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Originally Posted by bhancock
I have a lot of old stuff I'd like to sell. I have records, still in their paper "casings" from the 30's, 40's and 50's. Big bands, The Andrew Sisters, stuff like that.
I have old wooden golf clubs, not just wooden heads, but wooden shafts. I have an era 40's golf bag with a greens fee tag for $3.50 from Reston North Golf Course. (still in biz btw)
I also have much more, dolls, furniture and the list goes on. Anyone know how and/or where to sell this "stuff"?
Best bet would be my email address: bhancock@comcast.net. I live in the villages. |
You might want to try an online auction service. There's a ton of them around here. I used them a lot before we moved here: the one I used (buy and sell), charged the seller a small listing fee plus 12% of whatever the item sold for. Buyers paid a 15% "buyer's premium". They buy and sell pretty much everything, I've seen items as diverse as LIFE magazines from the WW II era, bear traps, glassware, old records and record players, old radios, etc. There are people who make good money buying and selling on these sites so if you have some valuable antiques there's a good bet that someone knowledgeable will see it and try to buy it.
It can be a crapshoot though. I've sold stuff at our online auction in Minnesota that brought in a lot less than I thought it would. On the other hand though it can work the other way: I sold one of those old home telephone systems (base unit w/recorder plus two extension units) for approximately the same price that I bought it for, after using it for well over 5 years. Another example: when we moved I sold a Wen 12" drill press that I bought new on Amazon, and after using it for a number of years it sold for nearly $100 MORE than I paid for it.