I’ve never used ebay to buy or sell so I have no idea how to check these things but I started looking around my house one day and thinking “What could I sell and how much could I get for it?”
The best thing I got is a SNES System with about 6 games (One’s A Link To The Past-- apparently well loved)-- I say I could get 30 bucks for the lot. I’ve also got a Playstation (1). No games because you can play those on PS2. Maybe 20$ for the PSOne.
What do you think? What have you got?
I’d personally hang onto Link. You may well be able to get $30.00 for that alone before too long.
I don’t really have anything that I want to get rid of, myself. I’ve got some music merch and such that has some good value, but people won’t see that until they pry it from my cold, dead hands.
I have a game gear with Mortal Kombat and NBA… crap. It was the game that after a while the player would get supercharged (“He’s on fire!”) and then be able to do incredible dunks from the 3 point line and stuff. I bet I could get… $5 for the lot. Maybe I don’t really have anything good to sell.
I have about 200 - 300 items of second-hand clothing that I’ve been storing up for the last couple of months. I’m expecting about $100-200 for some of the nicer designer stuff, $5-10 for the lower-end clothes, and $15-50 for the rest.
I have a stamped envelope that was carried into space on Challenger on a trip before the disaster. I have never bothered to investigate what it was worth.
I have some Lisner[SUP]®[/SUP] earrings that could fetch $10-20 per pair, a new NEC laser cartridge that routinely hits $65, some Linksys wireless-G stuff, maybe $80 for the lot, and a Cavitron ultrasonic scaler that should get $400. And lots of books and clothing. Maybe I should start selling.
I’ve got a very nice cherub box with lovely stationery inside, and a drawer that slides in and out of it. I have the pics and tried to sell it months ago, but maybe I]I’d have more luck with the season upon us. I’m hoping for about ten to fifteen bucks.
I also have a couple of big bags with straps and compartments–not purses, but things you could carry to work, especially if you have lots of paper to schlep. I’m thinking ten apiece, maybe twelve.
I did have something very good for eBay, but I sold it already… a Sam Coupé computer. I bought it for about £250 in about 1989, and it went on eBay earlier this year for £270 
(admittedly with loads of games, freeware disks etc).
I get lots of promo CDs through work, and I sell those on eBay. I shouldn’t, technically, but everyone does…
I still have 2 more Nikon 28-105 mm lenses, brand new, to sell for my mother in law. I already got rid of about 12 on eBay, but I refuse to deal with them (eBay) anymore - its not worth the hassle. Especially in order to get the best price, you really need to list each one individually, and that’s a nightmare.
I think I’m going to knock the price down to $225 on these last two in my Amazon listing (above).
Ummm…
Aside from this post being a rather obvious commercial, since I can buy that lens new from bhphoto (add your own www) for $285 with USA warranty, and $270 for “gray market”, you probably should reduce your price…
NBA Jam.
I just relisted my cherub boxed stationery:
It’s nice; I’m just not into cherubs. Share it with anyone you think might like it.
Around Christmas time I will be doing some work getting several handfuls of vintage toys on eBay and hopefully get them to enthusiastic buyers and/or collectors. If they go as they should, bthey will fetch between $5 and 10K. Anything above about $2.5K (one particular toy alone is worth over $1K) will make me happy, since that’s about how much I paid for them, aggregate.
I have a Jenna Jameson bobblehead doll. I figure maybe as much as $15-$20.
Hey, it seemed like a good idea at the time. 
Well many people probably don’t remember it, but Nintendo had a “virtual reality” system they developed several years ago that flopped big time. Just a handful of months after it’s launch, eb games (then Electronics Boutique) had reduced their price down to $20, so it wasn’t that much of a big deal to convince my mom to buy it. Now, apparently they’re fairly rare and I’m seeing alot of them go for $20 at the least on ebay. Unfortunately, I left it at my dad’s and it has now been claimed by my much younger step-brother. I’m thinking of asking my dad if the boy’s become bored with it yet (I only had two games for it!) so I can reclaim it and sell it for a healthy profit!
I have a signed Tolkien letter (reply to a query of mine).
What’s that worth?
I ain’t sellin’, though!
I got $160 for a garmin GPS, and just sold a transmission pan (race part) for $90. Not bad considering the GPS was a door prize ($0)…but I’d paid $120 for the pan originally.
My parents are selling off my old baseball card collection (pretty much all the major lines from 1981-1990, Topps, Fleer, Donruss, Upper Deck, complete sets plus a lot of unopened packs). To be honest, I haven’t a clue how much it’s worth.
There are also a bunch of non-sports cards still unopened in cases. Two I remember are Gulf War and Batman (the first versions of both).
Ah, yes. The Virtual Boy. Uncomfortable to use, painful to the eyes, no software support…and yet fondly remembered by gamers everywhere.
If you ever do get around to putting it on eBay, you should do pretty well with it. I’ve auctioned two of them and they each drew more than $80.