Stuff crafters will buy / Etsy Thread

I wanted to add a few things to the running list:

- Sheet music. Any of it; even ripped pages are in demand by crafters for decoupage. Old dictionaries, encyclopedia pages, maps - same thing.

- Vintage office supplies, like metal those metal staplers, rubber business stamps with wooden handles, the metal business stamp stands, old hole punchers, postage meters, scales, anything industrial looking.

- Old photos in black and white. Old letters, etc. Old postcards from anywhere in the world, used or unused. Vintage holiday cards. Paper is big with collectors and crafters, as Sir mentioned above. The keyword to use for sales is "Ephemera".

- Pretty liquor bottles, like many of the ones better vodka or tequila comes in. Top shelf stuff.

- Glass water bottles - the cool modern looking ones, like Voss Water, in either still or sparkling. I know people who buy Voss water, just for the bottles.

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How about the split key rings, I get them some times from the thrift store too

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Yes. They sell packets of 50 of them for ten dollars new online, so I imagine if you have enough of them, people will buy them.

Just to make things easy to navigate, here is the link about cleaning soda can tabs, since we've discussed the pop tops here:

http://www.scrapmetalforum.com/more-...bs-resale.html

And keys. Old ones, new ones, whatever. Crafters make cool rain chains with keys, and wind chimes, jewelry, and other things i can't imagine without googling for it.

Okay, after googling:
CRAFTS - Recycle Keys on Pinterest

Of course, any older keys - separate those out - they are worth money individually to collectors and Steampunk people.

Charge a premium for brass ones, of course. :)

Another: weathered wood. Barn wood, anything with worn features or that gray look from being out in the sun. The pieces can be in really cruddy shape, too.

My husband saves old icky looking wood pieces whenever he finds them, and turns them into really pretty shelves, frames, bookcases, end tables.

Seems people on ebay are buying christmas light bulbs that aren't burned out. Here is a whole thread about what to do with christmas lights:

http://www.scrapmetalforum.com/scrap...#ixzz2xfGLe3jf

It's good timing for me, as I found a string of orange lights that someone used on halloween, and most of them work. I bet off-holiday bulbs have a premium market somewhere. The hard-core Halloween people go nuts these days with the decorating.

They can have the usable bulbs and i can scrap the wire.

Globes. I said maps earlier, but globes are also in demand by the decorating crowd, and some people even decoupage stuff over them. So don't just rip off the metal stands - sell them whole, even in shabby shape.

Was at an antique shop in NC today and saw some outdoor faucet handles for sale at $10 each.

And here's one on Etsy for ten - that seems to be the resale price for the vintage ones -
1 vintage faucet handle blue vintage valve by anythinggoeshere

3 for $20 - 3 vintage faucet handles old valve handles by anythinggoeshere

...seems like the rustier the better, although clearly they all sell.

I about choked on the Pepsi I was drinking. I've got several of those old faucets sitting on my work bench. Been there more than two years waiting for me to get around to them. I know what I'll be doing tomorrow.

Selling 6-7ft lengths of old corrugated metal for $10 a pop.

I don't know if it has been said yet but gauges for anything, like broken oxy/gas ones.

That faucet knob thing is crazy. I understand vintage hand pumps but those are just silly. Between the garden, yard and barn I could retire. lol

and old license plates!

When we moved in to our house I added legs to this built in buffet to make it look like a piece of furniture, also changed the knobs to these faucet handles on the doors. All the changes were the wife's idea...I just provided the labor.

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has anyone signed up for the referral program? If so send me a PM with the invite link and I'll sign up. Also is it possible to check for sold listings on Etsy? Sorry if this has already been addressed, but I didn't see it in any of the old posts.

KZ, love it! the legs help a lot, and the handles are very cool. i like the whole look of it.

Thanks Jilly.

I got some old windows and took the AL off of them and posted the glass on CL for free and got like 10 calls. I'm sure someone might buy it.

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Quick we need a code ninja to program us a terapeak for etsy!

Sirscrapalot - Collecting ideas like it's 1999

old windows are hugely valuable from a reuse stand point. I'm now specifically looking for them for my own use. Anything to do with passive solar could use old windows. They are reuse and crafty gems.

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

seashells and sea glass.


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

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Originally Posted by Jillyenator

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

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

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

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.

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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.

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.

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Originally Posted by hobo finds

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

WORKING HARD « Autoculture

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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

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.

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

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Originally Posted by jord0690

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!

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Does THIS answer your question ?

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Originally Posted by 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

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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.

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Originally Posted by FLimits

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.

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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.

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Originally Posted by mnrecycler

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.

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What is a shadow box?

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Originally Posted by Longhairboy

What is a shadow box?

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

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.

It's no wonder that no one will pay for plastic if this is what they do with it :P https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gFSEj7ETlY

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?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bqOSoI7Ig0

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Originally Posted by RLS0812

Does THIS answer your question ?

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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

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Originally Posted by beardo

and old license plates!

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