Monday morning. Tennessee Picker Kevin sent us three Enamans — those custom Funko-style figurines whose capes claim we get things moving — and I had a goofy idea before pulling the first order: pick a stuck item, put an Enaman on it, see if it sells.

The experiment

[2:00] I put one on the Diaz Home mugs (already pretty safe, honestly), Candice put one on the lobster utensil holder, and we put a third on the Pee-Wee Herman puzzle. “All right. You get to work, sir. Get things moving.” If they all clear by the next video, Kevin’s about to get a bulk order — “if it works, I’m going to buy 100 more.”

Order pulling — eBay, Mercari, Poshmark

[4:00] Steve Madden women’s sneakers — $34.99. Bought by Nikki T from Rev Resale. Lock me in. Five years ago, Rev bought a pair of Italian driving shoes from us based on me hyping them up on a video. He kept the bad-shoe grudge until the podcast and finally let it out. So Nikki T buying these shoes is her way of throwing us an olive branch. Rev: don’t try them on. Don’t even hold them. And Nikki T — even if they hurt, don’t tell him.

[10:25] Bram Stoker “Jewel of the Seven Stars” 1904 first American edition — $119.99. Same sale where we picked up the John Dixon Carr first editions. Black linen-covered hardback — sat on Six Bravo, not Three Bravo where I tried to pull it. Big-money books do tend to migrate to Six Bravo somehow.

[12:00] Four Stanley nesting cookware sets + a magnet — about $84. One viewer order. “Clearly that’s a viewer sale.” Thank you. We started with around 72 of these, we’re down to about 60.

[17:36] Unicron cold-cast Botcon statue — over $200. The kicker: I forgot to put the word Transformers in the title. “Wait, Lonnie. Where do you…” Probably why it took so long to sell. We need to audit the whole store for that.

[26:08] Three poster lots, all to one buyer — Atari Force ($29.36), Sundevils ($14.88), Banners Galaxy ($11.88). 50 days ago we bundled a bunch of unsellable single posters into lots. This buyer made offers on three at once. Two of those lots were so obscure I half-suspect we threw them in for free. Cash in hand, shelves clear. “We left a little money on the table, but we do that often.”

The garage sale at the end

[35:55] Halo 3 SPNKR “Spanker box” — $1. Sunday morning hit on the way home from another sale. The lid lifts open like a little case — disc went in one slot, books went in the other. Last three sold comps: $55, $65, $75. We almost walked away because I thought it was missing the locks — and the lady at the sale, somehow, heard me say that from across the yard, dug into another box, and pulled out the locks. Showed me how to clip them on. For a one-dollar item.

That’s a $1 → $50+ flip because somebody at a garage sale was kind enough to fish around in another box for a part she had no obligation to find.

Other picks from that sale:

• Penny Dreadful Clue — keeping for myself, $15.
• Royal Doulton Hampshire dinnerware — $20 for a partial set (5 dinner plates, 7 salad, 12 saucers, 2 bowls, 10 cups). Probably $150 listed in parts.
• Bookshelf for Boys & Girls — 10-volume hardcover set, $10.
• Programmed Classics — 14 hardcover novels, $8. Saw a 16-set sell for $90.

Wrap

The viewer-bought Stanley sets, the Nikki T olive branch, and a stranger digging through a box for the locks on a $1 game case — that’s the day. Pippen’s nowhere in this video. The Enaman experiment is in progress. Bram Stoker is on a truck somewhere.