boxes themselves, particularly
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ones that maybe had some sort of enamelpaint on them are older metal ones from,
again, the forties, fifties, and sixties.
There are brands that can bring reallygood money and it's just collectors
again, but they're also functional.
It's just like tools.
Maybe people are collectingit, maybe they're using it.
It doesn't really matter.
There's a lot of people out there.
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Remember the Andy Griffith show wherethe beginning they would, they were going
off with a fishing pole and the Yeah.
A cane pole and the, andyou had that cane basket.
Yeah.
And they were heading out there.
I'll bet you that's worth something today.
Oh, for sure.
Oh, and their fishing baskets.
That's a good point.
Wicker, like these olderwicker fish baskets, those
things can sell for huge money.
And there's still a big market in reels.
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There are all kinds of old vintagetypes of reels where they were trying to
experiment with making d. Old telescopingrods that still are in good shape,
can sell for good money fishing reels.
That.
I got into a really nice lot offishing reels about three or four
years ago, and that was one of thebest scores that I have had probably
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in the top five I've ever had.
There are some very collectiblefishing reels out there.
Brands like Pfluger, I think it'sP-F-L-U-G-E-R, or actually it's EGER.
That's a nice brand.
Ambassadors, those reels in goodcondition, old ones can be super
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collectible and I've sold one for$4,500 to give you an idea of how much
people will pay for one fishing reel.
It was a left-handed reel,so it was a little quirky.
But fishing reels bring big money.
I don't have to go throughall of the different brands.
I did.
I never really liked eating fish.
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Okay.
I grew up on a river, so we always fish.
I was thinking about something.
There's these fly fishing stores that.
We have a couple of them here in thearea and a lot of places will have them.
When, if you find a reel, is itworth going into these stores to
see if there's any market for it?
Not that they would necessarilybuy it, but they might know someone
that's looking for vintage reels.
Sure.
I would, Facebook marketplaceis a place you can search.
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For as a potential buyer and as a seller.
But then you can make listings that,that have a picture of something.
And then in the description it says,I'm looking to buy these things.
You can put stuff out like that.
It's free.
Or if there are Facebook groups thatare in your region, you can join,
like for free for buying and selling.
You can market yourself and youcan to sell it or to say, I'm
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a buyer, so please contact me.
Mmmm.
There's a big market online.
All the big, eBay and all of those youcan find just about anything they want.
But if you got grandpa'sfishing stuff out in the garage.
It's just collecting dust.
No one's ever using it.
They're old.
You don't want to break 'em.
Kids don't care or whatever.
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Then, take a look.
Lurs especially have done very wellfor me in the past and a lot of times
you can get on marketplace and somebodywill just be selling a tackle box.
For, it's like 25 bucks, but the tacklebox is full of these old lures and
you're like, I can get 10, 15 bucksbottom dollar for each of those lures.
And then I can sell thetackle box itself too.
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And it's only 25 bucks.
So you sell two lures, you've madeyour money back, you sell the rest
of them and the tackle box, and thenthat's a good, that's a good flip.
Yeah, absolutely.
Alright, what else do we have inthe garage that we would wanna sell?
I would say another big thingpeople keep in the garage a lot
of times is camping equipment.
So I would say either sports equipmentor camping equipment, depending on the
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sport, it may not be in the garage, butif you have like golf clubs for example,
out in the garage and you don't play golfanymore and you've got a really nice set
of whatever brand, Titleist or whatever itis, there's people searching all the time.
'cause golf clubs have.
Crazy expensive.
Almost all the gear for golf is expensive.
Unfortunately, it's a super fun sport,but I know lots of people who have,
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one or two sets of golf clubs and theyjust, they don't, they haven't been
out since college or, it just, theygot busy at kids and they can't do it.
And so golf clubs is a good one.
Think of the popular sports in the summer.
If you've got used equipmentthat's still in good shape.
I guarantee people would rather getthat than go online and buy something
new or have to go out to the store.
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So sports equipment, but then outdoorequipment, there's tents, sleeping
bags that are rated very for verycold and are in good condition.
And then every kind of thing you canthink of, hiking shoes, walking sticks.
Different types ofheaters that you can take.
If it's say rainy and you want tostay in, you can heat by just using
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a little gas can or camping stoves.
Things that are smaller, lighterweight you could backpack with
tend to be really hot items becausethose tend to be pretty expensive.
It's like the everyounce of weight you save.
It costs an extra a hundred, $150 forthat product and you can really go down
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a deep rabbit hole and spend just unrealamounts of money on outdoor equipment.
People are always searching for, canI get something that's almost, new in
quality but I'm paying half for it?
You might have some reallynice stuff out there.
And camping's, another one of those thingsthat people will get excited sometimes.
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They'll buy something reallynice or even they'll get it as a
gift and they just find that theyonly camp once a year if that.
It's spring, right?
Spring cleaning.
A lot of people like to go out andI clean my garage twice a year.
Once in the spring.
Once in the fall, and it's abouttime to do it again and stuff.
I don't remember that.
I've used this in thelast couple of years.
It's gone.
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That's kind that for me.
'cause otherwise I'lljust accumulate stuff.
I was just thinking in my attic, I havea bunch of camping gear that we don't,
I am not, I was a big camper when I wasyounger and now I'm just like, I do not
wanna sleep on the ground in the dirt.
My wife still loves to, but we, we werejust having this conversation about
let's get rid of some of this camping.
Mm-hmm.
Stuff.
There's people like us that I don't wannasell it, I just wanna get rid of it.
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Being aware as a reseller, Iwas like, that's happening.
There's garage sales all over where peopleare getting rid of their camping gear.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
And the last thing I'll say, so campinggear is a big one, and you can look up
all the different types of camping gear.
All of those have collectible things,all of the, that people are buying or
brands, like if you can find reallyold branded REI stuff what is it?
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Recreation Equipment Incorporated.
So I found a pair.
Feet warmers that you putdown inside of a shoe.
That said, and it doesn't say REI, it justsays recreational equipment Incorporated.
And it was, I don't know if theywere in Seattle or someplace up
in, in the northwest is wherethey're from, but that stuff can be
collectible because it's vintage.
Right.
It's cool to have the thing from early onbefore that company had really taken off.
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Yeah, they're now everywhere, obviously.
For sure.
Yeah.
Back in the day, they werelike one flagship store.
Exactly.
Kinda like if you can find, an old mugthat had the original logo from the
first year or two of Starbucks, likethat would be pretty darn collectible.
Ooh.
So the last thing I'll say is maybe that.
You, that old Chevelle, whateversuper sport that you've had on
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blocks in the garage, in the doublegarage and the side, and you've, and
you've, let's be honest, you're notactually gonna restore that thing.
I'm so sorry to tell you that because.
You hate to be the bear of bad news.
But you had, it was years in high school.
You broke down when, at a time when youwere young and you didn't have the money.
No, Matt, no, I'm gonna, Matt,I promise I'm gonna do it.
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You didn't have the money, but youkept telling yourself and every
year cost got high, had another kid,you got another house to rent and
you got this other, and you don'twanna spread out your risk too much.
You can't spend the money on yourself andgood on you for not being selfish, but.
It's been 40 years and you'vegot this car up on blocks.
Now, some of these older muscle cars, now,if you have a pristine, nice car and you
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bought it to, to have fun with, enjoy,but then the kind of the fun is worn off.
Or maybe, yeah, I would like something,some other toy or some other thing.
You've got this disposable income.
Maybe now's the time to go sell thatbecause the cost of all cars are going up.
But every year that goes by, if youhave a good quality sought after,
like collectible car, still in goodcondition in a garage, that's exactly
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what a collector's looking for.
Or somebody who wants to buysomething for investment purposes.
So maybe sell that.
But as an alternative to selling that,maybe you're that person who had these
dreams and you just haven't followthrough with them for real world
reasons you can part out these cars.
So every component.
A door handle.
The little flip screen thing onthe tiny little driver's side air
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conditioning thing where you canyou close it or you can open it.
Even stuff like that, thosethings break over time of
people's cars and it's annoying.
They just want that one part.
But guess what?
That hasn't been manufactured since1969, so there's a finite number of
them left, and maybe you can't find acompany who's making or will fabricate
that Again, everything to the littleemblems that used to be on the hoods.
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Or the, or on the back to say whatthe model number was or the name.
Everything you can think of,exterior and interior on a car has
value, especially for older ones.
So maybe you just disassemble thatpuppy and you sell a part after
part to part out a car like that.
You could maybe even do better thanselling the car intact, and that's crazy.
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But for certain cars,that's certainly true.
Absolutely.
Just a little side, I have a ToyotaTacoma pickup truck that I love.
But it's an older model and I keep it'cause it's a truck and it's a Toyota and
it'll run for a thousand miles, but it hasa, I have a the seatbelt is going bad on
the driver's side and I gotta replace it.
You can't find them mm-hmm.
To replace it.
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So I have to go to a junkyard Yep.
To part out this, just the seatbelt.
So yeah, there is huge value in that.
I'm really glad youmentioned junkyards because.
If you're in need of somethingapart, you'll probably, if it's
okay, you'll probably be bettergetting it from a junkyard than
even buying it secondhand online.
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This, somebody has pulled itout, researched it, knows.
If you call them, you're like,Hey, do you have a 78 Buick?
Whatever?
I'm looking for the glovecompartment, whatever you call that.
The handle.
And they're like, oh yeah.
It's like, I don't know,10 bucks or something.
You could get things for cheap.
But I know a guy whohis whole get this is.
He has researched components on particularkinds of vehicles that have really high
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resale value and are in always in demand.
He'll go to junkyards and he'llsearch the junkyard to see if he
can find those particular cars.
He'll then buy the entire car from them.
Not just a part, but he'll buy it andyou can usually get it really cheap
because it's, it's a pull, it's wrecked,it doesn't have just some components.
He'll kind of add it up.
But yeah, get it outta here.
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He'll go back, he'll pull outthe parts, he'll sell the parts
and make more than he spent.
And then when he's done, he'lltake, and he'll be able to sell the.
Or whatever's left back to ajunkyard for money or he'll
scrap it, right, and get paid.
So you can do that.
And that's built all around theidea of aftermarket parts or
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not I say aftermarket parts.
Not parts that have been perbuilt after parts OEM parts.
Om original.
Yeah.
The original parts that areused, but they still have value.
They're still functional.
What a great idea.
I think if I was gonna start allover, that's what I would do.
Like I have a, the cable on the back of mytruck bed, a little truck bed with Snap.
So I try to get just thecables again, and I got 'em.
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But then I realized that thewhole assembly and where it bolts
in and stuff to the truck bedis all one part of an assembly.
So I have to have the whole thing.
I gotta call a junkyard, yeah.
Because they're not, thatwasn't, it's a 1999 vehicle.
They're not making them anymore.
So a lot of times, junk guards, youjust go down there with your tools and.
Yeah, take it off.
Bring it up and then yeah we'll weighit or what, however they, decide.
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Right.
I'll look it up real quick.
So, yeah, the vehicle stuff;sports equipment; outdoor equipment
for like camping; tools; fishingequipment, automotive, everything
can have really big values.
And I'm not even touching on otherstuff you might have out there.
If you've got a canoe, like an oldwooden canoe up in your rafters in the
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garage, oh yeah, go sell that puppy.
Because there, those can bring big money.
If you take the matte approach, youwould just sell everything in your
garage would be empty at all times.
Mm-hmm.
Which is fine.
I'll sell the wood.
I'll sell the wood in the rafters.
It'll just, there won'tbe a garage anymore.
That's fine.
I don't need it.
Flow.
Flow would walk out and theroof would collapse on her.
Yeah, that'd be that.
You'd be a hero.
Hey.
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Alright.
We are a show about.
What we sold.
Mm-hmm.
And I know you sold some thingsthis week and we're gonna run
over on time, as we always do.
I gotta hustle here.
I wanna actually seewhat you sold this week.
Here is a pair of Gucci.
Women's sunglasses and they let mepull 'em out to kinda show the style.
These are that olderlike what the horn rimmed.
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They're not exactly hornrimmed, but they've got like
a wider part of the upper rim.
My great aunt would'vewore those for sure.
Well, these are back in fashion andI bought these, this was what they
would call retail arbitrage, whereyou go to a store like a Ross or a Max
where you're buying something that's.
New and unused, but you're getting itat an already discounted rate and then
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you turn around and sell it for whatpeople online will pay for it because
they can't find it maybe locally.
And so I bought these at a,I think I bought these at a,
it was either Ross or TG Max.
We have two of themright next to each other.
But I paid about $140 for themand I sold them for $330 on eBay.
Nice.
And part of it is that they'rea little bit of a larger size.
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A person searching would be searchingfor a different size that maybe less
of them were made not as common.
And again, because I bought it at such adiscounted price, I was able to sell it at
what the average retail price is online.
So that was nice, made anice little profit on that.
Another item I sold is this necklace.
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I should have taken it outta thebag, but it's basically a gold color.
And it, it's gold color becauseit's technically gold filled.
That means there's asmall layer of gold on it.
But this is twisted braid necklace, and atthe bottom is this little, it is a locket,
but on the outside it has a very obviouslike art design profile of a woman's
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head with her really swirling hair and.
Really cool if you like thatstyle era that's usually very
feminine and very curvy and a lotof women and hair and jewelry and
stuff, but it's a little locket.
You could have put someone'sphotograph in there.
I have been slowly putting togetherthese old Victorian design and era
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pieces of Goldfield jewelry becausethey're pretty hot right now.
Gold is really high, so peoplewill even buy goldfield stuff.
At a higher rate right now toscrap it and harvest the gold.
But people are also liking this kind ofVictorian era designs for collectibility.
So all that to say, this was like a$10 purchase and I sold it for $174.
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Oh, wow.
Yeah.
Good job.
So pretty good.
I could just tell by the designlike, it, it's cool, it's attractive
looking and I know people aredigging that style right now.
And I don't, I don'texactly know why, but.
You're a genius.
Somebody out in Europe decided to putsomething Victorian on and then all of
a sudden became a new fashion thing.
Sure.
They're gonna bring it back.
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This last one, the last couplearen't terribly exciting,
but this is A little doll.
Aw.
It's not terribly old though.
The head, hands andlegs are also are cera.
They aren't porcelain,but they're ceramic.
Kind of a cool little piece.
This is one I didn't pay for.
And probably, if I was out looking,I wouldn't have bought this.
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I don't even know ifI'd have researched it.
And partly just because I've dihaven't spent a lot of time buying
and selling dolls and it's allnot a particular interest to me.
But either way, this sold for $42and the person who had it, didn't
care at all how much they got for it.
Which I hear a lot.
It's just like, get it outta my house.
So I have the room.
Yeah, because that doll's gonna come alivein the middle of the night and murder you.
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Well, it hasn't yet, butit's now come to mention it.
I did.
It did sound like something wasbreathing over my shoulder last night.
I don't know.
Dolls are creepy.
I don't get up Anyway.
You say that, this is a very sweetlooking doll compared to, I have had
once that looked like they're straight,straight out of a horror movie.
They always are.
Matt.
They always are.
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Okay, let's see.
1, 2, 3, 4. Last thing, well,last two things real quick.
This is a little gold ring I thinkI maybe mentioned, I can't remember
if I said it on the last episodeor what, but I went to this ring,
by the way, is it's yellow gold.
It's 10 karat gold and it has a largegreen Carline is the stone and it's a
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rectangular shape of kind this local shop.
That buys coins and stuff in my townand they also buy gold and silver.
Sometimes I can get a betterprice there than I can get online.
And the added kind of thing for thepeople I'm selling for is that they
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don't have to lose the eBay fee.
So if I sell it to them, not only doI, they not use, lose the eBay fee,
but it's cash immediately in my hand.
I can pay them faster too.
So sometimes I go there and I'llsell tokens or coins or paper money.
And getting to talk with them.
I was asking 'em all the typesof things that they do buy.
Okay, so you buy silver, right?
Okay, great.
You buy Sterling.
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Do you buy like 800 silveror some of these other, okay.
Do you buy weighted silver things?
I'm going through all the questionsand the same thing with gold.
Solid gold.
Do you buy gold, build, yada, yada.
And I said, what doyou do with the stones?
They say, oh, a lot of times wejust pitch 'em or like sometimes
someone's interested and I said myname and number, if you just assume.
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I'll buy 'em from you or if you'll,you'll hold onto some of them.
So I made that connection.
And also they said, listen, we're justnot, we don't usually test stones.
We're not really in, we'renot in a jewelry business.
We just buy the gold scrap.
Right?
And so while they're looking at mystuff to pay me to figure out how
much they're gonna pay me, I seethis little place in their display
that's got some rings, I think.
Okay, so they already said thatthey're not really knowledgeable
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and this is not really their thing.
But they've got some silver andgold here that they're not, they
didn't buy the scrap, so I guessthey think it's more value.
I saw this little 10 karat ring and itdidn't have a price that I could see.
So I asked to look at it and I askedher, how much would you pay or how
much you know do you want for this?
And do you know what the stone is?
Nope.
Don't know what the stone is.
We don't test them do.
She puts it in the thing, 10 karat gold.
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She weighs it based on the gold price andthe little percentage they wanna make.
She quoted me $95.
I said, okay, I think I'll take thatbecause this is clearly an antique.
It's clearly a Victorian era, late18 hundreds ring, and I was curious
about what the stone would be.
Now in 10 karat gold, you can find glass,you can find very low quality gemstones,
but you can also find nicer ones.
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So it was a little bit of a gamble.
I went home and tested it.
It tested as a greenline.
That's very good.
It has a, it's harder, so it in category
as.
For $250, I paid 95.
I had watchers immediately in two days.
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I accepted a best offerof $225, so I paid 95.
Two days later, I sold it for 2 25.
Just because I saw the value inthe way that it looked and that my
gamble, that it would be at leasta semi-precious stone paid off.
That's awesome.
That's a fun thing.
That's something that peopleout there everywhere can do.
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Provided you research or maybe you'vealready got experience with it like I do.
And so I do take risks, but they'reusually pretty calculated risks.
Last thing, I saved this for last 'causeI know you'll be most interested in this.
Get sold.
And this is one of two different ones.
Oh, I got a you enter the dragon.
Oh, enter the dragon bru Lee.
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This top, this thing opens up.
He's got.
He's got a, some typeof a sword and shoes.
Wait, is that from the seventies hands?
It is not from the seventies.
I believe it's from thenineties or early two thousands.
So lemme look.
Okay.
2000. So this is an unopened, it'sfrom 2000, so it's 25 years old.
Never been open.
Never been used.
He looks pretty sweet, doesn't he?
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Oh my gosh.
That's awesome.
Mm-hmm.
It's Bruce Lee.
GI Joe Doll, basically.
Yeah.
Bruce Lee, the Dragonseries and it's large.
This is probably a 50something year old man.
Might be very interestedin purchasing that.
Yeah, it for sure.
This is a 12, it's a 12 inch figure.
So yeah, so there are two of theseand he was in different outfits,
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but each of them sold for $99.
So 200 bucks.
Pretty good for, this kind of a thing.
Where'd you get it?
This was a consignment thing.
This is, I was.
I think I came back with likeeight large boxes full of unopened
action figures of various kinds.
Oh, my Banning Cartoon Network, Marvel,things like Ninja Turtles transformers.
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And then the vast majority wasSimpsons the Cartoon Simpsons show
characters and all that stuff.
Oh, right, you mentioned that.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
That's right.
So, yeah, so I've, I, they've, I'veprobably done about $1,500 in sales
off of some of this stuff so far, and.
Only maybe 30% has sold.
So they're gonna do really wellwhen it's all said and done.
Oh, that Bruce Lee is amazing.
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That's so cool.
Bruce Lee.
Wow.
All right.
That is lots and lots of good ideasof things that we can be looking for.
Find your Bruce Lee action figure.
That's right, because that's gonnabe worth something for people that
my older brother who loved Bruce Lee,was like his hero in the seventies.
He listens to this show, so I'msure he is like, wait a second.
Ah, I can get my hands ona brucely action figure.
That's right.
Anyway, that is all thetime we have for the day.
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Matt, any last words about what wefind in the garage or what we should be
doing, what we should be looking for?
Yeah, this afternoon go out to yourgarage, grab a handful of tools, maybe
a tackle box, come into the living room,put enter the dragon on in the background,
and sort through and see, you knowwhat you got my, and then maybe you'll
feel and you'll feel inspired, pumped.
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By by his amazing speed.
And there you go.
That's all you need.
Oh my gosh, that is great advice.
That is great advice.
Alright guys.
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Stream and we are gonna be doingthat in the next two weeks.
I just gotta, Ooh, awesome.
Lemme tell you.
Right folks Trying topin down Rusty reseller.
He's always got something going.
Like a couple weeks ago he waslike, Hey, Brandon, I can't talk.
I'm running.
He got, he still got busted by the A TFor the, I don't know, alcohol, tobacco,
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and fire somebody his hollerer still.
So he was on the run andthen his Impala wouldn't run.
And it is just one thing after another.
But we normally record on Wednesdays.
Mm-hmm.
But yesterday we couldn't record.
I have no idea why we couldn't record.
I just know that when Matt goesradio silent on me, something's up.
So what happened to you yesterday?
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Yeah , it's kind of exciting that theportion of my business now, which is the
consignment, we'll call it consignment,where I'm selling things for other people.
I get a percentage of that for thework, but it does, it belongs to them.
I'm getting so many referrals, word ofmouth, and it starting to get to what.
(02:45):
Hire some people or do I starttelling people, Hey, I'm a month out
or two months out, you gotta wait.
But all that to say, I had a referralfrom someone else that I have and am
currently selling things for, and theyjust needed a bunch of stuff taken and
it was a lot of stuff even that I don'tdeal with a whole lot usually, which is
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like furniture and some larger items.
But I did, they're super sweet people.
So all that to say, I had to rent a U-Haultruck in order to get this stuff right,
because there's a large amount of stuff.
What?
See, I told you Rusty's off doing,he's like, I'd get me a U-Haul.
I am.
Yep.
Yep.
So it wasn't just trying to get aU-Haul the first day I went to try
to get a U-Haul I had scheduled it,even I show up and it's not there.
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And there was some explanation about,we're really low in a inventory.
This needed some workdone on it last minute.
Lo and behold, because so many of theseU-Haul facilities in this region were
heavily damaged or destroyed from thehurricane in September of last year.
The little rental place, which is noteven just a U-Haul place, it's a, it's,
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one of those, it's a rental pool place,but they also are a hub for some rentals.
It's like one of the onlyavailable ones in this area now.
And so as you can imagine,everyone's competing over trying
to get stuff in that spot.
So all that to say, the first dayI was gonna do it, couldn't do it.
Next day I wanted to do it.
There was no truck available becausethere's such a hot item and I
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have to have a truck both for sizeand also because it's, off and on
raining almost every day right now.
Finally got over there,loaded a bunch of stuff up.
I discover while I'm there that thesepeople who were a. Have referred me
to someone else and what, ironically,while I'm there fulfilling this work
I'm gonna do for them or getting it thatperson calls and leaves me a voicemail.
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So it's operating very well.
I've done no work on market, likeI've spent no money on marketing.
This is just word of mouthfrom, happy customers.
Which is like, what else can you ask for?
How many people are you, haveyou done consignment for that?
Or not consignment.
Estate sale whatever we're calling this.
How many people have you done?
Maybe 15 in total.
I, but I've probably got 10 to 12 peopleactively currently that I'm selling.
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Some things for, and it's reallyawesome and hey, I'm doing some of these
things that I wouldn't normally do.
Like I'm gonna, I'm gonna get a bunchof this furniture and try to offload it
for you locally, which is not the piece.
It's not a very big piece of my business.
I almost look at that as marketing.
You take a job sometimes because youget this feeling, or maybe you're,
you're just, you're throwing dartsand you're hoping something sticks.
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But you do this you build upthat pool of references and you
get the word out by doing work.
And sure enough, like before I hadeven f got all of their items, they'd
already referred me to a family member.
Wow.
And this person's in the Charlotte area.
So now I'm getting referrals, two hour,an hour and a half, two hour drive away.
And I don't know if I'll take that.
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But.
It's cool that it's happening.
And so something's gonna have to happen.
Like I said, I'm gonna haveto hire some people or have
to say, I'm just one person.
I want to stay one person,so you gotta wait for me.
If you really want this until I'm ready,or maybe I start getting more selective
because I've got all this stuff in.
This is something maybe six months agoI would've taken on, but because of the
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value of the items and the fact thatI've got enough business, I don't know.
I don't know what theright answer is there.
Today and in light of this show, westarted this show because I loved the idea
of what you were doing and helping people.
We've talked about this ad nauseum,but for sure, it seems like that's the
kind of thing that if somebody was outthere trying to get started in this
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business, that you could find a, forlack of a better word, an apprentice.
Yeah.
Somebody that could come alongbehind you say, listen, I'm gonna,
you already have the business.
You already have all this stuff.
It's a matter of.
Like any business in what I do, where Iproduce podcasts and do a bunch of things.
Mm-hmm.
It takes a long time, but once you hit acertain point, all of a sudden I don't,
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I can't, I don't have enough time inthe day to do all the work that I have.
And it's a great problem to have.
It is.
Yeah.
But for people that are out there thatare starting these selling businesses
or doing whatever, that's a greatthing to be thinking about long term.
You probably don't wantto be schlepping around.
Every market forever, unless maybe it'spart-time and just enjoy doing that.
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But if you're really doing this afull-time, the way you're doing it
strikes me as the best way to do it.
Yeah, and I think, in the spiritof the theme we've had recently,
which is, hey, the economy iswe don't know what's happening.
Maybe it's time right now for you tosell some of your own things or get
into this at least part-time, but.
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One of the ways you can avoid havingto go out and just hope that with your
lack of experience, you find a bunchof valuable stuff and you can buy.
But it's also fine to just starttelling people, Hey, like I sell stuff.
I'll sell your stuff for you if youwant, and start that way, because
then you don't have to spend moneyand you know you can research it and
maybe you're not under the gun test.
You have to sell this in a month.
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Maybe they give you, theydon't care how long it takes.
You can learn as you go.
In full disclosure, Matt isactually selling a ring for me
now, and I don't honestly care.
I've had this ring.
For years.
Okay.
And I honestly don't, I'vealready got some interest.
No, lemme, let me justtell, lemme just tell.
I'm not gonna tell Matt, but I don'treally care how much he gets for it.
Sure.
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I just think it's greatthat I can give it to you.
That's an aside.
And if something comesback, oh yeah, we good.
Oh, and, something will, and this isthe great story because I was recently
just reviewing a few parts of someprevious episodes, Uhhuh and I listened
again to the story and this is how thestory came out of Brandon's mouth was.
My wife found this awesome gold Tiffanynecklace and I want, I show up and
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you know what it was, hands me this.
Cheap necklace.
Okay.
To be fair.
And I say, wait a second,this is costume jewelry, man.
This isn't whatever.
Then he asks his wife, who,by the way he, the story was
his wife wanted me to sell it.
We speak and she goes, no, that's not it.
And also it's not gold.
It's like a little silver heartpendant on a silver chain.
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She goes and gets it and she'slike, and absolutely not.
You're not selling it.
I don't wanna sell this.
Listen, there may havebeen some miscommunication.
So basically nothing, no partof your story was true at all.
But the Constellation Prize was,he did award me a gold rink.
And now I'm gonna try to, it'slike, well, you came out this way.
Hey, find something for you.
It actually worked out pretty well.
I think it, it was interesting, I,my wife did say a Tiffany necklace.
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Mm-hmm.
I went into our bathroom.
There was a necklace.
I don't know anything about anything.
I am not Matt looks,this is the best part.
I showed it to Matt.
He takes exactly one second, he goes.
That's garbage.
He goes, that's just a cheappiece of costume jewelry.
And I'm like, wait, what?
Oh man.
But it's so, I thought it was a joke.
Like I thought honestly the joke,like I was waiting for Ashton
(09:42):
Kucher to jump out, after all theseyears you've been, you punked.
The truth is that's thereason why we do the show.
Because you're the expertand most of us are not.
So I did learn something I. Numberone is that I need to ask my
wife's permission to do anything,which has always been the case.
Happy wife, happy life.
She made it sound likeshe might want sell it.
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I don't listen.
I might've editorialized.
I think the takeaway to for all ofthis is just so that listeners know.
We have built in Fidelity measuresto test and make sure that I
actually know what I'm talking about.
And I'll show up someplace andsomeone will be like, this is a
Tiffany Gold necklace and all.
And it's like, does heknow that it is or isn't?
And they're in the background,producers are checking off boxes.
(10:27):
Our producer, all of ourproducers for this, producer.
Yeah, we've been filming this for ayear and we're gonna release it as
a TV show on the a and e network.
It took a year to film thisone episode to get it right.
Needless to say, I am super grateful thatyou're selling this ring, but it's one of
those things where I think for many of us,and you might be in your neighborhood and
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you might just not know, there are lotsand lots of people that have stuff they
wanna sell, but they just don't have thetime or knowledge or inclination to do it.
That's true.
I would much rather pay a percentage.
A person like Matt to sell somethingthat would've just in a box in my house
forever, and I would've never sold it.
And it's like.
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Everybody wins in that case.
So I'm really stoked and I hope that youget something for it, but regardless, it,
maybe it's just you and me going out to asteak dinner and I'll be okay with that.
I'm glad you verified.
It was a ring.
It's so large.
I wasn't, I got home.
I'm like, is this a bracelet?
No, it's probably foran ankle or something.
I only found out I've Googled it.
It's like a size 50 or something.
You weren't kidding whenyou said you have big hands.
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Yeah it's huge.
It is a weighty, I don't evenknow how it, it weighed a lot
and it was, what was the brand?
You mentioned it, it was a, I'll eithersell it, I'll use it as, a hand dumbbell
to lift weights because it's large.
You could use it as a fish a fish weight.
There you go.
You could do that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
What's the name of the brand of the ring?
I James Avery.
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James Avery.
So that's the thing.
I again.
Mm-hmm.
I don't know any of this stuff.
Now, if you told me, and hegives me the ring and I go,
oh, this is J this is 14 karat.
He's like, okay.
I'm like, it's a James Avery ring, man.
This will be more.
He's like, it's a what?
I'm like, dude, this is your ring.
What do you mean?
It's my ring from a long time agothat I didn't pay that much attention
to in the first place, but Sure.
I've got, Hey, this is a weird question.
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It featured a lot of unicorns, by the way.
It was just a, it was like dolphins.
Jumping over accordance withthe rainbow in the background.
Is that wrong?
His favorite?
Here's the question I have foryou back in the day, and I don't,
I'm assuming they still do this.
They sold those class rings.
I remember when I played football incollege, I, when we went to a bowl game,
ah, we would get this big giant ring.
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And I would never wear it huge.
I've got one here.
I got one for some double A championfootball team from the seventies.
Are those rings worth anything?
Yes.
It depends, values range, depending on ifit's guts, if it's silver, or whatever.
A lot of them are just abasic alloy with a stone.
A lot of times those quote unquotechampionship rings are squared, domed,
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flat at the top, and they've gotall these like tiny little diamond
chips or, you know what I mean?
They're very, yeah, they'revery flamboyant looking.
So yeah I mean they can, but theycan also be 20 bucks or something,
'cause it belongs to somebody else.
It wasn't yours, that kind thing.
I imagine that you'd have, if it waslike an NBA championship ring, it
probably would bring a pretty penny.
The California high school footballchampionship ring that I have is probably
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not gonna bring me a lot of money.
Damn.
It will sit in that box and itwill go to my daughter when I die.
Alright.
We, as we are apt to do mm-hmm.
As always, we always run late,so let's get right to it.
Yeah.
We started this series, which I loveon things that we find in our house
and certainly we're in times wherelike, Hey, people are selling stuff.
We're in this weird economy right nowwhere nobody's quite sure what's going on.
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So you gave us examples of things inour kitchens that we could perhaps
sell that we don't use anymoreand make a fair amount of money.
Right now, we're gonna be movingto another part of the house.
Where are we going, Matt?
We're gonna, we're gonna, we'regoing through the kitchen.
A lot of times this room is attachedto the, I don't know why, but a lot
of times you go through the kitchenbecause you bring the groceries in.
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Ah.
That's why.
Okay.
We're talking about the garage folks.
It's a, that's a really good point.
Heaven forbid, you have to walkacross, say, a living room to
get to the kitchen you got.
But I guess it makes sense.
It makes sense.
You could drop an apple on thefloor mat in the living room.
What is, that'd be horrible.
Fair enough.
Fair enough.
I hope you don't find any oldrotten apples while you're
looking for the things we're gonnatalk about in the garage today.
The idea is, hey, if you want tojust look around the house and see
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are there things that could havevalue, were going room to room.
So we've done the kitchen.
If you step down on the garage, whatare the type, I mean it's common
sense to think about the typesof things that are in the garage.
So if I'm panning a person's typicalgarage, we may have, maybe you
keep your trash can or waste can,something like that recycles in there.
Okay.
Maybe you've got a work bench and whatmight you have a round of work bench.
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You're gonna have tools oftentimes.
So that's the first categoryof things that can have some
pretty big values are tools.
Now we'll separate and talk aboutpower tools versus hand tools.
We'll start with power tools.
There are particular brandsthat are typically considered.
Better quality brands withpower tools, just like anything.
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Although anymore most brands candeliver something that's pretty quality.
But brands like DeWalt, orStanley or Craftsman, and the
list goes on for newer stuff.
The one thing I'll caution you about.
If a person say, wanting to go out andtry to find those not deal with your
own, but find them and buy 'em forgood prices is because the technology
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changes so frequently, they're able toget more battery power it seems like
every year or two into the batteries.
And so very quickly the oldbatteries become obsolete.
But even older power tools,as long as they're cordless.
It can have decent value.
And why I say cordless is thatlike just most people want to use
cordless things these days andthere's just a bigger market for that.
And the newer stuff obviouslywill have a rechargeable battery.
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But take a look at some of those things.
Some of them can bring really big money.
With power tools, but I wouldjust stick with the tools.
You can also sell a tool by itselfjust to places like use tool, places.
You can sell them online.
People a lot of times want to buythe batteries because they want
to show up on a work site, let'ssay with four or five batteries.
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They don't want to just have one or two,so they don't need to buy another tool.
They just need the battery.
They'll buy used things.
So power tools, bigger ones canbe quite valuable, especially if
they're old, like a table based sawor a band saw or things like that.
However, you're not gonna ship that.
So you gotta keep in mind you're limitedwith some of those bigger things too.
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Your local market you're probablynot gonna wanna ship or be able to
ship things without them gettingdamaged that kind of thing.
But what I think most peoplewill have more than the power
tools are the hand tools.
They've been making hand tools for,since the dawn of it, very common thrift
and sales and estate sales, even in.
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Your own shed or your garage tofind a bunch of older hand tools,
unless you just buy brand new stuff.
I've got tools in my garage rightnow that are a hundred years old
or older, and they're gonna outlastme too because they're drop forged,
steel and they've been used forgenerations but taken care of.
They're built better.
They're just built better thana lot of the stuff they make
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today, and that's why it lasts.
Before I move on, do you haveany old tools in your garage?
Brandon, do you have any?
Well, I'm a tool guy.
I love tools.
I use a lot of tools.
I was thinking to myself, oneof the things, like you were
saying, band saw, table saw.
Sometimes local markets are definitelytough, but almost every market
in America has people that arelooking for things like band saws.
(17:34):
Yeah.
Because those things really maintaintheir value and they also, there's not
a lot of moving parts in a table saw.
Mm-hmm.
If you have a sharp blade, typicallythey'll last for a long time.
I'm still using my dad's table saw.
Yeah.
That he bought 50, 60 years ago.
It works great.
All that to say is that, thosekind of things, I do have a lot.
One other point that I was gonnamake about tools is especially around
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hammers or anything with a handle on it.
So a lot of people will, the handlewill break and people will be like,
ah, I'm just gonna throw it away.
I'm gonna throw the head away.
It's like, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Don't throw away the head.
Go buy a new handle.
There are plenty of places that will sell.
You can even buy a, a high endhandle that's never gonna break.
And put that hammerhead on it.
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Point being is that like the guitarsthat you do, reclaiming tools is
a lot, it's a bit of an art, butit's also not terribly complicated.
Mm-hmm.
So just keep that in mind that if youhave an old rusty saw, if you clean it up
and sharpen it, it can have great value.
Yeah.
There is a person locally, I don'tknow where he lives, but he, I know he
has a fairly large space at one of thebigger antique stores in Asheville.
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That's all he does is refinish tools.
I mean everything from small hand toolslike metal punches or chisels or things
like that, all the way up to wrenchesand pliers and all the way up to things
like hammers or things like that.
And he takes them and he just enjoys,I think he enjoys the method of
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it because he'll clean them up.
Let's say they're rusted and then hepolishes them and then they look awesome.
They probably look coolerthan the day they were.
For sale, honestly.
But they're old.
That's a cool gift even to givesomebody like this refinished, refurbed,
really old tool it's functional.
It looks cool, and a lot of timesyou can get them for very cheap.
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This person just goes around and he'llbuy them out of people's storage units
or somebody will die and they'll be,need to get rid of stuff in a yard sale.
And so they'll sell 'em a bunchof this old stuff for almost
nothing because they look ugly,like they're rusted, they're old.
And he'll, it doesn't takehim long and he makes 'em look
great and they'll sell well.
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And it's not just about being functional.
Some of these older ones, particularbrands there are collectors then of
old tools and particular brands oftools it would be good to look out for.
There's a guy we'veprobably talked about here.
There's a guy here in Asheville who hasa shop and he works with people that
are in recovery to teach him a trade.
But his is, that he uses,he builds furniture, but.
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Ah, so he will know power tools.
It's all done by hand cards,all the work is crafted by hand.
The furniture he builds is absolutelystunningly beautiful and quite
expensive as you can imagine.
Sure.
But I think about, everybody probablyhas somebody in their community like that.
So if you are a reseller, I. You'relooking for old tools, get to know
that guy because you don't know thathe's not gonna, it's like, Hey, I'm
looking for, there's these things thatyou used to make shingles back in the
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old days where you carved down, italmost looks like a pizza cutters.
Mm-hmm.
But you pull the shingle and you,and it makes these, I don't even know
what they're called, slate roof, likeshingles where they're made outta wood.
But those are the kinds of things thatif they're well maintained, sharpened and
everything, they could bring great value.
Oh yeah.
Really like older, good qualitychisel sets with wood handles
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can bring really big money.
There are several brands of tools thatyou may recognize, like I've mentioned.
Some of them, craftsman Stanley,but other brands like Mac.
M-A-C.
Mac Tools older ones canbring pretty big money.
They're Klein, K-L-E-I-N tools, a lotof hand tools pliers, particularly
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if you can find what the, atype of PLI called a Lineman's.
Pli.
They're usually a little bit longerand they all have the same look,
but the vintage Klein, like from the1940s, fifties, sixties, can bring
multiples of hundreds of dollars.
You can go out to the storestore locally to you and buy a
brand new pair of pliers for $20.
And they may be just as sturdy, butthere are collectors that want some
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of these things and the better thecondition, the more you're gonna get.
But just 'cause a tool is, I think atakeaway here is just 'cause it's old or
rusty or maybe you don't use it that much,doesn't mean it's not a collectible piece.
Once you get into doing the researchon it and it doesn't mean you
can't make some good money from it.
A lot of people will have those intheir garage or know someone that does.
You and I went out and looked at a,there was a, it was an estate sale.
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A friend of mine, her father was a,he just was a pack ride of tools.
He had a room filled with old tools.
I ended up with some of them, andI know you did as well, but tools
are one of those things where peoplebought, people like me who like
to build stuff and feel crafty.
People like you.
We'll go out and buy thesetools and then when we get
older, our kids don't want 'em.
Maybe they'll sit in a room, sothat's, they're available out there.
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And they're probably, some of 'em areprobably in your garage as we speak.
Yeah, absolutely.
Along with hand tools, things likeclamps that you would clamp things
together with can bring good money.
There are some of those, and Ican't remember the brand, but.
They're big wooden ones and theyjust have two what look like
large screws on either side.
Those clamps.
Oh, those are great.
Those can bring really good money.
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And they last a long time, alot of times made outta wood,
they may not be terribly heavy.
And then the kind that are pumpedwith your hand and it closes in.
Mm-hmm.
Newer brands.
Those things though thelar larger ones especially.
Or strange shapes.
Like for example, a while back I waslooking for some used tools that I needed.
It was because it was specialty.
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I couldn't just go out local find it.
And what was I was for a clamp.
That's essentially a clamp that's inthe shape of a C, that's all it is.
But I needed somethingthat was not just tall.
I really wanted it to be super deepin the c, almost like a V shape.
But I wanted it to be really wideand that's a specialty type of thing.
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I needed it because when Iwanted to repair guitar bridges.
The only way you can do that is to glue.
You glue the bridge down, but you needa clamp to hold the underside plate
and the top of the bridge and kind, andyou're, pressing it down so that the
glue will adhere well, unless you havea sea clamp that you can get in there
because that's a good four or five inches.
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You can't do that.
So I was searching around.
I found some used, and, I probablywould've paid a lot more for 'em if I
had found a brand new one in the store.
And had to pay retail price for it.
So people are lookingfor all kind of things.
If you have unusual stuff, thatprobably will be interesting.
I've even found going yard sales.
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Fabricated tools that was just made bythat person for a particular reason.
Even my grandfather, when we were lookingthrough his stuff, had two or three of
these odd looking wrenches where he hadjust welded things at certain angles.
He just completely cut'em off and changed.
And it was because he, that was to get thenut in that one part of the engine that
you could only reach at a certain angle.
And that stuff's cool.
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There are collectors for thatkind of thing, so if you have
odd stuff too, that helps.
Speaking of like how these things work.
Like my brother, my older brother whoI've referenced on there now, he's
just golf playing retiree, but he wasreally into cars when we were younger.
In fact, he built this shophe doesn't work on, I don't
think he works on them anymore.
I'm pretty sure he said he's just tiredof doing it, but I guarantee he has a
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garage full of automotive tools thatare very specific to different, he
worked on very specific types of cars.
So if you find that collector orthat person that works on those.
Those things can bring big value.
Sure.
For sure.
And they're not cheap.
They're, they can be very expensive.
Like I said, you find Mac tools orsnap-on branded sockets, things like that.
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Even like a little socket can bringdozens of dollars and you wouldn't
ever, and it looks, no, it does.
It serves a save purposes.
All these other ones, it's justa higher end collectible brand.
They've got like lifetime guarantees,stuff like really big sockets.
People wouldn't need,but is a specialty item.
Probably not a lot of 'em made and there'ssomeone searching for that kind of.
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Can definitely work for a long time.
I would buy stuff up a buck here, 50cents there for just the little pliers.
Oh well they don't wantanything 'cause they're rusted.
And I would just put 'em down in thislittle vat of distilled vinegar, and let
the, let it eat at some of that rust andthen I'd pull it off with one of those
kind of bristly metal brush attachmentsso you can put in a hand drill.
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I would just clamp that into a viceand I would go around, polish the
whole thing takes just a few minutes.
Then you just dab a little bit ofoil, like WD 40 or something on it to
clean it off and oil it so it doesn'timmediately start rusting again.
And then that thing's gonna begood for the rest of your life.
And you'll it'll bring a lotmore than what you paid for it.
So some of those may take a littlework if you wanna refinish them, but
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there are a lot that can be sold justas is complete sets of older things.
Particularly, and I can't remember theletter, but there's, you can look up
an eBay craftsman made a set of socketsand I can't remember if these are.
There's a, each one ofthem has a letter on 'em.
You've probably seen 'em.
There are different models.
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There's.
V or double C or whatever, they havea letter around where they say the
number of what the socket is, butthere's a particular letter set.
If you find the sets, they say theysail for like over a thousand dollars.
Just a little set ofsockets from craftsmen.
'cause it was like the first setthey made or something like that.
With any of those things, just lookup, sold items, look at highest
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sold items, and you'll get an idea.
The particulars.
Nice.
So moving on.
Other things that you might find ina garage would be fishing equipment,
fishing gear, rods and reels, tackleboxes and all the other stuff.
There are things in those tackle boxesthat can be worth really good money.
If you have old vintage lures it'seven better if they're still in
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the original little box with thelittle plastic or the box lid.
The better the condition, the better.
If you could find one that's in a.Pretty nice quality box, and it looks
like it's never been used in that.
Hmm.
That could be worth agood amount of money.
Fishing lures, there's a big collectiblemarket for those as well, and there
are lures out there selling for overa thousand dollars every week on eBay.
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Just a little lure.
One lure.
Yeah, one lure.
Wow.
Yep.
Certain ones, old ones thatare made out of wood that
oftentimes were like handmade.
They have almost like the oldglass googly eye things on 'em.
Yeah.
Or inserts some of those that haveparticular types of hooks on them.
And good conditions can bringhuge money because those older
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ones, less of them have survived.
There weren't as many made before.
They were commercially producing them.
And it may be a one of a kind piece.
You just really don't know.
So these collectors, they want rarities.
Most people don't have.
So if you have something bizarreor old, but in really good
condition, you should look it up.
A lot of times the brand will be on thespinner or maybe on the hook, or it'll be
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almost like screen printed or not screen.
Almost looks like a stencil, likethey spray painted something on it.
Heen the brand, H-E-D-D-O-Nhad that a lot, almost looked
like they'd stencil sprayed it.
So lures also, there are particular typesof fish knives or tools that you use that
can bring big monies in those and thetackle boxes themselves, particularly
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ones that maybe had some sort of enamelpaint on them are older metal ones from,
again, the forties, fifties, and sixties.
There are brands that can bring reallygood money and it's just collectors
again, but they're also functional.
It's just like tools.
Maybe people are collectingit, maybe they're using it.
It doesn't really matter.
There's a lot of people out there.
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Remember the Andy Griffith show wherethe beginning they would, they were going
off with a fishing pole and the Yeah.
A cane pole and the, andyou had that cane basket.
Yeah.
And they were heading out there.
I'll bet you that's worth something today.
Oh, for sure.
Oh, and their fishing baskets.
That's a good point.
Wicker, like these olderwicker fish baskets, those
things can sell for huge money.
And there's still a big market in reels.
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There are all kinds of old vintagetypes of reels where they were trying to
experiment with making d. Old telescopingrods that still are in good shape,
can sell for good money fishing reels.
That.
I got into a really nice lot offishing reels about three or four
years ago, and that was one of thebest scores that I have had probably
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in the top five I've ever had.
There are some very collectiblefishing reels out there.
Brands like Pfluger, I think it'sP-F-L-U-G-E-R, or actually it's EGER.
That's a nice brand.
Ambassadors, those reels in goodcondition, old ones can be super
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collectible and I've sold one for$4,500 to give you an idea of how much
people will pay for one fishing reel.
It was a left-handed reel,so it was a little quirky.
But fishing reels bring big money.
I don't have to go throughall of the different brands.
I did.
I never really liked eating fish.
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Okay.
I grew up on a river, so we always fish.
I was thinking about something.
There's these fly fishing stores that.
We have a couple of them here in thearea and a lot of places will have them.
When, if you find a reel, is itworth going into these stores to
see if there's any market for it?
Not that they would necessarilybuy it, but they might know someone
that's looking for vintage reels.
Sure.
I would, Facebook marketplaceis a place you can search.
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For as a potential buyer and as a seller.
But then you can make listings that,that have a picture of something.
And then in the description it says,I'm looking to buy these things.
You can put stuff out like that.
It's free.
Or if there are Facebook groups thatare in your region, you can join,
like for free for buying and selling.
You can market yourself and youcan to sell it or to say, I'm
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a buyer, so please contact me.
Mmmm.
There's a big market online.
All the big, eBay and all of those youcan find just about anything they want.
But if you got grandpa'sfishing stuff out in the garage.
It's just collecting dust.
No one's ever using it.
They're old.
You don't want to break 'em.
Kids don't care or whatever.
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Then, take a look.
Lurs especially have done very wellfor me in the past and a lot of times
you can get on marketplace and somebodywill just be selling a tackle box.
For, it's like 25 bucks, but the tacklebox is full of these old lures and
you're like, I can get 10, 15 bucksbottom dollar for each of those lures.
And then I can sell thetackle box itself too.
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And it's only 25 bucks.
So you sell two lures, you've madeyour money back, you sell the rest
of them and the tackle box, and thenthat's a good, that's a good flip.
Yeah, absolutely.
Alright, what else do we have inthe garage that we would wanna sell?
I would say another big thingpeople keep in the garage a lot
of times is camping equipment.
So I would say either sports equipmentor camping equipment, depending on the
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sport, it may not be in the garage, butif you have like golf clubs for example,
out in the garage and you don't play golfanymore and you've got a really nice set
of whatever brand, Titleist or whatever itis, there's people searching all the time.
'cause golf clubs have.
Crazy expensive.
Almost all the gear for golf is expensive.
Unfortunately, it's a super fun sport,but I know lots of people who have,
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one or two sets of golf clubs and theyjust, they don't, they haven't been
out since college or, it just, theygot busy at kids and they can't do it.
And so golf clubs is a good one.
Think of the popular sports in the summer.
If you've got used equipmentthat's still in good shape.
I guarantee people would rather getthat than go online and buy something
new or have to go out to the store.
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So sports equipment, but then outdoorequipment, there's tents, sleeping
bags that are rated very for verycold and are in good condition.
And then every kind of thing you canthink of, hiking shoes, walking sticks.
Different types ofheaters that you can take.
If it's say rainy and you want tostay in, you can heat by just using
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a little gas can or camping stoves.
Things that are smaller, lighterweight you could backpack with
tend to be really hot items becausethose tend to be pretty expensive.
It's like the everyounce of weight you save.
It costs an extra a hundred, $150 forthat product and you can really go down
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a deep rabbit hole and spend just unrealamounts of money on outdoor equipment.
People are always searching for, canI get something that's almost, new in
quality but I'm paying half for it?
You might have some reallynice stuff out there.
And camping's, another one of those thingsthat people will get excited sometimes.
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They'll buy something reallynice or even they'll get it as a
gift and they just find that theyonly camp once a year if that.
It's spring, right?
Spring cleaning.
A lot of people like to go out andI clean my garage twice a year.
Once in the spring.
Once in the fall, and it's abouttime to do it again and stuff.
I don't remember that.
I've used this in thelast couple of years.
It's gone.
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That's kind that for me.
'cause otherwise I'lljust accumulate stuff.
I was just thinking in my attic, I havea bunch of camping gear that we don't,
I am not, I was a big camper when I wasyounger and now I'm just like, I do not
wanna sleep on the ground in the dirt.
My wife still loves to, but we, we werejust having this conversation about
let's get rid of some of this camping.
Mm-hmm.
Stuff.
There's people like us that I don't wannasell it, I just wanna get rid of it.
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Being aware as a reseller, Iwas like, that's happening.
There's garage sales all over where peopleare getting rid of their camping gear.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
And the last thing I'll say, so campinggear is a big one, and you can look up
all the different types of camping gear.
All of those have collectible things,all of the, that people are buying or
brands, like if you can find reallyold branded REI stuff what is it?
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Recreation Equipment Incorporated.
So I found a pair.
Feet warmers that you putdown inside of a shoe.
That said, and it doesn't say REI, it justsays recreational equipment Incorporated.
And it was, I don't know if theywere in Seattle or someplace up
in, in the northwest is wherethey're from, but that stuff can be
collectible because it's vintage.
Right.
It's cool to have the thing from early onbefore that company had really taken off.
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Yeah, they're now everywhere, obviously.
For sure.
Yeah.
Back in the day, they werelike one flagship store.
Exactly.
Kinda like if you can find, an old mugthat had the original logo from the
first year or two of Starbucks, likethat would be pretty darn collectible.
Ooh.
So the last thing I'll say is maybe that.
You, that old Chevelle, whateversuper sport that you've had on
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blocks in the garage, in the doublegarage and the side, and you've, and
you've, let's be honest, you're notactually gonna restore that thing.
I'm so sorry to tell you that because.
You hate to be the bear of bad news.
But you had, it was years in high school.
You broke down when, at a time when youwere young and you didn't have the money.
No, Matt, no, I'm gonna, Matt,I promise I'm gonna do it.
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You didn't have the money, but youkept telling yourself and every
year cost got high, had another kid,you got another house to rent and
you got this other, and you don'twanna spread out your risk too much.
You can't spend the money on yourself andgood on you for not being selfish, but.
It's been 40 years and you'vegot this car up on blocks.
Now, some of these older muscle cars, now,if you have a pristine, nice car and you
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bought it to, to have fun with, enjoy,but then the kind of the fun is worn off.
Or maybe, yeah, I would like something,some other toy or some other thing.
You've got this disposable income.
Maybe now's the time to go sell thatbecause the cost of all cars are going up.
But every year that goes by, if youhave a good quality sought after,
like collectible car, still in goodcondition in a garage, that's exactly
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what a collector's looking for.
Or somebody who wants to buysomething for investment purposes.
So maybe sell that.
But as an alternative to selling that,maybe you're that person who had these
dreams and you just haven't followthrough with them for real world
reasons you can part out these cars.
So every component.
A door handle.
The little flip screen thing onthe tiny little driver's side air
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conditioning thing where you canyou close it or you can open it.
Even stuff like that, thosethings break over time of
people's cars and it's annoying.
They just want that one part.
But guess what?
That hasn't been manufactured since1969, so there's a finite number of
them left, and maybe you can't find acompany who's making or will fabricate
that Again, everything to the littleemblems that used to be on the hoods.
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Or the, or on the back to say whatthe model number was or the name.
Everything you can think of,exterior and interior on a car has
value, especially for older ones.
So maybe you just disassemble thatpuppy and you sell a part after
part to part out a car like that.
You could maybe even do better thanselling the car intact, and that's crazy.
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But for certain cars,that's certainly true.
Absolutely.
Just a little side, I have a ToyotaTacoma pickup truck that I love.
But it's an older model and I keep it'cause it's a truck and it's a Toyota and
it'll run for a thousand miles, but it hasa, I have a the seatbelt is going bad on
the driver's side and I gotta replace it.
You can't find them mm-hmm.
To replace it.
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So I have to go to a junkyard Yep.
To part out this, just the seatbelt.
So yeah, there is huge value in that.
I'm really glad youmentioned junkyards because.
If you're in need of somethingapart, you'll probably, if it's
okay, you'll probably be bettergetting it from a junkyard than
even buying it secondhand online.
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This, somebody has pulled itout, researched it, knows.
If you call them, you're like,Hey, do you have a 78 Buick?
Whatever?
I'm looking for the glovecompartment, whatever you call that.
The handle.
And they're like, oh yeah.
It's like, I don't know,10 bucks or something.
You could get things for cheap.
But I know a guy whohis whole get this is.
He has researched components on particularkinds of vehicles that have really high
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resale value and are in always in demand.
He'll go to junkyards and he'llsearch the junkyard to see if he
can find those particular cars.
He'll then buy the entire car from them.
Not just a part, but he'll buy it andyou can usually get it really cheap
because it's, it's a pull, it's wrecked,it doesn't have just some components.
He'll kind of add it up.
But yeah, get it outta here.
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He'll go back, he'll pull outthe parts, he'll sell the parts
and make more than he spent.
And then when he's done, he'lltake, and he'll be able to sell the.
Or whatever's left back to ajunkyard for money or he'll
scrap it, right, and get paid.
So you can do that.
And that's built all around theidea of aftermarket parts or
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not I say aftermarket parts.
Not parts that have been perbuilt after parts OEM parts.
Om original.
Yeah.
The original parts that areused, but they still have value.
They're still functional.
What a great idea.
I think if I was gonna start allover, that's what I would do.
Like I have a, the cable on the back of mytruck bed, a little truck bed with Snap.
So I try to get just thecables again, and I got 'em.
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But then I realized that thewhole assembly and where it bolts
in and stuff to the truck bedis all one part of an assembly.
So I have to have the whole thing.
I gotta call a junkyard, yeah.
Because they're not, thatwasn't, it's a 1999 vehicle.
They're not making them anymore.
So a lot of times, junk guards, youjust go down there with your tools and.
Yeah, take it off.
Bring it up and then yeah we'll weighit or what, however they, decide.
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Right.
I'll look it up real quick.
So, yeah, the vehicle stuff;sports equipment; outdoor equipment
for like camping; tools; fishingequipment, automotive, everything
can have really big values.
And I'm not even touching on otherstuff you might have out there.
If you've got a canoe, like an oldwooden canoe up in your rafters in the
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garage, oh yeah, go sell that puppy.
Because there, those can bring big money.
If you take the matte approach, youwould just sell everything in your
garage would be empty at all times.
Mm-hmm.
Which is fine.
I'll sell the wood.
I'll sell the wood in the rafters.
It'll just, there won'tbe a garage anymore.
That's fine.
I don't need it.
Flow.
Flow would walk out and theroof would collapse on her.
Yeah, that'd be that.
You'd be a hero.
Hey.
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Alright.
We are a show about.
What we sold.
Mm-hmm.
And I know you sold some thingsthis week and we're gonna run
over on time, as we always do.
I gotta hustle here.
I wanna actually seewhat you sold this week.
Here is a pair of Gucci.
Women's sunglasses and they let mepull 'em out to kinda show the style.
These are that olderlike what the horn rimmed.
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They're not exactly hornrimmed, but they've got like
a wider part of the upper rim.
My great aunt would'vewore those for sure.
Well, these are back in fashion andI bought these, this was what they
would call retail arbitrage, whereyou go to a store like a Ross or a Max
where you're buying something that's.
New and unused, but you're getting itat an already discounted rate and then
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you turn around and sell it for whatpeople online will pay for it because
they can't find it maybe locally.
And so I bought these at a,I think I bought these at a,
it was either Ross or TG Max.
We have two of themright next to each other.
But I paid about $140 for themand I sold them for $330 on eBay.
Nice.
And part of it is that they'rea little bit of a larger size.
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A person searching would be searchingfor a different size that maybe less
of them were made not as common.
And again, because I bought it at such adiscounted price, I was able to sell it at
what the average retail price is online.
So that was nice, made anice little profit on that.
Another item I sold is this necklace.
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I should have taken it outta thebag, but it's basically a gold color.
And it, it's gold color becauseit's technically gold filled.
That means there's asmall layer of gold on it.
But this is twisted braid necklace, and atthe bottom is this little, it is a locket,
but on the outside it has a very obviouslike art design profile of a woman's
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head with her really swirling hair and.
Really cool if you like thatstyle era that's usually very
feminine and very curvy and a lotof women and hair and jewelry and
stuff, but it's a little locket.
You could have put someone'sphotograph in there.
I have been slowly putting togetherthese old Victorian design and era
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pieces of Goldfield jewelry becausethey're pretty hot right now.
Gold is really high, so peoplewill even buy goldfield stuff.
At a higher rate right now toscrap it and harvest the gold.
But people are also liking this kind ofVictorian era designs for collectibility.
So all that to say, this was like a$10 purchase and I sold it for $174.
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Oh, wow.
Yeah.
Good job.
So pretty good.
I could just tell by the designlike, it, it's cool, it's attractive
looking and I know people aredigging that style right now.
And I don't, I don'texactly know why, but.
You're a genius.
Somebody out in Europe decided to putsomething Victorian on and then all of
a sudden became a new fashion thing.
Sure.
They're gonna bring it back.
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This last one, the last couplearen't terribly exciting,
but this is A little doll.
Aw.
It's not terribly old though.
The head, hands andlegs are also are cera.
They aren't porcelain,but they're ceramic.
Kind of a cool little piece.
This is one I didn't pay for.
And probably, if I was out looking,I wouldn't have bought this.
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I don't even know ifI'd have researched it.
And partly just because I've dihaven't spent a lot of time buying
and selling dolls and it's allnot a particular interest to me.
But either way, this sold for $42and the person who had it, didn't
care at all how much they got for it.
Which I hear a lot.
It's just like, get it outta my house.
So I have the room.
Yeah, because that doll's gonna come alivein the middle of the night and murder you.
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Well, it hasn't yet, butit's now come to mention it.
I did.
It did sound like something wasbreathing over my shoulder last night.
I don't know.
Dolls are creepy.
I don't get up Anyway.
You say that, this is a very sweetlooking doll compared to, I have had
once that looked like they're straight,straight out of a horror movie.
They always are.
Matt.
They always are.
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Okay, let's see.
1, 2, 3, 4. Last thing, well,last two things real quick.
This is a little gold ring I thinkI maybe mentioned, I can't remember
if I said it on the last episodeor what, but I went to this ring,
by the way, is it's yellow gold.
It's 10 karat gold and it has a largegreen Carline is the stone and it's a
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rectangular shape of kind this local shop.
That buys coins and stuff in my townand they also buy gold and silver.
Sometimes I can get a betterprice there than I can get online.
And the added kind of thing for thepeople I'm selling for is that they
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don't have to lose the eBay fee.
So if I sell it to them, not only doI, they not use, lose the eBay fee,
but it's cash immediately in my hand.
I can pay them faster too.
So sometimes I go there and I'llsell tokens or coins or paper money.
And getting to talk with them.
I was asking 'em all the typesof things that they do buy.
Okay, so you buy silver, right?
Okay, great.
You buy Sterling.
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Do you buy like 800 silveror some of these other, okay.
Do you buy weighted silver things?
I'm going through all the questionsand the same thing with gold.
Solid gold.
Do you buy gold, build, yada, yada.
And I said, what doyou do with the stones?
They say, oh, a lot of times wejust pitch 'em or like sometimes
someone's interested and I said myname and number, if you just assume.
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I'll buy 'em from you or if you'll,you'll hold onto some of them.
So I made that connection.
And also they said, listen, we're justnot, we don't usually test stones.
We're not really in, we'renot in a jewelry business.
We just buy the gold scrap.
Right?
And so while they're looking at mystuff to pay me to figure out how
much they're gonna pay me, I seethis little place in their display
that's got some rings, I think.
Okay, so they already said thatthey're not really knowledgeable
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and this is not really their thing.
But they've got some silver andgold here that they're not, they
didn't buy the scrap, so I guessthey think it's more value.
I saw this little 10 karat ring and itdidn't have a price that I could see.
So I asked to look at it and I askedher, how much would you pay or how
much you know do you want for this?
And do you know what the stone is?
Nope.
Don't know what the stone is.
We don't test them do.
She puts it in the thing, 10 karat gold.
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She weighs it based on the gold price andthe little percentage they wanna make.
She quoted me $95.
I said, okay, I think I'll take thatbecause this is clearly an antique.
It's clearly a Victorian era, late18 hundreds ring, and I was curious
about what the stone would be.
Now in 10 karat gold, you can find glass,you can find very low quality gemstones,
but you can also find nicer ones.
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So it was a little bit of a gamble.
I went home and tested it.
It tested as a greenline.
That's very good.
It has a, it's harder, so it in category
as.
For $250, I paid 95.
I had watchers immediately in two days.
(48:13):
I accepted a best offerof $225, so I paid 95.
Two days later, I sold it for 2 25.
Just because I saw the value inthe way that it looked and that my
gamble, that it would be at leasta semi-precious stone paid off.
That's awesome.
That's a fun thing.
That's something that peopleout there everywhere can do.
(48:35):
Provided you research or maybe you'vealready got experience with it like I do.
And so I do take risks, but they'reusually pretty calculated risks.
Last thing, I saved this for last 'causeI know you'll be most interested in this.
Get sold.
And this is one of two different ones.
Oh, I got a you enter the dragon.
Oh, enter the dragon bru Lee.
(48:56):
This top, this thing opens up.
He's got.
He's got a, some typeof a sword and shoes.
Wait, is that from the seventies hands?
It is not from the seventies.
I believe it's from thenineties or early two thousands.
So lemme look.
Okay.
2000. So this is an unopened, it'sfrom 2000, so it's 25 years old.
Never been open.
Never been used.
He looks pretty sweet, doesn't he?
(49:16):
Oh my gosh.
That's awesome.
Mm-hmm.
It's Bruce Lee.
GI Joe Doll, basically.
Yeah.
Bruce Lee, the Dragonseries and it's large.
This is probably a 50something year old man.
Might be very interestedin purchasing that.
Yeah, it for sure.
This is a 12, it's a 12 inch figure.
So yeah, so there are two of theseand he was in different outfits,
(49:37):
but each of them sold for $99.
So 200 bucks.
Pretty good for, this kind of a thing.
Where'd you get it?
This was a consignment thing.
This is, I was.
I think I came back with likeeight large boxes full of unopened
action figures of various kinds.
Oh, my Banning Cartoon Network, Marvel,things like Ninja Turtles transformers.
(50:02):
And then the vast majority wasSimpsons the Cartoon Simpsons show
characters and all that stuff.
Oh, right, you mentioned that.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
That's right.
So, yeah, so I've, I, they've, I'veprobably done about $1,500 in sales
off of some of this stuff so far, and.
Only maybe 30% has sold.
So they're gonna do really wellwhen it's all said and done.
Oh, that Bruce Lee is amazing.
(50:22):
That's so cool.
Bruce Lee.
Wow.
All right.
That is lots and lots of good ideasof things that we can be looking for.
Find your Bruce Lee action figure.
That's right, because that's gonnabe worth something for people that
my older brother who loved Bruce Lee,was like his hero in the seventies.
He listens to this show, so I'msure he is like, wait a second.
Ah, I can get my hands ona brucely action figure.
That's right.
Anyway, that is all thetime we have for the day.
(50:44):
Matt, any last words about what wefind in the garage or what we should be
doing, what we should be looking for?
Yeah, this afternoon go out to yourgarage, grab a handful of tools, maybe
a tackle box, come into the living room,put enter the dragon on in the background,
and sort through and see, you knowwhat you got my, and then maybe you'll
feel and you'll feel inspired, pumped.
(51:05):
By by his amazing speed.
And there you go.
That's all you need.
Oh my gosh, that is great advice.
That is great advice.
Alright guys.
Remember, like we said, follow,like, subscribe wherever you get
your podcast or wherever you find us.
Tell a friend, go out there and makesome money and then tell us a story.
Send us an email about what you sold,how you sold, and all those fun things.
(51:26):
Otherwise, we'll be back with abrand new show next week about
things that we find in the house.
We appreciate you listening.
Take care.
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