Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter December 15, 2024

It's been a long time since I attended a TOR with just a small cloth bag of stuff and no ambitions other than talking to people. I did have one prearranged deal and some Best Hobby drop offs but mostly I came to see people and pass out some of my own TOR fliers. It's pretty remarkable that North Carolina...Read More

Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter December 13, 2024

For some time I have have made available as a free PDF download all of my prices realized guides and some other resources on my ScoutPatchHQ shopify store. Chris Jensen does something similar on his website. Yesterday on a Facebook post a fellow collector was suggesting I mail out CSP and OA lodge checklists. So I wanted to poll the subscribers...Read More

Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter December 10, 2024

Tomorrow I am taking my patch warehouse employees out to lunch and giving them a nice Xmas bonus to celebrate all we have accomplished in 2024. In terms of sales the business all together had our best year ever. That's saying something in this economic environment.   Some of you will remember that in 2023 I had 4 different eBay...Read More

Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter December 8, 2024

First off let me thank Kevin and Todd and all the folks that helped put on the NCAC TOR at Camp Snyder this weekend. I got to see so many collecting friends and catch up with them. A bunch of us went out to breakfast Saturday morning and I was reminded that is what's so important about TORs - the...Read More

Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter December 6, 2024

I am happy to announce that table reservations are now live for the 7th Annual Charlotte TOR. We are back to the normal date for us which is 2 weekends prior to Easter - so this year April 4-5. The event is held at my church in our 7,000+ sq ft fellowship hall. This year I am bringing back the silent...Read More

Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter December 3, 2024

it seems like lately I have not been able to get to as many TORs as I would like. A lot of that has to do with how busy things are at home. But I've faithfully mailed out TOR calendars with all of my eBay orders to try and help get the word out. But finally this weekend I am...Read More

Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter November 29, 2024

It's Black Friday but my crew is in the warehouse today getting orders shipped out and photographing merit badges. My son is handling the camera duties and I am working on NOAC issues. We have some leftovers in the fridge ready for lunch time.   I am traveling a week from today to attend the NCAC Trade-O-Ree at Camp Snyder....Read More

Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter November 26, 2024

As a married person tell me if you have ever tried to pull this off. My wife is out of town for a few days studying for a financial exam she is taking for her job. I told her I was finally going to tackle a complete makeover of our garage. So for the last two days I have been...Read More

Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter November 24, 2024

I saw on Facebook yesterday that Larry Lane is working to update a list of Scouting museums across the country. This list also includes many council displays that might hang in the office or out at camp. But importantly he is seeking to identify who is considered the "curator" of these collections.   It got me thinking that 2025 would...Read More

Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter November 22, 2024

When these three boxes arrived from New Mexico I didn't really know what I was going to find. I knew some of the background from speaking to the family but had no idea I would find an absolute display piece jewel in this collection.   I have been collecting Air Scout and other Senior Scouting items for going on a...Read More

1940s Eagle Scout Collection Unboxing from Montana & New Mexico

It's not every collection that I find stuff that I've never seen before! I have been buying Boy Scout collections for more than a decade now and this one had some first time keepers. The collection came from a family where the dad is an Eagle Scout from the 1940s in Montana. I got the items from the son who...Read More

Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter November 19, 2024

I spent all day today reloading merit badges into the store. In the most recent sort we did I came up with hundreds of mint condition merit badges. I have previously listed almost all of them so with the software we use it was easy to restock them. eBay also makes it very easy to increase the quantity available on live...Read More

Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter November 15, 2024

Today I picked up a $1500 order for the cards that go in Best Hobby Pages envelopes. It's part of the churn that every so often I have to write a big check to keep the old saying "Got Plastic We Do" alive. Luckily since the beginning I have walled off the BHP within my business so the finances remain separate and...Read More

Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter November 12, 2024

I have been a member of a resllers book club for a few years and just Sunday I was able to put into action one of fundamental takeaways from reading a book called The Pumpkin Plan. That is the idea of an immutable law - generally 2-3 rules that you create for your business to help guide you in how to...Read More

Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter November 10, 2024

I listen to a lot of eBay YouTube and many sellers have complained that the tensions of the election cycle seemed to be suppressing sales. I don't really have any empirical evidence to back that up other than my last 30 day sales are down 25% from the prior term. But hopefully things will get back to normal as we...Read More

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