My point is that 5 years ago there were not as many different groups under Boy Scouts as there are today. In fact when I first started using ebay many days there was only one page of new posts for all of Boy Scouts. The Boy Scout group has been subdivided twice as I remember due to the volume of listings. Many sellers have not divided there listings into the new subgroups but continued to list them all in “Other Badges: Patches”. If you would take an inventory of the “Other Badges; Patches” group on some days you will find as many new postings for “OA” as in the “OA” group. This is also true for “CSP”, “Insignia” and Foreign patches. In fact ebay itself places all foreign listings including “Girl Scout” in “Other Badges; Patches”. You need to breakdown the “Other Badges; Patches” group to get an accurate listing by type. I daily look at all the listings in “Other Badges; Patches” to find most of my RANK patch listings.

Here are some interesting statistics for the first two months of 2006.

• 95,552 items sold (69,451 auctions, 26101 store listings)
• Total value of items sold in the Boy Scouts category was over $1,250,000
• The completetion rate for auction listings was right at 50%
• Every week there was a steady rate of completed sales running between 8k-10k.
• The average sales price for items kept steady each week between $15-$18.

If you compare store to auction sales here a a couple of calculations that stand out.

• Stores sales only accounted for 27.3% of all category sales
• In terms of value store sales accounted for only 7% of the total dollar amount sold in the category.

The Scouting category continues to bring well over a million dollars worth of sales every 90 days. The total for the previous three months is $1,709.699 for auction and store listings sold. The bulk of this was auction listings with the store items only totaling up $94,597 on an average sales price of $8.37.

As a category auction listings sold at a success rate of 51%. There were 86,047 items sold as auctions with another 11,302 store listings.

Top Ten List in $

Scout Jamboree 1947 Badge ZODIAQUE Mondial de la paix
VERY VERY RARE

MUSCOGEE LODGE 221 R1 FIRST ISSUE 5-INCH ROUND WAB

Boy Scout 2,000 patch Kahuna CSP hoard
Offered below dealer wholesale!
World Jamboree 1937 Police armlet Safety & Traffic

OA WWW 479 QUINIPISSA 1960’S PATCH S1

BOY SCOUT SCOUTS COMPLETE WWI UNIFORM 1916-1919 RARE!!!
ORIGINAL WORLD WAR ONE SCOUT UNIFORM WITH BADGES, PINS

~~~310 Different Red White Council Strips RWS X 310~~~

1ww scout gallantry bronze cross [scouts vc] & locket

Boy Scout Uniform + Misc. Memorabilia, 1920’s

BOY SCOUT AIR SCOUT ACE MEDAL

It is remarkable that even with the big NOAC and all the patches that made it on eBay afterwards that the category as a whole is pretty consistent. I’ve reported that there is reliably a little over $1 Million dollars worth of memorabilia sold in Boy Scouts every 90 days and this is once again true for July-September. Here are some statistics for you.

Auction Styles
Completed 153,140
Sold 77,339
Average Sales Price $18.73
Successfull Auction rate 50.1%
Total Auction Sales $1,448,559.47

Store Inventory Listings
Completed 44,309
Sold 9,583
Average Sales Price $7.73
Total Sales $74,092.05

Total for All Memorabilia Sold from July – September
$1,522,551.52

It does apear the the 1.5 Million figure is higher than some of the previous reporting periods on the site. Another interesting figure is the large number of store listings that were completed without being actually “sold”. This shows the effect of the changes eBay implemented to drive items out of stores and into live auction/fixed price listings. Several of the larger eBay stores in our category shed inventory rather than pay double-triple the fees under the old system.