Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter March 3, 2015

Turns out the BSA National Annual Meeting is coming up this May in Atlanta. Since it's close a guy in my council has been trying to round up a crew to attend and he's invited me to join the caravan. I've obviously never been to this event but apparently anybody can sign up to attend so I'm considering it. Right...Read More

Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter March 1, 2015

I had a hunch confirmed recently that I thought some of you might like to hear about. A few collectors have asked me about having an antique booth and whether I thought it was worth it. Well I am coming around to the idea that it serves me as just one income stream for my patch business but there is...Read More

Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter February 27, 2015

I finally got around to putting some new stuff up on eBay this week and yesterday launched 600+ camp patches to my store at www.Patchblanket.com on eBay. It is interesting to watch just how quickly people can react to new stuff being listed - that's something I don't pay attention to but many of you do as I've found out...Read More

Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter February 24, 2015

The snow is falling in my corner of North Carolina and the kids are home from school (again) so it's a good day to work on patches. I've been working on two boxes of camp patches that I hope to have ready tonight to get up on eBay as a fixed priced listing. Last week I posted my needs in...Read More

Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter February 22, 2015

  While some of you were spending this weekend at a TOR I was taking the Girl Scouts to spend the day with some engineering students at NC State. Other than that minor scrape with a '98 Nissan Sentra we made it home safely. This is the second time I've had issues trying to park the church mini-bus in Raleigh...Read More

Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter February 20, 2015

I have a lot packed into this issue of the Hot Finds. There is a new video chat published with myself and Hank Birdsong talking about ways to acquire cheap trading stock. This week I also spent several hours working on the TOR calendar and it features 18 new flyers that I have posted. One weekend in March has 5...Read More

Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter February 17, 2015

The last time I posted a picture of a need in the Hot Finds I got someone to reply back that was happy to sell me that piece for $10. It got me to thinking that I should leverage the audience here to share more needs and possibly do some swapping with the readers of the newsletter. Read down today...Read More

Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter February 15, 2015

It has been over 2 months since the last episode of what was going to be a weekly video show. Best laid plans and all. However, the positive feedback from the concept has encouraged us to keep pushing the idea of doing video interviews, chats and other fun little projects for the hobby. So I hope you'll take a few...Read More

Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter February 10, 2015

One thing I have seen happening in the hobby on the OA side is people getting excited about collection 100th Anniversary flaps. It reminds me of just a few years ago in 2010 when anything that had the anniversary logo was sought after. Sometimes we need a reason to start new collections and since chasing down needs is half the...Read More

Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter February 8, 2015

If you've ever tried to build a website then you know that sometimes inexplicably things can break. In my case I think it was my attempt to fix things that really knocked things off the rails. Recently many of you have told me there were issues with the images on ScoutPatchHQ.com. I spent the better part of the weekend cleaning...Read More

Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter February 6, 2015

Wow! I mentioned in an earlier issue that you can buy Girl Scout cookies to support my daughter online for the first time ever this year. I sent the link to a reader and he bought 2 bases. Yum! If you haven't been hit up the cookies are $3.50/box and I have to get your name/email to send you a...Read More

Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter February 1, 2015

Over the last ten days I've taken the Brad England approach and engaged the collectors over in the Facebook Group to make some deals. For someone who has sold on eBay since 1998 it's a much more personal experience when you are messaging back and forth with someone to come to a deal. I've enjoyed making some new friends and...Read More

Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter January 30, 2015

A few issues ago I mentioned how some Girl Scout events were going to knock me out of upcoming TORs. I've always wanted to go to Indy so I brought this up to my wife yesterday as a possible last minute substitute. She reminded me that the GS troop is serving a community meal for the homeless that day. Sheesh!...Read More

Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter January 27, 2015

I spent a little time on the phone yesterday with another dealer in the hobby talking about the best set-up for a TOR. I am already thinking ahead to the 2015 Pre-NOAC show and trying to decide the best way to go. As much as I love TORs I don't get to attend many during the year. Having a wife...Read More

Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter January 20, 2015

This should be a good week for new content. I've got an episode of Scouting Hot Finds Radio ready to go mid-week. At the Easley TOR we recorded another video episode of Thread Heads with some special guests. If I can just get around to listing some stuff on eBay instead of playing with all these fun projects I'll be...Read More

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