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Let me start off by saying I know I should do this myself via eBay. The reality is that is not going to happen. I don't have the time or patience to do it and the boxes are mocking me at this point.
That being said, does anyone know of a service or seller who could help me with a medium - large PEZ collection? I have all kinds of stuff - ones in bags, on cards, bobbleheads, standalone old ones, print ads, etc.
Get a camera, take good pics, and do it yourself is my recommendation. If you want to make it easy on yourself, ebay allows 12 pics per listing, so separate it into a few lots and sell those in bulk for whatever you can get. You can bury costs for packaging materials and insurance in the handling fee.
Anyone selling on ebay will lose 10% - 15% of the total with shipping to fees for ebay and PayPal. Anyone that you pay to sell on your behalf will want another 20%-25% for commission on top of that, and perhaps even half of the proceeds. If you have a large collection, yes, doing all the photos and writeups and and packing and shipping is probably easily worth half or more of the proceeds. If it's a tedious pita for you to do, you can bet that it's 2x the tedious pita to someone who is doing it for you.
Find a collector's forum that has a classifieds section might be another way to unload the whole thing fast, too. But you need good pics to sell anything online.
I hear you about not wanting to sell on ebay. But how about selling it directly, hopefully in one lot, to another collector? Try making some contacts/inquiries on these sites (some have forums). I've even used the "contact us" function to get advice from folks who run sites like these.
If you go onto ebay and go under the "sell" tab at top there is a drop down menu and one option is "sell it for me" and you put in your zip and it gives you people near you who you can take it to and they sell it for you.
Try an auction house such as the one in Hillsborough, Leland Little,, or the one in Mebane. Their percentage will be less than all of those Ebay fees, no hassle, and items will likely be placed in one of their ephemera or specialty auctions that will draw the right audience. They will pick it up and send you a check. What could be easier? Also if the collection is high enough in estimated value, they may allow you to put a reserve on the lots so that the expensive items don't go for peanuts. Email them and find out.
If you go onto ebay and go under the "sell" tab at top there is a drop down menu and one option is "sell it for me" and you put in your zip and it gives you people near you who you can take it to and they sell it for you.
That's interesting. I never noticed that feature (I always sell my own.) I guess ebay actually implements something useful to a seller, even if it is only once in a while.
OP, I forgot to mention that ebay allows you to save a listing and reuse it as a template. That may or may not make it less gruntwork for you to list and sell your own.
That's interesting. I never noticed that feature (I always sell my own.) I guess ebay actually implements something useful to a seller, even if it is only once in a while.
OP, I forgot to mention that ebay allows you to save a listing and reuse it as a template. That may or may not make it less gruntwork for you to list and sell your own.
I'm an ebay queen and only just found that myself-not that I'd use it. Ebay and paypal take enough already, but if you don't want to sell yourself, it's a nice option.
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