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Selling Pins - Could use some advice.
Lyrai
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So times are tough, and I need to break some old habits, and pay some debts. I'm going through my Pin collection and want to sell a few. I figure, tap the experts on this sort of thing
Most cardboard pin backs are gone. Circumstances outside my control forced me to discard most of the cardboard pin backs (Is there a name for this?). No big deal, as the pins were regularly taken off and displayed elsewhere, but I imagine to a few people this drops the value.
The push pin rubber stop back..things are fine. I have some old circle ones, and some Merch ones, as I used to collect pins as soon as they came out.
Listing them on eBay - if I do this, what info should I put up front and center? What will the buyers of these pins be looking for that I should put out there?
Rare pins - Some of the pins I'll be selling are indeed rare ones. I'm trying hard to figure out which ones I like for personal reasons, and which ones I just grabbed for magpie-like reasons, but is there some sort of price list for the rare-r pins?
Sets, individual - I was going to try and sell the pins that I got as sets together - the lookouts set, etc. Is this not what I should do? Will people prefer singles?
Any advice is appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Most cardboard pin backs are gone. Circumstances outside my control forced me to discard most of the cardboard pin backs (Is there a name for this?). No big deal, as the pins were regularly taken off and displayed elsewhere, but I imagine to a few people this drops the value.
The push pin rubber stop back..things are fine. I have some old circle ones, and some Merch ones, as I used to collect pins as soon as they came out.
Listing them on eBay - if I do this, what info should I put up front and center? What will the buyers of these pins be looking for that I should put out there?
Rare pins - Some of the pins I'll be selling are indeed rare ones. I'm trying hard to figure out which ones I like for personal reasons, and which ones I just grabbed for magpie-like reasons, but is there some sort of price list for the rare-r pins?
Sets, individual - I was going to try and sell the pins that I got as sets together - the lookouts set, etc. Is this not what I should do? Will people prefer singles?
Any advice is appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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I would imagine just the condition that the pin is in, and have a high quality picture. Can't go wrong with that.
As Hingo said, use the search by completed or sold listings to determine the price. pinmash is a relative elo scale for rarity/demand so maybe you can use that to determine a relative value as well.
I would say that you should try to keep sets sold as sets, but at the same time, singles may be easier to sell/manage. If someone wanted all of them, they could just buy them individually.
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