What's selling right now
Every number below comes from actual eBay sold listings — not asking prices, not guesses. This week's five cover five different categories, and each one has a specific tell that separates the piece worth buying from the one worth walking past.
Mid-Century Lamps ~$80
Median is $79.99 on 120 comps, up 14% from $70 the prior week. The qualifier is attribution: a lamp with a designer tag — Laurel, Stiffel, Rembrandt, or a pottery base by a named studio — will clear $200+ while an unmarked brass torchiere sits at $30. Check the harp, the base, and the socket collar for paper labels before you pass. A signed studio-pottery base or a documented mid-century designer piece is where the real money hides in a lamp pile most people walk right past.
Retired LEGO Sets ~$75
Median sits at $74.99 on 119 comps, up 53% from $48.90 the prior week — the biggest price move on the board this run. The word "retired" is doing a lot of work here: an open, incomplete set is worth a fraction of a sealed one, and a sealed set is worth a fraction of a sealed set in a sought-after theme. The qualifiers are the box and the theme. Star Wars, Harry Potter, Technic Flagship, and Architecture sets retire fast and appreciate fastest. If the box is sealed and the set number is no longer on LEGO's site, scan it before you pass. A $20 thrift-store find can clear $150 sealed.
Roseville Pottery ~$79
Roseville is sitting at $78.94 on 120 comps, up 10% from $71.47, with a 2.5× spread between common pieces and the patterns that matter: Pine Cone, Futura, and Sunflower are clearing $185 while plain or damaged examples drag the median down. The mark to know is the raised "Roseville USA" impressed into the base — that's your authentication in five seconds. Avoid anything with a foil sticker only, no impressed mark, and no pattern name: those are the reproductions and the lesser lines that won't move. A Pine Cone vase in blue or brown with a clean impressed mark and no chips is a $150–$185 piece at a $15 estate-sale price.
Nintendo 64 ~$130
The N64 median is $130 on 105 comps, up 13% week over week, and the spread data tells the real story: Funtastic translucent colors and the Pikachu edition are clearing $239.99 against a common gray-shell average of $120. The tell is the shell color — if it's anything other than standard charcoal gray, stop and look closer. Jungle Green, Ice Blue, Watermelon Red, and the Pikachu yellow-and-blue unit are the variants that double the number. Controllers matter too: an original gray controller in clean condition adds $20–30; a matching Funtastic controller in the same color as the console adds more.
Pokémon Cards ~$32
The median on 120 recent comps just moved from $19.24 to $32 — a 66% week-over-week jump, the biggest percentage move on the board this run. That number is the median, meaning half the sales cleared higher. The qualifier here is condition and set: raw cards in played condition drag the average down hard, while graded PSA/BGS slabs and sealed packs from Base Set through early EX-era are doing the heavy lifting. At a garage sale or estate box, don't grab the loose pile — look for binders with sleeves, original booster wrappers, or anything with a PSA label already on it.
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