What's the best item you ever bought to resell?

I do some writing for Yahoo Contributor Network and I want to write an article featuring the best items online sellers have found to resell. It does not matter if you resold the item on Bonanza or somewhere else.

My best item was a David Yurman sterling silver/turquoise bracelet. I found it for $40 in a resale shop in St. Louis, MO and resold it for $350. Before I resold it I wore it for a year!

I will not use your name (or seller name) in the article—just items.
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1.Item name, type or any other specifics—such as why it was such a great find. What you paid for it and what you resold it for
2. Type of location you found it ub (ie thrift shop, garage sale, flea market etc.)
3. Your city/town and state…or the city town state you found the item in.

Thanks for your help.

Jodi

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Hi Jodi! I found a German Oktoberfest Beer Mug from 1978 at the Goodwill in Hampton Va and paid approx. $8.00 for it. It sold for $410.00 !!!

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Resale_Fun says: March 24, 2014

Wow!! Thanks!

I found a a 1904 World’s Fair Lithopane Mug showing the Agricultural Building. It had a hair line crack in the bottom. I found it in the bottom of a $3.00 box lot of old mugs. Sold it in 2004 (the 100th anniversary of the fair). Got $320.00 for it. Found it in Windsor Ontario, Canada

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Resale_Fun says: March 24, 2014

Wow!! I’m from St. Louis—the city the fair was held in—we still have some of the original buildings—and I find fair stuff to resell all the time—but nothing I’ve done that well on.

thevintageflea says: March 24, 2014

I think it sold so well cause it was the 100th annicersary

thevintageflea says: March 24, 2014

I think it sold so well cause it was the 100th annicersary

Antique micro beaded purses . :)

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Resale_Fun says: March 24, 2014

Great! What did you find them (or just pick the best ,) what did you sell it for, what city/state did you find it in and at what sort of venue(Ie garage sale, thrift flea, estate sale etc..)

Found a sealed copy of Jurassic Park Operation Genesis for PS2 for 4 bucks at a flea market and sold it online for 120$

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Resale_Fun says: March 26, 2014

I need to look for that…amazing what you can find.

My best return from an item sold here on Bonanza would be a 1950s battery-powered walking toy bear that I found in a pile of trash left in a property I purchased. It sold for $170.

But, by far, my best item ever sold online was an antique camera built by Simon Wing of Boston. Interestingly, Wing was the first presidential candidate for the Socialist Labor Party of America, garnering 21,512 votes in 1892. The camera was purchased for $5 and brought nearly $2500. I bought it purely on a whim in a Missouri shop.

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Resale_Fun says: March 27, 2014

Just like the old sayings..one man’s trash…you know the rest! Thanks.

I bought a trunk full of old uniform buttons, for $180, at a flea market, in Jacksonville, Florida. They were from some one that was a button sales person. There were about 10,000 in there. All sorts of police, fire department, military, state seal ones. I haven’t kept a grand total of the sales from it, but I’ve probably made $2,000 off of them so far. I sold one lot of 33 for $49.

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Resale_Fun says: March 27, 2014

That’s a lot of buttons..who’d have thought they’d have been that profitable??

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