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September 5, 2006 by Ty Tribble | 0 Comments

Have you ever bought something on eBay or another auction site, then turned around and resold it on eBay? There is probably not enough of this sort of action out there to make a living, but it can be fun. I have made tidy profits on items purchased from online auctions on several occasions. I’ve bought Tootsietoy and Midgetoy diecast cars and trucks from Yahoo Auctions, where they aren’t very popular, and sold them on eBay, where they are popular and bring high prices.

I’ve also bought items on eBay and resold them on eBay, either because no one else happened to find them, or because they were poorly described. An example of the latter was a hard-to-find collectible called a “poker slide rule.” Made in the early 1960s, it was a wooden slide rule without a cursor and marked with poker cards and hands. The device was used to calculate the odds of being dealt a certain hand in draw poker games. I had just sold one for $48 in an auction with three bidders when, on a whim, I decided to see if there were any more of these around.