When I sold stuff on Ebay, it was strictly clearing out the house to sell, which involved many rounds of donating while renovating the place, a few trips to the landfill, and a big moving sale. As I went I would pull out items to sell that needed to get to collectors or seekers rather than random garage sale people.

Hub had been acquiring vintage stereo components, and there were some collectible CD sets, coins, books, a few fossils, etc. One box was a stack of old Infoworlds, one with a cover story on this bright young fellow named Steve Jobs, lol.   

And of course in the depths of winter, the guys up north in their basement workshops would snap up newish tools pretty quick. Oh, and old garage door openers turned out to be in demand! Who knew?