sellinghelp newbie

[defenderoz]

hi all

just listed items for sale in members sales a d unauthorised tfs. have a lot of views but no interest yet. keen to sell. some items are pricey but all in line with or below ebay amazon etc. any thoughts?

[1AZRAEL1]

Give it time. Sometimes people won't see them straight away

[defenderoz]

cool thanks. appreciate it.

[GoktimusPrime]

Selling toys is usually a pain in the butt. There's even an entire thread dedicated to talking about how hard it is to sell Transformers. I think ultimately you need to ask yourself how desperately you want to offload these toys. If you want to sell them sooner rather than later, then you might need to consider slashing your prices. If this is not acceptable to you then you may need to accept the fact that it may take a veeeeeery long time - months or maybe over a year - to sell your toys.

It's no different from how retailers sell toys. Those like Toys R Us who sell toys at high prices end up sitting on their stock for months or years. Otherwise like Big W or Kmart who tend to have lower prices, are more likely to sell their toys faster. Premium Collectables often sells out their pre-orders because their prices are so good.

Put yourself in a buyer's shoes and think about how much you would be able willing to pay for these toys. Comparing your prices with rip off merchants like eBay doesn't really help... that's like trying to sell an MP Tracks for $150 and saying that it's on par with Toys R Us' RRP. I sold an MP Tracks for $65 and it still took me 9 months to finally offload it! You've only had your sales thread up for 12 hours, dude. Be patient.

Perhaps you could add a link to your sales thread on your board signature so that people can see it on all of your posts (as I have done on mine ). Because I know that I don't often look in the sales section, so seeing something advertised on a signature is more likely to draw my attention.

[Ode to a Grasshopper]

Yeah...I'd be pretty surprised if you managed to get anywhere near $600 for FP Intimidator. Your average specialty webstore has it listed (albeit unavailable) for ~$450, tops. Other 3P combiners tend to be roughly the same, give or take $100.

Basically, as a general rule TFs don't age well value-wise, 3P included. On top of that, there's a popular line out atm, so people are spending on currently available TFs. That means less spare funds for older TFs. You're better off selling during 'dry spells', so to speak.

In the case of Intimidator in particular, it's not an especially sought-after piece, nor particularly rare (i.e. most people that really wanted it already have it), it's old but not 'vintage 3P' old (eg. you could probably sell the FansProject Classics Cliffjumper upgrade kit for a lot), there's another 3P not-Stunticons set on the way, and there's been not one but two official HasTak versions (Combiner Wars/Unite Warriors and the G2 version) released only a year or two ago.

If you're keen to sell, you'll need to drop that asking price. I don't remember exactly 'cos it's not a set that interests me much, but most of the ones I've seen move have been around the $350 mark. And even then, it'll depend on if someone has an interest in it or not.

[defenderoz]

thanks for the advice guys. good stuff. appreciate it. definitely a help

[UltraMarginal]

The other thing to consider is that a lot of people here are harcore collectors and have a considerable collection, they may have looked at your sales thread and not found anything they want that they don't already have, I know I do this often.
unless your prices are excellent value, selling toys takes time and it's a pain in the ass.