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100 Most Nostalgic 90s Kids Show DVD's Ranked by eBay Value
From CatDog to The Amanda Show ($1,600 for 3 Seasons!)
Issue #75
Last week I had a sit down with Yahoo News surrounding op shop prices in Australia, specifically a Vinnies that was selling common Harry Potter books for $1,000. That article went live and you can read it here. The article is worth a read, although I’m disappointed they left out my jokes.
"To be selling one of these 12,000,000 copies as rare and hard to find is just plain wrong," he added, comparing the print run to the size of the male population of Australia, which is just over 13 million.
It might not have been the best idea though, just this week I was stopped a thrift store employee at Salvos.
“Excuse me“
I was browsing the mens clothes with my AirPods in, minding my own business. I took an earphone out.
“We don’t allow filming in here. Just letting you know.“
I was utterly perplexed, my phone was in my pocket, I half stopped to think oh crap am I wearing the Meta AI glasses that have the built in camera… even though I don’t own a pair.
“…Okay…“
“It’s just that there’s been some Tiktoks“
It took me a second to piece it all together and she was gone. Oh, they must be referring to the video I filmed at Salvos where they were selling fake Pokemon cards. But that was almost a month ago and not at this particular location. She said “Tiktoks“, plural, so maybe it was the Vinnies video? I don’t know.
I’m not in any one of those videos so I’m unsure how they pieced it together. Did a memo go out that if a generic white dude comes into the store they’re to be told not to film? Maybe a CCTV still was passed along to each store. Either way, I guess if I continue to film the next logical step is a ban. If only I could record that interaction.
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In This Issue
What I Bought
How would you like to walk into Savers, find 3 DVD’s for $4.99 each and leave knowing they’re worth $200? Sounds too good to be true, right? I’m here to tell you it’s entirely possible, take a look.
The DVD category is alive and well.
This is Seasons 1-5 of the X-Men animated series from 1992. Remembered for character depth and daring themes that just weren’t present in other Saturday morning cartoons, this animated television show is still popular for fans to go back and re-watch in 2025. The 5 seasons were broken up into 3 DVD’s with each priced at $4.99 - 2 of which were brand new and sealed.
I had a feeling these might be worth a bit of money, but I wasn’t expecting to see Sold Listings in the hundreds of dollars.
This is pre-owned too!
The television show has been released on DVD by a few different companies over the past 20 years and within the fandom there appear to be different levels of popularity for each. Fans have talked about wanting the authentic experience of watching the show from their childhood and that includes original voice actors who were later re-dubbed, aspect ratios which were changed plus continuity errors in terms of episode release order. One particular release of the show on DVD is worth double what the others are:
The value appears to be the slipcases. Yep, the pieces of cardboard.
My advice to you would be if you find this show on DVD in a thrift store or garage sale, pick it up, you’re going to make money regardless of the release. In fact, any sort of old animated kids television show on DVD as a complete series is worth looking into.
When it comes to reselling clothes, there aren’t many that get me excited enough to browse through the endless racks. I know theirs value in some of the vintage brands, but if I see a bunch of polo shirts next to each other I’ll probably skip over them - they do nothing for me. This week however, I’m glad I didn’t.
Check out this beauty!
This is a 1990 Hong Kong Rugby 7’s team jersey. Priced at just $10, it’s easy to see why someone would skip over it, it doesn’t look that different than some of those older polo shirts. For me when I’m quickly skimming through clothes I’m mostly looking at the tags, Anko gets quickly brushed aside as do a lot of other low value brands but this tag stood out.
We have the 90’s Reebok logo printed onto the tag which feels and looks quite old. From there my eyes dart down to the embroider patches. On the left we have H.K.R.F.U which stands for Hong Kong Rugby Football Union and on the right we have Cathay Pacific Hongkong Bank Invitation Sevens. As a sports fan this immediately became apparent it was a very old Rugby 7’s jersey and needed to come home with me.
The one thing I hate about this Salvos is that it’s a complete dead spot for reception, it makes looking up comps impossible and it’s not until you’re walking back home do you realize if you scored big or not. In this case we have 0 Active or Sold Listings on eBay, but I was able to track down comps on an independent “Rare, Used and Vintage” Rugby shop called Underdog Rugby.
3 Active, 1 Sold (for $276)
These prices are crazy high, but it honestly doesn’t surprise me, you’ve seen in the past how we’ve been able to make a lot of money selling sports jerseys. And it’s not just sports fans who can profit off of this, I’ve had countless messages on social media with similar sort of finds from people who don’t even watch sport - it’s simply a matter of noticing the patterns so if you thought you’d never be able to find them, think again.
Now what I was excited about with the one I found was that not only was it better condition than the other 3 on the market, it had something the others didn’t…
What do we have here?
The original tag! I don’t think this jersey has ever been worn, it’s in amazing condition and with this tag we can stand out among the rest (not exactly hard with 0 Active Listings on eBay). Hoping for a quick sale, I’ve listed it up for $200 on eBay. If you want to see 2 other insane jersey finds from this week, check out this video from Retro Rescuers. Jerseys are out there, it’s up to you to find them!
Bit of a throwback here.
When you think about it, it really isn’t that surprising to see a couple of cassette tapes sitting on a Vinnies shelf, untouched for half the day. A huge percentage of resellers are refreshing Marketplace looking for the next great video game flip and working incredibly fast to secure the bag.
Sort of what happened to me on Saturday. I saw this amazing Nintendo Gamecube lot come up that included the console, 5 games and 4 controllers.
$150 for all of this is insane.
I hesitated for just a second, I saw it had been listed for just 2 minutes and quickly looked at the location and the Sellers Profile before sending my message. 30 seconds later the Seller messaged me saying it was sold. Gone in under 2 minutes. If any of you would have secured this deal, you would have been in the profit selling just 1 game, Zelda alone has sold comps of $300.
This would have been such a good flip for the person who got in first.
Not to worry, whilst video games are extremely competitive, cassette tapes not so much. The 2 that I found were actually The Wiggles 1st and 2nd ever recorded albums. Both were in working condition and the J-card on both was actually singed by Anthony Field, the blue Wiggle who is still with the band today.
Get ready… to watch an animated GIF.
I can just imagine the conversation with the parents.
“Can you please sign our tapes?“
Signs: “To all the kids!“
“Can you please write out their names?“
Signs: “To Lachlan, Elise, Angelique, Zoe, Emily, Viviean, Ellen...“
I’ll always prefer a plain signature over an inscription, but sometimes an inscription like “To all the kids!“ can be good, if not better than a signature. It shows personality and that can be valuable. You’ll see in What I Sold that an inscription to a person who isn’t the end buyer can still sell for a lot of money.
In terms of these cassette tapes, they’re both quite valuable even without the signature. In fact, the self-titled 1st album “The Wiggles“ is cataloged in… you guessed it, the Powerhouse Collection. I find this so cool, this is the 3rd item I’ve found in a thrift store that has been featured in their collection, you can check out the 1st item here and the 2nd item here.
Powerhouse is custodian to more than half a million objects of national and international significance.
$85 for the debut album.
$66 for “Here Comes A Song“ on CD, no sold comps for the tape.
I decided to list both up for $99.95 each, a bit higher than sold and existing comps just because of the signature. As I’m typing this it’s gotten a lot of attention so I have a feeling before I finish this Issue it will have sold and you’ll be seeing it down below.
What I Sold
Let’s get the laughs out of the way early.
Not even making TENS OF DOLLARS!
You got to love a Facebook Marketplace deal gone wrong. Here I am expecting $25 to turn into $300 in a huge bidding war, but alas, $28.05. This Thomas & Friends playset was missing just a single piece (the most expensive one of course) and I put it to auction to see if Thomas collectors valued old boxes like other toy collectors; turns out they don’t. After eBay fees and the initial cost of goods we’re sitting at a profit of… -$6.82. Good lord. Bad Mat. Bad.
Don’t forget we have another auction ending in a few days, results will be in next weeks Issue. It’s for the 2 Footrot Flat jigsaw puzzles. As of right now we’re sitting at $47.00.
$17 into $350.
Listed up for $400, and sold for a Best Offer of $350. Featured in last weeks Issue of Flip Weekly, it didn’t take long for these hardcover, 1st edition copies of Sarah J. Maas’ series to sell. If you want to brush up on how to tell if a book is a 1st edition (and potentially valuable) check out my recently published article here, complete with pictures, arrows (arrows!) and real life examples.
$15 into $150.
The complete series of X-Men: The Animated Series has sold in 5 days. I listed these up for $180 and accepted a best offer of $150 given us over $100 profit in under a week. These old 90’s television shows are a goldmine and read on below to see how you can spot them in the wild and make these sort of returns.
Somebody check on Liz Hayes’ health.
This signed copy of journalist Liz Hayes’ autobiography took over a year to sell and even then, I only got $40 for it.
I initially thought the sale had been sparked by Channel 9’s new Belle Gibson doco Dangerous Lies: Unmasking Belle Gibson (plus the Netflix version), but I got my journalists mixed up.
That expose was actually led by Tara Brown, not Liz Hayes.
I wrote out a whole story about seeing Liz Hayes doing an interview only to realise later it was Tara all along. Anyway, I already wrote it, so here it is.
Quick side story about Liz Hayes Tara Brown’s interview with Belle Gibson. Jump back to 2015 and I’m hyper aware of news and current affairs here in Australia. I’m seeing morons on TV, on social media and in the newspapers. I’m thinking I want to point out these people and put them on blast. Cut to Liz Hayes me watching Tara Brown interrogating Belle and Belle’s made an absolute fool of herself on TV, lying about cancer and it’s time to call her out.
I created a website called, and children cover your eyes, DickPicOfTheWeek.com. The idea was pretty simple: sum up the news every Friday by turning the topic into an a fully illustrated dick pic. Not an actual photograph, a sketched, inked and colored full illustration. Ridiculous right? Belle Gibson was the perfect candidate and almost exactly 10 years ago today, she was immortalized as an illustrated penis, pink turtleneck and all. You can see that illustration here. If you don’t want to click, just picture that drawing scene in Superbad.
The funniest thing was doing an interview for Slate for one reason or another and they asked about my background. To have the following paragraph printed in a magazine that covers “current affairs, politics, and culture” is hilarious to me:
He told Slate.com, he operates alone, has never been to university but has worked on websites, including www.dickpicoftheweek.com (viewer discretion advised).
Made me laugh. Anyway, let’s move on, none of that has anything to do with reselling, nor the sale, nor Liz Hayes. Just an excuse to link to illustrated dicks.
$4 into $94.95.
$4.50 into $99.95 + $40 postage and is off to… Kuwait!
$10 into $150 via Marketplace extremely quickly.
$20 into $130 in 3 weeks.
6 months turnaround for this Warhammer book.
Secondhand Opinions
The concept is simple, we’ll throw up a controversial, or at least spicy reselling topic, I’ll present my argument whether it’s poorly thought out or not and you’ll provide your own.
Last week I asked you “Is it wrong to cancel an order and relist an item at a higher price if it sells too quickly?” and here are the results:
An almost unanimous result.
Decisive victory for Yes, it’s wrong. It’s good to see that majority are in agreement, I guess it’s the 1% out there that are cancelling orders and relisting. To be fair, I don’t think that 1% is doing it for nefarious reasons, I think it comes with inexperience. I think most experienced eBay Sellers would chalk it up to an oh-no moment and move on.
This weeks topic is: Do you or have you ever camped out at a retail store for an in-demand item to resell on eBay?
This question has been sparked by an article I read online of people lining up at shopping centres, in queues that span multiple levels for Labubu’s. These are, questionably, the Beanie Babies of 2025.
These plush toys are in high demand both in-store and on eBay with a 213% sell through rate on the former and prices per reaching astronomical amounts.
The way you buy these things are from Blind Boxes, boxes where you don’t know what’s inside, thus if you open up a rare one, you can resell it for a profit online.
This doesn’t start with Labubu’s in 2025, people have been doing this for years including with Apple products. Which begs the question… do you or have you ever camped out at a retail store for an in-demand item to resell on eBay?
Do you or have you ever camped out at a retail store for an in-demand item to resell on eBay? |
What do you think?
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100+ Nostalgic 90s Kids Shows Ranked by eBay Value
Good lord this took me a while to do. I'm not going to go into the scraping process, the IMDb firewall locking me out of the website or the manual data entry process, instead I'm going to let you enjoy the compilation I've created.
If you're around my age, you grew up in the 90's. When you weren't watching Rage you were watching Cheez TV. If you were lucky, maybe Fox 8. Cartoons and sitcoms reigned supreme with television shows that are still quotable, relatable and relevant to this day.
Yet, that doesn't mean they're worth money. I can't tell you how many times I've gone into a thrift store, spotted a nostalgic 90's kids show and thought I found a home run. The reality is that many of these shows were either over-manufactured or the demand just isn't there.
However... I went ahead and created a list of over 100 1990's kids shows ranked exclusively by their eBay value. I analysed sell through rates, average sale prices, and wrote notes for every single show. Heck, there's even links to tear jerking scenes for some of them (check out Franklin's linked YouTube video).
This is the ULTIMATE, who am I kidding the only, nostalgic 90's kids TV shows ranked by eBay value. 100% free for Flip Weekly readers. Take a look here, memorize the valuable shows, disregard the cheap ones and make some money.
This took forever to put together.
If you don't want to go through a huge table full of data, just scroll down the page to my Winners & Losers summary. I talk about CatDog not being worth buying and shows like Arthur which you 1,000% want to pick up.
Enjoy!
Mat.
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