My two best finds included a bakelite bracelet I found at the local Goodwill Store which I bought for $1.00 which, when I put it on eBay, sold for over $300.00 and an old framed print by a famous artist I found in a small thrift store that I paid $25.00 for and sold on eBay for over $800.00!
I started with 'rescuing' pottery and glass...
now I seem to pick up 'everything'....sigh....
I bought the Cosmopolitan edition of the first Male nude, Burt Reynolds, as I knew someday it would be worth alot. Unfortunately one of my kids got ahold of it and it disappeared. :-(
I've found lots of personal gems at the thrift store. Just clothes, sports gear, etc. for myself and familly. Trick is to go often! (and quickly!). I work outside so work shirts and jackets are my isle. Of course I'll buy a $2 shirt and it's so nice it becomes my church-going shirt! I think my best deal was a clean (new?) full-length goose down L.L. Bean coat for my wife - about $15. I think. (1/2 price sale!!)
"My two best finds included a bakelite bracelet I found at the local Goodwill Store which I bought for $1.00 which, when I put it on eBay, sold for over $300.00 and an old framed print by a famous artist I found in a small thrift store that I paid $25.00 for and sold on eBay for over $800.00!"
I do the same, but sell used/antique/specialty books & music on amazon.com.
My best score was finding an Morgana King 2-CD set. Paid $5, got $199.00 for it. I once found a First Edition, 1932 copy of "Cross Creek" for 25 cents and sold that for $50.
If you know what you're looking for, you can make a tidy little sum on the side doing things like this. :)
Granted the frame is still worth $5.00, the glass and matting cost me $75.00, but I cannot, for the life of me, find out who this artist is and what it's worth.
Regardless, it's the prize of my collection and I would never part with it. Unless, of course, it's worth six figures.
Nope, not even then.