This sales catalog contains over 2,400 unique council shoulder insignia including CSPs, JSPs, and SAPs up for sale with a fixed price. No auctions here it’s first come - first sold. Plus I’ve got two offers to help sweeten the pot. Spend $50+ and get 10% off your order. Spend $100+ and I’ll knock 20% off the sale price. All...Read More
I have a new feature to roll out in today's issue. It's a video talk show that Brad England and I have started that we are calling Thread Heads. Since this is episode #1 I'll spend a few minutes in this newsletter explaining the concept. About a year ago I recorded some Google Hangouts with Hank Birdsong for the CarolinaOA.com...Read More
What happens when you put two patch collectors on a webcam video hangout and get them talking about collecting patches? That's the premise behind this new thirty minute weekly show that we are calling Thread Heads. Every week we are going to publish a show with segments that are both informational and educational for people in the Boy Scout memorabilia...Read More
In last week's interview with Todd Kelly he announced he is going to open up a 2nd antique mall booth in Athens, GA. He got me to thinking perhaps I need to expand from the booth that is located only a mile from my house so I've started researching other locations within an hours drive. Stay tuned to see if...Read More
Richard Mori has been collecting Scouting memorabilia and specializing in rare books for many years. In this interview he reveals a strategy for success that he feels confident nobody can duplicate. What is really interesting about the way that Richard makes money in the hobby of collecting Boy Scout and Girl Scout memorabilia is that he does it the old...Read More
I know a handful of Boy Scout memorabilia collectors that are using a unique strategy to sell stuff. They have rented booths in antique malls and set up a "brick and mortar" location. Now what makes these malls interesting is that for a small consignment fee they will sell your items for you and you don't even need to be...Read More
It's often hard on a Sunday to decide which auctions to pack into this email newsletter for Boy Scout memorabilia collectors. I've always tried to keep it simple and use # of bids and price as my two "votes" for which items make it in. This issue pulls from dozens of sellers which is pretty typical and I hope you...Read More
I am really late getting this issue out today because of some things that were out of my control. But it's here and I've got some cool content to share. First up is an OA fixed priced catalog that I published a this week. The big piece that I think many of you will want to hear is my new...Read More
When the Boy Scouts of America announced they would be building a permanent Jamboree site in the hills of West Virginia Todd Kelly started making some trips to the "Mountain State" to scope out locations for a Trade-O-Ree. One of the results of that venture was deciding to rent out a booth in two different antique malls in nearby Beckley,...Read More
This sales catalog contains over 1,400 unique OA flaps and issues up for sale with a fixed price. No auctions here it’s first come - first sold. Plus I’ve got two offers to help sweeten the pot. Spend $50+ and get 10% off your order. Spend $100+ and I’ll knock 20% off the sale price. All of these OA issues...Read More
SECRETS OF ANTIQUE MALL SELLING This week I will publish a new episode of my Scouting Hot Finds Radio podcast. Todd Kelly and I are going to be talking about selling Scouting memorabilia in an antique mall. This is the second part of a series of shows I'm doing about how people make a little money in the hobby. When...Read More
NOAC 2015 UPDATE I've got some live auctions up and running on eBay this weekend including some really nice merged California OA, Philmont, World Jamboree and more. Check out my 143 live auctions on eBay. I've written about my antique mall booth a few times in the newsletter. Turns out September was a historically bad month and I'm not likely...Read More
TIME TO GET SOME CLOTH LISTED I have been focusing my own efforts the last few days on getting some fresh listings up on eBay. Monday I launched about 150 new OA flaps up on my store at fixed price. Many of these were old clothback pre-fdl issues. I've also launched a round of 80+ auctions including a lot of...Read More
BIG WEEK FOR NEW CONTENT Welcome to the packed Sunday issue of the Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter. I hope you'll take a look at what I've spotted on eBay in this hand-picked auction edition. This week was a very busy one for me getting content published and out there for the hobby. It started with me releasing my new eBook...Read More
THE CONCLUSION OF A BUSY WEEK GETTING NEW CONTENT OUT This has been a pretty busy week for me. I published a new eBook for the hobby and last night got out another episode of my Scouting Hot Finds Radio podcast. My guest this week was Angi Diller and I've got the link and all the information down in this...Read More