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Have I hit the eBay "mother lode"????

Posted By: Cathy Bryant
Monday, 20 February 2006, at 9:36 a.m.

Calling all you eBay experts (and anyone else who wants to chime in)...

Sitting in my living room are stacks of boxes I have retrieved from my dad's house on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Although we did lose some items in Katrina (since his bonus room and garage were under four feet of water) a lot of the memorabilia was upstairs in the main living area. Naturally a lot of it consists of items important only to family, but I've also come across some very interesting items that might be of interest to eBay sellers.

Since I'm not really interested in trying to sell this stuff myself, but I'd like to get a fair price for it, is there a method whereby one contacts other ebayers that might be interested in purchasing it for resale? I've done searches on some of the items and found them but prices are all over the map.

I have a LOT of postcards - both sent and unsent - and some have quite a bit of age on them. I also have things like the official inaugural program of the 1965 presidential inauguration (I marched in that parade with my school band) and a fair amount of Fred Haise/Apollo 13 memorabilia. Fred is a Biloxi native and I went to high school and college with his (much) younger sister. (In fact, she was in my dorm room using my phone when she found out that the mission was in danger, but that's another very long story :-)

Lots and lots of other oddball interesting things, the likes of which I've seen on eBay before. Since I have no idea what these things sell for, and I am not particularly fond of the idea of packing things up, I'm wondering if there are other alternative ways of selling this stuff. I do have some local eBay resellers and I may check with them but I know they have minimum value amounts so some of these items (like the postcards) are not things they'd probably want to deal with.

I'd appreciate any input....

Cathy

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Have I hit the eBay "mother lode"???? (views: 1218)
Cathy Bryant -- Monday, 20 February 2006, at 9:36 a.m.
- One thing that you might consider is (views: 1295)
  Margaret MacGillivray -- Monday, 20 February 2006, at 10:32 a.m.
- Check to see if your town has an eBay consignment store (views: 1303)
  Bluto -- Monday, 20 February 2006, at 12:28 p.m.
  - Re: Check to see if your town has an eBay consignment store (views: 1289)
    Cathy Bryant -- Monday, 20 February 2006, at 2:45 p.m.
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