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Good morning all! My name is Nic and my father has been a train afficionado his entire life. Sadly, he's falling ill and I have become responsible for his collection of trains. I never followed his footsteps in the desire for the hobby, and I'm not entirely sure what I'm looking at. I would sincerely appreciate some guidance. My brother and I do not intend on keeping any of this as neither of us have any room.
I would appreciate if there are any experts to take a look and advise the best possible course to sell of the collection. Some of the boxes are marked with price tags. The higher ticketed items have "acquisition paperwork" filled out(invoice/date of purchase/warranty cards etc), signed by my father. I don't know if that is common practice, or just my father being extra thorough in the origin of the purchase.
I don't want to break any forum rules. If someone could help me figure out the best way to share the info. I have placed the photos link below anyhow. Let me know if there is a more preferred way to share on the forum.
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Thank you all in advance!
Nic
I would appreciate if there are any experts to take a look and advise the best possible course to sell of the collection.
I suppose it depends on the trade off of getting it done quickly with little effort, or if you want to spend the time to get max value out of the thing. There are many companies out there who buy whole collections. They of course offer dime(s) on a dollar for the stuff, so they can part it out and make money. Then there is the listing of each item on a auction or for sale site. Auctions are nice because the bidders drive the price but it has to have enough folks in the mix to achieve that (like ebay). Outright sales site one would have to do all the research to determine the price to ask.
Let us know which you might be thinking and we can probably give some more direction there.
Items with a price tag aren't necessarily real helpful other than a relative number. I have box cars marked for $1.65 from 1975 today these sell for $12-15. Looks like most of this stuff is fairly new so you might not have that huge of a inflation price lag.
The higher ticketed items have "acquisition paperwork" filled out(invoice/date of purchase/warranty cards etc), signed by my father. I don't know if that is common practice, or just my father being extra thorough in the origin of the purchase.
That could be very helpful. At least it gives a point in time the price was in play.
I don't want to break any forum rules. If someone could help me figure out the best way to share the info. I have placed the photos link below anyhow. Let me know if there is a more preferred way to share on the forum.
As far as I know this does not break any forum rules. If you do decide to sell item at a time, we do have a special section for that.
I suppose it depends on the trade off of getting it done quickly with little effort, or if you want to spend the time to get max value out of the thing. There are many companies out there who buy whole collections. They of course offer dime(s) on a dollar for the stuff, so they can part it out and make money. Then there is the listing of each item on a auction or for sale site. Auctions are nice because the bidders drive the price but it has to have enough folks in the mix to achieve that (like ebay). Outright sales site one would have to do all the research to determine the price to ask.
Let us know which you might be thinking and we can probably give some more direction there.
Items with a price tag aren't necessarily real helpful other than a relative number. I have box cars marked for $1.65 from 1975 today these sell for $12-15. Looks like most of this stuff is fairly new so you might not have that huge of a inflation price lag.
That could be very helpful. At least it gives a point in time the price was in play.
As far as I know this does not break any forum rules. If you do decide to sell item at a time, we do have a special section for that.
Thank you - I saw the buy/sell thread and posted there as well. I will look for a bulk section. Much appreciated!
Thank you - I saw the buy/sell thread and posted there as well. I will look for a bulk section. Much appreciated!
I guess nothing says you couldn't list them in bulk in that section.
However one place that does bulk buys is TRAINZ. I buy from them. I have never sold to them. No idea what their actual purchase practice is.
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ssn=trainz&_trksid=p4432023.m570.l50838
Most excellent! thank you for the follow up!
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