Choose Your Own Adventure Books

Here are some paperback books you probably didn't know could be worth some good money. Choose Your Own Adventure books are very popular when you sell them in lots. This particular collection took me over 6 months to collect, but it was worth the wait. The books cost me between 10 to 50 cents each.

Selling books in lots is what I do best and enjoy the most. Although I have learned other niches.

So, next time your at a garage sale be sure to look carefully in that box of paperbacks.

CLICK HERE TO SEE MY LISTING

 

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HERE COME THE BROWNIES

Keep your eyes out for a set of these books!

HERE COME THE BROWNIES

This listing is from a friend of mine who flipped them for $21.49.  She got them at a garage sale for very little.

TIP:  Based on eBay's "completed listings" these books sell the best in big lots (like my friend did).  If you can only find one or two, I wouldn't buy them.  They are not that common to find and would make it hard to collect them for a later sale.

Scooby Doo Books

A friend of mine got these at a garage sale for $3.  She then resold them on Ebay for $25.99!  The cardboard van is probably what drove the price up.

You can see the actual listing here or CLICK HERE to read her blog post.

NINTENDO CEREAL SYSTEM

Okay... check this out. This is a BOX OF CEREAL that just sold on ebay for $207.50.  Do people buy these and just save them for opportunities like this?  Who buys something like this?

RARE ATARI GAME

Check out this auction!!!  If only I could find one of these at my local thrift store. 

RARE VIDEO GAMES

You may want to print this article out and keep it handy when you are garage sale shopping or visiting your local thrift store.

CLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLE WITH PICTURES.

Another Richard Scarry Book To Look For

The 1965 Richard Scarry Book "Busy Busy World" is worth the $1 or $2 you may have to pay at a thrift store.  It easily brings in $20 or more.  I have sold this book in the past for as much as $40.

Here's a recent listing. CLICK HERE.

What Do People Do All Day? by Richard Scarry

Here's a book I bought for $1.00 at a local thrift store.  I then resold it on ebay for $24.99.  I sometimes price things to sell quickly in order to meet my "pay off the debt monthly goal".   Now, if you don't have to hurry you can get much more for this book.

Check out this past listing - CLICK HERE.  This one sold for $57.97.

If you were a buyer looking for this book then you go could to Amazon and buy it.  That is, if you are willing to pay over $700 for this book.  Crazy!

HOUSTON PHOTOGRAPHY RAFFLE

Okay... this has nothing to do with eBay, but here's a great chance to help a family who is desiring to adopt AND get a great deal for your family.

Check it out by clicking here!

Value Tales

If you ever find someone selling their set at a garage sale... BUY IT!!!!  These books easily sell for $2-$4 each when in a group of 20 or more.  Of course, if you have some of the more rare ones then you can even get more!

I list these rare ones and exactly how many Value Tales were produced in my ebook "How To Sell Children's Books on Ebay".

Click here to see my most recent Value Tale listing.

MORE BREAD AND BUTTER TO MY SALES

Slowly but surely, I gathered these books to resell on eBay.  These books go with the Five In A Row curriculum.  You can easily get $2-3 per book and sometimes $5 per book when you sell them together.  You don't even have to have ALL the books in the curriculum.

Check it out here:  Five in a Row Listing

MATH-IT by Elmer Brooks

I recently sold this on eBay and made a fast $34.99.  Of course, as you will see I paid for the shipping, but it wasn't much. 

There is also PRE MATH-IT that comes with dominoes and it sells well too.

So.. keep your eye out for Math-It.

THE BREAD AND BUTTER OF MY SALES

I recently listed 3 things and made a quick $198.98.  All of them were Buy-It-Now and 3-day listings.  I have a sewing machine I want to pay off before interest starts, so that is why I did it this way.

These listings are the type I do over and over and over again to make money.  I wrote an ebook about this.  You can download the ebook by clicking here.   I have the ebook on CD and will send it to you for just $7. Just contact me via a comment and I'll send you a link where you can pay via Paypal.

Listings:

- Children's Picture Books

- Dr. Seuss Books

- Berenstain Bear Books

NOTE:  I usually make the buyer pay for shipping, but I really wanted to flip these fast.  And, since my cost to buy these books was soooo low, I still made a very nice profit.

MACHINE DESIGN TEXTBOOK

 

I always find textbooks at garage sales and thrift stores, but rarely buy them.  However, when I do the payoff is usually VERY GOOD!

Here's my FOUR RULES for buying a textbook when I don't know if it will pay off:

1) Copyright date cannot be older than 2008.  Obviously, 2009 or 2010 would be better.

2) Very good condition.  Book can't be falling apart or have torn pages.  Highlighting is okay.

3) Has to be less than $2.

4) SPECIALIZED SUBJECT.  (NOT accounting, math, biology, general science, or literature.)

Let me try and explain more about TIP #4.   Textbooks that are for a particular field of study are usually expensive to buy new or used AND they don't get revised very often.  Almost every year the basic accounting textbook will issue a new edition.

For example, the textbook above caught my eye at a garage sale one day.  First, I noticed the condition was excellent and the CD in the back had never been opened.  Second, I flipped through the pages and realized that this was a "specialized" field of study.  I actually had never seen this textbook before or come across this subject.  BUT... it's copyright date was 2007.  Uh-oh!  That doesn't fit my "rules to follow".  Lucky, for me my home was just around the corner, so I was able to check the market and value.  I went back and bought it for $1 and resold it for $39.99.  Click here to see the listing.

So next time you see that box of old textbooks you may want to see if one of them is "specialized".  And, if you can negotiate a super low price, like 25 cents.... then why not?

I once sold one of my husbands old engineering textbooks on Amazon for $100.  It was about a very particular engineering subject and it was just sitting on his shelf.  I'm not sure if the price was too low since it sold in 30 mintues!  There wasn't any information on the interent ANYWHERE to tell me the value.  Oh, well!   Not bad for a book that had been sitting on a shelf for years. 

DOMINO RALLY PARTS!

I was at my favorite thrift store the other day and notice these plastic dominoes in their toy section.  I bought them for $3.00 and sold them for $25.99.  Click here to see the listing.

The only reason I would recognize them is because of the board game DOMINO RALLY that I had just sold.  Seeing that the game is all about knocking dominoes down I figured folks may want MORE dominoes to knock down.

Click on the picture you can see what they look like.

DOMINO RALLY GAME

I stopped by a church garage sale a few weeks ago and it was getting ready to close.  They were passing out huge black trash bags and saying "fill it up for $1".  I immediately went to the board game section and took a few that I knew nothing about.  I also grabbed  some childrens books that I could use in selling large lots on Ebay.

One game in the bag paid off in both money and learning.

It was Domino Rallly.  Lucky for me the game was complete!  The game sold for $20.50.

Not bad for less than a $1 since my books will pay off and my son was able to add some military history books to his collection.

Check out ALL the Domino Rally games that have sold on eBay in the last two weeks and just the parts!  Not bad.