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Re: Selling me collection
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lugnet.market.appraisal
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Mon, 28 May 2001 15:06:42 GMT
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Shiri Dori wrote:
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> Hi Iain!
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> I'm no expert, but I think this depends on two factors.
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> Basically, I think the appropriate question is:
> Do you want to maximize profit, or to get rid of the collection ASAP?
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> To maximize profit, I think (again, I am no expert), that selling individual
> sets - especially if they are good, highly valued sets - would bring the
> best profit. Or even, I think a good idea would be to part the sets out into
> lots by themes (i.e. put all the castle sets together, all the town sets
> together, etc).
My impression is that 99% or more of sets sell for more as parts lots.
Therefore, if your collection is already sorted, you have already done
one of the most labor intensive parts of selling (you do still need to
split the parts into lots and take pictures and run the auction or
sale). In my mind, it is NOT worth while to put the collection back into
sets.
> However, if you want to get rid of them as soon as possible and without too
> much hassle, the easiest way is definitely to sell them as one batch. But
> the person who buys it from you is likely to put the sets together and
> resell some (or all) of them (and making a profit, or at least getting back
> some of the money he paid you).
Selling the collection in bulk is certainly the quickest, but will most
likely not net you even MSRP. Of course it does have the advantage that
you won't have a box of "didn't sell" bits at the end.
Frank
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