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Post by mogish on Nov 14, 2022 12:52:56 GMT
Had a loft clear out over the last month. Dont do Facebook so last resort was ebay. Was quite a faff with having to open a carrier account to track delivery etc. Reasonably successful in selling bits and Bob's although way under what I expected the value to achieve. Surprisingly as some folks pay bear new value for second hand stuff,my motorbike bits sold quickly but antique spoons and cutlery never sold at all. Either way... a successful decluttering mission.
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Post by agent69 on Nov 14, 2022 13:30:51 GMT
Had a loft clear out over the last month. Dont do Facebook so last resort was ebay. Was quite a faff with having to open a carrier account to track delivery etc. Reasonably successful in selling bits and Bob's although way under what I expected the value to achieve. Surprisingly as some folks pay bear new value for second hand stuff,my motorbike bits sold quickly but antique spoons and cutlery never sold at all. Either way... a successful decluttering mission.I think a visit to the tip would have had similar results and probably been quicker.
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Post by mogish on Nov 14, 2022 16:49:21 GMT
The £269 is better in my pocket than the skip/tip. Reuse.... bit of hassle but a positive outcome.
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Post by moonraker on Nov 15, 2022 8:49:15 GMT
Had a loft clear out over the last month. Dont do Facebook so last resort was ebay. Was quite a faff with having to open a carrier account to track delivery etc. Reasonably successful in selling bits and Bob's although way under what I expected the value to achieve. Surprisingly as some folks pay bear new value for second hand stuff,my motorbike bits sold quickly but antique spoons and cutlery never sold at all. Either way... a successful decluttering mission. I've been gradually decluttering for several years, and have found it a challenge to get rid of some items, not least several stamp collections, with interest in philately having slumped in the past 20 years. After a dealer had offered me £400 for a specialist collection of stamps featuring cycling that had cost me £5k or so to accumulate, I managed to sell most of it off to individual collectors for about £1,600, mostly on eBay, but gave about £300's worth to a charity after I'd obtained assurances that it had a philatelic specialist.
Currently I have some fine New Zealand stamps of the 1930s that took me a lot of trouble to source in the 1990s. Time was when I could have sold them for "one-third cat" (a third of the price in Stanley Gibbons catalogues), now there's no interest in them at "1/12th cat".
A collection of etchings of "Marlborough Town and College" c1905 was valued at c£400 in 2000 - no interest in them at £65.
On the other hand, a tatty six-page leaflet commemorating the 50th anniversary of my school in Paignton, plus ten pages of my recollections in schoolboy scrawl and a group photo, went for £21.
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Post by adrianc on Nov 15, 2022 8:59:47 GMT
I've been gradually decluttering for several years, and have found it a challenge to get rid of some items, not least several stamp collections, with interest in philately having slumped in the past 20 years. After a dealer had offered me £400 for a specialist collection of stamps featuring cycling that had cost me £5k or so to accumulate, I managed to sell most of it off to individual collectors for about £1,600, mostly on eBay, but gave about £300's worth to a charity after I'd obtained assurances that it had a philatelic specialist. Currently I have some fine New Zealand stamps of the 1930s that took me a lot of trouble to source in the 1990s. Time was when I could have sold them for "one-third cat" (a third of the price in Stanley Gibbons catalogues), now there's no interest in them at "1/12th cat". No great surprise that stamp collecting is not a popular hobby amongst younger people. And, of course, an excess of supply over demand leads to prices doing what...? Perhaps the question is one of why the catalogue prices are so far off actual market values?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2022 10:18:05 GMT
I understand that the average British house holds some 30,000 items of which they probably use some 500 throughout the year.
I also remember in 1984, that our hero bought collectables with the difference between what he earned and what his life cost were for that month so soak up the difference.
My own father, before he died, was advised to buy a special book which he felt could sneak value past the inheritence tax system (40%) and amazingly the best we could sell it for was 25% of what he paid for it.
When you watch antiques shows, you only ever see the valuations of things that have survived and are shown to be super-valuable, not the stuff that is valueless. No TV show will make much for the producers if it shows a £10,000 ring at purchase which turns out to be a £50 piece of glass.
A definition of a gambler is one who remembers the wins but forgets the losses.
Even the bible mentions the Parable of the Talents
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Post by moonraker on Nov 15, 2022 10:23:55 GMT
Catalogue prices relate to what Stanley Gibbons charge for fine copies of stamps. I'm long out of touch with the hobby, but I can't imagine that the company stocks more than a small proportion of stamps, especially with the rubbish produced by so many countries (including the UK) in the past 25 years or more. I grew disillusioned with new cycling stamps in the early 1990s, with every Olympic Games seeing advance issues, issues in the the year of the Games, and medal-winner stamps, sometimes from small islands (and indeed islets) that had never seem most of the sports featured.
There's still a good - and expensive market - for Classic material such as Victorian stamps and postal history (covers from and to unusual locations, rare frankings etc).
I was never convinced by dealers such as Gibbons offering "investment portfolios". True, the value might have gone up, but the proceeds of selling one's investment would be subject to auction fees. Historically there were suggestions that Gibbons might have manipulated values of stamps that it sold as investments.
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Post by bracknellboy on Nov 15, 2022 10:54:38 GMT
I understand that the average British house holds some 30,000 items of which they probably use some 500 throughout the year.
I'd like to understand the methodology by which they come to those numbers. For example, does having 20 boxes of screws of varying types with average contents of 90 screws count as 1,800 items, of which maybe 50-100 are used in a given year?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2022 11:44:11 GMT
me too, then I walked around my house
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Post by keitha on Nov 15, 2022 15:45:05 GMT
Camera lenses never fail to shock me.
Having sold several thousand lenses over the last 4-5 years I know what I can sell them for before I buy.
but recently I've started to sell some of the dross Ie Non working, with Fungus or scratches on the glass. I'm getting 75-80% of what get for a working example.
I have one repeat buyer I keep every example of a particular lens for. The price I get is slightly lower than Ebay but no fees, and I can post 8 at the same price as 1, and I get the same price for them including damaged examples. Basically when one arrives I just put it in a box and when I have a batch I message her no inspections, testing cleaning etc.
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Post by benaj on Nov 15, 2022 18:02:08 GMT
I understand that the average British house holds some 30,000 items of which they probably use some 500 throughout the year.
I'd like to understand the methodology by which they come to those numbers. For example, does having 20 boxes of screws of varying types with average contents of 90 screws count as 1,800 items, of which maybe 50-100 are used in a given year? 😱 Weirdest stuffs people hoard Toenails, Used cotton ear buds Cat fur Cartons of milk (oldest dating back to 1987)
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Post by bracknellboy on Nov 15, 2022 18:04:55 GMT
I'd like to understand the methodology by which they come to those numbers. For example, does having 20 boxes of screws of varying types with average contents of 90 screws count as 1,800 items, of which maybe 50-100 are used in a given year? 😱 Weirdest stuffs people hoard Toenails, Used cotton ear buds Cat fur Cartons of milk (oldest dating back to 1987) Have you just followed @bobo's lead and been for a walk round your house ?
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Post by adrianc on Nov 15, 2022 22:00:04 GMT
😱 Weirdest stuffs people hoard Toenails, Used cotton ear buds Cat fur Cartons of milk (oldest dating back to 1987) Have you just followed @bobo 's lead and been for a walk round your house ? ...mine, I think.
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Post by benaj on Nov 16, 2022 14:41:53 GMT
😱 Weirdest stuffs people hoard Toenails, Used cotton ear buds Cat fur Cartons of milk (oldest dating back to 1987) Have you just followed @bobo's lead and been for a walk round your house ? Checking my neighbours, I notice they are storing cigarette butts in plastic containers. God knows how many they have hoarded over the years.
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Post by mogish on Nov 16, 2022 18:24:14 GMT
Fresh out of toenail clippings and fag butts but do have some cat fur. Another sofa and 2 single mattresses gone to the tip. Searching through storage crates for more stuff to go on ebay. A good line from a movie(name it)possessions will possess you comes to mind. If I'm not using it ....get rid. Working towards a house size reduction in coming years so not a bad time to get decluttering.
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