SHF Radio #67: Selling Consignment on eBay Interview W/ Powerseller Angi Diller

JUMP-START YOUR EBAY BUSINESS BY SELLING ON CONSIGNMENT Her eBay user ID was a perfect choice several years ago - my_real_job_is_tattoos. Ironically as her eBay business grew she was able to leave behind that "real job" and make a full time living as a work from home eBay Powerseller. Angie Diller is my guest on Scouting Hot Finds Radio and...Read More

How Selling On Consignment Can Jump-start Your eBay Business

IT WAS SELLING ON CONSIGNMENT THAT ALLOWED ME TO LAUNCH MY BUSINESS I got my start on eBay in 1998 but like most people that was not the year I started selling. Eventually I did dip my feed in and I can remember after the 2001 Jamboree coming home with some stuff that got listed on eBay. By the time...Read More

Tuesday Morning Hot Finds Newsletter September 23, 2014

BRAND NEW EBOOK ROLLS OUT IN THE TUESDAY ISSUE In this issue of the Hot Finds I finally rolled out the long delayed 2nd Edition of my Boy Scout Memorabilia Prices Realized Guide. You can read the full story in this post on the site (Boy Scout Memorabilia Prices Realized Guide 2nd Edition: Eagle Scout Memorabilia & Merit Badges). One...Read More

Boy Scout Memorabilia Prices Realized Guide 2nd Edition: Eagle Scout Memorabilia & Merit Badges

HISTORY OF THE PRICES REALIZED GUIDE PROJECT The 2011 Prices Realized Guides For two solid years from 2011 - 2012 I spent every Sunday documenting the best selling items in the Boy Scout category of eBay. This project eventually became called the Prices Realized Guides. It was my effort to fill a hole in the hobby....Read More

Sunday Morning Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter September 21, 2014

ESTATE SALE MYSTERY One of the interesting things that went into this newsletter was a question regarding an estate sale that had taken place recently near the Illinois/Indiana border. I got a call from a friend in the hobby who was disappointed that he had missed out on the auction. Since I was clueless that there was a big estate...Read More

Friday Morning Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter September 19, 2014

There are several nice Eagle Scout patches in this issue of the Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter to go along with everything else I turned up while scouring eBay. If you want to open the newsletter as a PDF click here or on the picture below. This issue of the SHF also includes a neat 30 second video that the Boy...Read More

2015 Big Monster NOAC Trade-O-Ree

The Lansing Convention Center Home of the 2015 NOAC TOR Chris Jensen of Streamwood Inc. has announced plans for the 2015 National Order of the Arrow Conference Trade-O-Ree (TOR). The National OA is trying to push to get 10,000 Arrowmen to attend the Centennial NOAC to celebrate 100 years of Scouting's Brotherhood of Cheerful Service. If...Read More

SHF Radio #66: 2015 National OA Conference NOAC Trade-O-Ree with Chris Jensen

Scouting Hot Finds Radio Boy Scout Memorabilia Podcast Chris Jensen of Streamwood Inc. has been in the Boy Scout memorabilia hobby since the 1960s and as a full-time memorabilia dealer he has hosted more than forty trade-o-rees including ones for the National Order of the Arrow Conference (NOAC). In August of 2015 the Order of the Arrow will be holding...Read More

Boy Scout Eras of Council Shoulder Insignia by Gene Berman

With permission I have this terrific outline of what Scouts have worn on their shoulder as council insignia originally posted on the Internet by Gene Berman.   The best primer around is the “Aid to Collecting…” CSP guide which now also has a complete section by Blake Keasey and others on Red and Whites. By going to the ISCA website,...Read More

SHF Radio: Collecting Boy Scout Camp Patches With Bob Sherman CBIIV2 (2014)

My guest on Scouting Hot Finds Radio is Bob Sherman who is a well known figure in the hobby of collecting Boy Scout memorabilia. Some have taken to calling him the "camp patch man" as he has been writing the camp patch column in the ISCA Journal for a whopping 22 years now. The focus of our interview tonight is...Read More

SHF Radio: Building A BSA Council Memorabilia Website w/ Boyd Williams

Rocky Top Collector When Boyd Williams attended the 1981 National Boy Scout Jamboree and traded a few patches he probably never thought he'd eventually become one of the well-known collectors in Tennessee. However, after moving back home to Franklin, Tennessee in 1994 and getting back active in Scouting he soon caught the patch collecting bug. As an active Scouter in...Read More

SHF Radio: Collecting BSA Cancer Awareness Patches

Justin Carlisle began collecting Boy Scout cancer awareness patches about the time that his Order of the Arrow chapter issued a patch to help raise funds for the local chapter of the Susan G. Komen Foundation in Greenville, SC. Soon he discovered that several OA lodges had produced memorabilia to help find a cure for cancer and he was hooked....Read More

SHF Radio: Scouting History on Wheels with John Sorensen of GSLC in Utah

During the centennial of the Boy Scouts of America in 2010 John Soresen got the idea to create a traveling display that he calls Scouting History on Wheels. In my interview with him today John shares the story of how he put together the display and what he is trying to share with the audience. Perhaps the most unique thing...Read More

SHF Radio: 5,000 Members & Climbing in Scout Patch Collectors

Brad England and I literally launched the Scout Patch Collectors Facebook as a direct result of this radio show two years ago. I noticed Brad swapping Boy Scout patches on Facebook and lined him up on an interview to share his strategy. Out of that conversation was born the idea to create a group on Facebook devoted to trading patches...Read More

eBay Boy Scout Top 10 Countdown

This post is the first in an attempt by your webmaster to get back to posting a weekly Top 10 for big sellers in the category. I can't promise I'll have one every week but that is the goal. This weekly ranking actually goes back to 2013. Item Title - Click To See The Listing on eBay Bids Rank Boy...Read More

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