Stuff crafters will buy / Etsy Thread

[Jillyenator]

I found a stack of old windows at a junk shop for ten each. I wonder if I should buy them for resale?

[Sirscrapalot]

seashells and sea glass.


Sirscrapalot - Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell. - Bill Copeland

[KzScrapper]

I found a stack of old windows at a junk shop for ten each. I wonder if I should buy them for resale?

If they are divided lights (the more the better) I have sold them for $30. Some don't like broken or cracked glass.

[Drno13]

ABS is fairly sought after from crafters because it can be heat formed into artsy things and costumes and such.

[pjost]

Does anyone think these nuts, bolts would sell on esty? I tried eBay no luck. They are red brass bolts and nuts, copper flat washers.

Thanks.

[beardo]

I would think in a large quantity they might, any type of hardware is hit and miss. If the right folks see it then bam the snatch it up. The other thing about hardwhere is the folks who need specific items that can be purchased new(they don't need the old looking stuff.) will want the used stuff as a discount. I have no idea about the red brass specifically.

[Sirscrapalot]

The washers could. I got a lady who takes all my flat washers and spacers. Well 85% of them..lol.

No idea on the bolts an nuts.

Give it a whirl can't hurt. Check locally to. Find a group that does local craft shows. Not everything has to be sold online!

Sirscrapalot - There is a buyer everywhere, you just may have to look harder.

[smashing]

When I was a kid my favorite poster was "Study Hard" LOL

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Holy cow! That was my favorite too! The store wouldn't sell it to me so I tricked my grandma into getting it for me! I forgot just how hot it was lol

[bigburtchino]

Just a little heads up on sheet music, Jill had posted earlier about using for crafts. Sheet music is highly collectable, especially early rock country 60's & 70's. Also even older turn of the century 1900's in good shape some pretty good cash. I would be very reluctant in cutting up sheet music! I found two boxes last year, nicely sealed and labeled, I hadn't even bothered to open them. My mom was over one day at my warehouse, looking for things and she found those two boxes of sheet music. She opened them, and started asking me do you know what you have here? Obviously I didn't, most of it was 1890's to 1910 almost in mint condition. My mom had a friend that has been in the music business his whole life. Him and my mom sold most of them. Kept the most valuable, had them framed, my mom's last year mother's day present. They made a couple of thousand dollars! Don't cut these up or glue them on anything without doing some research.

[Longhairboy]

I seen people mentioned selling the glass out of windows, what about the glass from inside of the printers that have a scanner in them? I stacked a bunch up because I was hoping maybe I could sell them

[RLS0812]

Also wonder if people would buy stuff like resistors, capacitors, etc for more than scrap price? Never know. Im not very crafty so not too sure what people want!

Does THIS answer your question ?

[mnrecycler]

I seen people mentioned selling the glass out of windows, what about the glass from inside of the printers that have a scanner in them? I stacked a bunch up because I was hoping maybe I could sell them

I throw a couple pieces of wood around them and create a shadow box of random stuff I have lying around and sell for $10.

[cyberdan]

The seller who has the clocks is called GeekGear. He's selling these clocks, which must take a maximum of 1/2 hour to make, at prices from $15 to $30, and he has 2,629 reviews, so he must be moving a lot of merchandise.

I tracked him down on ETSY and saw how simple those were. I could even make those with all the computer scrap I get.

I forgot I even have a listing on etsy I completly forgot about. Never made a sale yet of there. Maybe I should add more items. I guess my store name is cyberdan. Can't find any place that say, like in ebay.

Also, I have another selling site that I have about 20 items listed and sold a couple already. bonanza.com
it is less crowded than feeBay but too artsy/fartsy for me. But free listings and a low commsssion.
One note. they will let you grab all your ebay auctions and post on bonanza. that is great but check how much they set your shipping fees at. When it pulled the ebay info it got several of my shipping fees wrong. (way too low) you just have to go in manually and check.

[Longhairboy]

I throw a couple pieces of wood around them and create a shadow box of random stuff I have lying around and sell for $10.

What is a shadow box?

[mnrecycler]

What is a shadow box?

Basically a big picture frame that is deeper that people put different artsy items in to view them.

[KillYrTV]

ABS plastic could be ground into pellets and extruded into material that 3D printers use. That cycle would be amazing.. almost all of a printer can be recycled into printer parts and raw material for printing.

[KillYrTV]

It's no wonder that no one will pay for plastic if this is what they do with it :P

[KillYrTV]

Why don't they just pipe it in to the machine instead of 2 people hand-loading a few grams at a time? this cracks me up.https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=263&v=azksZLHxNJY

Yes, like this. Why don't we have these in America?

[eesakiwi]

Does THIS answer your question ?

YES!!!!!!! It does!

Thankyou for that. I have been saying, and saving up for, E Scrap Art.
Someone I talked to told me his girlfriend, who was in England had told him about it. It was "the new best thing since Steam Punk".

Since then I have been saving the screws with the springs that hold some CPU heatsinks on.
And any optical chips at all, mice optical, Video camera optical (sooo beautiful, purple ceramic and Gold wires and legs with prismatic silicon chip.... oooh, Ahhhh) Scanner optical.
The flat 'standing wave delay circuits'. They are in CRT TVs. A chicklet sized metal box thats sometimes Gold plated underside. Inside is a small sheet of glass with 'circuity shaped, maybe crop circle shaped' designs on it. With Gold or Silver wires.

Since I know what to look for, but have a zero % artistic talent... Those pictures mean a lot to me. Thankyou very mucho./e

[kcscrapper]

and old license plates!

I tried selling some on ebay from the 50s and never sold.