eBay Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter

Tuesday, July 1, 2025

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Vintage Scouting Memorabilia On eBay

Since 2021 I have been helping Russell Smart piece out his extensive OA collection with a Shopify Store that we built called SmartScoutPatches. Over the last two weeks I have done an extensive review of the pricing in the store. I comped every single item in the store to bring them in line with market pricing over the last five years.


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Order of the Arrow Top Selling Auctions

The results of that effort have lowered the overall pricing in the store by more than 35%. But since this was done on a patch by patch basis some of the items were only reduced a little and some got discounted more than 50%! The original pricing was what he paid for things back in the day...so we wanted to bring that in line with what the market value has been in more recent sales.


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Scouting Auctions Ending Soon on eBay

The readers of the Hot Finds are the first people to get this alert. Only later today will I share in other places on social media that we have completely repriced the entire store. I am sure a few wise crackers will send me an email today telling me why this patch or the other is still too high for them. But my goal was to balance the store with the sales comps I could find and still return a good value for Russell.


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Patchblanket eBay Store Santeeswapper

On eBay I have 144 live auctions running on OA, SAPs and more. If you are an eBay seller yourself don't forget that July 1 brings in the 3rd quarter. This means store subscribers have free shipping supplies to cash in on.


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I am not trying to exaggerate what we have done here but the discounts are dramatic. We shaved almost $30k in value off the bottom line value of the store. But again this was strategic. In the past we have run 20-25% off sales on the entire inventory. This was me going in and researching each issue on what things have sold for over the last five years and making a call on a new price based on sold comps. So don't miss out if you are a serious OA collector as the bargains will snapped up quickly.

Jason Spangler
SANTEESWAPPER LLC www.ScoutPatchCollectors.com