The title is honest. By the time we wrapped this video we had pulled 21 eBay orders, packed up a Mercari bundle that we probably should’ve held out on, and dumped two trash bags of $10-filler-bag yarn out on the shed floor to lot up. By Candice’s tally, those two $10 bags turned into $275 worth of listings — plus a paintball-marker lot, a skateboard, and a tennis racket Lonnie sneaked in.

This post walks through every order that went out, the platform it sold on, what it sold for, and a few lessons we picked back up along the way — including one expensive reminder about why we used to hate eBay’s business policies.

Quick aside: business policies and ListEase

Before we got into the orders, we mentioned why we’d flipped eBay back to using business policies for shipping. It’s because ListEase requires it, and we’ve been threatening to try ListEase for months. So a week ago we made the switch.

A few days in, the gotcha bit us. Lonnie was listing a 2-pound package and accidentally typed 15 pounds into List Perfectly. Business policies don’t show you the live shipping estimate the way the regular eBay flow does — they just give you a range. The top of an eBay shipping range is essentially express-to-Guam money, so we ignore it on instinct. We didn’t catch the 15-pound typo until we went to crosspost the same item on another platform and the shipping number looked obviously wrong.

If you’re switching to business policies, watch your weights twice. eBay’s not going to flag the bad number for you.

What we sold on eBay

Twenty-one items went out across nineteen eBay orders. Two orders had two items each (same buyer, combined ship). Custom-label codes are our shed’s bin system — a quick reminder, since they show up in the on-screen sales cards.

The combined-order pulls

• Deer Buck and Doe Jumping Belt Buckle (BUCKLE X) — $14.99
• Works of Mark Twain HC, Complete and Unabridged (6B) — $19.99

Same buyer ordered both. Books and belt buckles aren’t the most natural pairing in our shed, but eBay doesn’t care, and the combined-ship discount is the buyer’s reward for clicking around our store.

• Urban Decay 24/7 SMOKE eyeliner (10B - smoke) — $11.99
• Urban Decay 24/7 DEMOLITION eyeliner (10B - demolition) — $14.99

Same drawer, same buyer, two eyeliners. Cosmetics have been a quietly strong category for us lately — most of them sit in what we call the bolo drawer, the tiger drawer, the razor drawer. The names made sense to us at some point.

The rest of the eBay orders

• ELEMIS Pro-Collagen Advanced Eye Treatment (bolo) — $24.99
• US Army Black Jogger Sweatpants, Men’s 2XL (8A) — $39.98 for 2 pair, $19.99 each
• Cody Jinks — Wanting (After the Fire) 3LP (5D - Vinyl A) — $39.99
• Be Bop Deluxe — Futurama Special 3CD/1DVD Edition (3B) — $69.99
• Kindra Daily V Lotion 1 oz (tiger) — $19.99
• Josef Seibel Women’s Sandals, Sz 38 / 7.5 (5F) — $21.00
• Steve Madden Kronos Men’s Loafer, 9.5 D (14E) — $21.99
• Harley-Davidson MotorClothes Rain Suit (2C) — $59.99
• Pop Mart We Are Twinkle Twinkle Little Superman plush pendant (9D) — $24.99
• Carnival Cruise coral-reef porthole picture frame (10A) — $27.99
• Elks Club BPOE 50-year service-member pin (pocket 98) — $9.00
• Long Haul jeans, men’s 66x27 (2C) — $26.99
• 3 service manuals — 1979 Subaru, Volvo 240 Haynes, 1982 Volvo Diesel OEM (10C MAGIC 2 / 10C MAGIC / IC Comic Box) — $33.97 combined
• Pink Floyd North-style cap (HAT D) — $11.99
• Lucchese Salesman Boot Shaft Cover, Black Velvet, qty 5 (5D) — $124.95

A few of those have a backstory worth pulling out:

The Carnival Cruise porthole frame is one we paid $3 for at a highway sale. This is the second or third copy that’s sold at $27.99. Carnival probably charges $40-50 onboard for the same thing.

The Harley-Davidson rain suit is the same item, second buyer. First buyer returned it — didn’t like it, nothing wrong with it. Re-listed and gone again at $59.99. We’re hoping this one keeps it.

The Long Haul 66x27 jeans are probably the largest jeans we’ve ever sold. We were fortunate to find someone who needed those exact dimensions; the inseam may need a hem but the waist won’t.

The Elks Club service pin sold via offer-accept at $9.00. Candice took the offer without consulting Lonnie. He asked if it was solid gold. It is not solid gold. It’s gold-tone. She knew that.

The Steve Madden Kronos loafers triggered the recurring Rev Resale joke. Rev (from Rev Resale, the channel Lonnie watches) is allegedly a big-foot, and these are 9.5 D — Lonnie checked the buyer’s name to make sure it wasn’t him. It wasn’t. We have four of these from Mr. A; one out, three to go.

The Lucchese boot-shaft covers — black velvet — were our last eBay order of the morning. We picked these up at an estate sale where the deceased had been a Lucchese salesman; the covers are display-rack pieces meant to keep dust out of the boot shafts. We had seven pair total, paid a dollar or two each. One eBay buyer took five of the velvet at $24.99 each. $124.95 for one order on items that cost us about ten bucks total. Best line item of the day.

The Mercari bundle we maybe shouldn’t have done

Same Lucchese estate, three other boot-shaft-cover styles, single pair each. A Mercari buyer asked for a bundle deal — all four styles plus one of the velvets — and we said yes for $60 plus shipping.

Reading that back, we should’ve waited. Those four single-style covers are essentially one-of-one — when the salesman’s collection sold, that was it. Whoever bought them now has a closed market, and they bundled them at the price of one decent eBay sale.

We should have waited for the full price.

That’s Lonnie. Candice agreed at the time too, said as much before we accepted. We took the bundle anyway because we wanted them out the door. We have one velvet pair left and figured it’d sell within a day or two at full price (which it did).

The lesson is one we’ve talked through before — sometimes you leave a little money on the table to keep the inventory moving. The frustrating part is when you do it on stuff that was genuinely scarce.

The yarn dump (and what $20 in $10-filler-bags became)

Once the orders were packed, Candice dumped two trash bags of yarn-and-craft-stuff onto the floor in the middle of the shed. These were both $10 filler-bag buys — the format where you pay one flat price and fill a bag with whatever fits. We covered the bags in an earlier video; today was the day to actually lot them up.

The pile included:

• A whole lot of yarn (12+ pounds of skeins, mixed brands; some Bernat in there)
• Eight Vanna’s Choice Palettes — mini packs of color-coordinated mini-skeins for hat-or-scarf projects
• A pile of ribbon
• A pile of buttons
• A few dolls Candice had thrown in just because there was room in the bag
• A pen cushion attached to a chair-seat lift with hidden storage (more useful than it sounds)
• A vintage ruler set Lonnie grabbed for product-photography backgrounds

We weren’t trying to maximize price-per-item; we were trying to clear the aisle and give somebody on eBay a deal. Candice’s listing tally:

• 12 lbs of yarn — $100
• Smaller yarn skeins — $50
• Ribbon lot — $25
• Button lot #1 — $25
• Button lot #2 — $25
• Single yarn/crochet bundle — $25
• Pen cushion + storage chair-seat lift — $25
• Vanna’s Choice Palettes, qty 8 — $50

Subtotal from filler-bag spend: $275 listed for $20 in cost, with the Vanna’s Pallettes lot adding another $50 if it sells (a recent comp showed someone selling a four-pack for $30 — we have eight). The leftovers go to donation.

The Vanna’s lot was the surprise of the pile. They’re tiny — easy to miss inside a bag of full-size skeins — but the comps say they move at $30 for four. Look up the specific brand-and-line on anything you wouldn’t have priced on sight.

Lonnie’s pile — the paintball lot and the skateboard

While Candice was sorting yarn, Lonnie listed:

• A skateboard for $45. Paid $3 at a garage sale. There are blemishes that would’ve put it in the $60-70 range if they weren’t there; the realistic price is $45.
• A lot of paintball markers — Spyder Aggressor + Tippmann Cronus — for $130. Paid $20 for the lot. Listed as-is, untested, with a video in the listing showing each gun charged and dry-fired (no air, no test rounds). Gross profit on the marker lot if it sells at list: $110 before fees.

The paintball lot is the cleanest example of Lonnie’s repeatable rule:

Buy it because the price is right. List it like in the most expedient way possible.

The temptation when you pay $20 for a lot like this is to test everything, get a paintball tank, work out which markers are 100% functional and which aren’t, and price accordingly. That’s an afternoon of work. The afternoon-of-work version might earn another $50. But while you’re testing paintball guns, the next listing isn’t going up. There’s a death pile behind every bench in this shed. The bottleneck is listing time, not gross-profit-per-item. So buy at the price that makes that math work, list as-is with the honest video, and move.

If it doesn’t sell at $130, we drop it. If it sells, great.

What we’d do differently

Two things from this video:

1. Watch the weight field in business policies. A 13-pound typo on a 2-pound package is the kind of mistake that quietly torches your margin — and it’s invisible until you go to crosspost.
2. Hold rare-and-scarce inventory longer. The four Lucchese single-style boot covers were a one-time-only inventory item from a one-time-only estate. We bundled them at Mercari-bundle pricing because the buyer asked nicely. Next time, the answer is “we can do $XX each, but not a bundle.”

That’s the day. Twenty-two orders out, $275 in fresh listings off $20 of filler-bag yarn, one tennis racket up, and a paintball lot priced to test the “list it the most expedient way possible” rule.

Thanks for watching. We’ll see y’all again very soon.

References

• Rev Resale — Rev and Nikki T’s reselling channel. We watch them; the size 9.5 D Steve Madden Kronos joke is at their expense (with affection).
• eBay business policies vs. the regular shipping flow — the missing live estimate is the gotcha. eBay’s policies docs cover the setup.
• ListEase — the third-party tool that started this whole business-policies detour. We’ll write up our actual experience with it once we’ve used it for more than a week.
• Pop Mart We Are Twinkle Twinkle Superman pendant — Pop Mart’s blind-box collectibles category has been a steady eBay seller for us in the $20-30 range.