 Anyway, I'm about to knock your socks off with this one. Bolo. Hey, Bolo buddies, thanks for watching. Amazing, right? All right, let's get started. All right, Bolo buddies, vlog time. We are going to ship packages. And I'm going to have on three different shirts, maybe four, I don't know. This is probably over two or three days. I've just been kind of recording as I pull packages and vlogging just may not be my thing. The video is over an hour. Oh my goodness, I cannot make you guys watch for a whole hour. So I'm going to split this in half. I'm going to release part of it now. And then the other half is going to release later today. So make sure you have that bell on so that you know when I release it and stay tuned. Don't know when I'm going to use them and where I'm going to use them and all of that good stuff. But I am going to show you some plush. A viewer reached out to me about some plush that she had and she needed it gone the next day. So she knew that I lived near her. So she asked me if I would come and pick it up. And I was like, I figured it out. I went the next day and I picked up eight huge bags of plush. I think we're going to do one bag in this video and mix it up with somewhat solds to keep this educational. I'm going to show you what I got, what's sold so far, and how I listed everything. So let's get started. Okay, Bella buddies, you see this hat? Check it out. It's like minty, minty vintage. I told my husband to be on the lookout for vintage hats and he brought this one home. And we've had it listed for a little bit. I started it on eBay, cross posted it to Mercari and Poshmark. And it just sold on Mercari for $124 free shipping. I think he audited a flea market. I have no idea what he paid for it. I didn't ask. I just listed it for him. And I messaged him today and I'm like, do you want to accept this offer? And he's like, yeah. So super exciting sale for the husband, Bolo. Here is the inner tag, not something I'm super familiar with. And it just says made in the USA here on the back. So super, super, super, whoa. Cool hat right there. All right, Bolo buddies. I also sold this. This is a super shooter. And these used to go for crazy money. And I just sold this for a best offer of $35. I may have undersold it, but the box is not in great condition. And I just decided to take the offer. I'm going to pull up some solds and see if I undersold it. But I got this really, really cheap. I want to say I paid a buck or two for it at like an estate sale. I believe it was in the closet of an estate sale, just sitting there. And I'm like, oh, and then the prices have gone down a little bit, but still something to be on the lookout for. If you can get it for the right price, it is a super shooter electric cookie. I don't know that word. Candy maker. It's candy maker. And it's got all the little patterns there. So nice little Bolo used to be a bigger Bolo. Or maybe I undersold it. So let's look at some comps. All right, guys, if you can get them brand new in the packaging, definitely, definitely, definitely big money. But let's look at the pre-owned and see what they're going for. All right, pre-owned $73.98. Looks like two of them there. So yeah, prices have definitely gone down. I probably could have gotten a little more because that one went for $59.99 pre-owned no box or a book and sold for $60. And I just sold mine for $35. But that's okay. I'm happy to move it and be on the lookout for this super shooter. You see those lights up there? I bought them and I keep saying I'm going to like use them and dim the lights and have it like glow around me. And they're just still sitting there. Anyway, I'm about to knock your socks off with this one. This is Vintage White Thread. It is, it's called something here, Coats T9, 750 yards on each one. And it's a nice little bundle. I got this at an estate sale, clean out. And it says dual duty plus hand quilting. So I sold all of this for $48 plus shipping. Buyers all in for like over 50 bucks for some thread. So nice little Bolo I didn't know about until I looked it up and decided to just bundle it and sell it. So be on the lookout. Okay, so while we're talking about quilting supplies, I sold this. It's some sort of like easy circle cut, Sharon Holtgren. And I've been doing pretty good with these patterns. So this one for $14.30. It sold pretty quickly. And the buyer was paid the tax and the shipping on that. So all in, oh, I want to say was in the $29 range. So I'm not sure if this was a priority mail, if they upgraded it, if they're trying to get it quick before Christmas. But definitely something to be on the lookout for. You can usually pick these up for a decent price at garage sales, thrift stores, estate sales, stuff like that. This one came from an estate clean out. Let's see what we got here. I'm just going to pull them out one by one. And we're going to take a look at the plush, the brands and see what we have. So what a awesome gift this was. What a blessing. So appreciative. This is a Charlotte Grace progressive plush from 2016. Never heard of that. So I will get these listed and definitely going to pop up some screen shares and stuff for you guys on these. Let me get a towel here. The eye on this one has a scratch. I'm not sure if that'll come off or not. I do have a cleaning paste that I use. And I may or may not be able to get that off. But this is a, I think it's a beanie boo. Yeah, it's a tie beanie boo. And some of the beanie boo's with the big sparkly eyes can do pretty well. But I don't know, we'll have to see if we can get that out. All right, these right here are plus size. Well, they're not really plus size. They're a size one X men's one X one X tall. That's why they're plus size. They're not even plus size. They're big and tall one X tall. I like to pick up big and tall items, especially when I used to sell clothing. I picked up a whole bunch of these. Still have some orange left. They're Maui and Sons. They are swim trunks. And they're for tall guys, guys with long legs. And these are fantastic. So if you like them, I've got orange available in my store. These sold on Poshmark for $19 and the buyer paid shipping. And my cost of goods I think was around three bucks for these. Okay, so I did a video not too long ago. It looks like this. It was on Auctions for You and Donatello Bottolino. They have YouTube auctions and selling events on their channels and they sell to resellers. And I did a video on Bolo's that people have bought from them and sold on selling platforms. Oh my goodness. You guys want to see an awesome what sold video? Check it out. It's amazing. But anyway, I had a lot of questions about how do you register? How do I go and buy? So here is a kind of short clip from Donatello Bottolino explaining it. Vintage Chick. I think you've been suggesting that for a long time. I think that, um, I'm, Donna, I got an early morning text from Courtney wanting to know about that lion's head necklace I got from you. She seems as excited as I am. Oh my goodness gracious. I was telling my husband about it tonight. And he's like, he said to me, he goes, why don't you look it up? I'm like, are you kidding me? Thousands of pieces of vintage jewelry. I'm like, I can't look things up. Yes. And Courtney is the channel ambassador and no swearing at the auction. She's just taking her time. Awesome for coming in. All right. I'm going to wait for Courtney to get set up and then I'm going to tell you. Oh my goodness. She has no idea I'm sitting here recording last night. I did. Oh, she's ready. Okay. All right. So do you want me to like go into it and say like, hi, welcome to my auction? And do you want me to like do all that? It's sold today. Let us know. Let us know. All right. I'm just going to do it natural Courtney as natural as I can be knowing that I'm being recorded. I can go live. No problem. But once, once you tell me that you're recording me, I get a little bit like, Oh, the juicy couture purse you sold it already. Holy cow. That was so beautiful. I thought you said you were going to keep it. Okay, ready? Okay. Courtney, I'm going to go. All right. Hi guys. It's all right. Wait, hold on. Courtney. All right. On the count of three, Courtney, and then you can do record ready? All right. One, two. And guys, don't say anything in the chat that's going to make me like mess up because I'm already like confused as to what I'm going to say. All right. Ready? Ready, Courtney? One, two, three. Hi, everybody. Hold on, Courtney. Hold on. Hold on. Quiet on the set. Quiet on the set. Sorry, Courtney. I had to do that. Christopher, Christopher, don't say anything. Don't say anything, Christopher. Christopher, you're not allowed to type anything in the chat while I'm doing this. I'm not even going to look at the chat. And I don't know what this is. What is this? It's like, it's like a wing. It's like, it's like, I'm like the flying nun that you guys with the wing. All right. Ready? Don't anybody say anything. All right. Ready? Quiet on the set. Ready, Courtney? One, two, three. Hi, everybody. It's Donna. Welcome back to my channel. I'm so glad that you're here. So we are going to be doing a couple of different auction styles tonight. Our first auction style is going to be, we are going to be doing a 15 second countdown, which means I'm going to be showing you a product. I'm going to be describing the product. I'll be so if you haven't yet registered, the link is at the top. It's also in my description. And just fill out the registration. And this is not automatic. You need to come to one of our auctions and just say in the chat that you are registered. We'll look at your registration and we'll give you a wrench. The wrench only gives you the power to bed. That's it. No modding duties and no other responsibilities. When you are wrenched on my channel, you are also wrenched with my auction partner, Auctions for You, who's also linked in the description down below. And we go on almost every day. And thank you so much for coming to the auction and we will see you live. All right. We are at tote 45. And I have this here, dinosaur postcard book, the dinosaur postcard book. I've already got it bubble wrapped. I love it when I do things like this. Sometimes I will pre-wrap things so that they are almost ready to go. I'll probably slap a little more bubble wrap on this or I'm going to put this between two pieces of cardboard. That's probably what I'll do. But, you know, it just saves me time when the things are partially ready to ship. So that's a little tip, but you got to figure out what's inside the little package, you know, like what is this? So little Bola Buddies tip for you. Tip of the day. Okay. So this is my little corner of Toys R Us stuff that So Hasn't Sold. And you guys know when Toys R Us went out of business. So we won't talk about that. Anyway, this item right here is absolutely a really cool find. Really unexpected. I picked it up. I wasn't even really sure at first what it was. I just knew that it looked old. And of course, I've already got it wrapped. So I'm going to pop up a screen share for you guys, but I got this at the Goodwill Bins. Can anybody guess what it is? Screenshot coming soon. And I think I sold this for $52. It weighs like nothing. So it was probably less than a dollar at the Goodwill Bins. Again, really excited that these two items are partially packaged and ready to go. Okay, you guys want to hear something crazy? The hat that sold for $124? I'm not shipping at priority mail. I'm going to ship it first class because I have had a priority mail claim that did not go through. I had to fight it for months upon months upon months until I got my money back. So I feel more comfortable shipping this first class with insurance from pirate ship. So that is what I'm going to do. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. I just bubble wrap this hat. I mean, it's $124, right? I have to protect it. Now I got to find a box to put it in. Vintage hats. Wow, they can just be such a big money Bolo. Love it. I'm so excited for my husband. All right. So I got this here box. It's a little wide but fit. You can see right here it comes up to the line. It fits like perfectly and it's a hat. So it can squish down a little, but this is going to close and if they open it, it's not going to hit anything. I am going to put a piece of another piece of cardboard right here across the bottom. I'll show you what I'm going to do because I don't want somebody cutting into this box with a sharp device and slicing this hat open, okay? Because people do this and they will say my item arrived damaged. Bolo buddies tip number two, protect your item. There we go. Cardboard, I put the tape both ways. That way it stays in place. All right. I decided I had another piece of cardboard. So I'm just going to put it on the top also. I know that it's nowhere near the hat, but just to be safe, you can see what I'm saying. If somebody takes like a razor blade or something, just in case it gets shifted around in there. And yes, if you saw this, I know this is horrible. It's broken. I have other ones, but I'm obsessed in this one. So I just keep taping it together because I love this one. It's got this soft grip on it. And my other ones have a hard grip and I hate it. And this is my favorite one. I've probably had this 10 years. Look at it. It's wobbly. Oh my goodness. It's so bad, but I love it. I need to find another one with a really soft, nice grip like this. Oh my gosh. That's embarrassing. Okay. So I have free shipping on this because it is Mercari and I typically do free shipping on Mercari and then I use pirate ship. If you guys are not selling on Mercari, it's absolutely fantastic. And I have a link down below. If you use that to join Mercari, you're going to get $10 off your first purchase. And then if you list and sell $100 worth of stuff, once $100 sells, you're going to get, I believe, another $20 to shop. So $30 bonus from using my referral link down below when you join Mercari. So what I did is I put the dimensions in. It only weighs eight ounces. So I can ship this first class. I am going to ensure the package. It is $124. I'm going to go down here and I'm going to click get rates. Okay. So to ship this item, first class, it is going to be $3.79. There's a holiday increase of a quarter. And to ensure $124 on Mercari is $1.60. I'm going to tell you on eBay, the shipping insurance rates are way, way higher for first class. So you definitely want to use pirate ship when you are shipping first class items and using and you need insurance. Okay. You can also use this for priority mail. So let's say you have a $500 item. What you would do is it's automatically insured. Oh, sorry, that's really out of focus. There we go. Let's say you have a $500 item, you would take that $500 and a hundred of it's going to be covered. So technically you're only insuring, what, 400? And it's just going to add the insurance in the same spot and you're going to see it over here based on the priority mail package. So on eBay, if I have an item that's over $100, I do the same thing. I come over to pirate ship and I ship from here and I add my priority mail insurance through pirate ship. So after that, I am going to copy the confirmation tracking number and I'm going to come back over here. I'm going to hit confirm shipment. It's going to have me put it in. Now Mercari is different. eBay and Etsy, you can actually connect them to pirate ship. So it will just do it on its own. But Mercari, you have to go in and cut and paste. So let's look at the fees on this hat. Okay, it sold for $124. The selling fee was $12.40. The processing fee was $410. So my husband is going to get $107.50. They also took out the sales tax for us and they will submit that on our behalf, which was $7.44. So we don't even have to mess with that, which is fantastic. And the shipping was less than $6. So my husband is going to get it just over $100 profit for this hat minus his cost of goods, which I'm guessing probably wasn't very much. Okay, these already went out today, but I wanted to show you this super awesome sale. These were cross posted from eBay to Mercari and Poshmark sold faster on Mercari. I used this perfectly to cross post. I start my items on eBay and then cross post to the other two platforms. If you have not checked out lists perfectly, definitely check it out. For reasons just like this, I sold these for $49 free shipping, but these are blaze in the Monster Machine slam and go monster trucks. They are incredible. I believe I picked these up at the Goodwill Binns. If I remember, if I remember correctly, so $1.89 a pound there at my Goodwill Binns. And I have a video down in the description that will show you how to use lists perfectly. And if you decide you want to try it, you can use coupon referral code BOLOBUDDIES all one word to get 30% off your first month. You are going to love it. Get more eyes on your items. Seriously, guys, it's incredible. Let me go over to eBay and see what I had them listed for over there. Okay, I'm over here on my eBay page on my unsold listings. And you can see right here, I had it on eBay for $32.50 plus shipping. So definitely made more on Mercari for this item, even with the free shipping over on Mercari. So definitely cross posting is a great idea. I do kind of tweak my prices because of the different platform fees and the different different shipping costs like I do free shipping usually on Mercari. Poshmark has higher fees. So there's different reasons why I price my items for in different ways. So if you're looking at one of my items, check all three platforms because you may get a better deal on a certain platform. You just never know. Okay, here's another fun fact. The shorts that sold for $19 on Poshmark, I had them listed on eBay for $10.39. So that's cool. The hat that sold for $124 on Mercari was listed at $115 on eBay. So that was pretty comparable because Mercari's free shipping eBay is not. So yeah, pretty cool, right? All right, you guys, here is this, I guess it's a grip of some sort. I don't know, I just picked it up because it looked cool. Again, right there, got it at the Goodwill Benz. So probably a dollar or less for this, sold it for $52 plus shipping. You can see I do a lot of pictures. I want to show the condition, really, really important. I used photo room to white out my background. If you guys are interested in photo room, I do have a link down below. If you sign up for the year, you get 10% off with my link down there. It is a referral link, but you do get that 10% off the year. Okay, so you can check that out in the description. So this one is another first class package that is $52. So I'm going to do the same concept and go over to Pirate Ship and I'm going to ship this item with insurance through Pirate Ship. Okay, I know I sound like a broken record. This item is $52 to ship it with ship cover insurance on eBay is $1.70. With USPS insurance, it's $3.35 to ensure this $52 package. Over on Pirate Ship, insurance on a $52 package is $0.80. Look how much cheaper Pirate Ship is free, you guys. Use it. It is a great, great, great, great resource. It's free. All right, so I'm watching Donna tell about Alina right now and she's showing all these amazing like postcards or whatever they are. Everybody look at this picture. Who does that man look like? Who does he look like? Who does he resemble? If anybody knows, drop it in the comments. I said who I thought he looked like in the chat and somebody agreed with me. So I don't think I'm wrong. But anyway, let me know. These pictures are incredible. This is Donna tell about Alina's auction again, I'm shipping and just have it on in the background and was watching this part. Look at that face. Who is it guys? Who's it look like? Just a resemblance, not like exact, just a resemblance. Okay, we are heading over to Tote FF. It's one of these. Oh, is it that one? Is it that one? It's that one. All right, we're looking for a Build-A-Bear. Oh, I think I see it. It's blue. There it is. And it's sold. Oh goodness. On um, Marquari for $22. I just want to say look at the cuteness. Love it. It's a little free. So cute. All right, so it does have the plastic eyes. So I'm going to cover those and then I'm going to pop this in a poly-mailer. Okay, I have these, they're bells. And I'll pop up a screenshot, but I just sold these and you guys this eBay box. They fit perfect. That is the absolute best is when you have the perfect box for your item. I sold these on auction for $75 and 95 cents. The buyer was all in for $97.89. And I can't remember, but I'm thinking these may have come out of a thrift store mystery box, but not 100% sure because I didn't mark it. But anyway, great sale. Super excited. I tested them. They do work. If you want to see how these work, there's a video over on my reseller testing Bolo products YouTube channel. Oh, this is a, it goes on your hand. Not really a puppet, but it's Dale Jr. NASCAR. And it says Hendrick Motorsports. So what's nice about getting plush that you didn't source yourself is you learn a lot. Super educational. This one, the tag is ripped off. I don't know if that's a TY or not. I'll have to use Google lens on that one. Here's a little puppy dog like Carrie purse. This one is made by, I don't know, doesn't say. Oh, it looks like that one might be broke bummer. Okay, so that one will just donate, but that's okay. This here is an Aurora. It's a little cheetah. Whoa, what is, what's this? Oh my goodness. Is that who's this fish? I don't know who it is. Can't remember if this is made by carousel toys. It's not Nemo, right? Nemo is Nemo blue. I don't know, but I think you could probably like wrap this around your arm and then carry it. So that's kind of cute. I'll have to look it up. I cannot think of who that is. I feel like I should definitely know that. And then we have this one, which is a Kelly toy. I may lot some of these small ones up. This one is, I don't know, no brand. Okay, Fenton Angels. It said in my skew Walmart box. So that really helped me find these angels. They're already boxed. So I'm going to pop up a screenshot for you. Definitely a bolo. These came out of a thrift store mystery box, and I sold them for $75. The buyer was all in for $91.38 for these beauties. Okay, craft tote three. Now this was a craft kit and it was in the original box, but I was not sure if it was complete. So I think it's in here, if I remember correctly. It is a, yeah, it's a Bucilla rug sunflower kit. And I just disclosed that I don't know if it's complete. I'm going to show you guys the pictures right now. So this is another one that's just ready to go. I'm going to slap a label on it. I might tape this in just to make it a little more tight and put a piece of tape around it. But overall, that's how it's getting shipped. All right, we are going in here to craft tote two, which I think is up here. Can I see inside? Okay, so what I'm looking for is another pattern. It's a pattern for quilting. We got stuff falling everywhere. All right, I'll be right back. I'm going to find it. All right, I found it here. And it is a perfect half square, quarter square triangles by Taylor J, or let's see, June Taylor. And this is what it looks like. It's something for quilting. This sold for $40 plus shipping. And I got this at an estate clean out. So I've got, it was like I bought it all and there was one price. So I can't really tell you exactly what I made for it, but it wasn't much. This one's going priority mail. I did put a thing of bubble wrap around it just to protect it because it is going to be a little bit loose in here. They're all in for $55.40. Again, usps.com, you can get these free. Definitely utilize that, you guys. It's great. As far as the boxes go, they have a bunch of different sizes. Definitely go to the website and you can search priority mail boxes. They also have flat rate boxes. These are all free, super easy. They will deliver them to your door. You can also check with the post office. Sometimes they have some in stock if you just need some quick. Next time you run into the post office, you can ask them and they'll give you some, but definitely usps.com is probably the best and quickest way. They don't take too long to arrive, but get your orders then, especially since it's getting close to Christmas. Okay, fellow buddies. I just sold alf for $37.19 plus shipping. And you want to know what? I sold it to a zero feedback buyer. So a lot of you guys say, oh, they have zero feedback. They're not going to pay or should I block zero feedback buyers? Because there's a way to do that. I say no because I sell to zero feedback buyers all the time, all the time and most of the time they pay. Now, I'm not going to say they pay every time, but there's also people with over a thousand feedback that sometimes don't pay. So I let everybody buy for me. I give everybody a chance. I typically do not block people unless they become a major issue and then I will go in and block. So that is a Bola Buddies tip. Okay. People with zero feedback do sometimes, most of the time, pay. We're looking for tote 16. Where is tote 16? Here's tote 16. Of course, it's got my jewelry on top. So let's hunker that down. I don't know why it says tote 16. I can't, it's weird that I put a plush in a hard goods. So you know what that means? I probably messed up again. Okay. So I imagine I put it in one of these plush totes here. So I'm going to start looking, but I know that I sold this guy on Mercari. So I can go ahead and pull that out. And then I'm just going to kind of look through all of my plush totes and see if I can find out. And hopefully, I'm going to report back and say that I found him very quickly. So stay tuned. I forgot to tell you, he sold for $18 free shipping on Mercari. And I forget what he's from. I'll pop up a screen share, but it's to me or Tommy, T-O-M-Y, is the brand. Do you see what I see? It's Alf. It's Alf. Right here he is. He's just hanging out. I found him. That wasn't too bad. I knew he was with my plush. All right. I'm leaving Alf in the bag. He's going in my favorite box, the shoe box. Oh, I think I just popped the bag. That's okay. There he is. Ready to go. Bam. Get these stickers with my free money from having a store. And I'm going to put that right there on top. So when they open it up, it says, thank you for supporting my small business, eBay. Alf, I paid $4 at a garage sale. I almost forgot to tell you. This is a different style for me, so I'm getting used to it. Getting used to the vlog. So back to this guy. Look, he has water in his eyes. I did not know that. So watch. He talks. Okay. So I kind of messed up on this one. I thought that I was going to be able to ship this first class, but because it was 15-point, I don't know, some ounces, it falls into the one pound on pirate ship. So I had to ship a priority mail. It was almost $10. So when you subtract my 15-18 minus my 10 bucks, I made about five bucks on this. Thankfully, I think I only paid about 50 cents for this. So still going to profit, but not what I had hoped. So just going to let you know that was a Bolo Buddies fail. All right, Bolo Buddies, that was part one. Part two will be coming later today. Lots more Bolo's to share with you guys. I'm going to finish unbagging the plush, so definitely stay tuned for that coming later today. Thank you so much for being here. Be sure to subscribe.