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Interesting. What makes you think so?
Selling off a collection
- Thread starter Darkbulb
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Blademonkey
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Have you tried to sell anything on BST over the last six months?
ScOtt
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I don't necessarily think the market is weak, I just think that everyone holds out for the newest products available.
Blademonkey
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If people are holding out for the newest products and not buying secondhand it will inevitably make the secondhand market weak, no?
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Almost all of the stuff that I decided to put up for sale did sell in the end, some here, some on American forums, some on ebay. Maybe because I like my equipment to be exclusive/elusive.
Blademonkey
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As I said, some of the gear that @Darkbulb is wanting to sell will sell well but some like his brushes may not return what he would have liked.
@Darkbulb himself said the secondary market had cooled down over the last five years so but you apear to have missed this and set your sights on me.
It is not only me who has commented on how hard it is to sell anything on BST of late be it because the market is being flooded with new goodies all the time or for other reasons.
Maybe your gear sold because you like your equipment to be exclusive / elusive!
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I think you misunderstood, or rather misinterpreted. I did not "set sights" on you. I just asked why you thought the "market was weak", when almost all of the more rare stuff that pops up on any BST sells within minutes. If @Darkbulb has rare stuff, as I understood, he does, it's going to sell. Maybe it's a matter of time, but it will. No offence meant anywhere
Of course you're not likely to resell a 15 GBP synth brush from RazoRock, or the unsed tub of Proraso cream.
Grarea
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Hiya Darkbulb,
just a further thought.
Won't make a huge difference, but it all adds up. Especially for the more expensive items.
In the UK, we often get 'maximum fee £1' offers come up.
It lasts a few days at a time.
There is an option in ebays email preferences i think it is to receive an email for these sort of things.
Hardest part is the pricing, right?
just a further thought.
Won't make a huge difference, but it all adds up. Especially for the more expensive items.
In the UK, we often get 'maximum fee £1' offers come up.
It lasts a few days at a time.
There is an option in ebays email preferences i think it is to receive an email for these sort of things.
Hardest part is the pricing, right?
Blademonkey
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I do not have a £15.00 synth brush from Razorock or a tub of proraso cream used or unused So I will have to take your word for that.I think you misunderstood, or rather misinterpreted. I did not "set sights" on you. I just asked why you thought the "market was weak", when almost all of the more rare stuff that pops up on any BST sells within minutes. If @Darkbulb has rare stuff, as I understood, he does, it's going to sell. Maybe it's a matter of time, but it will. No offence meant anywhere
Of course you're not likely to resell a 15 GBP synth brush from RazoRock, or the unsed tub of Proraso cream.
As I had already said he will have no trouble selling some of his gear because it is unobtainable, some of his gear will be not as easy to sell as it would have a few years ago.
Why did you not ask the OP why he thought the secondary market had cooled down over the last five years, ........I don't think I misunderstood anything.
N_Architect
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First of all welcome back. It is very nice actually to hear from you after so much time.
I could send off a PM but perhaps it is best I write here what I want to convey to you anyway, since we've all been a pretty tight community from the very beginning here at ATG. Then if you want to discuss more you can always fire off a PM to me later on.
I have been through the same path, more or less, since early 2016. Unemployment and lack of steady income forced me to downsize, which of course had its merits as well. For 3 years and few months I have therefore been doing just that, with may trades and acquisitions along the way, I must admit. So it has been everything, collecting funds to pay off the banks and whatever else, but also downsizing and reducing the collection to what works best for me.
The process is very, very tiring, highly time consuming, you will most likely lose a lot of $$$ in the process on average, to the point that you will be completely fed up at the end. I am not sure if you also have the time to go through all that.
The approach you are considering for selling your collection in one go may sound easy from your point of view but in practice it is quite difficult to work for both parties, i.e. for you and also for the interested individual. Many of us here know you, we've lived your acquisition madness and glory days, and we vividly remember the so many items you were purchasing one after the other. But any other wet shaver who is not a member here or in TSR, does not know that. How will you take so many pictures and write all these descriptions for the items before you put them up for sale? Whether it's here or on eBay it makes no difference - the pictures need to be taken and the descriptions need to be written. And let me tell you, this is an ultra laborious task given the size of your collection.
Secondly, there are people out there who may try to deceive you. It was mentioned earlier on that the market for the NF brushes is weak at the moment. Well, in short the answer is no. In long, I can tell you that I had one NOS NF and one day I put it up on eBay. There's a 'collector' somewhere out there in the woods in Canada, in Edmonton more specifically who is ultra thirsty for these brushes. Let me also say he is a member of this forum, yes indeed. He paid and I shipped him my brush, then perhaps the packet was temporarily lost inside Canada or perhaps it was heavily delayed in customs - I just do not know that. I refunded the guy and a month later I received official notification that the brush had been delivered, albeit with a long delay. The fellow member never mentioned to me he did finally receive the brush. There are people who are nice but not everyone you meet or get to know is nice.
Many, not just a few, of the items in your collection will make selected collectors literally wet their pants. So you need to be very, very careful. While many of us here will appreciate the calibre and quality of the items you possess, there are few others who are out for making money, in actual fact as much money as they can make by purchasing something off you and then a minute later taking it over for sale in another forum. There are very specific people in this forum who do that, many of us know them, I've suffered price-wise because of that and the least I can do is to let you know so that it does not happen to you as well. It is particularly distressing because some of these people knew about my situation - and this goes on to show the characters you may also have to deal with.
On the NF articles in particular I highly recommend you are very, very slow and very, very careful to sell. There is no way you will lose $$$ from these brushes, instead you will make money provided you find the right buyer, that's my take. But you will need lots of time to go through all that s**t. That's the hard part. From selected razors as well you will make money. A good option would be to find someone in a forum, someone whom you know and kind of trust, and ship to him ALL your articles for sale. Then he can do the hard part, the work, and at the end of the day he can keep a few very good items for himself [or] take XX% of all sales proceeds. I would be very happy to do that for you actually, but (a) I am not in North America at the moment and (b) I may be actually and finally getting back to full time employment coming Sept 1st.... I've specialized in this BST thing now, and I am very accustomed to deal on a 24/7 basis with all kind of articles for sale, with all kinds of individuals and with all kinds of shipment methods...
Anything else you may want just fire a PM. I re-iterate: be very, very careful and slow to approach in getting started with this thing. It is a Herculian task given the size of your collection, and you have within it some items which are true gems. Old foxes will go for these first and if (by any chance, just hypothesizing here) you are in real need for $$$ then you are even more vulnerable.
I could send off a PM but perhaps it is best I write here what I want to convey to you anyway, since we've all been a pretty tight community from the very beginning here at ATG. Then if you want to discuss more you can always fire off a PM to me later on.
I have been through the same path, more or less, since early 2016. Unemployment and lack of steady income forced me to downsize, which of course had its merits as well. For 3 years and few months I have therefore been doing just that, with may trades and acquisitions along the way, I must admit. So it has been everything, collecting funds to pay off the banks and whatever else, but also downsizing and reducing the collection to what works best for me.
The process is very, very tiring, highly time consuming, you will most likely lose a lot of $$$ in the process on average, to the point that you will be completely fed up at the end. I am not sure if you also have the time to go through all that.
The approach you are considering for selling your collection in one go may sound easy from your point of view but in practice it is quite difficult to work for both parties, i.e. for you and also for the interested individual. Many of us here know you, we've lived your acquisition madness and glory days, and we vividly remember the so many items you were purchasing one after the other. But any other wet shaver who is not a member here or in TSR, does not know that. How will you take so many pictures and write all these descriptions for the items before you put them up for sale? Whether it's here or on eBay it makes no difference - the pictures need to be taken and the descriptions need to be written. And let me tell you, this is an ultra laborious task given the size of your collection.
Secondly, there are people out there who may try to deceive you. It was mentioned earlier on that the market for the NF brushes is weak at the moment. Well, in short the answer is no. In long, I can tell you that I had one NOS NF and one day I put it up on eBay. There's a 'collector' somewhere out there in the woods in Canada, in Edmonton more specifically who is ultra thirsty for these brushes. Let me also say he is a member of this forum, yes indeed. He paid and I shipped him my brush, then perhaps the packet was temporarily lost inside Canada or perhaps it was heavily delayed in customs - I just do not know that. I refunded the guy and a month later I received official notification that the brush had been delivered, albeit with a long delay. The fellow member never mentioned to me he did finally receive the brush. There are people who are nice but not everyone you meet or get to know is nice.
Many, not just a few, of the items in your collection will make selected collectors literally wet their pants. So you need to be very, very careful. While many of us here will appreciate the calibre and quality of the items you possess, there are few others who are out for making money, in actual fact as much money as they can make by purchasing something off you and then a minute later taking it over for sale in another forum. There are very specific people in this forum who do that, many of us know them, I've suffered price-wise because of that and the least I can do is to let you know so that it does not happen to you as well. It is particularly distressing because some of these people knew about my situation - and this goes on to show the characters you may also have to deal with.
On the NF articles in particular I highly recommend you are very, very slow and very, very careful to sell. There is no way you will lose $$$ from these brushes, instead you will make money provided you find the right buyer, that's my take. But you will need lots of time to go through all that s**t. That's the hard part. From selected razors as well you will make money. A good option would be to find someone in a forum, someone whom you know and kind of trust, and ship to him ALL your articles for sale. Then he can do the hard part, the work, and at the end of the day he can keep a few very good items for himself [or] take XX% of all sales proceeds. I would be very happy to do that for you actually, but (a) I am not in North America at the moment and (b) I may be actually and finally getting back to full time employment coming Sept 1st.... I've specialized in this BST thing now, and I am very accustomed to deal on a 24/7 basis with all kind of articles for sale, with all kinds of individuals and with all kinds of shipment methods...
Anything else you may want just fire a PM. I re-iterate: be very, very careful and slow to approach in getting started with this thing. It is a Herculian task given the size of your collection, and you have within it some items which are true gems. Old foxes will go for these first and if (by any chance, just hypothesizing here) you are in real need for $$$ then you are even more vulnerable.
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I don't know why you find the need to come at me like that. I just wanted to know why you thought the market was weak. You could've just explained, yet you decide to get worked up somehow.
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Blademonkey
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I did explain but you didn't seem to accept my answer, you just tried to prove me wrong and you wonder why I get worked up. You interrogated nobody else who held the same veiw, including the OP.I don't know why you find the need to come at me like that. All I did, was ask your opinion on why you thought the market was weak. You could've just explained, yet you decide to get worked up somehow.
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I wasn't trying to "interrogate" anyone. I was just curious about your point of view, is all.
Just leave it alone...
Just leave it alone...
