Thinning things out

[GoktimusPrime]

If you're clearing off your toys out of desire rather than financial necessity, then perhaps another option you might consider is Pay It Forward where you just give your toys away for free. It is presumed that anyone who accepts any free toys hereby agrees to participate in this scheme and similarly offer free toys to others when they are able to. It really helps just offload a lot of toys really quickly, and also helps to build a spirit of communal giving. I recently did this and it allowed me to rapidly offloaded almost all of my non-Transformers toy collections (90% of the figures I was offloading was gone within a week)! And I've been stoked to see others start their own Pay It Forward threads too; I really hope that this idea will continue to grow.

If you want to have some fun with some figures, and this is something I do on the rare occasion that I want to give away Transformers, is to run competitions. I've had competitions based on merit (e.g. quizzes), and other times just based on a random draw.

[millhouse]

If you're clearing off your toys out of desire rather than financial necessity, then perhaps another option you might consider is Pay It Forward where you just give your toys away for free.

If you want to have some fun with some figures, and this is something I do on the rare occasion that I want to give away Transformers, is to run competitions. I've had competitions based on merit (e.g. quizzes), and other times just based on a random draw.

Both good ideas, but probably not what I'm looking to do for the bulk of my (planned) "to go" pile. That said, probably something I'll end up doing for appropriate items.

[millhouse]

I think if you're clearing because you want to, and not for financial necessity, I do think it's easier. And it sounds like you've got an idea of what you want to focus on which will also make it easier.

If you can go to something like Nexus maybe look at jumping on a table that could be a good way to sell things without dealing with the postage side of things.

I've been selling odds and ends at Nexus for about a year now, so I'm pretty comfortable with all of that, and you're right, I'm not selling out of financial necessity which certainly makes it easier, along with having an idea of what I want to keep and what can go.

[Sinnertwin]

Lots of us are in similar situations. There are a lot of threads of people doing the exact same thing. The problem is that I think that has caused a bit of a glut. More sellers than buyers.

So true. There are a variety of factors at work, but i think that one of the biggest ones is that the majority of our members already have most of the mainstream toys, which makes it increasingly difficult to sell. it's not like the prices are astronomical either, on the contrary, some are way below what you'd find elsewhere