My Random Ebay Luck

By: Stephen

So throughout the years I've had some random luck on Ebay. In high school a friend gave me a box of junk for my birthday. Included was a Ken Griffey Jr. rookie card. I told him I thought it was worth some money, but he insisted that he didn't want it. I sold it on Ebay for 100 dollars (Griffey was at the top of his game, the value of the card has since gone down considerably).

After Grandma Robbins died (has she gone back to being Grandma Robbins? I honestly don't even remember what her last last-name was), we were all at her little apartment going through her mail and claiming her things (I can't wait to die and have people go through MY stuff!). While the girls fought and cried over jewelery, I wandered over to the bookshelf, and immediately identified a few gems of my own. I later sold two of the books for almost 1000 dollars (500 each).

Well yesterday I was driving down Center St. in Provo, when I passed an old house with some junk in the yard and a sign that said, "FREE." I didn't stop because it all looked pretty crappy, and nothing that is free is any good. (This reminds me of a story a friend told me recently. A friend of theirs was trying to get rid of an entertainment center, so they put it on the corner with a "FREE" sign. It sat there for days. Finally they replaced the "FREE" sign with a sign that said, "$50." The entertainment center was stolen that same night.)

Anyways, I came back later the same way, and there were some old guys unloading boxes of old books onto the yard. Everything was going in the "FREE" pile. I picked out about 20 different books, a rug, and an old record player. Most of the books were simply for reading, but some were old and/or interesting, so I picked them up too. When I got home later that night, I was looking through the books and I found that one of them had been signed by Heber J. Grant!! I went ahead and posted it on Ebay today. Check out the auction and cheer me on! I'm hoping to get about 500 for it, but we'll see. Maybe I'm getting cocky.

Check out the auction here.