Garage sales aren't just for picking up useless junk that you'll end up dumping at a sale of your own in a few years. They provide optimal opportunities to pick up cheap stuff that you can hawk online, marking up the price several times over.
Brittney at Blonde Nerd, who collects old video games, brags about hauling in loads of video games for a buck or so, no doubt taking advantage of parents who don't realize old games their kids have abandoned still retain some value. Her biggest killing was scoring a copy of Spyro 2, which she saw on eBay for $12, for a buck. That's the sort of profit margin that makes GameStop such a successful enterprise.
If you're a regular on the garage sale and flea market circuit, what items do you look out for, and how much do you make when you resell them?
Garage sale haul #1: Let me show you my loot....
Just for shits:
Neverwinter nights and Undrentide Expansion
Diablo II
Starcraft and Starcraft Expansion + Books
I paid: $10 for all
eBay value: $32.50
Halo 3 and Godfather guide
I paid: $5 for both
eBay value: $7.50
Namco Museum
I paid: $1
eBay value: $2.99
Ghost Recon
I paid: $1
eBay value: $7.99
Tetris Plus:
I paid: $1
eBay value: $5.83
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
I paid: .50
eBay value: $2.99
GEX 3
I paid: $1
eBay value: $7
Crash Warped
I paid: $1
eBay value: $9.99
Oddworld: Abe’s Exoddus
I paid: $1
eBay value: $7.88
WCW/NWO Thunder
I paid: $1
eBay value: $2.25
Ape Escape
I paid: $1
eBay value: $9.99
Jet Moto 3
I paid: $1
eBay value: $2.99
Spyro 2
I paid: $1
eBay value: $11.99
WF War Zone
I paid: $1
eBay value: $5.99
Crash Team Racing
I paid: $1
eBay value: $9.99
Crash 2
I paid: $1
eBay value: $9
Spyro
I paid: $1
eBay value: $9.99
Vigilante 8
I paid: $1
eBay value: $6
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