Post #726778 by Bay Park Buzzy on Tue, Sep 2, 2014 8:30 PM

After I did my annual purge of excess tiki items at Tiki Oasis in 2013, I started keeping a log of what I bought, when I bought it, how much I paid for each item, the estimated market value of it, and what I eventually sold it for.
After a year of keeping track of all of this, as well as posting it all on Tiki Central Finds for photo reference, I came up with the following totals:

From Sept 1 2013 to Aug 31 2014, I spent $2131 on tiki stuff I found out in the wild. Roughly 215 items. (If I bought matchbooks or postcards in a lot, I only counted the transaction as 1 total item)

I categorize my buys as two types: Stuff I buy for my collection to keep, and stuff I buy solely with the intention of reselling it,( to offset the costs of the to keep stuff!)

Collection stuff I bought to keep total spent was $1078
Resale stuff was $1053

Monthly it came to averaging $177. $87 for resale, and $90 for collecting

The most I spent in any given month was $432 in Feb 2014
The least I spent was $26 in August 2014

The most I spent on collection stuff was $255 in December 2013
The least was October 2013, where I spent $0.

This year seemed like I bought a lot more stuff to keep, and a lot less to sell stuff than in years past. I also bought a couple high priced "outliers" that I typically wouldn't buy. Two of those and a couple large lot purchases accounted for about %25 of my total spent this year.

I went back and posted all the summary shots of last years finds below. If you saw a craigslist ad for this as one lot, for $2131, would you take it?

All in total, looks like a nice tiki collection.

9-1-13

9-15

9-22

10-6

11-18

11-26

12-2


12-9

12-16

1-16

1-26






2-2


2-9


2-16

2-27

3-10

3-16

3-23

3-30

4-06

4-14

4-21

4-28

5-4

5-11

5-18

5-26

6-1

6-24

7-1

7-20


8-29 the start of my new for sale pile at Tiki Oasis 2015

I still have all the good stuff!
Buzzy Out!